phatskat (u/phatskat)

phatskat commented on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" github.com/whatwg/html/pu... · Posted by u/troupo

otterley · 4 days ago

Where is the US Congress's website identified as a potentially impacted site? https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity...

edit: I see Simon mentioned it - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/19/xslt/ - e.g., https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr3617/BILLS-119hr3617ih.... - the site seems to be even less popular than Longhorn Steakhouse in Germany.

My guess is that they'll shuffle people to PDF or move rendering to the server side, which is a common (and, with today's computing power, extremely cheap) way to generate HTML from XML.

phatskat · 3 days ago

Is it cheaper than sending XML and a stylesheet though?

Further, PDF and server-side are fine for achieving the same display, but it removes the XML of it all - that is to say, someone might be using the raw XML to lower tools, feeds, etc. if XSLT goes away and congress drops the XML links in favor of PDFs etc, that breaks more than just the pretty formatting

phatskat commented on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" github.com/whatwg/html/pu... · Posted by u/troupo

rendaw · 4 days ago

I'm not that familiar with XSLT but isn't it already quite hobbled? Can it be used in a significant way? Or is this a chicken-egg problem where proving it's useful requires the implementation to be filled out first.

phatskat · 3 days ago

On the link in the post you can scroll down to someone’s comment with a few links to XSLT in action.

It’s been years since I’ve touched it, but clicking the congressional bill XML link and seeing a perfectly formatted and readable page reminded me of exactly why XSLT has a place. To do the same thing without it, you’d need some other engine to parse the XML, convert it to HTML, and then ensure the proper styles get applied - this could of course be backend or frontend, either way it’s a lot of engineering overhead for a task that, with XSLT, requires just a stylesheet.

phatskat commented on Car-carrier truck loaded with Teslas causes hazmat fire on 5 Freeway in Sylmar abc7.com/post/car-carrier... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

phatskat · 5 days ago

Seeing the smoke in the video and all I can hear is the Will it Blend host saying “don’t breathe that”

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worthless-trash · 9 days ago

I remember when bsd was dying..

I feel like an old timer, looking back on history repeating itself.

phatskat · 8 days ago

It’s the year of the Linux desktop! ;_;

phatskat commented on Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years smokinggun.org/court-reco... · Posted by u/eoskx

phatskat · 9 days ago

Are you referring to [Harlon Cater: the man who militarized the cops and the NRA](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1KenPS9FUFfumy2D3auvuR?si=F...)?

phatskat commented on Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years smokinggun.org/court-reco... · Posted by u/eoskx

jordanb · 9 days ago

An important point to recognize is that gun manufacturers have almost no product liability exposure due to laws pushed by the NRA.

Of course the NRA pitched these laws to their members as protecting against gun violence victims suing the manufacturer, but they also slipped in that gun manufacturers have no legal responsibility to provide guns to buyers that do not fire unless the trigger is pulled.

phatskat · 9 days ago

The NRA has been insidious since its coup back in the day and then its subsequent commandeering by the right wing as a propaganda tool: at one point, there was a popular pistol type (I don’t recall the make/model) that was really good at accidentally discharging and the NRA helped not only to shield the manufacturer from liability, but also to keep the guns in circulation because there was a specific group of people (cough black cough) who disproportionately favored this gun due to iirc low price point. It was pretty obviously a case of “well hey, if these guns are accidentally firing and killing _black folk_ then it’s not really an issue”

phatskat commented on Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead? josefprusa.com/articles/o... · Posted by u/rcarmo

motorest · 9 days ago

> Being entirely dependent on Chinese manufacturing to make anything.

I'm sorry, it's very hard to take this sort of concern seriously.

The express goal of US's take on neoliberalism was to dump all manufacturing onto countries like China while abusing IP to prevent anyone else, China included, from ever being able to compete.

Now that the rules that the US abused to stifle innovation are being used by someone else to protect their own investment, you suddenly cry foul?

