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  • Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’ | Republicans question value of automatic braking, rear-seat reminders

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  • And enforcing telescreens into every citizen’s home is critical to ensuring public safety. Without constant monitoring, how can the State prevent sedition and deviancy? If you let people disable their telescreen speakers, how will they stay informed and alert if there’s an emergency?

    If you don’t accept your telescreen, you’re neglecting your duty to protect others.

  • Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’ | Republicans question value of automatic braking, rear-seat reminders

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  • I see where you’re coming from, but that’s mostly a problem with trucks, vans, and SUVs. Let’s stop incentivizing manufacturers to pump out tanks first, then we can talk.

    The increasing digitization of auto manufacturing has led to all sorts of second-order effects, including vastly more difficult repairs (ask your local mechanic if you don’t believe me), massive invasions of consumer privacy (see linked expose), and generally made cars far more brittle.

    https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/

    You’re one step away from advocating for the telescreens from 1984.

  • Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’ | Republicans question value of automatic braking, rear-seat reminders

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  • I’ll say it: Ditching ABS is horrifically stupid, but mandating backup cameras and backseat alarms is equally stupid in the opposite direction.

    E: The article is talking about full-auto emergency braking and not ABS. I never thought I’d say these words, but I’m with Ted Cruz on this one.

  • Setting animated wallpapers, using image files (crossfading)?

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  • I’ve done that sorta thing before with ffmpeg; should do the trick for ya.

  • Would making software with old hardware expectations work as a way to write lightweight software?

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  • I’m a big fan of this approach to software; it works. PHP5, cgi-bin scripts, perl spaghetti, etc. are lit for hobby work.

    The tradeoff is that you have to pay a lot of attention to do things securely, and you have to hand roll a lot more of your codebase instead of relying on external packages.

  • I installed Arch Linux to a slow $10.29/year VPS along with GUI without using the installer.

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  • Friends don't let friends use Oracle.

  • Linux Mobile Friendly GUI Toolkits

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  • Tkinter might work, depending on what you have in mind.

  • "Wierdyellowmushroomycin: Towards Good, Natural Drugs Instead of Bad, Synthetic Drugs Full of Chemicals"

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  • Samples of every form of biological matter we encountered were ingested, and the results were recorded in a logbook. Most of the leaves and twigs were unpalatable, chewy and inert, while the animals universally avoided analysis because they were too fast to catch.

    This is a banger. RIP to our boy George.

  • Is there a secret to keeping cat grass alive?

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  • That’ll be your culprit then.

  • Is there a secret to keeping cat grass alive?

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  • Are you letting the substrate fully dry between waterings? It’s really easy to overwater and get fungal issues.

  • Tip for noisy microphones while using pipewire: importing module-echo-cancel from pulseaudio

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  • This is a really cool tip!!

    You might like this project if you're interested in a more aggressive filtering option: https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice/

    I've used it in the past to clean up a table mic for voice chat and worked pretty well. Requires a lot more config work than your approach does though.

  • Why call it full-disk encryption when the EFI partition has to be unencrypted?

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  • Absolutely not — the skill level needed to tamper with a bashrc, pull credentials + keys, or generally hunt for sensitive info on an unencrypted disk is worlds apart from the skill level needed to modify an EFI binary.

  • Why call it full-disk encryption when the EFI partition has to be unencrypted?

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  • There’s also PXE boot, secure boot, carrying around a live image on a flash drive, etc.

    But any attacker advanced enough to tamper with your EFI partition in an evil-maid scenario has plenty of other options to log and steal your encryption passphrase, so it’s generally a moot point.

  • Should I start a blog?

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  • The non-self-hosted indie hacker crowd is big on bearblog.dev these days.

  • TIL that VCA Animal Hospitals is owned by Mars Inc

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  • Which of the 3 standard compression algorithms on Unix (gz, xz, or bz2) is best for long term data archival at their highest compression?

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  • Seconding the zstd rec.

    For anyone like OP worried about having an offline copy of the utility on hand, I strongly recommend throwing a copy of cosmos on your recovery drive. It’s a set of common tools that are compiled to a special binary format that’ll run on all major OSes (and ARM64), including zstd.

  • Kornel after bravely slaying his formidable foe thus keeping his humans safe

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  • It goes into Postgres

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  • Just to tail on the “Postgres is a better document DB than Mongo” theme, there’s now a QuickJS procedural extension for postgres (in addition to the earlier but clunkier plv8):

    https://github.com/plv8/pljs https://bellard.org/quickjs/quickjs.html

    The rub is that you can yeet any document data you like into JSONB columns, and mung them efficiently and freely with JS — taking all the upsides of Mongo, yet letting you merge them seamlessly with the full capabilities of PG’s relational model.

  • Fedora 44 Considering Additional Kernel Hardening For Better Security

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  • Zero, unless you're a big eBPF user.