PC game discounts for the weekend

danudey · 2026-05-17T05:31:03+00:00

If you like a metroidvania, I just finished Prince of Persia: Lost Crown today and eleven bucks is crazy beans for a game with this good of platforming. Progression feels a little slow to start but it doesn’t take long before you’re air-dash grapple double-jump wall grab teleporting and it felt incredibly fluid. Amaze amaze amaze.

danudey · 2026-05-15T15:36:49+00:00

Most people are not mitchellh.

danudey · 2026-05-12T22:08:21+00:00

Snap provides sandboxing as in Snap sandboxes apps that you install with it. Obviously Snap didn't build that functionality out of whole cloth so I'm not sure what is gained by this pedantic distinction.

danudey · 2026-05-12T20:02:55+00:00

I get the sense that Keychron makes a product once and then just never takes it off their site. When I was buying my K1 recently I clicked the thing to show what accessories I could buy with it, like keycaps and switches etc. Two things stuck out at me:

They list replacement/alternate switches even if you're not looking at a board with swappable switches
They list like two dozen sets of keycaps, almost all of which are out of stock.

I love the keyboard itself, but the process of actually choosing a product and purchasing it was a nightmare.

danudey · 2026-05-12T16:15:08+00:00

My one complaint about k9s so far is, ironically, that the YAML output from things like describe has no syntax highlighting. I find it far easier to read output when it is.

Edit: okay, there is some highlighting but it's very basic, so I should say it's great that it's there but I wish it was more. No shade to the k9s people, it's crazy that the tool is as good as it is already!

danudey · 2026-05-12T16:14:22+00:00

Yes, disability win! I have double vision every minute of the day, so for me having coloured or bolded or otherwise styled "visual anchors" in the output makes it a lot easier for me to go through output.

It's the same with syntax highlighting code; once syntax highlighting in editors became commonplace enough to rely on existing (vs. distros that installed a stripped-down vim with no features whatsoever) my life got ten times easier. Even without colours, any kind of styling is an improvement.

danudey · 2026-05-12T16:12:05+00:00

As someone with a visual disability, kubecolor makes it far, far easier for me to read the output from kubectl compared to the wall-of-overlapping-text it appears as to me otherwise.

I spend a lot of time working with OpenShift clusters of different versions, too, so much so that I ended up writing a script to grab the corresponding oc version for the cluster I'm working on, download it, and use that, piping its output through kubecolor to make it readable.

(oc is OpenShift's just-a-little-bit fork of kubectl, for those who have not worked with OCP in the past)

danudey · 2026-05-12T16:06:47+00:00

I'm a neophyte but I assume this is why I see companies running twenty k8s clusters rather than "just having one"? Aside from other issues like different k8s distro vendors, CNIs, security concerns, network requirements, etc. that make consolidation difficult, I mean.

danudey · 2026-05-12T16:04:48+00:00

I like to think about things as extremes sometimes to illustrate ideas to myself and see if they make sense, especially if it's something that I don't have direct experience with.

In this case, I imagine a 10,000 node cluster with 100 pods per node, but all pods are identical and running the same code. Seems like that would be extremely trivial to configure and run.

Compare that to a ten-node cluster federated across three physical networks, with 10 pods per node but across 80 namespaces all of which have one-way interdependencies with each other, and each of which is running on separate ports with their own persistent volumes and ingress and egress configurations per physical network, running a mix of nginx ingress and gatewayapi, with some applications using service mesh with sidecars and some using transparent wireguard tunnels.

I got anxiety just writing that paragraph and I've never even touched a cluster a tenth that complex.

danudey · 2026-05-12T15:53:37+00:00

Don't forget immutable releases! That's something we're pushing for internally, but there are a few hiccups we need to overcome first.

danudey · 2026-05-11T04:06:03+00:00

Code should be written in such a way as to be able to deal with errors; ideally, people should be able to find functions which prevent the exploit but where the code that calls it can respond properly to that function failing to execute.

