2024-04-24

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-04-24 Wed 08:16

https://hackers.town/users/snipe/statuses/112320504089252451

hackers.town: 2024-04-24 Wed 08:42

There was a brief stretch where I looked forward to Win 10/11 updates, mainly for better WSL features and integration. Looks like that stretch has ended.

Anyways, there are suggestions for fixing the new Microsoft Sponsored Malware Loader. Including “use Linux / macOS” obvs. But if neither of those paths are relevant to you, there’s Stardock and I think a few other options.

@GossiTheDog

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112325896279342086

hackers.town: 2024-04-24 Wed 09:30

oh hey i got an idea for a blog post

hackers.town: 2024-04-24 Wed 09:57

@scy @bentsai what about — (reads thread) — okay uh no. Not that.

I can tell you what I’ve done: 1) convert HTML to Markdown using Pandoc; 2) clean Markdown to desired style and format with my own post-processing scripts, leaning on regular expressions, line-by-line processing, and some context tracking.

hackers.town: 2024-04-24 Wed 10:30

@jalefkowit I will always keep my fingers crossed. Some of my so-quiet-they-trigger-an-uncanny-valley-effect Finnish cousins in Wisconsin, when they talk politics? Strong socialist left leaning.

(which is probably why my dad moved away, but that’s another thread)

hackers.town: 2024-04-24 Wed 12:07

yay -Syu system updates include electron25 and electron26, which 1) takes a hell of a long time via AUR; and 2) strongly suggests I look through my installed packages to see what’s dependent on two different EOL’d versions of a framework.

hackers.town: 2024-04-24 Wed 12:13

@jimniels @qlp I love these!

The Big Sur transition made app identification surprisingly difficult for me, with so many icons becoming “stylistically similar logos identically placed and identically sized on identical white squircles.”

hackers.town: 2024-04-24 Wed 13:56

@ceejbot well at least the sudden change in licensing makes more sense to me now.

I mean — companies do that stuff all the time, but there’s usually a motivating trigger, because lawyers aren’t cheap.

hackers.town: 2024-04-24 Wed 14:24

and i already had to rewrite 2/3 of the notes that led to the blog post idea because i found a lower-friction way to do the thing while turning the notes into a post

hackers.town: 2024-04-24 Wed 20:28

Attention wandered for a bit, but I got code that does the thing and an only slightly sketchy story. Next I ponder how much to clean up the code and how much to fill out the story.

hackers.town: 2024-04-24 Wed 20:30

@yenzie Honestly I didn’t mind, as what I started with worked but looked kind of awkward and uncomfortable. Like maybe @genehack in a tie.