I wouldn’t think so because you would need tens or hundreds of Bluetooth/WiFi radios. Even then they could still know that “here comes that guy with hundreds of Bluetooth/WiFi radios.”

A simpler solution might be to use randomized and regularly rotated mac addresses for your WiFi chips, which is easy enough on any android/Linux device. However, I’m not sure what other unique identifiers they could use for fingerprinting.

bug-accurate compatibility

Does this mean they had to implement bugs from the GNU versions as compatibility features? Do you have a source for that? I’d be interested to read what kinds of things that entails.

Maybe he used to be a piece of shit, but people can change. I used to be a piece of shit… slicked back hair, white bathing suit, sloppy steaks, white couch. You would have not liked me back then.

Early rejector club. Jellyfin gang.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOFVXckEiQs&t=1071

I don’t know if this is still the case, but before Wayland came along, colord was the service that applied ICC profiles to a display. I’m not sure it still works on Wayland though. I feel like DisplayCal should be able to disable it, but you can too:

sudo systemctl stop colord

I used to work with a lot of HP’s industrial printers. The automated maintenance routines always take so damn long, and they break all the time. We always said HP stands for Have Patience.

Is this better or worse than a “slam”? What about a “blast”?

If you need a GUI, Audacity is a popular audio editor that has many features, one of which is normalizing levels. If you need to automate via CLI, ffmpeg is probably the tool for the job, as others have mentioned.

Finally, I can achieve my dreams of becoming a moisture farmer.

Thanks for this. The article contains many words, but very little info.

Uranus is a massive black hole.

Pulling an all-nighter to shave 3 seconds off your Super Mario speed-run doesn’t pay the bills.

Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey.

Are you sure they’re hitting the hostname and not just the IP directly?

Nice.

This is a good read and makes a lot of great points. I think everyone in tech needs to understand the arguments here. The biggest thing for me is that LLMs are incredibly useful tools, but not in the way they are advertised. They are great for learning how existing code works, but shit at writing anything novel or innovative. From the article:

The past is a prison when you’re inventing the future.

In my opinion, if you’re using LLMs to do anything but help you learn from the past, you’re doing it wrong. LLMs cannot move you forward, and I think that may be the point.

You’re thinking of Barkinson’s disease.