Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy

Today is the day. I left the office for the last time an hour ago. Time sheets filed, corporate laptop handed in, goodbyes said. I'm now working full time on Marginalia Search. marginalia.nu/log/83_full_ti…

@vaxryy @gnukeith I wouldn't call the random-ass patchwork of 3rd party patches and mixed concerns that make up kernel namespaces a "very secure platform". There certainly was an attempt, but it's hard to make secure namespaces if you only start thinking about that stuff 20 years in.

@gnukeith the kernel is made with a very different goal in mind, but you can build a very secure platform on top, if you want to. Flatpaks are a good example of a decent attempt at it.

In all honesty, I'm sure that Linux can be a lot more secure (I'm not even going to pretend I know what I'm talking about) I have never touched the Kernel in any serious way, but any large piece of software is insecure in some way.

@ptr_to_joel Name a more famous duo than Oracle engineers working around to clock to make Java fast and correct, and Java developers working around the clock to make Java programs still be slow and buggy.

>be “””senior””” engineer >want to be linkedin influencer >make post on prod issue >highlight your language fundamentals are junior tier

@vaxryy Use a declarative configuration language, or risk turning into neovim with a 45 minute start up and constant coil whine as some random ass transitive dependency you pulled mines bitcoins on your GPU to fund their author's krokodil addiciton.

honestly atp we might just make the config pure lua. Transition period of like 2 major releases, small utilities stay hyprlang. There's so much we're trying to pack into hyprland that I don't think a config language makes sense anymore. Yay or nay?

@joakial_ The Red Wedding was a basically unchanged retelling of that one time we let Danes into Stockholm.

@monospacegames I very much have a sense that the open social web is an evaporating ocean, rapidly turning into an inhospitable salty death zone full of bots, shills, and influence campaigns, a mocking imitation of the people that used to be around.

@MarginaliaNu Grim. It'll only get worse from now on too.

All you need to understand the state of LinkedIn and HN the last few months can be found in this openclaw template: github.com/openclaw/openc…

If programmer speed and efficiency was truly such a significant competitive factor, we wouldn't be packing them like sardines them in noisy and stuffy open floor plan offices.

Did some local LLM-based labeling of the HN comment corpus, tasking the model to classify how likely it is that each comment is: * Using AI-like grammar (e.g. it's not X, it's Y) * Using AI-like markup (e.g. em-dashes) * Trying to shill something * Trying to influence public opinion Still a bit work in progress, but here are some preview data.

@Edward_Blom Hade varit en mer rimlig beskrivning av en rejäl man-cold än T2D ärligt talat. Många gånger man legat som på lit de parade och drömt om liknande rubriker.

Alltså glömde ju bifoga skärmdumpen 🤣

Nä nu går ändå Hänt över gränsen i rubriksättning tom för att vara dem. Jag sa väl i princip att jag låter bli socker och snabba kolhydrater sedan snart 25 år och att det är ”lite tråkigt”, men inget större problem. Att inte få äta socker och ha en relativt lindrig typ 2 diabetes är verkligen ingen ”sjukdomskamp”.

Did some statistics, and it seems posts from newly registered accounts on HN are nearly 10x more likely to use EM-dashes, arrows, and similar typography than established accounts. marginalia.nu/weird-ai-crap/…

@shotgundotdev "16 GB is all you need"- bros jeered at my practice of 128GB-maxxing all my machines few years ago. Me right now:

This is $1500 today. That's crazy. I want 256 but there's no way.

There's been a huge uptick in this sort of brigade like behavior around current events. First noted it around LK99, that failed room temperature semiconductor in 2023, but it just keeps happening.

I have a hunch, but cannot prove, that prediction markets are the driving force behind a lot of we disinformation online, since they essentially monetarily incentivize making people misjudge the state of the world.

@Rachel4lova @Valen10Francois Mind the mercator projection though.

@Valen10Francois These two regions (Laponia, Finland & Tierras Altas, Soria, España) have the same population density (≈2 habitants/2km) Crazy comparing the climate and extension of both areas

A map of population distribution in Europe (black = at least one inhabitant per square km) Always stuns me to see how empty swaths of Spain are!

@HellenicEchoes @TheoTheCheetah Hate to break it to you, but Olof Rudbeck the Elder tried to retcon history so that Sweden was Plato's lost Atlantis, that Swedes were the Hyperboreans from greek legend, etc.

@TheoTheCheetah Bulgaria is fine. Albania and the other guys steal history

I wish we just had neighbours like this

New blog post, about index compression, and taming tail latencies. Link in comments.

If a website could ever give your browser an STD, this might be the one. Strong contender for sketchiest looking domain name in the database.

RFC 7231: The `Retry-After` header should contain "[...]value [that] is a non-negative decimal integer, representing time in seconds. HTTP server implementers, for some reason: You know what would go well in `Retry-After`? Some frickin' decimal points!