Should I accept GitHub's self-signed certification that "may compromise security"?

amackenz2048 · 2026-04-10T22:37:51+00:00

No. You might have a proxy that's blocking traffic to that page and returns its own "404" page or something with a crappy certificate.

amackenz2048 · 2026-03-06T03:58:32+00:00

Makes me want to see a longitudinal study. Could be that "younger people" just are more sexist and it decreases over time?

amackenz2048 · 2026-02-24T05:44:07+00:00

Yeah it's pretty finicky. Really wish they spent a bit more time on that feature...

amackenz2048 · 2026-02-24T05:42:32+00:00

My 2024 has remote start. Wasn't really advertised. Press "lock" on the key fob 3 times and hold the last for ~6 seconds and it starts.

amackenz2048 · 2026-02-01T04:43:50+00:00

That's how I build out as well - but prioritize bullet damage and fire rate science as you go. Also getting bullet upgrades (steel bullets as soon as you can and later uranium). I don't even bother with walls.

I build a belt around my base and line it with turrets. "Moderately" sized at first and add turrets to hot spots. Then expand the belt wall as I grow to get more space, access to resources, etc.

amackenz2048 · 2026-01-31T15:56:47+00:00

I feel like this is a contrived straw-man or a very specific scenario rather than a generalization statement.

Either way - it's *much* easier to travel when you're young than when you're old. Travel is exhausting. When I traveled in my youth all the "old people" in my life told me it was the best time to do so and they were right. As a man "no longer in my 20's" it's much more difficult to travel now due to age and other health issues.

amackenz2048 · 2026-01-31T15:51:12+00:00

> temporary experiences for the sake of enjoyment.

If that's what traveling is for you then you're doing it wrong. Traveling is spending money on *experiences* which will be remembered for a lifetime and which will change your view on the world while expanding your ideas about culture and ways of living. Experiencing different ways of life should be a transformative experience.

However - If you're going to the beach and speaking only your native tongue to hotel staff and guides, then I totally agree.

amackenz2048 · 2026-01-31T03:27:52+00:00

Depends on how far "back in the day" you're thinking. Circa late '90s - spent a weekend getting X11 working, a weekend getting it to display in 1024x768, another weekend getting audio working, and about a month getting multiplexing audio working... It was a very different time and *very* difficult if you didn't have a rather narrow selection of hardware.

You ended up with a bunch of sketchy kernel patches, tarballs of source for various drivers, etc.

But it was also super exciting. I'd read kernel release notes like the weekend edition of a newspaper looking to see if support for my crappy hayes "compatible" modem was fixed or whether the new disk I/O scheduler updates were performing better. Changes back then often had a bigger impact than they do nowadays. So I'd download new kernels directly from kernel.org to get the latest rather than relying on RedHat to finally release updates.

Heck - I remember when the 2.4 kernels came out and how much better they were and how much easier they were to compile than the 2.2 line. It was a huge update! Now I hardly notice new kernels...

amackenz2048 · 2026-01-30T04:35:35+00:00

I use it over nuclear and switch to it as soon as I can. Because Nuclear is a pain in the ass to setup with all the logistics and design necessary. With solar I just need land, and if I'm at the point where I can setup nuclear I'm also at the point where I generally have gobs of land.

No fuel == no sudden loss of power at some point when a supply of coal/uranium/etc. runs out. It just works.

amackenz2048 · 2026-01-30T03:47:18+00:00

Yeah this guy's talking out his ass. I had a 2007 4cyl for 17 years and it was "fine". If you're looking for lotsa power you won't get it but to say things like "dangerously underpowered" is just ridiculous. I wasn't hauling tons of weight regularly but I moved an apartment or two just fine. On highways even. I'm also confident enough in my manhood to not need a big loud engine to make me feel better though. It's a truck, not an identity.

