Ghoelian (u/Ghoelian)

Ghoelian commented on LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions github.com/mdp/linkedin-e... · Posted by u/mdp

Oh, it's (re)randomised upon each restart, whew, thanks for the heads up

edit: er, I think that that also suggests that I need to restart firefox more often...

Ghoelian · 4 days ago

I don't think that's the case. I have the Earth View extension installed which shows a random google earth image.

I have this set as my homepage in Firefox as moz-extension://<extension-id>/index.html, and this has not changed since installing the extension. The page still works.

Ghoelian commented on A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet washingtonpost.com/nation... · Posted by u/reaperducer

another_twist · 2 months ago

Its weird how object detection models are "AI" now. These models and their weird errors have been around for quite a while. The issue is vendors claiming that there is no chance of errors. Ideally you would have a 2 eyes system such that if AI has a tolerable false positive rate and have a human review. But of course, you cant fire people with AI so why would we do the sane thing.

And of course there are policy wonks who would make gun ownership a human rights issue even though its fundamentally unsafe to have such free gun ownership.

Ghoelian · 2 months ago

According to the article, they did have a human verify the images before sending the alert. Apparently they and the school still think they made the right call.

Ghoelian commented on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri reuters.com/world/us/rubi... · Posted by u/italophil

nelox · 2 months ago

Reuters calling the switch a "font" change instead of a typeface change is troubling, though consistent with a society that now casually refers to all pasta as "spaghetti". A typeface is the design; a font is its specific instance. This is basic knowledge, taught to children, houseplants, and most domesticated goats.

A simple correction would stop this spiral, but Reuters appears committed to forging a bold new era in which terminology is chosen at random, like drawing Scrabble tiles from a bag and declaring them journalism.

Ghoelian · 2 months ago

> A typeface is the design; a font is its specific instance. This is basic knowledge, taught to children, houseplants, and most domesticated goats.

I didn't know this, and this explanation isn't really helping. (I did know there's a difference between typeface and font, but no idea what).

Why would this be basic knowledge when all most people ever have to deal with is the font options in Word?

Ghoelian commented on Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle tailscale.com/blog/tailsc... · Posted by u/Quizzical4230

jack_tripper · 2 months ago

You don't need to ball out on eink for that.

An old oled android phone is even easier to mod for that.

Eink is like the Rust of displays for hobby projects. Everyone defaults to it even when it's not necessary.

Ghoelian · 2 months ago

What are you talking about, e-ink is much nicer for things like this. An OLED produces actual light, and uses way more power. I wouldn't want an oled display on 24/7 in my living room.

Everyone defaults to it because it's really nice actually.

Ghoelian commented on Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence eclecticlight.co/2025/11/... · Posted by u/frizlab

happymellon · 2 months ago

I'm curious if this is a bug that other people deal with, but I have to screenshot stuff to send folks all the time.

Screenshot, right click, and "copy" doesn't appear. Sometimes moving the app to another screen makes it appear, sometimes just switching to another app and back will help, sometimes I can't get it to be an option at all and I have to close screenshot and retry.

Really awful. Just make it an option all the time.

Ghoelian · 2 months ago

I just want to be able to save the image to a folder and copy it to my clipboard when taking a screenshot. iirc in KDE Plasma's Spectacle, these options are checkboxes, you can enable as many at once as you like.

Ghoelian commented on Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs aloisdeniel.com/blog/bett... · Posted by u/barremian

bloppe · 2 months ago

Skew is an inherent problem of networked systems no matter what the encoding is. But, once the decoding is done, assuming there were no decoding errors in either case, at least with protobuf you have a statically typed object.

You could also just validate the JSON payload, but most people don't bother. And then they just pass the JSON blob around to all sorts of functions, adding, modifying, and removing fields until nobody knows for sure what's in it anymore.

Ghoelian · 2 months ago

The convention at every company I've worked at was to use DTO's. So yes, JSON payloads are in fact validated, usually with proper type validation as well (though unfortunately that part is technically optional since we work in php).

Usually it's not super strict, as in it won't fail if a new field suddenly appears (but will if one that's specified disappears), but that's a configuration thing we explicitly decided to set this way.

Ghoelian commented on OS Malevich – how we made a system that embodies the idea of simplicity (2017) ajax-systems.uz/blog/hub-... · Posted by u/frxx

Ghoelian · 2 months ago

> This is a key difference between RTOS and Linux, where operations wait in an execution queue. And this is one of the reasons why Linux isn’t used in professional security systems.

Linux also has a realtime kernel available. It would have been nice to know why they didn't go with that, but it wasn't even mentioned.

Ghoelian commented on Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine blog.atuin.sh/introducing... · Posted by u/emschwartz

piqufoh · 2 months ago

I love atuin -- the shared shell command memory function solves a problem that I had (recalling obscure CLI commands)

I'll try atuin desktop and I hope it succeeds, but I can't say that it solves any particular problem that I have and am aware of.

Ghoelian · 2 months ago

I had the same feeling. It looks like a super cool product, and I'd love to do something with it. I just have no idea what.

Ghoelian commented on Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing spectrum.ieee.org/it-mana... · Posted by u/pseudolus

ChrisGreenHeur · 2 months ago

the reproduction is always fake to some extent, that does not matter, the point is to do as good a job as you can.

for example you can have a fake transaction server with the credit card numbers made up and mapped to fake accounts that always have enough money, unless the records show they did not.

Ghoelian · 2 months ago

I've also worked with payment processors a lot. The ones I've used have test environments where you can fake payments, and some of them (Adyen does this) even give you actual test debit and credit cards, with real IBAN's and stuff like that.

Ghoelian commented on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 blog.google/products/andr... · Posted by u/abraham

1718627440 · 3 months ago

Do packager programs on macOS lie about the packet contents? Otherwise the user will see it when opening the packet. The user needs to be aware of metadata when leaking stuff, e.g. EXIF data for images, non-deleted text in Word, overdrawn stuff in SVG, etc. anyways.

Ghoelian · 3 months ago

By default, the archive just extracts when you try to open it. I don't think MacOS has an archive explorer by default.

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