• You probably can't scroll to the bottom of this page right now. I know why and will have it fixed tomorrow.
  
  Update: Hmm.  No, seems to just be Firefox.  Will fix anyway.
  
  
• Swift 5.0 is out, available right away on MacOS and Ubuntu and approximately never on every other platform.
  
  I need to choose a language that can compile to a standalone binary for a small side project. Go would certainly work. Since I've never used it before I spent an hour yesterday learning it.
  
  Go sucks. The implementation may be fine, but the language design is 50 years of congealed bad ideas.
  
  Swift is a much better language - not great, but not something that would cause constant severe abdominal pain - but can't, so far as I know, produce standalone binaries.
  
  C and C++ are out because are you freaking kidding me.
  
  Julia is probably out, because while it's actually a fine language, the static compilation story is meh at best.
  
  Crystal might work, but it hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Same with Nim.
  
  Nuitka might actually work. The project is active, and since it compiles Python to standalone binaries I don't need to fuss about with a new language and new libraries.
  
  I shall try Nuitka.
  
  
• CLion now supports remote toolchains over SSH so you can now sit at your Windows PC and build Linux apps.  But the CLion Python plugin doesn't.  PyCharm does, of course, but then it doesn't support all the other languages CLion adds (C, C++, Objective-C, Rust, Swift, and, for some reason, Fortran).
  
  
  
  
• Uber decides it isn't losing money fast enough, steps on the gas. (Tech Crunch)
  
  
• I've switched from Chrome to Firefox for these posts. It works much better. I originally switched from Firefox to Chrome because Chrome coped better when I had many tabs open; now the situation has reversed. Also the latest versions of Chrome act weird with this editor which I have a replacement for but have yet to actually replace.
  
  
• About a million Asus laptops have been compromised after Asus Live Updater got hacked. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The nasty files fed to users by this channel were thus signed and supposedly verified by Asus.
  
  It looks like this was a targeted attack, and the malware was dormant for most users. Not clear yet who was behind it, or why, but for select users it would download a second set of malware and send data off to a remote server.
  
  
• Final Fantasy apparently includes a species of rabbit that reproduces via parthenogenesis and this has made some people very angry (One Angry Gamer)
  
  [Imagine a picture of said rabbits here only the forced redirect to HTTPS that I'm testing here has broken uploading which is exactly why I'm testing it here before rolling it out to everyone.]
  
  
  

• The European Union has passed its terrible horrible no good very bad copyright legislation into law.  (CNet)
  
  Any company offering internet services of any kind in any EU country is out of its mind.
  
  
• New Zealand is still rounding up wrongthinkers and locking them up without bail because this is a democracy you see which means you have no right to either free speech or due process.  (TechDirt)
  
  Git pull request for Tom Wolfe: The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe and New Zealand.
  
  Also, you may well ask what the hell is going on in the comments at TechDirt.  I'm going to go with "performance art".
  
  
• Meanwhile, Australia's Parliament of Clowns wants to enact criminal penalties for video streaming services whose users stream videos of violent crimes. (ZDNet)
  
  Leaving such streams up for minutes is simply not good enough.

  "They can get an ad to you in half a second; they should be able to pull down this sort of terrorist material and other types of very dangerous material in the same sort of time frame."

  I regret to report that Australia's Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, is retarded.

Elsewhere

• After spending three years screwing up the stories of Trump's political rise, Russia's political meddling, and the blatantly nonsensical allegations of collusion between the two, the American mainstream news media has learned... Precisely nothing.
  

  CNN prez Jeff Zucker: "We are not investigators. We are journalists, and our role is to report the facts as we know them, which is exactly what we did." https://t.co/DiUjr7Nkbg

  — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 26, 2019

  
  
• They're just not very bright.
  
  

  Mueller came forward right away when he felt he’d been misrepresented even indirectly by Buzzfeed. You think he’d allow Barr to misquote him? It’s amazing people won’t let this go. https://t.co/jZ3ABy0CQr

  — Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 26, 2019

  I hope I'm not putting this too harshly, but you have to be the world's dumbest person to believe Mueller filled his report with incriminating collusion claims, but he - and his whole team - are sitting silently while his long-time friend Bob Barr lies about what's in his report.

  — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 25, 2019

  
  
• Neither is this guy.
  
  

  .@MichaelAvenatti tweeted Monday that he planned to hold a news conference about @Nike. Less than 45 minutes later, federal prosecutors charged him with trying to extort the company. https://t.co/noxBAOFXdQ

  — The Associated Press (@AP) March 25, 2019

  
  

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1 "I regret to report that Australia's Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, is retarded."
Planning on getting re-banned immediately after your latest Twitter suspension is up, are you?

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, March 27 2019 12:30 AM (Iwkd4)

2 It's a permanent suspension this time, so not worrying about that part too much.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, March 27 2019 12:34 AM (PiXy!)

3 I've submitted an appeal but I think it will be easier to launch my own social network than to get a sensible response out of Twitter.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, March 27 2019 12:35 AM (PiXy!)

4 Some Chromium based browsers have built-in tab suspension that works pretty well. I don't remember which variant I first encountered it in , but I'm now primarily using Brave, which is currently using about a gigabyte of memory for over 50 tabs.

Posted by: Kayle at Wednesday, March 27 2019 09:35 AM (magRz)

5 I have 16GB of RAM; the problem I have with Chrome is that when I open a lot of tabs at once many of them freeze regardless of the resources available.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, March 27 2019 10:16 AM (PiXy!)

6 It's not Twitter, but there is a new browser extension from Gab called Dissenter that provides a comment feed for any page on the net, even pages that don't have one.  Since the feed lives in the extension, the site can't ban or shadow ban you.

Posted by: StargazerA5 at Thursday, March 28 2019 11:16 AM (jl9eJ)

7 Yes, I've been meaning to try that out.  I am on Gab.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, March 28 2019 11:51 AM (PiXy!)

8 Unfortunately, it looks like ISPs in New Zealand can can Dissenter for not being "censorship compliant".

Posted by: muon at Monday, April 01 2019 07:56 PM (vMYTH)

9 Still can't scroll to the bottom of the page on Firefox.

Posted by: muon at Monday, April 01 2019 07:58 PM (vMYTH)

10 Dissenter is still a proprietary service, so it's just as bad as GAB itself (where as we know Torba has gone on an anti-anime crusade at least once).
I was quite happy with Pleroma thus far. At least it's something distributed, finally.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tuesday, April 02 2019 03:07 PM (LZ7Bg)

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