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He/him of Usenet fame, if Usenet can be said to have fame. Diverse interests that tend away from "new"ness. Non-fiction reader and art appreciator.

Icon is from a "Signs of the Times" art project decorating traffic control boxes in Emeryville, California. Profile banner is my Dr Monocle character, a one-eyed spy using his small size for stealth.

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if I had a lot more time I think I might write a book on my ideas about "adversarial automation".

The idea that the point of computers is to help the humans do their job faster and easier, and sometimes the computer or the software on it is the enemy in that battle.

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@foone

Your message is well received. I 100% agree with the "fuck you, doing it anyway" methods and have done some of the things you mention, like wrapping a shitty Java hardware controller with xdotool, editing binaries, replacing the dynamic linker to use different libc.

My first job involved protocol normalizers for financial data, and included putting an API around things designed for a dedicated rs232 attached terminal.

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Terrible idea: Christian programmer who comments their code with references to Bible verses which are applicable to the code's situation

elithebearded ,
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@foone I just read "Mythical Man Month" this week. Frederick P Brooks Jr approves. The use of the Tower of Babel to explain the need for communication: good. The use of Noah's Ark to talk about cramming things in: strained. The citation of Acts 15:10 to excuse not using flow charts: over the god-damned top. (It is the justification for Christians not being circumcised.)

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@foone I have this need, too. "No, that's a regexp you dumb thing"

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Someone on tumblr asked why 3.5" floppy disks seem so much more friendly (or "pleasant and edible" to use their terminology) than 5.25" floppy disks, so I wrote about it:

https://www.tumblr.com/foone/750216135935492096/why-do-35-inch-floppy-disks-seem-so-much-more

TL;DR: It's because Sony.

elithebearded ,
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@foone So what I am getting from this and other conversations is Sony is great for hardware but terrible at licensing / access rules for games / entertainment content

foone , an Random Englisch
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I wonder if anyone has proposed a PNG/EXIF extension to let you embed an image description in an image file. It'd live with the image so as you upload it to different sites, the description stays with it

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@foone I stick ALT text in the file metadata of my JPEGs but most software just strips it unused.

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