Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
also, how are you liking bitwarden?
I really need to kill off my current password manager and bitwardenās looking like the least worst of current options (esp. when paired with something like vaultwarden instead of running a fucking nodejs sync server on the internet), but also some of it seems quite stunted[0]
itās gotten so bad that Iāve started pondering writing my own, because good god does basically every option out there depress me
[0] - no global hotkeys? the fuck
I am happy with it. That they only charge $10 a year for services I donāt even need (I could use a separate 2FA app) and allow you to self-host is a good sign. I plan to eventually set up a workflow in Sway (Wayland tiling WM) with a CLI tool (e.g. https://crates.io/crates/rbw, or the official one), so the interface is not terribly important to me. I would definitely recommend trying a free account to see if it fits into your workflow.
I am in the same boat, except all of the software Iāve ever written has been TeX, or giving contrived examples to undergrads to demonstrate why
dp[i][j]is a shit table name or whyāis better thanfloat('inf')orMAX_INTin pseudocode. So I am only theoretically up to the task, which is ā¦ IDK maybe I should start grifting?But for real, I have considered writing my own:
/home/${USERNAME}/.config/sway/config.d/90-fuckyou-this-is-where-we-keep-system-suspend-shit.confevery time I want to change something. āOh no you gotta edit the Kanshi config for that one.ā Itās tedious to remember where various programs look for the config and whatever particular syntax is chosen (isnāt this fucking solved withtomlfiles already?)PS: There is Goldwarden which I know absolutely nothing about but looks neat. It does suggest that you could just write your own that is bitwarden compatible.
Iām sorry
that sound you can hear is my despairing screaming[0]
(not a pitch, but multiple commercial references) I really liked how simple tunnelbear made this for a lot, and also quite like how slick the wireguard desktop-style handling is (you can see this for example with fly.ioās integration to that). I think thereās long context here, and if you buy me a beer I could rant in detail
oh good, itās in Go, my other code allergy
shitposting aside, re the password manager thing: @self and I have co-ranted in dms, and about similar gripes.
so, by way of idea, loose laundry list for foundations/design: modern crypto (jfc why is so much still going āyeah gpg is fineā), crdt sync, a sane fucking language to build everything on, own-devices friendly (in the āyou can sync device to device peer-wiseā sense, vs the āthereās a remote server brokerā sense), and pretty okayā¢ interfaces for client building/extensibility
me too, also i lied/forgot to mention that my particular PhD situation is so fucked up that i went from pure mathematics to cuda
GPUs: not even once
That is a good rule. The GPU programmers seem to think this is good code and that itās well-documented. I am still pretty out of my depth in this field, but it feels so silly to me. There is this historical bullshit about fortran only allowing 5 characters for a function name, and that (combined with some appeal to domain-specific knowledge) is used to justify stupid, freshman level shit like
if uplo == 'U': # manually fill in this part with the version of the algorithm that is for upper triangular matrices else: # just assume it's always U or L without checking, god forbid you use something modern like an enum, or even just a boolean # manually fill in this part with the version of the algorithm that is for lower triangular matricesedit: if memory serves, booleans were first discovered in 2011 by John T. Boole, which is why they donāt show up in fortran
They have a CLI app though which you can hook up to dmenu or rofi or whatever to get global shortcuts.
https://github.com/firecat53/bitwarden-menu
Their desktop app is a bit shit anyway. I just use the CLI and the Firefox extension and itās working solid.
alas: my main workstation is (non-slate) macos, and itās unchangeable for the foreseeable future
good to know those (already) exist as options, though. if I can find some spoons Iāll try look around and see if thereās maybe something similar I can hack up/agglutinate from whatās around
I havenāt even tried it yet because Iām real āehhhhhhhhhhhhhhā about even the idea of a js-/ts-based gui client for my password manager. largely because Iāve met too many js/ts devs and I outright donāt trust their competence and processes. so your post is definite motivation for me to eyeball some of the other clients too