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slowmover··on Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
> The victim is prompted to enable the "Installed community plugins" synchronization feature.

Obsidian has the proper protections in place to prevent this type of attack, and the victims are being convinced to ignore them. This is just a successful social engineering event. I hate to see Obsidian dragged down by this headline, since this attack is not exploiting a vulnerability in it or its plugin system.

slowmover··on Bash startup config file behavior (diagram)
I took the time to construct this diagram a while back. Thought I'd post it here since it might be useful to others. AFAIK, it's complete and accurate, though any comments on it would be appreciated. Note that the bash startup process is even more complicated than this diagram indicates if bash is launched with certain command-line options. But trying to cover all those cases would make this diagram uselessly complex.
slowmover··on How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences
"dig in your heels when confronted with overwhelming dissent"

Sorry, sticking to this one.

Call me anti-social if you want, but facing overwhelming dissent may indicate you're the lone free-thinker in an echo chamber. Being that one guy who's always prodding the hivemind with a pokey stick has value in my opinion (though you will end up getting stung on occasion).

slowmover··on I fact-checked Scientific American, with accidental help from Anthropic
Reporting around this Claude Code CLI leak is rife with disinformation and hyperbole. Even sources we'd like to trust are getting it wrong. This article explains what was leaked, and why it doesn't really matter much.
slowmover··on Farnborough Airshow: The Scorpion in search of a customer
Another US-built plane with comparable performance stats and an even lower price tag ($2.6M 2014 adjusted):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-82_Twin_Mustan...

slowmover··on EasyRPG
See mkxp (https://github.com/Ancurio/mkxp), an open-source replacement for the RPGMaker engine that was used by "To The Moon" for Linux/Mac support.
slowmover··on EasyRPG
Perhaps it's also worth mentioning mkxp in this thread: https://github.com/Ancurio/mkxp

mkxp is an open source cross-platform runtime engine for RPGMaker games and supports games made with RPGMaker VX. This is the engine they used to make "To The Moon" platform independent. From what I've read it's pretty easy to move games over to mkxp, but you have to be very careful not to use any RPGMaker-licensed assets in your game even if they are royalty-free because they're only licensed for distribution with the genuine RPGMaker engine.

slowmover··on Spinal cord work 'is a breakthrough'
Good point. Many (or most?) people do not understand the wide range of disability associated with SCI. No two injuries are alike.
slowmover··on Spinal cord work 'is a breakthrough'
A spinal cord stimulator was suggested to me several years ago to help treat the neuropathic pain [1] associated with my (complete) spinal cord injury. I'm currently trialing Prialt [2] for this, but if it doesn't work (or the side-effects are too nasty) I might pursue the stimulator.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropathic_pain [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziconotide

slowmover··on Spinal cord work 'is a breakthrough'
Paraplegic here, can confirm (for myself anyway). After reading several discussions/polls online on the subject, it seems to me that the general order of importance is:

1. Resolution of neuropathic pain 2. Use of hands 3. Sexual function 4. Bladder and bowel function 5. (a few other things) 6. The ability to walk

I should note that the discussions/polls I've read are mostly from the United States. The U.S. is probably the most accessible country in the world, and as a citizen I don't miss walking so much because I can still do almost anywhere I want to. If the discussion was among people from undeveloped countries, the ability to walk might score much higher.

slowmover··on ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text
> One might question why all control codes in the ASCII character set have low values, but the DEL control code has value 127. This is, because this specific character was defined for deleting data on paper tapes. Most paper tapes in that time used 7 holes to code the data. The value 127 represents a binary pattern were all seven bits are high, so when using the DEL character on an existing paper tape, all holes are punched and existing data is erased.

