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xenophonf

3,893 karmajoined 16 years ago
Keeper of the Sacred Chao and Patron Saint of All Things Plastic fnord

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Submissions

AI and the Psychology of Cognitive Surrender

psychologytoday.com
6 points·by xenophonf·last month·0 comments

The Two Doors

pilgrima.ge
4 points·by xenophonf·last month·0 comments

[untitled]

1 points·by xenophonf·3 months ago·0 comments

The Journey to OpenID Federation 1.0 Is Complete

self-issued.info
2 points·by xenophonf·5 months ago·0 comments

DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship

reason.com
99 points·by xenophonf·6 months ago·87 comments

Atkinson Hyperlegible Next

fonts.google.com
2 points·by xenophonf·6 months ago·0 comments

U.S. Chemical Safety Board investigation videos

youtube.com
1 points·by xenophonf·9 months ago·1 comments

Image of two black holes circling each other captured

phys.org
3 points·by xenophonf·9 months ago·0 comments

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem

thewalrus.ca
4 points·by xenophonf·10 months ago·1 comments

Lee Gold, the Most Important Gamer in Roleplaying After Gary Gygax

dmdavid.com
3 points·by xenophonf·10 months ago·2 comments

Linux 6.18 Will Further Complicate Non-GPL Out-of-Tree File-Systems

phoronix.com
9 points·by xenophonf·10 months ago·3 comments

comments

xenophonf
·5 days ago·discuss
I don't think this guy's blog tries to sell me on a subscription enough. Maybe he could add even more pop-ups or inline pleas for funding. I'm sure he's got a newsletter he's desperate to monetize.
xenophonf
·5 days ago·discuss
> Rewrite this Python code to use match/case instead of if/elif/else chains

Is this a real example of something people use AI to do? If so, I don't understand why that's difficult, because prompting the AI to do stuff with ASTs etc. seems a bit over the top.
xenophonf
·8 days ago·discuss
> I forget that what I miss was not the system, but the community on the system.

Same. I had VMS running on an AS200 next to a beautiful X terminal, just like the computer lab at school. But my dad wasn't sitting next to me, hunting and pecking away at his old C.Itoh terminal. None of the usual suspects were across the table, locked into their favorite MUDD. And so on. I miss them all so much.
xenophonf
·10 days ago·discuss
https://archive.is/2pKhN
xenophonf
·21 days ago·discuss
Don't concurrency. forget about
xenophonf
·24 days ago·discuss
Every time I click in the window, the menu disappears. I tried both Firefox and Chrome.
xenophonf
·25 days ago·discuss
> Tree-sitter that just works

Hallelujah and thank you, sweet little baby Jesus. Now I can get rid of this bullshit from my dotfiles:

    rm -rf ~/.emacs.d/tree-sitter
    mkdir -p ~/.emacs.d/tree-sitter
    set _plat = windows
    if ( `uname` == Linux ) set _plat = linux
    if ( `uname` == Darwin ) set _plat = apple
    set _arch = x86
    if ( `arch` == arm64) set _arch = aarch64
    gh release -R emacs-tree-sitter/tree-sitter-langs download -p "*${_arch}*${_plat}*"
    tar -C ~/.emacs.d/tree-sitter --transform 's/^\(.*\.\(so\|dylib\|dll\)\)/libtree-sitter-\1/' -xzf tree-sitter-grammars*.tar.gz
    rm tree-sitter-grammars*.tar.gz
That's csh, BTW, just like the Founding Fathers intended.
xenophonf
·last month·discuss
This is a gift to reactionary gerrymandering and voting restriction efforts, along with things like yesterday's FBI raid of an Ohio voting rights organization.

https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2026-06-12/ohi...

Representative Joyce Beatty is from Ohio and was instrumental in stopping Trump from illegally renaming the Kennedy Center.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/06/kennedy-center-b...
xenophonf
·last month·discuss
> quite annoying

It's also quite stable, which you'd think more people would prize given the recent and on-going supply chain attacks.
xenophonf
·last month·discuss
This commit looks... odd.

https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog/commit/36434f93f03dec1d7d4...

I want to have as much fun as the next developer, but that makes me worry, what with supply chain attacks in the news and all.
xenophonf
·last month·discuss
It took me way too long to realize you were referring to r/localllama.
xenophonf
·last month·discuss
> most people who work in tech do not make good instructors

Guilty as charged, despite my best attempts to the contrary. I wish I had time to go back to school for some kind of teaching degree. Is there something else I can do or read or watch or something to make me a better teacher? Knowledge transfer is probably the most important aspect of my job.
xenophonf
·2 months ago·discuss
Simon writes:

> To [switch users], /bin/login would need to be setuid, and it certainly isn’t on Linux... _Perhaps_ Solaris (or SolarOS) is different?

The login command is indeed setuid root on SunOS 4, to which the movie pays homage, as its documented behavior is "to [permanently] change from one userID to another". The su command explicitly means "temporarily switch to a new user ID".

Here are copies of the SunOS 4 manual pages, if you're curious:

http://www.typewritten.org/Manual/Sun/SunOS/4.0.2/man1/login...

http://www.typewritten.org/Manual/Sun/SunOS/4.0.2/man1/su.ht...

And here's a link to the relevant bits of the SunOS 4.1.3 source code:

https://github.com/Arquivotheca/SunOS-4.1.3/blob/2e8a93c3946...
xenophonf
·2 months ago·discuss
Can someone explain how the ChatGPT Codex Connector works in concert with GitHub access controls? I am not sure how to add it to my GitHub repositories, accounts, or organizations without potentially giving any OpenAI customer access.
xenophonf
·2 months ago·discuss
I'm amused at how thoroughly Google adopted Microsoft's playbook. Chrome supplanted Internet Explorer by embracing the open web. But then Google immediately started on extensions, and now they're trying to extinguish the open web with nonsense like Cloud Fraud Defense. All very smoothly done. I mean, people are actually _asking_ for this junk. I'm impressed.
xenophonf
·2 months ago·discuss
I stopped using this when the dev did their rugpull and won't go back.
xenophonf
·2 months ago·discuss
Yes.

It's nice to get an easy question every once in a while.
xenophonf
·3 months ago·discuss
"Require actions to be pinned to a full-length commit SHA" applies to composite actions, too. I had to replace pre-commit/action as a result.
xenophonf
·3 months ago·discuss
That "inadvertently" desperately needs scare quotes.
xenophonf
·3 months ago·discuss
I only found out about them via word of mouth, but who knows. At least they're good stuff!