We don’t need/want a huge TV, so we just use a monitor with an external speaker and dedicated media box.

Smart TVs these days are just too invasive to even consider in my home.

The Ballroom is a cover

Well, they could be tears of joy, “My moth friends! You’re back!”

Or the moths just tell really good jokes to him first 😃

Ooo that’s fun. Might have to add that to my site.

The fact there’s no double-jeopardy (triple? quadruple? Something not infinite at least?!) for indictments astounds me.

Then again it shouldn’t surprise any more – the US system seems to have a billion holes, like swiss-cheese, only left unexploited up until recently because those in power had, maybe, some small shred of shame and decency. All those loopholes must be absolutely sewn shut, and ‘conventions’ and ‘gentlemenly guardrails’ need to be made hard, fast, and most importantly ENFORCED laws if the country is to ever recover. I’m not hopeful.

I don’t know how far we should/need to go … but all I do know is that the current state of mergers, consolidations and cartels in a lot of industries is, well ‘too much’. I don’t pretend to know what the proper balance is but it certainly ain’t what we have today.

Take the recent news of RAM price explosions and Micron just stopping sales to retail for their RAM products. RAM is such a critical item in today’s world there almost should be some guarantee enforced by governments that it remains affordable for people; we can’t live in modern society without affordable computing devices.

Yay, more consolidation! /s

That is, I’m guessing, either BQN or Uiua?

I have dabbled in APL, and it can be written either as ‘line noise’ like this, or as readable as any other language, with comments, control blocks and clear variable names. Let’s just say I have … opinions on tacit programming like this.

This really is a new front in the war on general-purpose computing for regular people. The EU or some entity big enough that’s outside of the US needs to fund new memory fabs ASAP and get this industry out of the hands of the present cartel.

Good. The more projects that move off of github, the better. It’s a dangerous dependency-sinkhole at this point, and has been for some time. De-centralize!

Well that could be considered the point where we lost our innocence, yeah. :(

Good point. On that note I am very happy having moved my home server from Apache to Caddy. The auto cert config is very nice.

More the latter :) … if only we could all just get along and be nicer to each other. Sigh.

Oh, definitely rose-coloured, but I am thinking even before those days… like when access to Usenet was restricted to colleges and universities, dial-up BBSes … and I didn’t use Windows or MacOS at all back then. ActiveX and js didn’t even exist back then. Boot-sector floppy viruses did, but those were easy to guard against.

Neat, saw this just after I posted to the thread. Gonna bookmark this!

I’ve heard Chromebooks are such a pain to put alternative OSes on due to their BIOs. Are there efforts to just reflash these things so they aren’t beholden to Alphabet? That would be the most libre-resistance move: “Un-Chrome” the device permanently.

Hmm as I was typing this I did a quick search: https://libreboot.org/docs/install/chromebooks.html

…but that’s only for ARM Chromebooks.

Oh, I’m really just pining for the days before the ‘Eternal September’, I suppose. We can’t go back, I know. :/

This seems like a good idea.

So what’s the floor here realistically, are they going to lower it to 30 days, then 14, then 2, then 1? Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?

It is ignoring the elephant in the room – the central root CA system. What if that is ever compromised?

Certificate pinning was a good idea IMO, giving end-users control over trust without these top-down mandated cert update schedules. Don’t get me wrong, LetsEncrypt has done and is doing a great service within the current infrastructure we have, but …

I kind of wish we could just partition the entire internet into the current “commercial public internet” and a new (old, redux) “hobbyist private internet” where we didn’t have to assume every single god-damned connection was a hostile entity. I miss the comraderie, the shared vibe, the trust. Yeah I’m old.

I have a script that watches apache or caddy logs for poison link hits and a set of bot user agents, adding IPs to an ipset blacklist, blocking with iptables. I should polish it up for others to try. My list of unique IPs is well over 10k in just a few days.

git repos seem to be real bait for these damn AI scrapers.