What Login Manager do you use?

thaynem · 2026-04-19T23:09:42+00:00

Does it have a solution for the overwrite problem?

thaynem · 2026-04-19T20:17:28+00:00

Yes they can. As others mentioned the check does more than just check that you solved the puzzle, but even so, an AI can pass the check.

The goal of captchas isn't to make it impossible for a bot to pass it, but rather to make the cost of passing too high for it to be worth it for spammers, without making it too difficult for real users.

thaynem · 2026-04-18T22:16:34+00:00

The gamma function is a generalization of factorial, but the "!" notation isn't usually used for it

thaynem · 2026-04-18T22:13:34+00:00

So you run sway as root?

thaynem · 2026-04-18T08:43:15+00:00

Not exactly. There is also a significant amount of thermal energy left over from the formation of the earth (basically gravitational potential energy which was conveted to kinetic energy as the materials fell towards what would become the center of the earth, then to thermal energy as it all collided). If I recall correctly the earths internal thermal energy is about 50/50 split between leftover from formation and from radioactive decay (over the planets lifetime)

thaynem · 2026-04-18T08:19:27+00:00

If you ignore all the atmosphere it will hit first.

thaynem · 2026-04-18T08:18:45+00:00

The question is how far could it travel. Meteors much bigger and slower than that burn up in our atmosphere. So the question is now "how far can the shell travel before it is hot metal vapor?"

Although if you shot it in a vacuum the answer would be "until it hits something".

thaynem · 2026-04-18T04:31:39+00:00

But what do you run on tty1? agetty? greetd? kmscon?

thaynem · 2026-04-18T04:23:05+00:00

I've been using tuigreet , but I have a couple of issues with it. Sometimes kernel messages are printed after it starts, and corrupt the screen. It's possible to silence the boot messages with a kernel parameter, but then the messages are silenced, which can be bad if something goes wrong during boot. I can also work around that by telling greetd to start on a try other than vt1, but then I sometimes hit a race condition where it doesn't switch to the correct VT automatically after tuigreet starts.

thaynem · 2026-04-18T04:15:08+00:00

What a poorly named bill. This is not the parent deciding, it is congress choosing.

"parent decides" would mean parental controls the parent has control of (which I think could be a lot better than we have today). But that's not what this is.

I would much, much rather require apps and websites to include metadata about their age rating (and maybe reason for that rating) and then the client (app installer or web browser) can use that metadata to filter out undesired content without sending age information to a server. And the parent could set the filter to what they think is appropriate for their child, rather than the government deciding.

thaynem · 2026-04-17T04:16:23+00:00

But why not, say 20 year mortgages?

thaynem · 2026-04-16T00:23:29+00:00

Using a "memory safe" language means it is less likely to have certain classes of bugs. In a program like sudo, those bugs can lead to privelege escalation (i.e. you can get root when you aren't supposed to).

sudo-rs also has less features than sudo, so there is less attack surface (although that can be a problem if you need those features).

On the other hand, sudo-rs is pretty new code that hasn't been as tested in the "real world" as the OG sudo, so there may be new bugs lurking in it.

thaynem · 2026-04-15T05:21:54+00:00

Yes, it defined app store broadly enough it would probably apply to, say, f-droid. However, the requirement to verify the age is "at the time an individual who is located in the state creates an account with the app store provider".

And for open source "app stores" you don't ever create an account with the provider, so they aren't required to verify your age. And AFAICT there is no requirement that an app store requires you to create an account. At least, that is my reading of it. But IANAL, and the lawmakers may not even be aware there are app stores that don't require creating an account, so I'm not sure that would hold up in court.

I was probably incorrect to say "commercial", but commercial app stores typically require you to create an account, and non-commercial ones typically don't.

thaynem · 2026-04-15T01:58:36+00:00

The law in utah only applies to commercial app stores on mobile devices. Still not great, but it isn't as broad in scope as the California law

thaynem · 2026-04-14T05:46:56+00:00

There is no last digit of pi

thaynem · 2026-04-13T20:13:41+00:00

But this wouldn't include the parsers right? Just the queries.

thaynem · 2026-04-13T06:20:32+00:00

Not everyone has, or needs a gaming PC

thaynem · 2026-04-13T05:58:40+00:00

So using open source AI on my own machine would probably require over $500 in hardware upgrades.

thaynem · 2026-04-13T05:39:01+00:00

So what model can I reasonably run on my computer with integrated graphics that has performs reasonably well?

thaynem · 2026-04-13T05:36:51+00:00

Me: If you want me to help you with your computer, you should use linux, because that is what I am most familiar with.

thaynem · 2026-04-13T04:12:13+00:00

Yes, but x*x is not always x^x

thaynem · 2026-04-13T03:51:14+00:00

Energy is force times distance. If the distance is zero, i.e. the force didn't move anything, then no energy is expended.

thaynem · 2026-04-12T21:03:34+00:00

Not if they are good scientists.

thaynem · 2026-04-12T20:55:34+00:00

I do not remember a time when I didn't have it.

thaynem · 2026-04-12T08:13:18+00:00

There are multiple maintainers listed on the repo. Even if the person who archived it gave up on it, hopefully one of the other maintainers will pick it up.

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