2036 might be the year of the Linux desktop

I don't know about "ever", but someone recently told me bald eagles are the fastest flyers on Earth; even faster than any military jet.

I remember a game (forget which one) that would ask which word was on a certain page in the game manual for its copy protection.

Imagine your entire life is viewed through the lens of actions you can take in the stock market. What a sad life.

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Summary

macOS Tahoe’s visual interface:

• Fits largely rectangular contents into windows with excessively rounded corners.
• Enlarges controls without any functional benefit.
• Results in app icons being more uniform, thus less distinguishable and memorable.
• Fails to distinguish tools, controls and other interface elements using differences in tone, so making them harder to use.
• Makes a mess where transparent layers are superimposed, and won’t reduce transparency when that’s needed to render its interface more accessible.

Maybe this is because I’m getting older, but that gives me the benefit of having experienced Apple’s older interfaces, with their exceptional quality and functionality.

I always advocate switching to pnpm where install scripts are disabled by default. It has plenty of security features to ward off most supply chain attacks.

• https://pnpm.io/settings#onlybuiltdependencies
• https://pnpm.io/settings#minimumreleaseage
• https://pnpm.io/blog/2025/12/29/pnpm-in-2025#security-by-default

I only listen to music with overripe bananas. It sounds best that way. Copper wire just doesn't sound as good. Believe me: My ears are very sensitive and superior to yours.

3.5 year old developer? Damn they start them young now. /s

Dishwasher. I've done hand washing and dishwashing depending on where I'm living each year. Dishwasher does a better job than me, uses less water than me, and saves me time. I run it at night and put away the dishes in the morning.

brain damage altered his personality

The US has always been like this. We're a brutal, land grubbing, hegemonic power.

• https://celdf.org/2023/07/wouldnt-you-say-the-law-did-not-save-grant-townships-water-the-people-of-grant-did/

I always advocate switching to pnpm where install scripts are disabled by default. It has plenty of security features to ward off most supply chain attacks.

• https://pnpm.io/settings#onlybuiltdependencies
• https://pnpm.io/settings#minimumreleaseage
• https://pnpm.io/blog/2025/12/29/pnpm-in-2025#security-by-default

"Claude, would capturing maduro distract people from my pedophilia?"

Software as a whole is getting overly complicated and details are commonly overlooked or missed. It sucks I agree.

Community land (especially farm land) has been pillaged by corporations and private interest already.

While CSAM might be the word people are using now, how did you determine "porn" means the creation of it involved consent and not that the contents contain sexually explicit material?

I sometimes can't believe how helpful rustc is.

Yes. I did this with Monster Truck Madness and still remember the opening announcer guy.

I also did this with Big Red Racing, Diddy Kong Racing, and Rallisport Challenge.

Could be security mitigations. They do mention mitigations on the last page to say there are new mitigations applied, but did not test the performance characteristics of them.

For my older CPU the impact mitigations have on performance are tremendous; ~20% if I recall from heartbleed and spectre. I have them disabled because it was making my computer a pain to use.

Tunic and Outer Wilds