pixelscript

joined 3 months ago
[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Everything works the same, times of website incompatibility are long gone.

Not completely true. It's mostly true. I've daily driven Firefox for years, and the number of websites I've crossed that wouldn't function in it correctly but would work just fine in Chrome was very slim... but not zero. Definitely not comparable to the complete shitshow of the 90's and 00's. That's true. But it's not a completely solved problem.

And with Mozilla's leadership practically looking for footguns to play with combined with the threat of Google's sugar daddy checks drying up soon due to the antitrust suit (how utterly ironic that busting up the monopoly would actually harm the only competition...), that gap can get much worse in very little time if resources to keep full time devs paid disappear.

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

I recently had a rather baffling experience trying to preemptively avoid this by downloading the stupid app right away, only to discover I needed the website version anyway.

I was attempting to add my Known Traveler Number to an already booked trip with Southwest Airlines, booked by someone else. I was able to link the trip to my account right away in the app, no issue. And I could see the KTN field for my ticket sitting there, empty, greyed-out, and not interactible. I opened up the moble version of their website, completely unsurprised to find it was identical to the app, except for the detail that the KTN field there was functional. Put in the information, changes reflected in the app instantly, and I was in the TAS-pre line that afternoon.

Why did the two versions obviously built from the same codebase have two different sets of capabilities? Why was the website the more capable of the two this time? I have no clue. All I know is I never want to be a developer at a corporation where I'd have to be responsible for this flavor of trash.

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's also part of what makes FOSS niche.

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

That's the thing, though. I computed from the claimed figure above of 13 billion net income. The costs are already accounted for.

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I've been told we have state senators who openly claim to only be there to keep speeding tickets low.

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

If you make $50k/yr after taxes, the equivalent fine would be on the order of about $120.

Where I'm from, that's a speeding ticket.

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

why is there no replacement for x11 forwarding over ssh??

There kind of is. The project you're looking for is waypipe.

Knowing how these things tend to go, I predict you'll try to use it for your use case and it just won't work for whatever stupid reason. But I successfully used it to tunnel an app from my Debian machine at home to a Windows machine under WSL.

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

The other day I learned that you can just grep an unmounted filesystem device. It will read the entire disk sequentially like it's one huuuuge file. And it will reveal everything on that disk... whether a file inode points to it or not.

Used it to recover data from a file I accidentally clobbered with an errant mv command. It's not reliable, but when you delete a file, it's usually not truly gone yet... With a little luck, as long as you know a unique snippet that was in it, you can find it again before the space gets something else written there. Don't even need special recovery tools to do it, just use dd in a for loop to read the disc in chunks that fit in RAM, and grep -a for your data.

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Stop threatening. Commit. Take the leap. A lot of us here are already on the other side and we'll help you find your footing.

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago

I mean, yeah, kind of. In the same way pilots fly planes out of a stubborn sense of pride for knowing what all the flight deck controls do.

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought his name was Alec, not Alex.

[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

What do you call a cis male who is sexually attracted to the conventionally attractive female phisique, but once it actually gets to acts of sex or porn that depicts it, all interest is completely lost?

Asking for a friend...

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