Madagascar’s always the hardest to wipe out in that Pandemic game, if that helps :P

If you go to New Zealand, you’ll have to deal with the shithead billionaires there who will have moved there a few days ahead of you, (since they’ll get extra warning of course), who will have moved already into the fortress-bunkers they’ve been making for a decade or so there.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/billionaires-are-building-luxury-bunkers-to-escape-doomsday/

https://www.massivemagazine.org.nz/articles/9ifugmdie5ofe1utd1bgsw4zascn61

It should be a life mission of anyone in New Zealand, when the time comes, to find out where their air systems reach the surface and throw a few grenades down the ducts. For the good of humanity (whatever’s left).

Your comment prompted me to search and I found this util: https://github.com/fumiyas/qrc

Obviously results in a larger ASCII blob than a shortened URL, but would allow use on any terminal.

I’ll look into those, thank you!

(I currently set up my APL keymap via .Xmodmap with xmodmap, and setxkbmap for X11 terms, and with ‘loadkeys’ for console.)

Great info! I will try it when I decide to trial-run Wayland again, thank you!

(Some things I had read online suggested that Wayland did not use the x11 configs. If it does, that’s good news.)

As someone who hasn’t yet moved to Wayland, how good is support these days for alternate keyboard mappings? Is this something that each individual window manager needs to support, or does Wayland itself manage them?

Not just “international keyboard” support, but truly arbitrary keyboard/symbol mapping support. I muddle in programming with APL, which needs its own key mapping with Unicode symbols.

I recall KDE had its own mapping support which used some system APL layout but I’d rather not have key mappings tied to a specific window manager.

exile to the orbital asteroid mining colonies.

Can we start with Sam Altman please? Hah.

I was amazed at first with ChatGPT, outpainting, and the early stuff; it was fun making ‘paintings’ and playing with other imagery, but the main uses are taking such a dark turn I really think we’re going to regret this technology’s existence.

With modern face recognition, … If you want anonymity then don’t include your face (or signature) in the video.

Duh, good point :)

Web of trust – it’s always been so hard to make easy enough to use for the non-technical public, sadly… but yeah that might be the only/best way to really give attestation.

This is scary indeed. We may someday soon need something like an active tattoo on our face, or a badge on clothing, with a pattern that changes each second based on a private/public key pair, so videos can’t be easily faked of our own likeness with a valid visual signature.

That could actually work – a QR code that updates at regular intervals, encoding an ever-changing signature. It could be validated to certify the video of a person was genuine.

Of course that would also mean any authenticated video can never be truly anonymous :(

Xerox?! In my day we only had those faded-ass mimeographs, stinky sheets of blurry purple letters :P

…and we learned phonics in Canada in the late 70s.

Streisand Effect engage!

Hercolobus Or Red Planet, by V. M. Rabolou… it’s ‘interesting’.

https://archive.org/details/en-hercolubus-or-red-planet

Are there any minor failures in your Tesla that you can claim warranty against? I wouldn’t begrudge anyone stuck with one now who bought in the past, but a sort of civil disobedience, aimed at costing the company as much as possible, would be an ethical imperative here. Claim any warranty repair you can. Be a ‘picky’ customer. Make support and sales spend extra effort and money in any way possible for your property. After all, you paid for it, make them spend as much money as possible.

Guess the cheque cleared

Keyboard media keys (Fn + F keys, eg. vol mute, +/-, brightness etc.) do NOT yet work in mainline kernel. There is some good work going on over here on github but it’s preliminary.

Also note kernel 6.10 broke the bottom display it would appear; I’m using kernel 6.13-rc4 currently.

NEW METHOD which avoids the udev ‘event storm’ caused by docking/undocking the keyboard

[/usr/local/bin/asusUX8406_kbdwatch]

#!/bin/bash

me=$(basename "$0")
laststate=2

while true; do
  sleep 3
  output=$(lsusb -d 0b05:1b2c)
  stat=$?
  if [ $stat == 1 ] && [ $laststate != 1 ]; then
    ## kbd removed, enable lower display
    laststate=1
    logger -p user.info "${me} KEYBOARD REMOVED"
    xrandr --auto && xrandr --output eDP-2 --below eDP-1
  elif [ $stat == 0 ] && [ $laststate != 0 ]; then
    ## kbd replaced, disable lower display
    laststate=0
    logger -p user.info "${me} KEYBOARD DOCKED"
    xrandr --output eDP-2 --off
  fi
done

Hook this up to your init system, or run from a nohup session redirected to /dev/null on login or session startup … for example, on my system I am member of group video, so installing it to /usr/local/bin and setting ownership to root:video and sudo chmod ug+rx allows it to be run on session login automatically.

What? Oh no, I had not written down the recipe for using gasoline to cook my spaghetti! Whatever shall I do?

If it’s not new-in-box, yeah, pretty much. I’m happy with my OnePlus-5T.

I refuse to buy any phone new, I always look for one 2-3 years old with verified stable support for lineageOS.

Also a good way to do a little to reduce e-waste. Many slightly older models have stock remaining new-in-box so it isn’t always an issue of buying ‘used’ hardware.

Kill it all with fire