MATLAB is just scipy for people that wear ties.

All the best linalg libraries are in FORTRAN.

Pretty sure numpy hooks into them. I don’t know anyone who uses computers for serious work that doesn’t use FORTRAN. It’s the best.

whimper was a dovecot and postfix machine. Email isn’t very fun

I don’t have many now, just minstrel (it plays music) but previously they’ve always just be sounds. Rawr, groan, whimper, bark, moan, growl etc.

Except minstrel (it plays music) :p

monkey

What are the odds of that working? You think I’d leave myself open to a simple brute force collision attack?

Also all sysadmins share a hive mind.

Having been a sysadmin you would be surprised at both the amount of times I had to explain why we couldn’t just put an unprotected endpoint outside the firewall and also how much alcohol I drank to cope with the former.

It is like being builder to architects that think you can have a second story just floating in midair. I am baffled by how ignorant of the basics of infrastructure many developers are.

Obviously I don’t expect a website dev to know the details of like iptables configs for load balancing with failover or whatever. Or even be terribly familiar with how to set up a production web server. I do expect people to know stuff like every computer on the internet is under constant attack from scripts. Or that taking advantage of peoples’ trust and leaking their data is bad actually.

Oh destroy property or whatever just don’t be cruel to people :p

Even if that was true effectiveness is never acceptable justification for cruelty

Me approaching Foss developer with bug: Pardon me, if you could grace this lowly worm with but a moment of your attention; I with me a bug report, and I believe I have found the section of code responsible. This inadequate being lacks the technical expertise to fix it and would be eternally indebted if you would turn your monumental skills upon its trifling problems. It would please me immensely if my paltry efforts were of some assistance.

This user: SOFTWARE NO WORK FUCK YOU!

Under the steamroller with you! There’s no stopping the gay agenda! mwhahahahaha

I was thinking about you when I cleaned up this codebase and removed a lot of redundant functions.

Yep

I’m not shitting here shitting on GNOME but I haven’t tried it since gnome 3 released.

I got kinda stuck on tiling wms because I hate having to think about laying out windows and so this blog post is exciting! They’re very correct that tiling wms only partially solve the problem because you often have to tweak for proper line length or just deal with random void space in settings apps.

Obviously mosaic isn’t in yet, but if I wanted to dip into GNOME can it do (or are there addons or alternative more efficient things to try) for the following:

• snappy keyboard only application launching e.g. dmenu style.

• a way to activate a tiling wm mode for when you’re doing something like software Dev or at least a way to save and lock particular layouts?

• tell software to always open on a particular monitor?

• manipulate windows without using the mouse + move focus to different screens without using the mouse?

• display a string in the status bar (I assemble my status bar using a custom shell script which outputs a string. I’d like to not reinvent it)

Cause reading this blog I’m kinda keen to see where they take GNOME and get in early so it’s easier to learn.

Like I said, I last used GNOME 2 so it’s been a while and I’m sure in my head it’s unfairly judged.

as a crusty suckless dwm user if this works as advertised I’ll switch

clearly I haven’t because I don’t follow :p could you elaborate please?

Let’s flip it. Why do people want data on you? why are people willing to pay for it? or governments deploy threats of fines (backed up by men with guns) or men with guns in order to force it’s collection on you?

private companies feel like they can make money with it, that they can make you do things that are profitable (buy something you wouldn’t, vote a certain way, decide against insuring you etc). Are you cleverer than teams of academics? I’m not.

Governments want it to enhance control. Sometimes that control can be benevolent but it’s still control. Often it’s not benevolent, selective enforcement of unjust laws against political opponents etc.

So why surrender privacy?

No desktop environment. suckless dwm. xmonad breaks all the time, i3wm is a nightmare with its config and status bar that sucks. dwm has problems, it’s not the easiest to customise and stuff.

It’s fast though, dmenu is the best launcher objectively, the status bar is something you literally just pass a string to via a script in xprofile.