Skip Navigation
Beej Jorgensen

Instructor, author, developer. Creator of Beej's Guides.

openpgp4fpr:CD99029AAD50ED6AD2023932A165F24CF846C3C8

Posts 6
Comments 194
Senators Say TSA’s Facial Recognition Program Is Out of Control | You can opt out of facial recognition at airports, for now, but the TSA wants to make the invasive technology a requirement
  • Also pro-privacy, here. I was unable to get a good answer on this on HN. It seems to me that replacing a human entering data into a computer at the checkpoint with a computer entering data into a computer at the checkpoint wasn't much of a change. The whole checkpoint area is already bristling with cameras, as well.

  • X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts
  • The closest we have to 555 is any social security number that starts with 9. Kinda dull. The closest one we have to a joke is probably 078-05-1120.

  • Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
  • Should have stayed on until musk booted them. Missed opportunity. Also X needs more counter-content, not less.

  • An ‘Interview’ With a Dead Luminary Exposes the Pitfalls of A.I.
  • When I see this kind of thing, I think, "Screw that. I want to listen to real people." But then I wonder if that's because I'm GenX shaking my fist at cloud and in the future will this become normalized or even demanded?

  • Where Do You Guys Throw Your Local Git Repos?
  • Most of my code and some non-code is under ~/src, but I have repos scattered all around for other things.

  • Reddit’s getting more popular—and profitable
  • I don't care what they do as long as they do it over there.

  • Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books
  • I'd say it's more intolerably long copyright terms than the DMCA specifically.

  • Oregon Elections Division shuts down phone lines after barrage of calls prompted by false claims
  • I say there's a good chance Trump deliberately did not submit a statement just to get this to happen.

  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
  • Yes, it is. I just need to know that the passkeys are in that file and that all the apps I use to read that file support them.

  • The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
  • I don't entirely disagree, but I think defining much of that in effective legal terms is going to be virtually impossible. And I'm super-wary of anything that says someone can't link to something.

  • Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference' to help Trump
  • Just be careful how you do it. The First Amendment gives a lot of leeway for people to be shitty.

  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
  • I need to sync my passkeys between all my devices--which really means I need keepass to store the private keys in its DB so I can sync it with all the other keepass-compatible apps I use in various places. Last I looked, this wasn't solved, but it's been a minute. I'm certainly not using a centralized password manager unless they all can freely import and export from one another. I understand this is a "being worked on" problem.

    So someday, yes.

  • Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
  • If you get my master keepass password, you have all my passwords, too.

  • The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
  • I agree they should. But I also agree they shouldn't be required to. And if they don't, that we should just live with it as the lesser of two evils.

  • Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference' to help Trump
  • A) I don't think there's anything illegal, here, and B) of course large private agencies manipulate elections, from news agencies to SuperPACs to social media, and C) there's not a heck of a lot we can do about that.

    The best thing we can do is smarten up and think for ourselves. In short, we're doomed!😅

  • License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars
  • Hmm. I have a bumper sticker that says "I ❤️ Nuclear War". I wonder what bucket that puts me in.

  • Good Retry, Bad Retry: An Incident Story

    I've never run a big system like this, but like the lead character in the story, I always figured exponential backoff would be enough. Turns out there's more.

    8
    SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market
  • I remember it being a big space sink when I was editing video. Now all I have is DVD rips of my collection and those are nice and compact.

  • Nichibutsu's 1981 Space Shooter 'Moon Shuttle' Is This Week's Arcade Archives Release | Time Extension
  • Oh, man, I'd forgotten about this game! Used to play it on the C64!

  • Google Is Stuffing Annoying Ads Into Its Terrible AI Search Feature
  • Yup. I signed up to their unlimited a while ago, so I was happy to not notice this at all. 🙂👍

  • newatlas.com Sega Jet Rocket: The trailblazing '70s arcade game with no computer or screen

    Back in 1970, Sega introduced an arcade game that would pave the way for many of today's most popular video games. Known as Jet Rocket, the electromechanical marvel boasted several world-firsts – even though most people today don't know it ever existed.

    Sega Jet Rocket: The trailblazing '70s arcade game with no computer or screen

    This is a pretty cool analog arcade game. I never saw one when I was a kid... I'd have been hooked.

    1
    www.lumafield.com How does a car cigarette lighter work?

    Explore the engineering of a car cigarette lighter through industrial CT scans, revealing an efficient analog design that operates without digital components.

    How does a car cigarette lighter work?

    This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

    32

    Vintage Infocom collection on eBay

    www.ebay.com Infocom Vintage Video Game Collection.  ALL NOS!  The Holy Grail of Collections. | eBay

    Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Infocom Vintage Video Game Collection.  ALL NOS!  The Holy Grail of Collections. at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

    Infocom Vintage Video Game Collection.  ALL NOS!  The Holy Grail of Collections.  | eBay

    Can be yours for a mere $155,000. (No, I'm not the seller, but I'm curious who is!)

    1

    GPT adventure game generator

    github.com GitHub - that-one-arab/gpt-interactive-novel: A customizable interactive fiction novel that utilizes GPT. Playable straight from your terminal!

    A customizable interactive fiction novel that utilizes GPT. Playable straight from your terminal! - GitHub - that-one-arab/gpt-interactive-novel: A customizable interactive fiction novel that utili...

    GitHub - that-one-arab/gpt-interactive-novel: A customizable interactive fiction novel that utilizes GPT. Playable straight from your terminal!

    This coder rigged up GPT to create IF games.

    0

    Decoding C Compilation Process: From Source Code to Binary

    Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you write a C program? How does your code transform from lines of text into a fully functional binary executable? If you’ve been curious about the intricacies of the C program compilation process, you’ve come to the right place.

    3