WA𐕣LY
@wallyjones.com
Computer programmer • Vegan for the animals • Enjoyer of matcha • Listener of blast beats and electronic noises • Oh, and I like Disney
Why does the Harman Kardon audio system in my Subaru Forester sound better than almost anything out there? Is it the cabin?
I’ve test driven:
BMW X3 (Harman Kardon)
Volvo XC60 (Harman Kardon)
Porsche Macan (Bose)
Land Rover Discovery (Meridian)
Not a single one sounded better than Subaru’s.
I’ve test driven:
BMW X3 (Harman Kardon)
Volvo XC60 (Harman Kardon)
Porsche Macan (Bose)
Land Rover Discovery (Meridian)
Not a single one sounded better than Subaru’s.
January 15, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Why does the Harman Kardon audio system in my Subaru Forester sound better than almost anything out there? Is it the cabin?
I’ve test driven:
BMW X3 (Harman Kardon)
Volvo XC60 (Harman Kardon)
Porsche Macan (Bose)
Land Rover Discovery (Meridian)
Not a single one sounded better than Subaru’s.
I’ve test driven:
BMW X3 (Harman Kardon)
Volvo XC60 (Harman Kardon)
Porsche Macan (Bose)
Land Rover Discovery (Meridian)
Not a single one sounded better than Subaru’s.
Just watched Shawshank Redemption for the first time. Pretty damn good!
January 6, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Just watched Shawshank Redemption for the first time. Pretty damn good!
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Hard agree.
it would be really cool if someone added passkeys to bluesky login
December 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Hard agree.
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Pushover helped me snag a great deal on a Disney Vacation Club contract. I wrote a very simple watcher program what used Pushover to alert me as soon as new contracts went up. It’s a great app with a great API. Go buy it. It’s worth it.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Pushover helped me snag a great deal on a Disney Vacation Club contract. I wrote a very simple watcher program what used Pushover to alert me as soon as new contracts went up. It’s a great app with a great API. Go buy it. It’s worth it.
Who else uses plain old Terminal.app?
December 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Who else uses plain old Terminal.app?
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EFF is thankful for the generous support of DuckDuckGo, helping us fight for your privacy online.
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
EFF is thankful for the generous support of DuckDuckGo, helping us fight for your privacy online.
When is the last time you listened to Gallery of Suicide?
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
When is the last time you listened to Gallery of Suicide?
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If anyone has any recommendations for a non-Cloudflare global load balancing service, please let me know.
It must have DDoS mitigation, IP blocking through an API, custom TLS configuration (private cert and TLS versions), and health checks to remove failed nodes.
Tried AWS and Fastly but no good.
It must have DDoS mitigation, IP blocking through an API, custom TLS configuration (private cert and TLS versions), and health checks to remove failed nodes.
Tried AWS and Fastly but no good.
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If anyone has any recommendations for a non-Cloudflare global load balancing service, please let me know.
It must have DDoS mitigation, IP blocking through an API, custom TLS configuration (private cert and TLS versions), and health checks to remove failed nodes.
Tried AWS and Fastly but no good.
It must have DDoS mitigation, IP blocking through an API, custom TLS configuration (private cert and TLS versions), and health checks to remove failed nodes.
Tried AWS and Fastly but no good.
Remember to turn on Advanced Data Protection, friends.
The way that encrypted chat apps handle backups can be a loophole, so knowing how they work—and how those you communicate with use this feature—is very important. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
How Signal, WhatsApp, Apple, and Google Handle Encrypted Chat Backups
Encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp are one of the best ways to keep your digital conversations as private as possible. But if you’re not careful with how those conversations are backed up,
www.eff.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Remember to turn on Advanced Data Protection, friends.
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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real sense in which last night was fairly predictable. real question is why our pundits and the elites who listen to them couldn’t see it. (gift link)
Opinion | Trump Is an Albatross
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
real sense in which last night was fairly predictable. real question is why our pundits and the elites who listen to them couldn’t see it. (gift link)
It can’t rain all the time.
October 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It can’t rain all the time.
Affordable? I’m living in an alternate reality.
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Affordable? I’m living in an alternate reality.
What if, and I know this sounds crazy, we just put the error message on the alert itself?
October 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
What if, and I know this sounds crazy, we just put the error message on the alert itself?
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Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer
YouTube video by Joe Lynch
m.youtube.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Seeing TRON: Ares in IMAX is worth it just to hear NIN on that sound system.
October 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Seeing TRON: Ares in IMAX is worth it just to hear NIN on that sound system.
Cillian Murphy uses emacs.
October 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Cillian Murphy uses emacs.