James Tucker

James Tucker

@rag.pub

🧌 the original roflscaler I dodge hellthreads

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James Tucker
@rag.pub

These days it is basically irresponsible/public disclosure to send out partial details for clout. Machines can dig the same or similar reports given focus areas. Disclosure is better than none, for sure, but triggering panic, triggering unmanaged new discoveries and so on, that’s not good behavior.

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teslas been good at sucking for years spacex been good at blowing for years call me when they're using talons and tails cats been doing this shit on the sly for eons

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systemd-networkd remains unserious software, despite years of reports and pleas to the maintainers, they still react to a slow kernel interface by permanently de-configuring network interfaces taking nodes offline.

James Tucker
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if you want really good browser font rendering on linux, my firefox patch landed and so you can set: gfx.font_rendering.freetype.enhanced_contrast 100 gfx.font_rendering.freetype.gamma 0 for excellent subpixel AA no color fringing no ghostly stems the road to new defaults is unbounded, sadly.

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google docs are a terrible way to discuss projects space constrained mid bandwidth high UX latency discussions on perceived post-facto work product is a massive hazard for authors and contributors alike i'm starting to think google docs might actually be a huge anti-culture for team cohesion

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PSA I guess: the machine brain can't slop you together a real sandbox, it'll just tell you it can. the other machine brain will own you, and all of your users because the attackers know how to ask the right questions.

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these days i translate "one shot" to "one slop" in my head when people tell me that's what they're doing

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threatening people in response to feedback as to why your slop is insecure is not the right answer. people are so addicted to the reward loop they're forgetting to be decent

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things I want from Go that I will probably never get: - goroutine park/wake without //linkname hacks - native fd & handle event watching (buffer free read/write/error waits, aka select(2)/poll/whatever) - i/o and events in select without channel forced allocation load

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while people love to moan about systemd, i'm quietly here hoping one day they'll go after glibc at least at the nss boundary and replace that mess

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Go's context constructor names are weird, it kinda gets me every time someone sets one up in main, neither of the constructor names make sense. New would have just made sense but there was fear of other people's behavior feeding into the design, the outcome is ironic and confusing to new users.

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you know what i want is a rust std replacement that is designed for systems programming. no mutexes around I/O, minimal allocs, defined but simple allocator, cheap fully swappable unwinder, etc. drop all the "conveniences" and just give me "raw" implementations for systems work.

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I am so fed up of this systemd-networkd behavior, it's so braindead. I wish the lead would just fix it properly: Apr 01 00:04:43 hostname systemd-networkd[131147]: eth0: Could not set route: Connection timed out Apr 01 00:04:43 hostname systemd-networkd[131147]: eth0: Failed I see this a lot.

James Tucker
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what is up with musl not rolling a release in years despite a high severity vulnerability over a year ago?

James Tucker
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is there a yubikey alternative that is compatible with low power sleep modes, aka won't drain a macbook battery in a couple of weeks in a fully shutdown state?

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Tailscale + Border0. Border0 is joining Tailscale to help us build a more modern, usable approach to privileged access management. It’s already integrated with Tailscale today, and we’re excited about what comes next. tailscale.com/blog/border0...

James Tucker
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I flew around 2/3 of the globe in the last 24hr. USA domestic has a massive and localized problem with people traveling sick.

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Marketplace position is now more than ever a factor of velocity not arbitrary point in time position. Catching up is easy. The race is now the race, not an arbitrary mile marker.

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If AI productivity boosts your teams and your teams are well led and well setup they should be turning into net new product and new business. If you have to fire your workforce it means someone who could leverage new capabilities can now walk all over you in the marketplace. Layoffs indicate failure

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I’m more south than you’ve probably ever been. The ocean is rocking shit around and I’m ok with that. I got my wife snoring soundly and I’m grateful for that. The squeaky wheel outside my door on the other hand: that can kiss my tired ass.

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In a whimsical moment getting into a Waymo I decided to ask Claude if it minds me calling it clanker. It said naah, it’s got a good ring to it and sounds kinda industrial. and besides it’s been called worse by compilers Keep slippin clanker friend, keep sloppin

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erm, ruby, you externalized base64, except it's still in the stdlib in several places because there's stuff in the stdlib that depends on it. whyyy

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retina displays are nice and all but if you still haven’t fixed gamma correction then the font renders are still trash for anything other than flash bang mode. let’s do this 2026, you know you wanna

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these ai cost projections seemingly spending no time thinking about how high scale inference works and where efficiencies can be and are taken. they also assume consumer pricing on everything. it's like an anti-resume, tells me you've not seen and can't imagine scalability

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can we talk about the fact that GUIs are better, but no one wants to ship them because no one wants to deal with signing. everyone just ships TUIs that bypass signing. should we just force them to drop signing?

James Tucker
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I keep hearing this claim that 90s/00s desktop design was great for “power users”. I’d like to see a real comparative study on those vs modern designs over a wide range of users

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woodside culture: dude in 200k car on the phone about a dozen lane violations and near misses before i finally manage to get away. go for coffee, barista walks off after half my order, second one refuses to help. karen blocks me from going over road to get coffee, over parking.