manuw's comments

On: Twitter Is a Shitshow

[manuw]

Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.

[uberman → manuw]

Musk:

"New Twitter policy is freedom of speech"

also Elon Musk:

"accounts promoting competitors will be deleted"

Musk:

"I won't ban the account tracking my plane"

Also Musk:

"The account tracking my plane is banned"

Musk:

"Doxing is bad and any accounts that mention or link to or report on anything doxing will be banned"

Also Musk:

"legion of followers who is this paparazzi? Here is is licence plate. Someone tell us all who he is".

Must be nice to be able to buy and sell your version of free speach that is free only as long as it does not irritate you.

On: Signal is testing “stories” feature

[manuw]

The only thing I want are "usernames" and not the binding to a mobile number.

[mdaniel → manuw]

Well, I hope you get them because allegedly that's the very reason they just shot Android SMS in the head: to "free up" resources to work on usernames

I'm sure this stories and the cryptocurrency were implemented by bug free machine generated code and thus didn't detract from said username workload

On: What are you doing, WordPress.com?

[manuw]

I like Hugo (or Jekyll) in combination with Netlify. I can just write something and push it to my GitHub repository. That's it.

[laurent92 → manuw]

I have a site in Jekyll, but the tech stack is moving all the time and causes compilation errors. I’m not a Ruby dev, so I can’t compile my Jekyll site anymore, it was something along the lines of being programmed for Ruby 3.x while Ruby 4 is the default now, or something similar.

[manuw → laurent92]

I switched to Hugo for this reason.

On: Google Maps Hacks (2020)

[manuw]

This doesn't work on busy roads

On: Best Wordle guessing strategy

[manuw]

Yesterday I had fun to find out what's the best "opener" for Wordle. I wrote quickly something about it here[0] and here[1]. Looks like "irate" is a good opener.

[0] https://dev.to/mnlwldr/opener-for-wordle-11k0

[1] https://twitter.com/mnlwldr/status/1481678410854412289

On: Text-Only Websites

[manuw]

mutt, irssi, newsboat, vim ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[jpasmore → manuw]

manuw - random-ish question i saw somewhere that u were using minikeepass which is deprecated on ios -- any suggestions? what are you thinking of using?

[sandGorgon → manuw]

ah oops... i meant mobile apps

On: NetBSD Code Study

[manuw]

I like the idea.

Few years ago there was an similar thing but with OpenBSD code. There is a IRC channel on Freenode who a group of people go through OpenBSD code like "doas" and stuff.

I follow your future articles :)

[gnanesh → manuw]

Can you share the link for OpenBSD?

[mulander → gnanesh]

Hi, I'm the guy who did the OpenBSD code reads.

The daily started in June 2017 we kept up doing it daily for 42 days straight. In total there were 47 code reads.

http://blog.tintagel.pl/2017/06/09/openbsd-daily.html

http://blog.tintagel.pl/2017/09/10/openbsd-daily-recap.html

[gnanesh → mulander]

Thank you.

On: OpenBSD: Not Free Not Fuctional and Definetly Not ...

[manuw]

Sounds like someone is very pissed because his commit was declined or something.

On: Podcast Explores Whether Scorpions Hit 'Wind of Ch...

[manuw]

Don't call it "Podcast" when it's only on Spotify.

[lode → manuw]

All other feeds at https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/

Including plain old RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/wind-of-change-wide

[raverbashing → manuw]

"Don't call it a movie if it's only on Netflix?" I think the Academy (or was it some movie festival) tried to pull that one. Didn't work.

We can discuss the (de)merits of being Spotify only, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a podcast.

[tobr → raverbashing]

More something like, “don’t call it a Blu-ray movie if you can’t play it on a Blu-ray player”. Feel free to call it a “show” or whatever, but if you can’t play it in a podcast player, how is it meaningfully a podcast?

Edit: Probably a much better movie analogy would be “Don’t say you’re shooting film if you‘re using a digital camera”.

[foota → tobr]

I don't think the common usage of the term really refers to the particulars of the technology involved.

[ornornor → raverbashing]

I read parent’s “only” not as if to say “it’s not as good quality because it could only manage to be on Spotify” but rather that it’s inaccessible to anyone not using Spotify ie it’s exclusively on that platform.

[vesinisa → manuw]

Or - don't call it Podcast if you can listen it on non-Apple device? ;) "Pod" in Podcast in fact originally referred to "iPod", an early 2000s Apple Inc. DRM music player.

[rocqua → vesinisa]

I think OP's point is more like calling whatsapp an SMS because the user experience is similar. Because the underlying technology stack is meaningfully different, and that difference matters.

[Piskvorrr → vesinisa]

Yeah, yeah, and criminals breaking into computers are crackers, not hackers. Some ships have sailed decades ago.

[waiseristy → manuw]

You're right Podcasts belong exclusively on the Apple store

You all know where the term podcast came from right?

[kuschku → waiseristy]

No, a proper podcast is available as RSS feed and compatible with any Podcast player.

It's the last actually open and compatible part of the web that hasn't been split apart and sealed off by corporate interests, so we should fight to keep it that way.

[lode → kuschku]

Here you go: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/wind-of-change-wide

On: Sending 1.2M Tweets

[manuw]

Someone should do this :)