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hi, I'm amos! 🦀 I make articles & videos about how computers work 🐻‍❄ cool bear's less cool counterpart ✨ be kind

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Some French neobank. (Sumeria, used to be Lydia) just sent me a VISA card. It has raised lettering. So...

...if you take the card
...and you throw the paper out
...anyone can read the 16-digit credit card number, expiration date, first name and last name of the cardholder 🥲

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One thing code has that zed is missing is narrowing down by dirname in fuzzy search

In code I can do "Cargo.toml", it shows 8 results, I add space, then "cratename", it narrows down. In zed the query has to be "cratename/Cargo.toml", which is annoying.

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Another nitpick: using zed's "Go To Diagnostic" command expands the diagnostic inline (great!), but then if I fix it and save, and the checker/linter no longer reports the error, it's still shown! I have to hit "esc" explicitly.

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In personal news: jaw surgery round two will NOT happen over the summer like I thought, but in Q1 2025, which means I have the whole year to make cool stuff!

I was bummed to have my year split in half by surgery + recovery, so this is actually great news for me (although you'll see braces in every video this year I guess 😬).

Anyway. Onwards!

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Problem solved with a 12-minute phone call.

Accountants tell you to do "advance" wire transfers, but since the tax authority doesn't expect anything, they write it down as "credit".

And they never automatically use "credit" for anything. You have to ask. So I asked. That's it.
https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/112563671475513553

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I've been stressing about this for like, 2 months, opening more tickets, etc.—today I finally had enough mental fortitude to expect hours of waiting for a human, to potentially tell me that the 30K I imagined did not exist but nope! It's all there. I get to pay rent another day!

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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If you didn't want me to make 50 holes in the wall then they shouldn't sell hollow wall anchors by packs of 50

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@artificialmind oh wow, TIL!

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@artificialmind Just to be clear there’s no ongoing disputes, it’s just that I learned to do it properly and I went a little happy with it

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A really startling number of the informational/advertisement stanchion screens at Charles De Gaulle are showing the Windows 10 login screen

That same desktop image of the cave. You know the one

fasterthanlime ,
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@mcc Welcome!

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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The electric company cut the power twice today, so now I have a UPS!

The amount of things that "might throw off a production" keeps growing lol

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@0atman I meant like video production, not production servers

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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bwahahahahahahhahahaha https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Gentoo-is-Rice.html

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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Decided to NOT go for the iOS/macOS developer betas this time, because I have Work To Do(TM). Much restraint, wow, please clap.

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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Nix friends!

How do I have:

  • flake.nix
  • subdir/flake.nix

And use subdir's flake from the top-level flake? path: used to accept relative paths but now complains with "cannot fetch input"

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@jakehamilton OH WELL. I'll just have to learn "the old ways". I tried to read the linked file several times and still cannot exactly tell what's going on, but maybe more coffee will fix this.

edit: https://jade.fyi/blog/flakes-arent-real/ is great btw

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womp womp

https://crates.io/crates/aws-smithy-checksums/0.60.9/dependencies

0.6.5 doesn't build on macOS

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Current status: doing my first ever Time Machine backup to a 512GB microSD (because that's all I had on hand that was big enough)

fasterthanlime OP ,
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@dpom Giving Arq a try right now — it’s faster to backup to AWS S3 Glacier with Flexible Retrieval than it is to write to this microSD card 🥲

Thanks for the recommendation!

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"look, some problems we fix with money, some problems we fix with therapy"
"but therapy costs money", said toad
"that is true", said frog

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PSA: IKEA has a great deal on ṀITṀ right now

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Safari isn't affected since I have iCloud Privacy Relay on.

...is there any way to configure CLIs to use it, too? I should just set up a VPN at my home tbqh.

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@74k08 yeah, I'm assuming they have an allowlist of common websites, and for everything else they do TLS MITM? If you stop at the warning they've prevented "abuse" and if you ignore the error they get a cleartext view of what you're up to.

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I got seecert from there btw: https://stackoverflow.com/a/59412853/1021683

Anyway, enough Swedish meatballs for today

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@virtulis @74k08 This is after going through the captive portal thingy.

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@74k08 Yeah, setting up a backup office :)

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@virtulis @74k08 I got real unlucky too

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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Video is premiering in a few minutes, see y'all in chat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEtawNgwSC8

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@alj Thanks!! It was a lot of work (and several rewrites) but I'm really happy with the result :)

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I've been learning a lot of new software lately and amidst the frustration there's a lot of trying something logical and going "ooooh they thought of that, that's so neat!"

Going back to Google products though, there's none of those moments. None at all.

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@ThePaulMcBride the last thing was in Affinity Designer 2: I wanted a "round image" and discovered you.. make a circle... and then drag an image layer into it... and voila.

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@ThePaulMcBride I also discovered a lot of useful things in DaVinci Resolve's Fusion tab lately, the "oh I've wasted entire days doing it wrong" kind, too many to tell x)

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@ThePaulMcBride Also, tldraw has been great! And I keep finding new features in macOS (dragging screenshots onto apps after Cmd+Shift+4, adding folders as "Fan" to the dock besides the default Downloads, Cmd+Clicking items in Fans to find them in Finder, wired AirDrop, etc.)

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Good morning Europe! Here's a thing for you (now or tomorrow night):

https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/112583689327551164

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@dysfun the naughty flag is actually a detail in the video but the docs are hilarious I couldn't resist featuring it on the thumbnail

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@dysfun I don’t know, it’s hard for me to be mad at Rust things when I remember the people behind it all burned out. Rust is, like us, trying its best 🥲

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New video out...

✨ Right now for patrons & sponsors >10/mo
⏰ Monday night @ 20:30UTC for everyone else!

✨ If you're at the 10EUR/month tier or above
on GitHub or Patreon, you can log in to https://fasterthanli.me/videos/h2spec-to-rust
and watch the video right now (barring any outages).

⏰ Otherwise, you can wait for the premiere on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEtawNgwSC8

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@firstyear Oh no

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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Cool I get to replace an old codebase with a single ffmpeg invocation.

ffmpeg 7 parallelized all the things, so... you can encode your whole bitrate ladder in one go efficiently now.

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Also, LLMs are really good at generating ffmpeg complex filters, just so you know.

The world changed a lot in checks watch two years?

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Q: How do you know if a computer is running macOS?
A: rm: -rf: No such file or directory

fasterthanlime OP ,
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@ShadowJonathan BSD, but.

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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I was too lazy to type "kubernetes/kubernetes"

fasterthanlime OP , (Bearbeitet )
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Apropos nothing, would you rather do:

fasterthanlime OP ,
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@christmastree Ohhhh, creative!

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@dathagerty cf. https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/112574409433334384

fasterthanlime , an Random Englisch
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me: I need proof I pay taxes in france
tax authority: we don't have such a document, just use your tax return

me: here's the number of the form I KNOW YOU GIVE OUT, please just sign the PDF
tax authority: we can't sign it for 2024 since you didn't file your 2024 taxes yet, duh

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Re: Microsoft Recall

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@piecritic I'm inclined to say "pulled", tbh

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