hoistbypetard

Bleh. I still get through for now. I'll be sorry when I need to go find an alternative, because I don't know of another that works as reliably as archive[.ph|.is|.today] for me currently

In case anyone else can’t read it: https://archive.is/PvpAx

Yeah, that's what it'd probably take.

I think I've seen all of his stealth camp episodes, and they've only been outside airports. (Once outdoors, once in a parking lot.)

I think a lot of the humor would be lost because he couldn't get his camp stove in to cook. Or maybe he could, but would risk arrest if caught with it...

I really hope he brings them back for a follow-up now that it's settled. (And I've requested it on fedi.)

The significant difference is that if it were placed into DFU mode and connected to an appropriate device that had access to appropriately signed things, it could be "unbricked" without replacing the mainboard.

I don't know about categories overall, but I'm attached to my iPad and won't switch to Android in part because Affinity is not available there, nor is there any near equivalent as far as I can tell.

I still think Overcast is nicer to use than Antenna Pod.

Microsoft Office apps work much better on iDevices, in my experience. (I know they exist for Android, but I've never had much luck editing there, where it actually works pretty nicely on iDevices.)

I don't game much, but my kids like gaming on iDevices much better than Android. (I have an Android tablet that I use for testing things, and they consistently reject it in favor of iPhone or iPad.)

Flowkey (music instruction app) works much better with my MIDI keyboard on iDevices than on Android (where it doesn't work and has to resort to microphone, which is buggy as hell).

I'm sure some of this is just a matter of the platform being more polished in general, but these are some apps that keep people in my house on iDevices despite having plenty of access to Android. The quality of the Youtube app doesn't move anyone, nor do the browsers.

I love the IBM aesthetic on the card artwork.

When I saw the name of that one, I immediately though of the Kite Eating Tree[1].

[1](https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/Kite-Eating_Tree)

You might find Matt Blaze's paper on vulnerabilities in master-keyed physical locks interesting:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2002/160.pdf

It absolutely does! I like the addition of the thing to read (in the case of the book) or the thing to look at (usually a funny or interesting picture in the case of the greeting card) but I agree that the purchased thing is not truly necessary.

I've started sending paperbacks instead of greeting cards when someone I know needs a get-well-soon card. In stores around here, greeting cards are often $7ish + postage. I can frequently ship a paperback with a gift receipt for $5 total. I include a gift message on the gift receipt, and choose a book I think someone might like to read while they're out of commission.

I guess it's a bit like postal arbitrage, if I accept the cost of greeting cards themselves as part of the cost of the activity.

To the extent that anyone has commented much, those who have commented had very positive reactions to what amounts to a book recommendation and a copy of the book I'm recommending along with a little note.

I mostly use git from the terminal, but the goodness of the IntelliJ UI for cherry-picking changes is one of the things that has me maintaining my toolbox subscription. Also, IdeaVim is a really solid vim implementation, IMO.

That is beautifully ridiculous! Thank you for doing that and sharing.

I appreciate the clarity, anyway. I will wait and see how intrusive the AI focus turns out to be.

If it turns out to be very intrusive, I guess I'll use Clion for my platformio stuff:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/platformio.html

(since I've already got a Toolbox subscription from them)

and neovim or zed for my blog. That's really all I was using VS Code for anyway.

Yeah, please do!

This is a good idea, and one I've wanted to build out myself. I think I need source to review before I'm willing to use this one, though.

Interesting. I know I'm not a very demanding user of word processing or presentation software. But I've been using zoho for basic business stuff for one of my businesses since 2019, and I wouldn't call it crap. It's not amazing, but I pay something like $12/user/year. And I get shared docs/sheets/decks + pretty decent email. And their transactional email service (zeptomail) is actually top notch IMO.

What missing integration makes you say "it's crap" and what do you consider a good version of that thing?

That depends on your workload. I've been using Excel since 1993, and I find the things I've listed help me get things done just as well as Excel does, unless I have a pile of macros and vbscript I need to interop with.

This is not theoretical; I learned it by needing to get shit done in a context where having an activated copy of Excel wasn't practical. Excel was paralleled and in one case surpassed.

Probably. I meant "perpetual" as opposed to "subscription" but I agree with your concern.

Have you tried grist[0]?

It's self-hostable (and the community version is FOSS I think), and really useful in a way I find better than just a spreadsheet.

It's no good for importing complex excel things, but I've found it very useful for new work.

[0](https://www.getgrist.com)

For legacy spreadsheets, you're 100% correct. I'll need to keep a version of Excel around forever. If they price me out of 365 by making me pay for Copilot shit I don't use or want, a perpetual license to Office 2019 runs about $20 and will do that job for me.

For new work that I might have otherwise done in Excel, there are good options. Collabora works. Libre Office works. Google sheets works. And Grist is quite good, and self-hostable.

Zoho and Collabora spring immediately to mind.

You might enjoy decker:

https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker

All of the descriptions on that reading list give me strong LLM vibes. Which, given the source, seems like it should be expected. This post could have stopped after hypothesis 1.

That... looks like it would let me do this exactly the way I want to for npm and python. For my C++ stuff, it's all vendored and manual anyway.

I had not seen that tool. Thanks for pointing it out.

For anyone else who can’t get to LinkedIn right now:

https://archive.ph/05KK2

schadenfuckup

When they closed the discussion, they explicitly welcomed people to talk about it outside their issue tracker:

> Our issue trackers (other projects may differ) are used to track the work for maintainers or soliciting community contributions. They do not exist for people to debate the merits of decisions already made. We have Homebrew/discussions (and, well, the rest of the internet) for that.

They just don't want discussion about the merits of a settled decision to interfere with their work tracking when they provide a perfectly good discussion forum[1] for that.

[1](https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions)

Are you running any electron apps that have not yet been updated to use the most recent upstream electron?

https://furbo.org/2025/10/06/tahoe-electron-detector/

I've got a couple things that I use which aren't yet up-to-date, and are blocking my upgrade.