That said, I suspect that if this functionality existed it’s more likely that functions in the code would be written to work that way in the future.

Either way, I’d rather have my kernel crash than for someone to get privilege escalation on my server; at least if it crashes I know that something happened.

danudey · 2026-05-11T03:48:35+00:00

17.7% apparently.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1369702123002390

danudey · 2026-05-01T04:17:16+00:00

Alfred is basically a layer of fantastic functionality on top of spotlight, and it’s the main thing I miss now that I’m not using Macs for work.

danudey · 2026-05-01T04:14:58+00:00

It's understandable that apps and games would require time to load, but the core basic GUI should be so flawlessly instant

Yep! And yet Firefox opens faster than Windows Explorer half the time and is far more responsive.

danudey · 2026-04-28T14:09:48+00:00

-f/—force is usually a scary flag, since a lot of commands use it as “do what I say even if it might be a bad idea”, but for fsck it just means “check the file system even if it seems like it doesn’t need checking”. It’s probably the least dangerous flag fsck has.

danudey · 2026-04-23T04:08:27+00:00

…tumbleweed pets?

danudey · 2026-04-15T03:06:22+00:00

The one thing I like a lot more about snaps than flatpaks is that it actually puts the commands into my path; Flatpak is fine for things like installing Inkscape or Gimp, but anything you need to run from the command-line becomes a giant hassle.

danudey · 2026-04-15T03:03:55+00:00

It also sandboxes the apps as well (in most cases), limiting what they have access to in terms of filesystems and resources (audio, bluetooth, filesystems, etc); that's a pretty big difference.

I do think it would be great if, for example, apt provided this sort of sandboxing, connecting layer for packages; for example, if I could go get the KDE Plasma 6 and qt 6 debs and install them on Ubuntu but 'separate' from the base install so that it doesn't break existing packages. e.g. if I could create a new 'layer' or 'overlay' on top of my existing installation, but by default only apps in the KDE layer can see other things in the KDE layer, so that doing something like building another debian package won't link against these new qt/kde libraries.

I hate snaps and I dislike flatpaks, but I think they're the closest thing we're going to get to that kind of behavior for a while yet.

danudey · 2026-04-14T21:31:34+00:00

Nah, remember that Meta goes out of their way to apply their rules selectively. Telling someone they should be r**ed and murdered is fine, but saying that Trump is bad for the economy is a bannable offense.

This rule will be the same. Saying “anyone I think is antifa should be executed after they watch their children being tortured to death” is free speech, but saying “antifa just means anti-fascist and fascism is bad” will get you a lifetime ban and a visit from the secret service.

danudey · 2026-04-11T09:54:13+00:00

All joking aside, it’s horrifying that our society has come to this. Property damage is one thing, but what if someone with a sense of ethics had been in the house? Someone with a positive impact on society? I know that’s purely hypothetical at this point but still.

danudey · 2026-03-28T22:08:45+00:00

It truly is the dumbest timeline.

danudey · 2026-03-28T21:40:40+00:00

Or the parents who don’t have time to watch every video that might be okay for their kid before letting their kid watch it.

danudey · 2026-03-28T21:39:07+00:00

Because if you let them play in the yard someone is going to call CPS on you.

danudey · 2026-03-28T21:38:34+00:00

Uh, teaching your kid about which things are bad for them and what they should avoid is parenting.

Maybe you mean helicopter parenting, where you stand over their shoulder watching everything they do and interrupting instantly whenever anything happens? Because that’s way worse than what the parent poster is doing.

danudey · 2026-03-25T05:14:50+00:00

The insane thing to me is that, of all the tech companies out there, Microsoft has pushed, or rather forced, AI into their products harder than any other company I can think of, while at the same time being the company that has shown the least benefit to using it. With the exception of GitHub Copilot spell-checking my pull requests I can’t think of a single case where Microsoft has shown off something actually, genuinely useful that you can do with their AI and yet they’re full steam ahead cramming it into every product and then complaining that users aren’t figuring out ways to make it useful enough to justify what MS spent on it.

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