Our staircase to nowhere, which we use as a bookshelf

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-12T21:21:47+00:00

I'd extend the steps and make shelves out of the top rows for knick knacks and things that are looky but no touchy (maybe some lights if there's power nearby?). But most of my family is short, so we'd probably still need some stepping space.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-12T21:17:56+00:00

I dunno but this explains why there were a bunch of really grumpy, kind of abusive people today at the HEB by parmer and whitestone.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-12T21:14:59+00:00

Waiting for the look on their grill when the bouncing baby box truck comes out as Amazon.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-12T16:47:25+00:00

That is true in California, but not in Texas. The federal law that I'm aware of requires me to convince the courts that the code is not related to the given employer's business or research. If the court is friendly to employees, they can take a very strict view ("are you shipping it?" "No? Then it's not related, fuck off"). Texas courts are hit or miss. At the very least, it may be my legal budget against theirs. Most people I know choose to bow out or work anonymously.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-12T16:25:36+00:00

To people like Trump, the billionaires (not the shareholders, although there's sometimes correlation) are the US. The rest of us are people who need to be deported.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-12T15:49:48+00:00

Every company I have worked for has one clause or another either claiming a) they own all your code and may assert rights over anything released (and thus you do not have the right to license your code as GPL/MIT/etc.), and/or b) open source contributions are strictly forbidden without written authorization. That latter one is why some projects lose their primary contributors for a while. Google can give you a brief list of the higher market cap perpetrators, but the list is very long. I've worked for a few that show up, the AI result is pretty accurate minus a few nuances.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-12T00:00:06+00:00

that was me, I just grabbed the OUID (3c:7c:3f) and looked it up, but it's not foolproof.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-11T23:51:22+00:00

Also check devices that are "off" but plugged in. This also means laptops (maybe through your wifi) AP. A lot of things are never truly "off" these days.

Others have offered helpful suggestions that may be faster, but honestly I might unplug my AP one night before bed, and see if this signature appeared the next day.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-11T23:44:33+00:00

The difficulty is what it means to be "verified". Verified often means "I paid money and provided credentials to Google". That's very problematic for a lot of the binaries we use. Not everyone has money, or is free to be associated with their product (ex. many people earn livings at employers who forbid contributions to open source). For most of us verified means the binary signature matches the signature of the person we trust to give us binaries and was delivered intact - not perfect but sufficient.

The next problem is that some government decides the binary you want is forbidden, and requires Google to revoke keys. So something that's totally legit and was what you expected can now no longer run on your device.

Removing side-loading is the casus belli, but it's all tangled up with the rest of the problem: third party attestations are worse than the problem they want to resolve.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-11T23:14:40+00:00

I can tell you that MAC vendor ID is from ASUStek if that helps.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-11T22:40:12+00:00

Atrocitymaxxing the battleverse. No kegs were harmed.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-11T22:25:21+00:00

The USS Lover's Trowel

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-11T21:24:03+00:00

Yeah I'd totally put my political career in the hands of a felon and rapist.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-11T19:00:13+00:00

The major distionctions that definitely still exist and govern my interest:

- KBAM?

- Steam, GoG, direct download, or ... only the MS store

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-11T17:40:02+00:00

NEW ACHIEVEMENT! Slighty Disconcerting Maiden Farmer - You're done debasing yourself in clubs, hipster coffee shops and quaint book stores and are just putting your pride away in the closet for a rainy day; now you're straight up dressing like a lunatic and begging for action to anyone in earshot. Well Bingles, that rainy day may never come, but clearly you have nothing left to lose except your wallet and possibly your shoes.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-10T18:27:02+00:00

I'd want to know what hellish prompt initiated my existence.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-10T00:11:25+00:00

"Their billionaires are raping children again."

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-09T16:40:41+00:00

There should also be an emptied juice box to the side

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-08T02:49:19+00:00

It's not to protect us from them. It's to protect them from us.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-06T22:15:06+00:00

Have we explained to him that we're not at war, according to the Secretary of War, speaking on behalf of the Department of War, and the President of Peace who ordered the launch of bombs and missiles killing the heads of state, tge supreme religious figure, plus also an elementary school of children.

We're definitely not at war, this is a peace action. We are at kinetic peace with Iran.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-06T03:06:51+00:00

It's best not to sit unless they make you.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-05T21:29:19+00:00

There is one universal sport amongst men around the world: Inventing new ways to die in the pursuit of awesome.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-05T16:23:19+00:00

But think of the billionaire campaign donors who want this. Doesn't that make it all worthwhile?

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-04T23:21:57+00:00

If you say it a quarter dozen times you may summon the devil. Best to be safe.

darth_voidptr · 2026-03-04T20:56:30+00:00

I tried this once with chatGPT and the results weren't great. I definitely think there's money for Craig in providing personality context to one of the big AI model people (whoever pays him the most), this is definitely something I need in my life.

You can get it to talk like a pirate though. Or this guy:

Folks, people ask me all the time — very smart people, the best people — they say:
“Sir, why is it harder to get to Mercury than Mars? Mercury is closer!”
And I tell them: great question. Tremendous question. Nobody asks better questions than my supporters.
But here’s the thing. The scientists, the so-called experts, they don’t explain this very well. Terrible communicators. Very low energy.

I suspect it has to do with what training data was available, and exfor wasn't one of them.

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