@pluralistic nice piece.

i think my brain is starting to become numb to foss doomerism now. i'll just continue to be grateful for the small wins and the people who still care, and shrug at the nonsense until it passes

@7sleepersmusic Truth. When I was growing up in Bangladesh, we used to be very sus about raw foods outside home. I’ve been remembering these ever since the lettuce, now blueberry fiasco. Like - you can’t trust to eat fresh foods anymore

No I mean I am not being hyp[erbolic at all when I tell you I am 100% sure I could staff the entire government, any government, out of the city phone book of a medium-sized, demographically diverse American city, and you would see instant improvement in governance. Like that's not a joke. Yes, we'd elect some cranks, but it would be SOME cranks, not uniformly ppl who think killing the poor is a solution to a debt crisis or those that work for them.

@dalias google apparently modified the go language's DEFLATE algorithm recently, which will modify checksums (???) and while zip files can be made to retain per-file checksums, by default they only store CRCs. i don't think compression should ever be nondeterministic but it's given me pause about incorporating it elsewhere

@farah We’re headed in that direction, TBH :-(

I donated blood last week and just received this extremely cursed image in a follow-up email.

I've just released Taskmon 0.3.1. For those who don't know, this is a small, super light-weight task manager replacement built for keyboard and screen reader users. Changelog:

• Added 29 new columns: Peak Virtual Memory, Peak Private Bytes, Peak Paged Pool, Peak Non-paged Pool, Peak Threads, Hard Faults, CPU Cycles, Kernel Time, User Time, Total Page Faults, I/O Read Ops, I/O Write Ops, I/O Other Ops, Total I/O, Elapsed Time, Shared Working Set, Parent Name, Private Bytes Delta, Working Set Delta, Handle Delta, Thread Delta, Virtualization, AppContainer, Domain, User SID, Efficiency Mode, I/O Priority, Memory Priority, and Protection.
• Fixed observable lag when switching the sorting method with the keyboard.
• Fixed preferences being rewritten to disk on every sort-order change instead of only when needed.
• Fixed the process tree incorrectly nesting processes under recycled parent PIDs.
• Rewrote Taskmon from C to Zig.
• Switched the Windows installer from Inno Setup to NSIS, shrinking it by around 95%.

ARM64 installer: https://github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/releases/download/v0.3.1/taskmon-setup-arm64.exe
ARM64 portable: https://github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/releases/download/v0.3.1/taskmon-arm64.zip
X64 installer: https://github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/releases/download/v0.3.1/taskmon-setup-x64.exe
X64 portable: https://github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/releases/download/v0.3.1/taskmon-x64.zip

Enjoy!

@csolisr also why they don’t care about Macs as gaming platform, it’s just not worth it for them

cc @dalias i'm also recalling your patient feedback a few weeks ago about compression and this is absolutely validating your assertion that compression is often inappropriate particularly on something like a filesystem. i think it's a fun problem but i absolutely hesitate to involve it in a system where integrity is a concern

@mattblaze Are you offering lessons? I have no idea how to be disrespectful to either of those objects.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@latte/117136704584835234

I have to stop and think about this when it comes up, but I almost always land on the former.

#Linux

@dlatchx like, non-constant block sizes. stream ciphers can incorporate information from earlier plaintext to modify how later chunks are processed, but not the other way around. this is something BLAKE3 could do better to increase its parallelism, but i hadn't considered actually encrypting anything differently before

N7628 Landed in Jackson, Wyoming, United States. Apx. flt. time 2 h 33 min.

~ 977 gallons (3,698 liters).
~ 6,548 lbs (2,970 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $6,936 cost of fuel.
~ 10 tons of CO2 emissions.

He put his name on an airport even though he’s still alive? I thought that only happened in third world countries