It shouldn't count. That is distracted reading, imo.
So is reading a paperback in a house full of kids or Starbucks.
Readit Newslttlrck commented on Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/geox
The thing you have to understand is that the average Brit wants and possibly needs the government to tell them how to live their lives. It's a completely foreign paradigm to the average American, though alarming "progress" has been made on the American front as of late.
There is a kernel of truth.
But I think you are, maybe to a large extent, misattributing political apathy.
lttlrck commented on The cost of interrupted work (2023) blog.oberien.de/2023/11/0... · Posted by u/_vaporwave_
This is adjacent to the post but most (software) engineers I have interacted with are amazing plate spinners and an interruption is just another (ephemeral) plate to spin and it's not even close to 20 minutes recovery time.
Unless it's an emergency (boohoo it'll take whatever it takes) or it tickles my fancy more than what I'm doing - which is a me problem.
lttlrck commented on Today's vehicles have bigger blind spots but not where you think newatlas.com/automotive/i... · Posted by u/domofutu
Ah yes, the Ford Youngling Slayer 3000s.
It seems like everyone who drives one is also incapable of turning their steering wheel when they blunder out of a parking lot into a street, obstructing two lanes at 3mph.
Atrophied Arm Steering Syndrome is endemic where I live. Not limited to trucks!
lttlrck commented on Line scan camera image processing for train photography daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y... · Posted by u/dllu
They have an amazing painterly quality. I'm not a huge train fan but I'd put some of these on my wall.
lttlrck commented on Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit emersion.fr/blog/2025/usi... · Posted by u/LaSombra
(I'm a bigger podman stan)
I agree about quadlets, amazing.
Docker has one of the most severe cases of not-invented-here. All solutions require a combination of a new DSL, a new protocol, a new encryption scheme, a new daemon, or any combination there-of. People are sleeping on using buildah directly; which OP alluded to with Bakah (but fell short of just using it directly).
Ever wish you could run multiple commands in a single layer? Buildah lets you do that. Ever wish you could loop or some other branching in a dockerfile? Buildah lets you do that. Why? Because they didn't invent something new, and so the equivalent of a dockerfile in buildah is just a script in whatever scripting language you want (probably sh, though).
This will probably give you the general idea: https://www.mankier.com/1/buildah-from
I came across this when struggling and repeatedly failing to get multi-arch containers built in Circle CI a few gears ago. You don't have access to an arm64 docker context on their x86 machines, so you are forced to orchestrate that manually (unless your arm64 build is fast enough under qemu). Things begin to rapidly fall apart once you are off of the blessed Docker happy path because of their NIH obsession. That's when I discovered buildah and it made the whole thing a cinch.
multiple commands in a layer is possible in a dockerfile for a long time, since format 1.4(?) using heredoc, which is just a script netting you loop and branches etc.
lttlrck commented on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first github.com/zedless-editor... · Posted by u/homebrewer
I would like to try Zed, but it doesn't run on my system due to impenetrable MESA/Vulkan errors with Intel UHD 700, even though vkcube runs fine.
Running a text editor should not be this hard, it's pretty ridiculous. Sublime Text is plenty fast without this nonsense.
Age verification for VPNs would be awesome. I would rather hand ID over to a VPN provider than individual sites I visit.
The VPN provider should hook into the existing government identify service.
How strange. It's just an interstitial to the main websites that look less sketchy to my eyes.