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ProTip
2016-11-07T21:14:47Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Basically any headline you read on the internet that has the word "finally" in it is garbage writing.
#campaignagainstclickbait
#campaignagainstdrivel
#campaignforactualreporting
Also, Markdown still sucks.Nathan Willis at 2016-11-07T21:15:03Z
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History
2016-11-06T08:34:52Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Undo menu
|-> Autosaves
|-> Git commits
|-> Disk backups
|-> Offsite cloud storage versioning
|-> Multiple cloud vendors
|-> Separate accounts set up using different email
addresses
|-> Multiple forged identities created using totally
legitimately-obtained legal documents
|-> Data tucked away in zombie FOSS P2P networks
invented in the 90s and steganographic images
used as the logos for DotCom corporations set
up using different identities
|-> Vague ideas that still exist as circulating memes
|-> Wayback.Stephen Michael Kellat , Christopher Allan Webber , Charles ☕ Stanhope like this.
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2016-11-05T10:09:59Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Here's Everything We Know About Clickbait Headlines: twitter.com/n8willis/status/794844364027625472
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2016-11-05T09:16:14Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
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Sounds dangerous and/oh painful.. :)
Freemor at 2016-11-05T13:03:53Z
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Idea
2016-11-02T18:15:21Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Mozilla loves to spontaneously & unceremoniously kill things off. So here's a suggestion:
Kill off the "updated add-ons spawn new tabs that I didn't ask for whenever I open my browser" nonsense.
Seriously; what clown cooked that one up?
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it is right there next to dropping Flash support.
Between the two, Flash is considerably more useful.
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The Vidya Celeration
2016-11-01T17:33:22Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Another tactic I've taken to make this Atom NUC into a useable machine is to purchase a CrystalHD VAAPI accelerator card. There are free drivers, but you have to update them with a small patch to work with 4.x kernels.
Sadly the patch seems not to have made it upstream. Probably because the cards are no longer being produced, although they are easy to get & cheap & people find them helpful for a variety of use cases.
What really puzzles me is why there has not been a successor to this product, from any manufacturer. It seems so useful and obvious. Yes I have to use up a mini-PCI slot, but I wasn't going to put a WiFi/BT card in there anyway. Ethernet and external (Class-1) Bluetooth suit me much better.
And yes, I should probably turn this entire series of low-end-theory rants into a proper set of blog posts....
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2016-11-01T08:55:30Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
4th Law of Thermodynamics: the coffee goes cold after 2 minutes while the oatmeal stays scalding hot for 30.
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Obvious solution:
Sit your coffee cup in the middle of the bowl of oatmeal.
:)
Freemor at 2016-11-01T11:57:07Z
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2016-10-31T20:03:08Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Just spent ~20 minutes or so updating my multi-line bash prompt to use True Color, with the color of the \h escape sequence tuned to match my color-themed machine names and hopefully some subtle color differences in the other sequences to remind me whether or not I'm logged in locally or remotely. I already had different colors for the terminating ">" portion, based on whether or not the shell belongs to a regular user or a privileged user.
It takes a few more minutes to properly define all of the color codes as variables, but it's a bit clearer. And I haven't yet added anything to detect the hostname and set the prompt based on that, which would be ideal -- right now I just manually alter the command on each machine, which means I don't have identical .bashrc files everywhere. So there's still stuff to be done.
Why yes, I do have an assignment due tomorrow morning, whyever do you ask??
https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728 (TrueColor)
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2016-10-29T09:50:09Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Firefox is agonizingly slow on this Atom-powered NUC. #hellllllllllllllllllllllllllp
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(Also I'm just shocked at how MUCH slower FF is on this hardware; I expected it to be significant, but I did not expect it to be unusable, which is what it is. This is a ~1.5 GHz, 64b CPU with 8GB of RAM at its disposal. I'm now a complete believer in 'software bloat is ruining the tech industry' which is what all of those old graybeards were saying years ago.)
Nathan Willis at 2016-10-30T19:48:01Z
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>> Nathan Willis:
“I'm so used to the colossal list of customizations I use with it that it feels like a foreign Internet to use anything else. Lots of features I miss in Midori ATM.”
I totally agree. I've actually got three browsers installed on my various Raspberry Pi computers: Firefox for features, Midori for speed, and text-mode browsers for when I SSH in.
I started looking into the text browsers, too, of course. It's sad that development seems to have slowed down on many such projects. I can't get
linksto log in to many commercial services, althoughelinkswill.And there's the JS-enabled development version of
elinks, which it even more interesting, but it seems to be unmaintained and is not packaged.Meanwhile, it really is a lot of fun to find and set up excellent console-mode replacements for other things, pump.io included, which also reduces the load on the browser, but that's a different topic....
Nathan Willis at 2016-10-30T20:37:06Z
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I interpret this as my prejudice against Atom not actually being prejudice at all.
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2016-10-26T14:20:50Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Really? Nobody else? Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one trying to make the pumpiverse the center of the online comedy ecosystem.....
Sorry, I've been busy with coursework and catching up on being audited as well as other compliance-related crap.
COMPLIANCE CRAP FOR THE COMPLIANCE ... CRAPPER!
Nathan Willis at 2016-10-26T18:23:50Z
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2016-10-26T09:51:38Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
NAMESPACES FOR THE NAMESPACE GOD!
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ONTOLOGIES FOR THE ONTOLOGY THRONE!
Nathan Willis at 2016-10-26T09:52:50Z
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2016-10-25T18:49:07Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Finally got around to updating my LinkedIn job profile today, it being the least important online service ever invented. But the inaccuracy of it bothered me.
And I do think I ended up with a pretty rockin' profile pic. #HeyImWalkinHere!
