interroboink (u/interroboink)

interroboink commented on An illustrated guide to OAuth ducktyped.org/p/an-illust... · Posted by u/egonschiele

gethly · 4 days ago

I am implementing oauth right now, along with oidc. I must say that for such a simple concept, getting to the facts that help me to actually implement it is insanely hard. I have no idea why but everywhere i look it just seems like it only scratches the surface and you get no tangible information that you can use to actually implement it in code. I ended up mostly browsing the specs and grok was insanely helpful to explain meaning of various things where information was lacking or buried deep in documentation/specifications. I would say this was the first time where i actually appreciated these new "AIs", which i don't use at all.

interroboink · 3 days ago

In case it helps you, I found this overview helpful: https://metacpan.org/dist/LWP-Authen-OAuth2/view/lib/LWP/Aut...

Clearly written by someone who was also frustrated by the experience (:

interroboink commented on My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs newsletter.vickiboykis.co... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

interroboink · a month ago

The thing I like here is that it runs locally. I use Vim keyword completion[1] a lot for next-word completion. It does a broadly similar sort of "look at surrounding code to offer good suggestions" thing (no LLM stuff, of course). It's wrong often, but it's useful enough that it saves me time overall, I feel.

So, this sounds to me like an expanded version of that, more or less.

I think I'd prefer an AI future with lots of little focused models running locally like this rather than the "über models in the cloud" approach. Or at least having such options is nice.

[1] https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Any_word_completion

There's also omni-completion, a bit more advanced: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Omni_completion

interroboink commented on 10 Years of Pomological Watercolors parkerhiggins.net/2025/04... · Posted by u/fanf2

biker142541 · 2 months ago

I'm also noticing there is no explicit license on the official page. If it's public domain, attribution is not required. If it is not public domain, they should clarify the license (pretty sure this is indeed public domain).

Ambiguity like this is way too common...

interroboink · 2 months ago

Yeah, agreed it's weird.

For another data point, this catalog.data.gov site[1] lists the license as "us-pd" (ie public domain in the USA). But then yeah, like you said the attribution demand is invalid.

[1] https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/u-s-department-of-agricultu...

interroboink commented on 10 Years of Pomological Watercolors parkerhiggins.net/2025/04... · Posted by u/fanf2

interroboink · 2 months ago

If anybody just wants to download the hi-res images, Internet Archive is your friend: https://archive.org/details/usda-pomological-watercolor-coll...

You can have fun with 'em since they're public domain (:

Note 1: The metadata, such as title, author, etc. seem to be missing. If anyone knows of a collection with all that included, let me know (it's not in the EXIF either, I spot-checked).

EDIT: aha! Here is metadata, which you can correlate to the image files: https://github.com/Wumms/pomological

Note 2: I saw this in the MARC catalog record:

  Use of the images in the U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological
  Watercolor Collection is not restricted, but a statement of attribution is
  required. Please use the following attribution statement: "U.S. Department
  of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special
  Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705"

interroboink commented on What if you could do it all over? (2020) newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/FinnLobsien

y-curious · 3 months ago

So, why continue living? The nihilist pit is something I recommend you claw your way out of, ASAP.

interroboink · 3 months ago

This is one of those interesting galvanizing points where different people's POVs are fascinating to me.

To abuse your metaphor a bit...

I get the sense that some people see the "nihilist pit" (or somesuch) as a dark scary thing (it is). Maybe they have gotten lost in it a little bit, did not like the experience, got out, and so advise everyone else to avoid it, too.

Other people have spent more time in the pit, whether by choice or the lack of it, gone deep down, and found the bottom. And that can be a wonderful, freeing feeling, to get to the end of that hard journey.

I guess for my own part, at the bottom of my pit, I found that there is something to stand on down there. It was an absolute relief to find, life-affirming, and has helped me ever since.

YMMV of course (: Different people are different.

interroboink commented on Lua for Elixir davelucia.com/blog/lua-el... · Posted by u/davydog187

interroboink · 3 months ago

  This is not embedding the C Lua runtime and compiler, but rather a
  complete implementation of Lua 5.3. This feat is made possible by the
  underlying Luerl library, which implements a Lua parser, compiler,
  and runtime, all in Erlang.

Okay, that's actually pretty cool (:

Also a sign of Lua's maturity and popularity, that it's got various independent implementations (LuaJIT, this one, perhaps others I don't know about).

interroboink commented on Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust github.com/reubeno/brush... · Posted by u/voxadam

Ericson2314 · 4 months ago

This is interesting to me given https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10823

We have a decent amount of code in bash that I'd like to get working on Windows too, once Nix on Windows is ready. I'm happy to rewrite it to a better language, but if I can get a non-CygWin/MSYS2 bash-compatible shell, that's a very nice thing to try out.

interroboink · 4 months ago

The old "it's easier to port a shell than a shell script" quote comes to mind (:

interroboink commented on Are you the same person you used to be? (2022) newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/rbanffy

rayboy1995 · 4 months ago

This is true, I think its good to find a balance between living life and making sure you at least take some good memories.

I have had a number of times I just don't remember a moment, only for a friend to show an old photo they happened to see again and a flood of good memories come back.

interroboink · 4 months ago

I thought your phrasing of "take some good memories" = photographs was kinda interesting, given the topic (:

As always, relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1314/

(though I do find myself in the "don't worry about documenting it" camp more often than not. The nagging background thought of "don't forget to take a picture" tends to bring me out of the moment, sometimes)

interroboink commented on Wikipedia: Database Download en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wik... · Posted by u/doener

jjeaff · 4 months ago

Then figure out how and where to store the over one thousand volumes that have 1200 pages each.

interroboink · 4 months ago

From "Plenty of Room at the Bottom"[1]:

  What would happen if I print all this down at the scale we have been
  discussing? How much space would it take?  It would take, of course, the
  area of about a million pinheads ...  All of the information which all of
  mankind has every recorded in books can be carried around in a pamphlet
  in your hand — and not written in code, but a simple reproduction of
  the original pictures, engravings, and everything else on a small scale
  without loss of resolution.

Need a good magnifying glass, though (:

[1] https://web.pa.msu.edu/people/yang/RFeynman_plentySpace.pdf

interroboink commented on Rotatum of Light science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

interroboink · 4 months ago

I can't speak on the subject, but I just want to say I really enjoyed the Star-Trek-esque language (:

  Here, we introduce optical rotatum, a behavior of light in which
  an optical vortex beam experiences a quadratic chirp in its orbital
  angular momentum along the optical path. We show that such an adiabatic
  deformation of topology is associated with the accumulation of a Gouy
  phase factor, which, in turn, perturbs the propagation constant (spatial
  frequency) of the beam.

"Captain, if we can't reduce the adiabadic deformation of the Gouy phase factor, we'll never escape this optical vortex beam!"

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