@lproven @theregister Liam do you have any leverage to get the reg’s cookie pop-up to be less dark-patterny?

@lproven @dan613 @theregister even Debian support on that platform must have stopped about a decade ago. (Still have one in my loft)

Oof I’ve fallen out of my employer’s LWN subscription again

Prag prog doing 50% off for Black Friday. Any recommendations?

@ross @mjg59 👀 fingers crossed 🤞

time to harvest RAM from disposable vapes

If anyone has great examples of using llms.txt, CLAUDE.md (etc) to poison LLMs, please share. I’m aware Anubis tried this at one point. I’m thinking Nuclear semiotics, “nothing of value here”, that kind of thing!

Start the Week today was excellent. Naomi Alderman, Corey Doctorow and Oliver Moody https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002md19

@etchedpixels @Gina in the UK, a significant problem IMHO is you can book flights and thus plan travel 6+ months ahead of time but not UK mainline rail tickets (approx 3 month horizon)

PSA: a test throwing a stack trace on failure is not friendly. Related: tests which reference deeply-nested dictionary keys without checking the components exist are hostile to people debugging with them.

A blog I just discovered: Version Crazy: “Celebrating vinyl / CD / cassette / memorabilia releases of musical gems and curiosities from the punk era onwards”

http://www.versioncrazy.com

New blog post: Zoom R8 https://jmtd.net/log/zoom_r8/ #musicmaking

Staying on magazines, I saw this today and couldn't resist

This landed on my doormat today. And it's a *GOOD* one

I thought I would power through some stuff today on a MacBook Pro but things didn’t go according to plan. Xcode refused to install metal sdk which is mandatory for OpenJDK (I think), and I couldn’t resolve it so ended up ssh’d into my threadripper instead.

@krono @whynothugo @kernellogger @Sobex same

@fazalmajid @neil oooh their N100 (8”) is the class of device I’m looking at. Hadn’t heard of them before. Thanks!

@neil I’m on a quest for something a bit like this; the closest I’ve seen in modern stuff is a 7” GPT Pocket clone or something styled similarly. Not a phone though

@mirabilos @harrysintonen this is a pretty widespread behaviour in existing tooling: systemctl and bin/su suffer it as well. It wasn’t thought worthy of a CVE for those. I’m actually surprised OG sudo doesn’t

A wayland bug I keep meaning to debug more but haven’t got around to it: on Debian trixie, with KDE and wayland, it crashes as soon as I press any keyboard key.