According to news Russian court already decide to ban LinkedIn. Now LinkedIn company trying to challenge this decision, but we can assume that this service will be banned in Russia in next couple of month.
Um....
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2016-10-25T07:20:30Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Wouldn't it be nice if Bluetooth actually worked?
In what way?
Take your pick; audio, file transfer, suspend/resume, serial. Pretty much any advertised feature?
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2016-10-14T07:18:51Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
How long until we should start loudly complaining about the hacker community's utter dependence on the privately-run web service that is IFTTT ?
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I'm a hacker...
I never touch IFTTT..
I have a home server, scripting, an XMPP bot, SSH,remind, etc. So why would I ever need IFTTT. I'm going on the assumption that most "Hackers" are in the same or similar circumstances.. I always figured that IFTTT was, like FB, or Pinterest and the like for the masses that don't care about privacy.
Am I wrong on this? Are many/any people here using it?
Freemor at 2016-10-14T11:20:28Z
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Though I've never used it, I've seen many "recipes" that used IFTTT as a trigger for responding to events.
Exactly; I don't use it either, but there's a phenomenal number of "solve problem X" how-tos that start with "If you don't have an IFTTT account, sign up now. It's free!"
Thus, I am predicting that at some point in the future, the community will tip over into backlash. Much the same as it does for other "free as in SaaS" services. It just sort of mystifies me that we haven't reached that point yet. IMHO, that reaction seems overdue -- IFTTT is as widespread as (e.g.) DropBox and Thingiverse were when the "hey this isn't Free" tipping point hit. Puzzling that it still hasn't occurred.
Nathan Willis at 2016-10-15T09:37:46Z
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I've seen Pushover gaining ground in surprising places too.
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2016-10-13T17:09:34Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Here's what the electoral map would look like if only Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's concerts voted.
[ source: http://www.setlist.fm/stats/concert-map/bob-dylan-1bd6adb8.html ]
here's what a map would look like if only maps voted for maps
Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-10-13T17:59:45Z
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2016-10-13T07:18:22Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
While we're at it, please stop calling your streaming-music application a "radio" app.
There is such a thing as radio. You can access it from an app. HTTP audio streaming is not it.
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I'm with @Nathan Willis on this one. Broadcast can have many meanings.. but we are talking about the term "Radio", which is fairly strictly defined as sending waves of EMF through the atmosphere (aka radio waves) to a remote receiver.
Calling a streaming station "Radio" (unless it is a webstream from an IRL radio station) is indeed incorrect. If it were "radio" I'd be able to tune a reciever to the correct frequency and walk all over the place and listen to it... without incuring mobile data charges.
Many cellphones include an FM radio reciever (software disables in many models because the carriers want you to rack up data charges).
So thats my point of view. VoIP is not POTS, a router is not a modem, a Desktop (computer) is not a Harddrive, and on and on. It's not nitpicking, imprecise language leads to imprecise thinking and communication.
Freemor at 2016-10-14T11:36:42Z
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If a radio station's transmitter fails temporarily, does their web stream stop being "radio" temporarily? What if the transmitter fails and never gets fixed? What if the transmitter only covers a very small area, like a single town, or a single college, or a single block? How many feet of coverage are needed for it to be "radio"?
Would it still be "radio" if the station's transmitter were changed to an open wifi access point that broadcast the stream? Or is AM/FM modulation necessary for it to be "radio" -- and then what about satellite radio?
Seems like a really silly set of questions to quibble over. Better to say that technology is complex, ever-changing, and ofen broken, and that language is complex, ever-changing, and generally imprecise. Any mapping between technology and language will thus be imperfect.
Instead, we could consider that traditional radio broadcasts as a medium of expression afford a certian collection of behaviors, and that other things close to them in the continuum tend to fall under the "radio" term at the moment.
(Notice that cable TV is still considered "television" despite having abandoned atomspheric transmission decades ago, and more recently moving to TCP/IP, and indeed often not being watched on a television.)
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Re: transmitter failure, range, etc.. I was saying I can understand a Radio Station calling their webstream radio as they are an actual "radio Station" (aka have a broadcast license). if they abandoned wireless transmission. Then they need to stop calling themselves "Radio"
Yes WiFi is Radio Technology as it falls between 3000 hertz and 300 gigahertz, and uses radiant EM.. see: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radio
Satellite radio is also radio (radiant EM in the range above)
Televison is defined as transmission by either wire or Radio. See: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/television Also most still brodcast digitally via ATSC which you can still pick up for free with a receiver. (Cable companies just don't want people to know about this)
see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_terrestrial_television
As to your later points.. Yes language is often muddy and imprecise, but it doesn't have to be. People can take the time to learn the correct terms and apply them correctly. I'm not trying to be a troll here. This is just a pet peeve of mine. probably steming from my early involvement in Technology/Electronics and also Philosophy in which precise definition of terms is important before beginning a discussion (http://www.simpleliberty.org/main/define_your_terms.htm )
The real harm here, of course, is that all these HTTP streaming applications pollute the package namespace and push actual radio-tuner applications into DotComGibberish naming territory.
Also, please do note that my original comment was about app names and was not about what broadcasters name their services.
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2016-10-13T07:13:57Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
I can't decide which is more offensive: not publishing an RSS feed or publishing a summary-only feed. The latter being essentially clickbait, which does not technically affect me in the sense that I block ads, but it still fills me with rage on principle.
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the worse is when said feed include ads....
Hubert Figuière at 2016-10-13T13:11:28Z
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2016-10-12T14:23:51Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Life is now nothing but a singular quest to beat Paul Wise to the punch at submitting QOTW candidates to LWN Central.
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