cobbzilla

Cloth seats on BART must be among the worst design decisions ever made. Seating on public transit must be something that can be hosed down with bleach, and not a material that will forever hold whatever funk is deposited into it.

I had to lock-down my private Gitea server when I noticed my commits were taking forever, because my meager 2-CPU instance was pegged.

Tail the nginx logs, sure enough some jerk is asking for every URL for every git commit ever done, with no delays/backoffs/anything. Just hammer the ever-loving crap out of me. Lovely, GTFO!

The simplest thing to do: add HTTP Basic auth, now my git server is no longer accessible to the public. Thanks AI startups! Maybe I'll re-enable after this craze is over.

What does compete with the government mean?

Should FedEx not compete with USPS on parcel delivery?

I’m curious your understanding of what the essence of fascism is. To me an essential part is mega corporations colluding with the government to force the people to do something they want.

Public health concerns, valid as they may be, ought to be accomplished without this kind of coercion, yet I sensed a very strong “obey in advance” mentality permeating from mainstream media.

apparently, it’s anathema to even talk about this.

At least in the US, establishing a legal contract requires more than just an attestation and agreement by both parties (verbal or written or telegraphed or whatever).

For example it’s not a contract if there is no “consideration”, a legal term meaning the parties have exchanged something of value.

IANAL, but “abuse of telecom resources” is the more likely flavor of legal hot-water you might land in. I would absolutely not worry about a fraudster taking me to court.

Actually it goes back a bit further, basically to the dawn of civilization. The first battle in recorded history was between Egypt and the Hittites, the Battle of Megiddo, in what is today the state of Israel [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Megiddo_%2815th_cent...

This is a troll, but NT did indeed support async IO via WaitForMultipleObjects in the late 90s, long before Linux had a good async IO story.

Folks using range requests will certainly welcome these as a great improvement. Without them, you need some ugly shell around your curl command to do it right, sending headers manually and slicing files in the shell.

And, if you don’t need them, don’t use them! Have you seen how many options curl has? But never good ones to support range requests until now.

Watch as someone names themselves the bell character, “^G” (ASCII code 7) [1]

When they meet people, they tell them their name is unpronounceable, it’s the sound of a PC speaker from the late 20th century, but you can call them by their preferred nickname “beep”.

In paper and online forms they are probably forced to go by the name “BEL”.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_character

Does this do anything ffmpeg can’t do?

Yes, also simultaneously why (some) smaller companies can offer exceptional service unmatched by larger competitors.

I am reminded of the PG startup advice to “do things that don’t scale”, this seems to be one of those cases.

You may be interested in the concept of “local-first” software — https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

Data storage concerns are orthogonal to app distribution method, as others have pointed out.

I always hated spam and then I went to a party that was hosted by a Hawaiian. I didn’t even know an appetizer was spam, it was so delicious.

Sure but at some point you need to rotate your master key. Copying is inevitable. At least your tooling can make it easy and reliable.

The sad state of E2E encryption for cloud storage is a big part of why I wrote mobiletto [1]. It supports transparent client-side encryption for S3, B2, local storage and more. Rekeying is easy- set up a new volume, mirror to it, then remove old volume.

[1] https://github.com/cobbzilla/mobiletto

You can still see (and play!) the “Big Piano”. It was relocated after FAO closed and is now in the flagship Macy’s in NY. It’s looking kinda beat up these days, perhaps even symbolic.

a super-cynical take would be:

investment banker: for the low low annualized price of $50m/year I’ll sell you this company. it’ll never make money, but it’ll attract lots of your negative marginal product workers from across your company, thus improving the success of your other games. it can run for about 10 years. at the end, you shut it down and it’s a big tax write off.

massive game company: where do I sign?

Have you ever changed the static IP address of a computer? You just “recycled” a “globally unique” ID.

Recycling unique IDs (more precisely: changing the underlying thing the ID points to) is not impossible; there’s lots of pathological failure modes; for certain ID-spaces it’s kinda a required use case; so we have to deal with it.

“What about 6-minute abs??”

technically, they’re not, but the overlap is big.

I don’t know about you, but I am using search engines a lot less, and asking LLM’s a lot more.

It doesn’t bode well for the search engine business overall.

That’s some serious power draw. Truly impressive work!

are signal and noise the same thing?

have you considered that you may hold the opposite attribute?

Is CSS not Turing-complete? Flip it around! Go written in pure CSS would be impressive. Any takers?

Thank you, I didn’t consider the timing aspect. I could see prompt and clear communications as being helpful.

I’m very curious how Donglegate was destined to be anything but a dumpster fire from moment number one. SendGrid wasn’t perfect by any stretch, but how could it have been better handled? Openly admitting that they fired someone as ransom for a DDOS?

for regular roads, sure. But this diamond style is used more at expressway interchanges. It’s especially useful in places where a full cloverleaf interchange would not fit.

install uBlock Origin, block content element, it’s gone (until they change things to not match the selector anyway)

Thank you, you’re right, I remembered the name wrong. It was The Visible Computer. I was learning on an Apple //c

This is amazing. It brings back memories of the first time I taught myself 6502 assembly, there was a book called “The Visual Computer” that came with an emulator on a floppy disk. It was very eye opening! I found a PDF of the book [1] but not sure if the software on the floppy survives anywhere.

[1] https://files.commodore.software/reference-material/books/c6...