I love this, it shows just how old the roots of ASCII are.

slowmover··on Google gives UK government “super flagger” status for YouTube?
David Cameron must have recently watched the first episode of Black Mirror.
slowmover··on Why open floorplans are bad for programming
PSA - As an alternative to headphones I came up with "stealth" earplugs. Take regular memory-foam earplugs, cut them down so the outer edge is flush with your ear hole, and color the outside edge black with a sharpie. The cut out the background noise but let enough sound through that you can have a normal conversation with someone next to you. Sometimes I wear them all day.
slowmover··on Why open floorplans are bad for programming
This is exactly the issue I have in my current open floor plan. Developers are intermixed with project managers and business analysts and anyone else who happens to occupy the empty desk at the end of the row.

However, the worst distraction I have is actually another developer whose voice carries like buckshot out at 12 gauge. He's been asked to keep it down but it seems like he is physically incapable of understanding how loud he talks.

slowmover··on Show HN: SVG Clocks
TIL one can embed javascript in SVG. Can it be used to do more than just changing the positions and rotations of objects already defined in the file? (In other words, could someone write Space Invaders entirely in SVG?)
slowmover··on This Week in Rust
Java, C#, Ruby, and Python are all interpreted/VMed languages. I'm curious why you would liken Go to them. Other than garbage collection, I can't see any significant similarities in their design or usage.
slowmover··on The inexplicable rise of open floor plans in tech companies
For this very reason I made a pair of "stealth" earplugs. Take a standard "memory foam" type earplug, cut it down so the outer edge is flush with your ear hole, and color the outer surface of it black with a sharpie. I've worn them all day before without anyone noticing. They cut down the distant noise, but still let enough sound through to have a normal conversation with someone nearby.

And yes, I invented these shortly after my work area was converted to an open floor plan.

slowmover··on How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To
I have nothing to offer except that I'm right there with you. It's a daily, hourly struggle. Email me if you'd like.
slowmover··on How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To
He mentions that he's tried multiple antidepressants in the third sentence.
slowmover··on This Week in Rust
Which languages would you say are competitors to Go?
slowmover··on Sit More, And You're More Likely To Be Disabled After Age 60
By 60 I'll have been in a wheelchair for 25 years, so as far as I'm concerned this statistic is absolutely true.
slowmover··on 3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect
These are called cinemagraphs, and here's a bunch of them for you: http://www.reddit.com/r/cinemagraphs
slowmover··on Top Startups Built on Docker
DigitalOcean supports Docker within a Droplet, so you can use DO as a VPS, a Docker host, or both. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-use-t...
slowmover··on Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work?
system("tar --delete-files -czf archive.tar.gz $datadir/");

What could possibly go wrong?

slowmover··on Fig: Fast, isolated development environments using Docker
Can anyone explain, in a nutshell, what features this tool provides beyond just using Docker itself?
slowmover··on Google’s Reliability Team Sat Down for an AMA Right Before Gmail Exploded
We should all take this opportunity to think about the risks of being so heavily reliant on X, Y, or Z.
slowmover··on Use SQL subqueries to count distinct 50x faster
For all its faults, this is one thing I like about Oracle. No matter how many levels of nested correlated subqueries or other convoluted junk I throw at it, it (almost) always untangles the query into a nicely optimized plan. Of course, this makes it less likely I'll spend time actually thinking about how the query could be cleaned up and streamlined. Which means if I tried to move over to MSSQL or MySQL my queries would probably take forever or fail completely. Ergo, I'll stick to Oracle... ?
slowmover··on Quietnet: Chat client that works over near-ultrasonic sound
Interestingly, some early wireless TV remotes used sound this way. The battery-free remotes would strike a tone when a button was pressed, and carefully tuned forks in the TV set would resonate in response, triggering the remote function.

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1957_Zentih_Ad-Remote1.JPG

slowmover··on Show HN: My side project to help you milk your Dropbox space to the last drop
Looks interesting. Mind sharing how exactly my photos will be manipulated?
slowmover··on Stolen cobalt-60 found in Mexico; curious thieves likely doomed
Another similar incident, this time in Juarez.

http://www.window.state.tx.us/border/ch09/cobalto.html

The hapless Sotelo--who, remarkably, seems to have escaped serious contamination--was arrested in 1990 on theft charges. In the prison where he still awaits sentencing, the guards call him El Cobalto--the Cobalt Man.

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