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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I hear the screams of the vegetables (scream, scream, scream)

    Watching their skins being peeled (having their insides revealed)

    Grated and steamed with no mercy (burning off calories)

    How do you think that feels? (bet it hurts really bad)

    Carrot juice constitutes murder (V8’s genocide)

    Greenhouses prisons for slaves (let my vegetables grow)

    We have to stop all this gardening (it’s dirty as hell)

    Let’s call a spade a spade (a spade is a spade is a spade is a spade is a…)









  • This is interesting because I’ve been thinking about switching from Debian to Arch. I’m already running Nix inside of my Debian installation to get more recent apps (I don’t like how snap interacts with the rest of the system, so I avoid it if I can).

    Is there anything else on a more base OS level (like apt v pacman) that you’ve noticed is different, if you’re willing to share?





  • I mean, you got my upvote already, but one big reason is that Robertson wanted to control all the manufacturing of the screws and the bits. Phillips licensed his patent out and let anyone make them just taking a tiny licensing fee. Made a fortune on volume. Robertson: good engineer, bad businessman.


  • I don’t fully agree with these, but these are the cases I’ve heard of:

    • Deeper integration with webcams
    • USB authentication devices like Yubikeys

    I think these are better served with extensions or specific browser protocols that communicate with native apps in order to keep the crazy web world more isolated from the high-value computer world, but what do I know? My guess is that someone at Google went “You know, we’re creating a lot of these specific protocols to communicate with webcams, printers, and now we want to do authentication dongles. You know what? They all use USB? Why don’t we just create a general way to access USB?”

    In the immortal words of Dr. Ian Malcolm: