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okasakion ICQ will stop working from June 26

IRC is very simple. I used to connect with telnet if a client wasn't available.

okasakion Try Clojure

I was hoping it would be longer, like the tour of golang.

As is it basically just shows you how to do arithmetic, which isn't interesting at all.

okasakion Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go

The demo doesn't work for me. I see some buttons but mostly it's all black. Chromium on Win 11.

okasakion A forged Apple employee badge

I've never tested it, but you may be right. On the other hand a pen is smaller, and you can draw and doodle with it.

okasakion A forged Apple employee badge

Why not just use a pen?

okasakion eu/acc

What ecosystem? Europe is completely colonized by Microsoft, Oracle, Google and Apple and others.

okasakion Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript

Is it still necessary to obfuscate email addresses? Mine isn't and I get around 50 generic spam emails per month to gmail.

okasakion Cost of developing new drugs may be lower than industry claims: trial

So like any business. Just because 90% of restaurants fail doesn't mean the cost of running a restaurant is 10x of what it actually takes to run a successful one.

okasakion Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts

Indeed - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette...

okasakion To understand the fight against China, Russia, just read The Lord of the Rings

What a disgusting and outrageous thought

okasakion Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclusions

Yes, because it sucks.

okasakion Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclusions

Right, so the problem isn't "nobody wants to work on X11", it's that "Red Hat management doesn't want to hire anybody to work on X11", and phrasing it as the former is extremely dishonest.

okasakion Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclusions

Are we talking about Wayland or X11 here? Because like the article mentioned, Wayland is now 15 years old and still sucks. Sure sounds like the Wayland design is untenable.

okasakion Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclusions

So fire them and hire people that want to work on X11.

okasakion Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclusions

What does that meme even mean? Are you saying if Red Hat wanted to hire people to work on X11 they would get 0 people applying?? I really doubt that.

okasakion With US homelessness on the rise, Supreme Court weighs bans on sleeping outdoors

Strange! I did encounter some errors submitting and had to retry a few times.

okasakion Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans

> The significant investment in robotics showcases Amazon’s commitment to innovation in its supply chain and highlights the company’s belief in the synergistic potential of human-robot collaboration. Despite the massive scale of automation, Amazon emphasizes that deploying robots has led to the creation of new skilled job categories at the company, reflecting a broader industry trend toward the integration of advanced technologies with human workforces.

An article about robots that's written by a robot. It's robots all the way down.

okasakion China kicks top influencer off social media for a fabricating story

Yeah, I agree. But it seems very exotic to my western mind because we're not used to public lying having any consequences.

okasakion The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet

I bet that in practice that happens pretty rarely because it's risky (what if the legislator has cameras you don't know about, etc).

But I think politicians understand that capital and the national security state are very influential, and their careers will go much better if they do their bidding (without anyone ever explicitly asking them to). They'll find it easier to get elected, less interference from courts, great consulting and speaking gigs after they retire, and so on.

okasakion Linux fu: getting started with systemd

I wrote my own shitty deployment/monitoring GUI that uses just systemd and ssh and a single yaml file: https://github.com/dvolk/sc

okasakion The Microsoft-Dilemma – Europe as a Software Colony – Full Documentary

Teams and Microsoft in general is foisted on people by IT departments. Nobody chooses to use it.

okasakion The US rich are getting second passports, citing risk of instability

If you're rich you're leaving Italy way before that, and member states wouldn't suspend rights of Italians already in their country.

okasakion The US rich are getting second passports, citing risk of instability

Gives you access to the EU and those are easy to get I guess (schemes like invest some $x00k and get a passport)

okasakion Ukraine Is the First "Hackers' War"

This is the second IEEE article I've read and it's as awful as the first (I forgot what the first one was even, I only remember that it was awful). What's going on?

> a vibrant war startup scene is emerging

Barf

okasakion How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?

You don't have to get into tmux configs. It's perfectly usable out of the box.

okasakion Depressed 28-Year-Old Dutch Woman to Legally End Her Life in May

We are slipping down the slope to hell...

okasakion M4 always was horrible, and I say that as the original author of GNU M4

I vaguely remember using m4 to generate my website, and it worked pretty well for that.

okasakion German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

Wealth only matters in comparison to others, and Europe is poorer than ever compared to other regions.

okasakion Has Trust in the U.S. Intelligence Community Eroded?

New Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump is “being really dumb” by taking on the intelligence community and its assessments on Russia’s cyber activities.

“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/312605-schumer-t...