pajaro @pajaro@mastodon.sdf.org
Joined Aug 2020
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thank god youtube-dl is back on github, the only website where it is possible to host a git repository
the only correct answer to every viral math problem is that precedence rules were a mistake
the virgin CSS preprocessor versus the chad cat<<EOF>styles.css script
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"It is our very creativity, our extraordinary ability as a species to organize ourselves to solve problems collectively, that leads us into a trap from which there is no escaping. Complexity is 'insidious,' in Tainter’s words. 'It grows by small steps, each of which seems reasonable at the time.' And then the world starts to fall apart, and you wonder how you got there."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/magazine/societal-collapse.html
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The argument “lol u can’t outlaw math” in favor of encryption isn’t convincing. That’s like saying building bombs should be legal because it’s just chemistry.
The points are:
1. Strong encryption is necessary for the modern world
2. Backdoors & golden keys will always fail
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Encryption is a human right
How do people using screenreaders experience ASCII art? There are no title or aria attrs in the terminal.
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A lot of our changes in behavior are driven by selection pressure during environmental changes
If the digital world is considered an environment (I believe it is) then texting has irreversibly changed human language and how we perceive text
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War
“I’ll never forget my programming teacher who was like a senior dev at IBM and decided he was done writing missile guidance software.
When he was telling us this he said "I just woke up one morning and it struck me that i was a murderer. So I quit."”
the optimal number of heading levels is 1
cd $HOME/bin/submodules
git submodule add $thingyrepo
cd $thingy
$buildcmds
cd ../..
ln -s submodules/$thingy/$thingy
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btw i do know where youtube-dl is hosted now, i'm just curious about the script
#local does anyone have that youtube download script that was making the rounds after youtube-dl got DMCA'd? i remember it was only a screenful of lines
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If programming has a signature occupational disease, it's not carpal tunnel or social awkwardness. It's our uncritical belief that building complex systems automatically entitles us to also understand them.
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The year is 2064. To avoid facial recognition, Waldo has gone full black bloc to avoid being found by the feds. You receive a single envelope with no return address. It simply says "find me." You believe you recognize the handwriting... Your old friend Waldo? Missing since the civil war of 2024... Impossible. You comb the envelope for DNA. You find some, but it isn't a match. Until you realize... It's an executable.
A=00, T=11, C=01, G=10
You run it.
jenny@botnet:~/ghidra$ ./seq
Warez Waldo?
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I once read a talk transcript (IIRC) where the speaker asserted that the main driver for breaking game consoles’ DRM was to run Linux. For evidence, they pointed to the PS3’s very long streak of unbroken DRM compared to competing consoles, a streak that only ended when Sony pushed the update that disabled Linux booting.
Cursor keys belong at the center of your keyboard
https://tonsky.me/blog/cursor-keys/
by Nikita ''tonsky'' Prokopov
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source mirror of youtube-dl encoded as image with decode commands
convert -depth 8 yt_dl1.png rgb:yt_dl1.part
convert -depth 8 yt_dl2.png rgb:yt_dl2.part
cat yt_dl1.part yt_dl2.part > yt_dl-2020.9.20.tar.gz
Joined Aug 2020