The US needs to put on their big boy pants and figure out ways to compete in the same terms that everyone else had to endure, just like the whole world was forced to learn how to deal with that. If someone else has the IP you need, pay them. Or do you honestly expect that arbitrary rules are only acceptable if they clearly benefit you alone?

phatskat · 9 days ago

> Now that the rules that the US abused to stifle innovation are being used by someone else to protect their own investment, you suddenly cry foul?

I don’t know about the person you replied to, but I think a lot of us have watched US factories closing down and moving to other counties in the last couple decades and it’s just been a constantly disappointing train wreck. Auto manufacturing moving to Mexico and Canada, various factories shutting down because they can’t compete with foreign prices or volume, and politicians who happily didn’t care beyond lip service - the only reason it matters to any politician now is because trump brought attention to it (though accidentally) with the stupid tariff business.

The people who actually could’ve done something have sat here for the last few decades and been largely inactive other than giving deals to Big Tech to open data centers while making empty promises about “bringing jobs back” because no one was offering the kind of kickbacks that Bezos and Musk can throw around, and now they’re only making any stink because it looks better than not.

phatskat commented on Teenage Engineering's free computer case teenage.engineering/store... · Posted by u/textadventure

gyomu · 9 days ago

The OP1 is a genius piece of design tbh. It is very flexible and powerful for its small size, and devices in its category were very rare when it first came out (it helped define the modern incarnation of that category).

It was pricy but still under the $1k mark - pretty standard for a piece of consumer creative gear.

The design made it extremely approachable, which means a ton of techie people who wouldn't be into music gear otherwise still wanted to grab one just to try it and who knows, maybe it'd turn them into musicians.

So yeah, fantastically designed piece of kit. Lots of respect to TE for having brought that into the world.

I think a lot of the frustration directed at TE more recently is due to the fact that that base equation around price/features/quality of the product, which was very good for the OP1, has only gotten worse for later products.

And the OP1 itself, despite being an almost 15 year old product, has gone up in price A LOT (and the 1f upgrades don't justify the bump).

phatskat · 9 days ago

I fell in love with the OP1 when I first saw it many many years ago. A few years back I took some of my bonus and finally got one, despite the price being a little higher than launch (I want to say maybe $1500?).

It’s an amazing little piece of gear and is super fun - it’s definitely not for everyone, and requires a different approach to music making that (for me) focuses less on the functional, reproducible aspect, and more on an ephemeral journey that might end in a new track or might just be a jam, but I hardly ever fire it up and walk way not having a good time.

Currently have it wired to a Deluge and a POM-400, and mostly I send some MIDI notes to the OP1 for some added depth. But the synth engine feels so rich and powerful for such a little bugger!

10/10 would recommend and also there’s probably a lot more bang for your musical buck out there (cough couch Deluge)

phatskat commented on What does Palantir actually do? wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mudil

msgodel · 9 days ago

My understanding is this used to be done via powerpoints shared over email so I guess having SAAS for it is an improvement?

phatskat · 9 days ago

And before that, Kissinger was hand-editing military plans for strikes in Vietnam - bolstered only by an overinflated ego - that definitely pretty much just got farmers killed. So the PowerPoints were an improvement I guess lol

phatskat commented on What does Palantir actually do? wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mudil

leobg · 9 days ago

They take an exorbitant fee to clean up the mess government created when they outsourced their tech infrastructure to private sector companies preying on dumb government money.

That’s the thing with government: They always believe you can drown out problems with taxpayer money. They don’t get that what solves problems is never money, but competence, hard work, and having skin in the game.

phatskat · 9 days ago

> That’s the thing with government: They always believe you can drown out problems with taxpayer money.

They know they can’t drown out the problems, nor do most of them want to. The privatization of government work is just a dog and pony show that lets rich assholes give taxpayer money to other rich assholes.

Not to say the left doesn’t do this too (assuming the US political speak, “left” referring to democrats is really just barely right of center), but part of the conservative playbook has always been to rip apart the federal government (or the parts that they don’t like, such as providing social services). The easiest way is to tank a group by hiring a private company to do a shit job and then saying “see how bad they did? We should just axe food stamps.”