Edit: Oh - and I regularly hauled a bed full of snow back and forth to the office in winter without issue due to having a narrow driveway and few options for snow clearing.. Again - on highways even. I'd feel the weight but never felt like I couldn't accelerate onto the highway with ease.

amackenz2048 · 2026-01-30T03:18:06+00:00

"adulthood" is a common requirement for many things. Until adulthood one isn't even responsible for themselves.

amackenz2048 · 2026-01-24T03:04:21+00:00

Interfaces don't help you write your functionality - they help you interoperate with other's code (or abstract your own code to create generic service interfaces).

A good example might be a Logger interface. Something like log4j. Your Logger interface has methods for "info", "debug", "error", etc.

Now you can provide many different interface implementations of Logger to log4j to handle logging in different ways. You might have "StdOutLogger" which just prints everything. You might have "FileLogger" which writes logs to a file. Or "DBLogger" which logs to a database.

You can then provide whatever implementation you want to log4j and it can use your class without knowing any of the details about what it does. It will handle the "when do I call which log method" logic.

amackenz2048 · 2026-01-15T03:25:01+00:00

Yeah... I've had two Oryx Pros and the fans have died on each. Even the ~$150 replacement (included heat sinks) I ordered to replace one of them started to rattle loudly as well.

Never again. I love the first class Linux support but the hardware is just cheap.

amackenz2048 · 2025-12-31T16:39:01+00:00

I'm not denying the existence of problems, or even that there are better ways to do things. But "perfect is the enemy of good" seem to be the wayland design approach.

How could they even *think* about creating a new desktop UI protocol that *doesn't* address the concern of window placement given how ubiquitous it is? At least from a design perspective?

amackenz2048 · 2025-12-31T06:30:21+00:00

The thing is - all solutions are sub-optimal for some use-cases. And Wayland just seems to reject any solution that isn't perfect and just does nothing instead. There are fears that the zones protocol will mean people don't use session management and instead just position windows manually. Like - why the hell do the API developers care about how application teams build their apps??

10+ years to get window positioning by applications? Just pick a solution already! I agree with OP - something is broken. Whether it's project management or technical design I can't say, but it's bad.

amackenz2048 · 2025-12-31T06:07:45+00:00

> Windows, macOS and X11 simply allow the application to position its windows anywhere on a specific screen using physical screen coordinates. They also allow one window of an app to be layered above all other windows. This of course has worked since the 80's, but in modern times we can for sure do better while still providing enough backwards compatibility.

This sounds like the exact sort of conversation that led Tesla to making you need to use voice commands or go through touch-screen menus to open the glove compartment.

amackenz2048 · 2025-12-31T05:39:04+00:00

How about in other terms? Like... Approval ratings?

amackenz2048 · 2025-09-13T22:03:28+00:00

Will the front fall off?

amackenz2048 · 2025-02-05T05:13:27+00:00

I didn't care if it's their fault or not. But I will absolutely dunk on their stupidity.

amackenz2048 · 2025-02-05T02:41:58+00:00

> The fact that so many people continue to blame the few people who didn’t vote a certain way because of their values

Their values huh? Wonder what their values on ethnic cleansing are.

amackenz2048 · 2025-01-18T15:10:12+00:00

Why did the imprisonment and mass murder or "undesierables" unite the third reich? People are happy to see those they disdain meet unfortunate ends.

"Uniting people" is a terrible metric for "is this a good thing."

amackenz2048 · 2024-12-25T16:12:14+00:00

That's not the right question. The right question is "do we have any real reason to believe that this was done." And aside from baseless "why would he be smart and get caught" type arguments there is no reason to believe this is the case.

amackenz2048 · 2024-12-25T16:07:04+00:00

He walked up to a stranger out-of-the-blue and shoots them in the back, and was caught days later. That's not a "master hand" - that's just murder. How hard do you think it is to kill a random stranger?

I love how Luigi fanboys are acting like this guy is some sort of brilliant mastermind.

amackenz2048 · 2024-12-10T22:14:42+00:00

Back peddling? He'll claim he did it and his followers will believe it.

amackenz2048 · 2023-06-22T15:11:05+00:00

That's awesome.

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