That’s fair, I’m just saying it’s not “OS with memory safety” but “OS written in modern language”. I guess it’s interesting in itself but yeah, definitely not groundbreaking.

So you’re working on your machine learning projects in Zig?

People keep saying this but Rust is not only about memory safety. It’s not C with memory safety sprinkled on top. Compare with C and C++ it has better tooling and dependency management, it’s easier to create modules and organize your code, it’s easier to write tests and it has loads of nice, modern language features like algebraic types and typeclasses. Because of all this Rust is growing fast and a lot of people like it. Writing things in Rust is a bet that more people will get behind them and you will be able to add more features faster to them than to existing projects in C. The idea is not to simply do the same but in Rust. It is to have a cleaner, easier to approach codebase that will allow to grow faster in the future.

https://www.xoft.cz/prog/ifs_screensaver.html

It’s included here: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/xscreensaver-data-extra

xscreensaver with IFS. Can’t stop looking at it. I’m writing this on another computer because I don’t want to disable screen saver on my primary one.

You’re right. I will start a new distro that focuses on the the things that matter.

I torrented it. It’s a Spanish production that I thin was available on movistar+ platform. Hard to find.

BTW Conquistadores Adventum is a really good show about the colonization of Americas. It shows how tough the sailing was but also how brutal the conquest was and tells the stories of people behind it.

But dead dead or mushroom zombie dead?

Rice, pisto from mercadona and fried egg.

Nah, it was all me. All of it.

I remember when I used to keep my fully configured distros below 700MB so I could just dump it all to a CD as a backup. Good days.

Depends on the company I guess. But yeah, people would probably just laugh at me for being careless.

I once pushed a git commit with youtube link as the commit message. Nothing terrible, some completely random video. Still, it looked really weird in the commit history. Turns out you can edit this if you have access to the server and I did have access to the server.

One time in the same company I found a random youtube link in the middle of a java class. Yes, it was still compiling. No I didn’t commit it.

Last year they fired a guy from my team but didn’t cut his access first. In the 15 minutes between HR talk and desktop support actually closing his accounts he managed to send messages to all C*O and some managers telling them how unfair it was (it was totally fair) and accusing the company and his manager of racism.

My take is that they don’t track you for fun. They track you to sell you shit. Most people buy what they see in ads and believe fake promotions so this is a good business model.

Best way to stay out is not to hide absolutely everything. It’s to block ads and don’t buy so much stuff. Obviously don’t give out data you don’t have to, block trackers, use privacy tools. But don’t feel bad if some data gets out. You will never block everything and a lot of it is not that important if you’re not playing the game.

How do you synchronize all this pooping? Is this what NTP is for?

Dental is tricky in many countries. It’s delicate, easy to go wrong and very often painful. In Poland I used to do simple things like fillings using public insurance and I’ve heard many times that I’m crazy and for sure they will fuck it up. I think it’s simply because it’s it expensive and will go wrong people will think it was inevitable. But if it’s free and goes wrong people will say it’s because it was free. So in my experience even if public insurance covers dental people tend to avoid it.

That’s not easy. I mean it’s not that hard computationally but you’re talking about very specific attack requiring some dedicated tools. Real life you would have two scenarios:

1. You trying to break into my specific account like gmail. This will not help you because they will rate limit you, use captcha and eventually just block you.
2. You have a leaked list of thousands/millions password hashes and my password is among them. Hackers would just use existing rainbow tables. They will not think ‘hey, maybe some of those passwords use song lyrics, let’s check’.

This would be bad pretty much only in the very specific scenario of hackers trying to hack my specific account and having leaked hashes of password for this account.

Still I wouldn’t really use this method. I’m just saying it’s better method than some printed card generating short alphanumeric password.

True story: some newspaper in Poland organize a competition for the weirdest name. The guy who won had last name of ‘Zyc or Cyc’ (in polish, of course). Basically when his grandfather was registering his name some guy couldn’t read it or something so he put ‘Zyc or Cyc’ and it stayed like this in the documents.

According to this guy when police would stop him and try to write a ticket they would get confused and ask him which one was it? He would say that maybe they shouldn’t write anything because their boss will they they’re stupid or something. They would usually let him go.