the bone collectors records seem to suggest that humans have not physically changed for some 300,000 years. some variations in stature and skull shape but i think that when you reach the language/tool/reprogrammable brain stage as we are, there isn't any further to go, except into the intangible.

it might sound cringe but there might actually be a good reason to believe that spacefaring aliens all basically look a lot like us.

it's not easy for me to do though, as you say, the air really does one good... i feel like i stagnate sitting at my desk coding and nostring.

i'm staying in for a few days after over a month averaging 8mi a day walking. my feet hurt, i want them to get time to recover.

i have seen loads of white cats like this around here on the island. though they tend to be more of a yellowish color, might be the sun. i met a horse that was white like this also here, with the most amazing blue eyes, they called her 'safira'.

Slaughterhouse 5 is another good one from Kurt. I learned about Dresden in that one.

including feeds :D

i have a vpn service and despite my choice of bulgaria and moldova as my exit points google has been presuming me to be russian and when i open maps it shows me a big pretty globe with the giant russian territory centered on it.

since i have to switch over to gmail now, hopefully they start showing the atlantic now.

coffee is a shitcoin

cacao is bitcoin

drink accordingly

yep, the link preview is QUITE close enough, tyvm.

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idk if i'm repeating myself, but i just set up my github with a yubikey powered PIV SSH login and signing key.

my commits are signed and i can configure my git to say the signatures are good but github nein.

gfy github.

g. f. y.

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so, i set up a PIV slot in my yubikey for ssh, set up git to sign my commits with it, and uploaded the pubkey to github, and even with the ssh key bearing the same email as my primary on github it's still saying my sigs are unverified.

uberghey.

microsloth, get it together.

it is time for a new generation to step it up. cryptography stagnated once the NSA monopolised it.

well, proton wants my 4,99 monthly fee and i have no such money. in fact probably before 2 more weeks i won't even have money to pay for my food.

i'm gonna have to open up a free email account again and point the few accounts i have left that i use to it. my proton mail mailbox has less than 2mb of inbox storage used and i get about 3 emails a day on a busy day. their vpn client is clunky and doesn't have the ability to be automatically connected at boot, and their email download tool doesn't work now for almost 2 years.

I Wonder What I Should Do?

yeah, nah. gonna open a gmail account again they can stick it.

too many red flags to make their paid service worth bothering with and i'm already used to endlessly fending off google's spam and spying.

i recommend close the browser and go read a book.

i'm inclined to think that when thinking becomes talking we discover there is a kind of thinking that isn't talking.

no, it sucks because it's a horrible tittilating psychopath fest. I suppose you also liked scarface and whatever that one is about those women sawing up the rapists... Very bad things, that is another in this same genre of morbid tittilation.

if it is supposed to be saying something about AI, all i get from it is "AI is psychotic".

when i see midjourney's 6 fingered ladies, i tend to agree.

well, if it means anything, i'm following you but muted karnage.

basically anyone who fills my feed with noise ends up muted.

kernel version 6 is where the problems started appearing in a big way.

ubuntu has never made kernel upgrading work, ever, period. it's not just video cards it's wifi and bluetooth and display power management and suspend always cocking it up.

the kernel development fixes one thing and breaks another.

i say the biggest problem is still the kernel, and because of its monolithic design, changing parts of it can break other parts, and then they fix the breaks caused by the first changes, and break other things.

AMD's open source drivers are perfectly solid, but they aren't all of the equation, the pci-e drivers and various other things, memory management, and power management especially, all have a role in this and none of them are directly related to these drivers.

it's a well known problem in software engineering that Domain Driven Design that when you don't cleanly separate concerns that you change one thing and break another, fix the break and you break another, etc etc ad lib to fade.

the era of linus torvalds c language based monoliths must eventually come to an end, and i don't mean by that we double down on complexity with rust. rust is a total mis-fit for kernel development, and none of the other languages really fit, only Go has the simplicity but without an alternative to GC it can't do kernels.

there needs to be a new generation of programming languages, and Rust is not the right direction, and neither is Go, and these really are the two du jour languages, neither of them are suited to low level programming.

honestly, we'd be better off if people would go back and look at BASIC and Assembler, and DDD and use some of the clever things that Pike brought to Go, the dynamic arrays, the channels and coroutines. these are inventions that enable much better architecting and that, i am quite certain, will resolve these issues.

in the meantime, you've got me thinking again about putting FreeBSD on my rig. i am not encumbered with the hybrid graphics power management hooey anymore, just a crappy vega, nvidia 710 kinda grade capability...

maybe later, i got code to write goddammit.

that would probably be an intel bluetooth/wifi module.

seriously, just downgrade the kernel. a couple of years ago all these problems were solved and then Linus started going woke.