beejjorgensen

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Discord Is Changing, These Leaks Tell Us Why in c/technology@hexbear.net
[–] beejjorgensen 1 points 4 hours ago

The article in question: https://archive.ph/lF6xg

Bill to end vote-by-mail slows Oregon legislative website to a crawl in c/oregon@sh.itjust.works
[–] beejjorgensen 7 points 14 hours ago

The website couldn't handle 9000 submissions? That's embarrassing for us Oregonians... 😊

Thunderbird plans on expanding offerings with additional services in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] beejjorgensen 6 points 23 hours ago

I love TB, but I also love simplicity. I just configured mutt (which I haven't used in 20 years) and love how fast and easy it is. Of course, it took me days to get it where I needed it, but using it reminded me of how bloated these other apps can get after years of additions.

Glad to hear about the mail service.

Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] beejjorgensen 2 points 1 day ago

FML. This reminds me I just got trn to built for reading Usenet. I'm reverting.

New bill proposes repealing vote-by-mail in Oregon, public invited to testify in c/oregon@sh.itjust.works
[–] beejjorgensen 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Public comment made. Thanks for the heads up.

The Making of Infocom Text Adventure Games in 1985 | BBC Archive in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] beejjorgensen 2 points 3 days ago

Love it. I played so many of these games in the 80s. Makes me a nostalgic for a simpler time.

California Assembly speaker and other Democratic state lawmakers ditch X, citing hate speech, disinformation in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] beejjorgensen 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are real risks with relying on a private company, owned by Elon Musk, as a channel for communications

Damn right. Time to fire up a mastodon instance.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans in c/technology@beehaw.org
Is it safe to travel with your phone right now? in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] beejjorgensen 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I should have been more specific that this was a Pixel. Does your phone have a way to accomplish the same thing?

DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] beejjorgensen 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Agree. Did Google not kiss Trump's ass enough? Is that why they're still going after them?

Is it safe to travel with your phone right now? in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] beejjorgensen 30 points 1 week ago (17 children)

On Android, hold the power button until the menu shows up, them choose "lockdown". The next unlock will require a PIN.

Notes on coreutils in Rust in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] beejjorgensen 6 points 1 week ago

Rust has some big binaries due to static linkage, and the Rust coreutils gets around this Busybox-style, compiling everything into one binary that you hard link to. Pretty neat. The project is easy to build and mess with without installing if you're curious about it. And you could add the build dir to the front of your path if you want to try it out with low risk.

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Using black magic to make a fast circular buffer. (lo.calho.st)
 

Neat article about avoiding a memcpy in a circular buffer.

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Good Retry, Bad Retry: An Incident Story (medium.com)
 

I've never run a big system like this, but like the lead character in the story, I always figured exponential backoff would be enough. Turns out there's more.

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Sega Jet Rocket: The trailblazing '70s arcade game with no computer or screen (newatlas.com)
 

This is a pretty cool analog arcade game. I never saw one when I was a kid... I'd have been hooked.

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How does a car cigarette lighter work? (www.lumafield.com)
 

This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

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Vintage Infocom collection on eBay (www.ebay.com)
 

Can be yours for a mere $155,000. (No, I'm not the seller, but I'm curious who is!)

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GPT adventure game generator (github.com)
 

This coder rigged up GPT to create IF games.

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Decoding C Compilation Process: From Source Code to Binary (hackthedeveloper.com)
 

Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you write a C program? How does your code transform from lines of text into a fully functional binary executable? If you’ve been curious about the intricacies of the C program compilation process, you’ve come to the right place.

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