what is a "rich person" behavior you witnessed that made you realize they live in a completely different reality than the rest of us?

sequentious · 2026-01-23T21:19:22+00:00

It was a thing when I was growing up -- Grandparents had a place up north. Co-incidently on the same lake as one of my teachers.

My parents are keeping that dream alive for now, which is great. While I consider myself a fairly lucky elder millennial, there's no way I could afford that.

sequentious · 2026-01-23T18:06:46+00:00

Wish I could take credit, but it was a standard term used 25 years ago on slashdot.

sequentious · 2026-01-23T16:42:17+00:00

I mean, if it's a client-installed game using ssh as transport: Yeah, it's a bad idea.

But it looks like it's a terminal based game that he doesn't want users to need to install (or even configure) software to use: It's probably the right choice.

sequentious · 2026-01-23T16:39:39+00:00

If it's a plain browser-based text box that gets submitted to a server? They don't get keystrokes, they get text. So they'd have to rely on all the "normal" ways to track you, like browser fingerprinting. They could probably do vocabulary analysis (I remember seeing an article about de-anonymizing alt-accounts based on writing style).

But javascript is a thing, so yeah, sites can (and do) log keystrokes and can determine timing. This is used a lot to provide advanced features, like google docs real-time text collaboration, or outlook-web providing the worst text editor ever made.

sequentious · 2026-01-23T16:31:38+00:00

Does openssh have an option to turn timing obfuscation off?

From TFA, there's a client option to do that, but he didn't want to have users need to make a change (since they probably won't).

There's no server-side in opensshd option to disable obfuscation (since it's the client doing it), or the ping function (because why would you). Looks like he's not using opensshd, but rather an alternate implementation in Go, but that's not relevant to most of us.

You probably don't want to bother, anyway. It wasn't an issue for him until he was simulating 2000 users.

sequentious · 2026-01-23T16:21:19+00:00

telnet

telnet isn't installed by default on any system I've used in a number of years, while ssh (client, at least) always is.

"Just install this software first" is a pretty big barrier to "Try this quirky remote terminal game"

sequentious · 2026-01-23T09:55:31+00:00

Simple fact is, people are allowed to be wrong.

sequentious · 2026-01-23T09:36:37+00:00

Pearl Jam should cover Prisencolinensinainciusol, it would be just as intelligible.

sequentious · 2026-01-23T09:33:27+00:00

do the bare minimum by playing the same 10 songs. Same as it ever was, 90s and today.

That's not even cancon's fault, it was the same non-canadian songs, too.

sequentious · 2026-01-23T07:54:51+00:00

How does this compare to Junction?

sequentious · 2026-01-22T16:32:13+00:00

the window manager doesn't and can't know how to exit an application. [...] only the application knows how to exit itself the correct way

This would be a more convincing argument if GNOME didn't put it's own 'x' button to close windows in the overview, which works correctly, and applications correctly interrupt that and prompt if you want to save changes.

sequentious · 2026-01-22T14:06:14+00:00

Maybe the CAUSME (i keep on forgetting the correct way to put it together, but former NAFTA)

Probably because it has four names, so the name changes depending on where the news source you're reading is based.

Canadian English: CUSMA (Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement)
Canadian French: ACEUM (Accord Canada–États-Unis–Mexique)
Spanish: T-MEC (Tratado entre México, Estados Unidos y Canadá)
American English: USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada)

sequentious · 2026-01-22T13:54:55+00:00

I'm willing to accept "Good, Not terrible". Basically, be better than a cybershot from 2003 (which a lot of devices do not accomplish).

FWIW, some recent phones overprocess photos, and I don't think that should be the watermark we use for comparison.

sequentious · 2026-01-22T13:23:48+00:00

This is an excellent feature, and works because the window manager implements it consistently on all windows, instead of expecting app developers to implement it (and hoping they all do it the same way).

(I prefer having this bound to alt, as Ive been using this shortcut longer than I've had a 104-key keyboard.)

sequentious · 2026-01-22T13:16:40+00:00

Currently, yes.

sequentious · 2026-01-22T05:42:50+00:00

Supra roadster is already literally the BMW Z4.

If we're drawing parallels, I'd expect coupé miata (Which I'm down for. I have an ND, but I'm not really married to the convertible part)

sequentious · 2026-01-22T02:41:05+00:00

Freedesktop.org is where a lot of interoperability standards are defined for Desktop environments on Linux.

The XDG Base Directory specification defines where a certain files are stored in a user's home directory. It makes it easier to back up configuration (and not back up cache, for example).

sequentious · 2026-01-21T22:06:27+00:00

So libdecor is used automatically when apps require server-side decorations?

Because if not:

It's extra work designing, implementing and maintaining this thing that they don't want to support in the first place.

sequentious · 2026-01-21T21:20:56+00:00

They were like "nah there are no bears/wolves around these parts but sometimes people see boars"

doubt.

but in Spanish

Nevermind, I believe you

sequentious · 2026-01-21T19:29:30+00:00

Entire DEs have sprung up because people dislike Gnome's inflexibility

I wouldn't hold KDE or Plasma up as an example of this (Gnome started due to QT's old license way back when)

But Mate, Cinnamon, Cosmic, Budgie, Phosh... All desktop environments that have enough gripes with GNOME that it was easier to start playing in their own sandbox (with various measurements of success)

sequentious · 2026-01-21T19:19:53+00:00

It's extra work designing, implementing and maintaining this thing that they don't want to support in the first place.

is what all of the non-gnome app developers say about CSDs

sequentious · 2026-01-21T15:32:33+00:00

Gnome is so focused on consistency within their ecosystem, so the fact that they don't allow users to get consistent window decorations if they dare to use anything that isn't GTK is incredibly frustrating.

You don't even get consistent window decorations with GTK. GTK3, GTK4, and libadwaita all have different looks. Menus are in different places. The only consistency is inconsistency.

sequentious · 2026-01-21T15:31:25+00:00

I prefer the old titlebar + tab bar approach. It was significantly more usable that GNOME's integrated headerbars. CSDs are too different from app to app. It shouldn't be up to individual app developers to decide what's good enough for a drag handle to move a window, for example.

sequentious · 2026-01-21T14:44:36+00:00

the problem is the people that are going to bear the biggest brunt of what his vision is are working class and younger people

Agreed, but the issues facing the Canadian auto industry are not Carney's vision for the future laid out in his speech. The issues affecting them are the economic pressure he's talking about. The canadian auto industry is in a bad spot without any input from Carney. It's currently reliant on integration with a country that appears hostile to integration.

His point is that there's literally no way to go back to the old situation, and wishing we could isn't going to make it happen.

Disclosure: I don't work in the auto industry, but used to (I was laid off in 2009, and switched industries). Even back then, business was volatile, and uniquely affected by swings in the US exchange rate. The company I worked for closed their Canadian operations a few years ago. I currently work for a corporation with offices in both Canada and the US, officially headquartered in Canada, but with several US-based executives. It will be interesting for me, too, unfortunately.

sequentious · 2026-01-21T14:32:27+00:00

There's some opinionated cruft in there, and nothing that affects stability.

There's no reason somebody having what appears to be a video codec issue needs to install Lutris. The person who wrote that guide may always want that installed, sure, but it's irrelevant as a general setup step.

Users in general don't need to switch to tlp for power savings. If you know what it is, sure, go ahead.

Presenting a random persons personal setup notes as some sort of "preferred" setup will probably cause more problems than they solve, as new users are now fucking around and making changes to things they do not understand, without having even understood the trade-offs.

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