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mikey_p··on We need a federation of forges
except it isn't at all like ActivityPub and is implemented radically differently to avoid many of the problems with ActivityPub.
mikey_p··on We need a federation of forges
We're not discussing social networks though, this is about Git project hosting. Bluesky doesn't have to compete with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or any of that for Tangled to be useful.
mikey_p··on Musicians are manufacturing sold-out shows
This is pretty normal on some level. I used to work in audio production and one of the jokes is that the end of an artists career usually resembles the beginning. I.e. older musicians 'classic rock' etc being relegated to largely county fairs and casinos once they have reached the peak of their fame and are on the backside.

Also production costs do tend to balloon dramatically each time you jump from clubs -> theaters, theaters -> arenas, arenas -> stadiums, etc.

mikey_p··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
You can get uniform curvature when filing. Ever hear of filing buttons? Or checking your work with a radius tool until you are in compliance? Stop talking about what filing can't do if you don't know anything about filing.
mikey_p··on I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program
Who know, maybe they're trying to distance themselves from the privacy disaster, but I doubt anyone at YC or HN is smart enough to read the room on Flock.
mikey_p··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
This is incorrect usage of the word "corner" to be overly pedantic. It's still a corner, but English doesn't have a separate word for inside vs. outside corner, so it's common to just say "outside corner".

And yes it is a corner (or vertex), where two planes meet. Edge can also be correct, but corner is not wrong.

mikey_p··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
Filing vs. CNC doesn't make one bit of difference.
mikey_p··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
You probably don't know much about filing, but there is no reason it would be any less accurate than CNC if done properly.

Also doubt this would affect strength, given the apparent thickness behind it, really depends on the interior, which is almost certainly also rounded for strength, and to prevent a week point for cracks to start.

mikey_p··on Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments
The interesting bit is that the group the quit the experiment part way through (presumably over ethical objections) were consistently better at following the rules, which indicates that the rules may have actually been designed to prevent some of the problems that the obedient group experienced, which might prevent them from seeing the ethical or moral issues involved in the experiment.

Now the interesting question is _why_ did those people who followed the rules quit at a greater rate? _Why_ did those people follow the rules more closely in the first place? Was there any variation in how the rules were presented? What is the difference in between folks who follow the rules more closely and folks who don't? What can we learn about the human condition from this?

mikey_p··on Neovim 0.12.0
Check out avante.nvim: https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim
mikey_p··on I decompiled the White House's new app
Except the app isn't a browser, doesn't advertise this feature and hides it from it's users.
mikey_p··on Make macOS consistently bad unironically
On the other hand the fact that it sometimes makes it hard to resize windows means that it breaks something that Apple operating systems have been capable of doing without issue for nearly 45 years.
mikey_p··on Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook
That's kinda the point of the Mac though, you don't have to get the right distribution or deal with pedantry, you buy, take it home, open it and will run for 8-10 hours of work without charging. No distro issues.
mikey_p··on Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook
I don't think anyone that dismisses this really understands this. I've never had a laptop that could for more than about 3-4 hours doing dev work, but in 2014 I could get 8 hours of dev time out of an Air, and I can do that now on my M1 Macbook Pro.

For someone who is actually out and about all the time, this is life changing.

If you just sit with your laptop tethered at your desk all day, they why would you ever care?

mikey_p··on OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
Who cares about stars on Github???

"If dev null is fast and webscale I will use it"

"Does dev null support sharding"

Who remembers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

mikey_p··on We installed a single turnstile to feel secure
Or the Victoria Hall disaster (183 dead), or Cocoanut Grove (492 dead), or The Station Nightclub (100 dead), or The Beverly Hills Supper Club (165 dead), or.....

Also in what world is a badge reader going to contain an armed gunman unless the walls, floors, doors, and windows are also bulletproof??

(Triangle shirtwaist fire resulted in 146 dead)

mikey_p··on Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026
Didn't they kill the Mac desktop app last year?
mikey_p··on Poor Deming never stood a chance
The biggest impediment to the 14 points for most companies is *shareholders*
mikey_p··on Command K Bars
So I'm right to blame Slack for overloading an already existing shortcut??!? I've always blamed Slack, but I didn't know it actually was Slack that started this madness.
mikey_p··on Command K Bars
The problem with this pattern is that command-k was already a commonly used shortcut for creating a link, which meant that products like Slack had to find something new for making a link so they overloaded paste which is super broken as a result.
mikey_p··on A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia
Yeah, it's a weird catch-22 for modern ag: don't use aggressive chemical herbicide and pesticides, but mechanical weed control has it's downsides too: with compacting that ground or erosion or use too much fuel.
mikey_p··on Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027
I really wish they would scale back up and finish the fab in Ohio and bring it online sooner rather than later.
mikey_p··on Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls
Because of PF or Packet Filter (the PF in pfSense FWIW): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PF_(firewall)
mikey_p··on Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs
No, this is the FIA[1], not Formula 1. They are very very different organizations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_Internati... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One_Group

mikey_p··on MinIO stops distributing free Docker images
No need to get mad or upset about this at all, MinIO is telling us exactly who they are:

They want to be a commercial software vendor, and they don't like open source.

As long as they aren't advertising their product as open source, I don't see an issue.

mikey_p··on Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025
Why do they need money? What happened to their funding?
mikey_p··on Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025
So they failed to properly protect their credentials?

This sure doesn't reflect all this supposed professionalism and improvements RC was supposed to make.

Years ago, I decided with all the DHH drama, that using Rails was too much of a liability and this shit just makes the whole Ruby ecosystem a liability to anything build in that ecosystem.

mikey_p··on The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press
Want I really want is an *arr style app that I can give a list of Youtube channels I want archived, and it would just keep the archive up to date indefinitely.
mikey_p··on You wouldn't steal a font
Clearly nothing based on Latin script can be original, which itself is based on the Etruscan Old italic alphabet, which itself it based on the Euboean alphabet — ergo, any typeface developed after say the 8th century BC is just a silly derivative.

Everything is derivative, there is nothing new under the sun, and your argument proves nothing.

mikey_p··on You should know this before choosing Next.js
This reminds me of a bad vuln in Drupal years ago (2014, I think?).

Alot of people think Acquia, being started by the creator of Drupal, has special control of the open source project, but at the end of the day they really don't have that kind of control.

So when the security team found this vuln, they coordinated with as many Drupal hosting platforms as they could, and immediately Pantheon, Platform.sh, and Acquia had all blocked the exploit at the firewall level by the time the CVE was announced.

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