pajaro @pajaro@mastodon.sdf.org
Joined Aug 2020
pajaro
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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
pajaro
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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.
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
pajaro
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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
pajaro
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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.
pajaro
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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
pajaro
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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
how does anyone even use MSFT windows? the start menu takes a good 5 seconds to launch and parts of it are unresponsive for another 10
pointer syntax always seems kinda tacked on. why not just ref and deref keywords
pajaro
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someone replaced the github DMCA repo with youtube-dl
https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f
Joined Aug 2020
