Obsidian stores the notes in a well known plaintext format on your computer. They can’t easily hold you hostage like with other closed source apps.

devenv.sh contains invasive telemetry that literally exfiltrates your entire repo to their servers.

I am reminded of “The Interrogation of the Good” by Bertolt Brecht.

Step forward: we hear
That you are a good man.
You cannot be bought, but the lightning
Which strikes the house, also
Cannot be bought.
You hold to what you said.
But what did you say?
You are honest, you say your opinion.
Which opinion?
You are brave.
Against whom?
You are wise.
For whom?
You do not consider your personal advantages.
Whose advantages do you consider then?
You are a good friend.
Are you also a good friend of the good people?

Hear us then: we know.
You are our enemy. This is why we shall
Now put you in front of a wall. But in consideration of your merits and good qualities
We shall put you in front of a good wall and shoot you
With a good bullet from a good gun and bury you
With a good shovel in the good earth.

Uranium Fact: 1.7 Billion years ago there existed a natural occurring nuclear fission reactor.

It has only three letters and its on the .com top-level domain. That’s it.

So this is a man-in-the-middle attack waiting to happen isn’t it? Buy the domain, setup a reverse proxy that points to the original hexbear server IP and start logging all requests.

In other news, the price of US made steel and aluminium increased by 24.9%.

The creator of that apparently got really angry when people told them that it looked like garbage.

Any comment applying criticisms toward the AI interpolation process or appearance, no matter their nature, will be deleted.

Go educate yourself. Unlike other countries where words seemingly have lost all their meaning, the EU has clear rules about what you are allowed to call free range. But, keep doing what you are doing. I am sure being insufferable and calling people names on the internet will convince a lot of people of your standpoint.

The sad thing is that machine learning methods are actually pretty good at classifying data. So Spotify could implement an “AI” enhanced search that works with your search terms if they wanted. Unfortunately, they no longer seem interested in improving their product.

Tortured Individuals? The eggs pictured are free range.

So the promised wall to Mexico is now a moat instead.

Kitboga on Youtube has some good ones.

I worked on a couple commercial C++ applications that used vcpkg. It’s not as convenient as nuget, cargo or npm but it think it is a massive improvement over manually hunting for dependencies.

Here are a couple of reasons:

• C and C++ projects often predate Gradle by decades they will not change their build system without a compelling reason.
• Gradle is written in Java and requires a Java Runtime.
• At least for C++, CMake has pretty much become the standard build tool.
• Dependency resolution on Linux was ‘solved’ by relying on the distribution. Today, there also exist package managers for C and C++ like vcpkg or conan and they also integrate with CMake.

So what? You also learn math with exercises that ‘do nothing’. If it bothers you so much add some print statements to the function bodies.

True which is why WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Telegram still reign supreme. Don’t forget that its a minute for each person I want to contact, why bother if I already have the phone number of everybody I know. SimpleX targets a different market than the previously mentioned Messengers, and that’s OK, but it also means its a no-go for anyone outside that market. Signal on the other hand is targeting the same market and thus is a viable alternative and for that reason I could convince my friends and family including my grandmother to use it instead.

With Signal you just have to install the App and make an account to start chatting with your friends and family. SimpleX requires me to send a link or QR code to everybody I want to interact with. You will have a hard time convincing anyone to do that. Compare that to the first Twitter exodus, people chose Bluesky over Mastodon because picking a server was ‘difficult’. The average person doesn’t care about technology at all and will always pick the path of least resistance.