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mro_name

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Builds the social web bicycle https://Seppo.mro.name with #OCaml supported by https://NLnet.nl/project/Seppo. Maker of things deemed impossible.

Rents out Linux laptops https://mro.name/laptop

Former JEE and iOS developer, seasonal tree planter. Casual lightning talker https://mro.name/talks. Netizen since the mid 90ies. https://SIGCHI.org, https://CCC.de, https://FIfF.de, https://NOYB.eu, https://Blaetter.de.

Likes https://mro.name/FreeBSD-XFCE and https://AlpineLinux.org

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mro_name··on Notepad Tab
Wonderful!

How can I silence the Firefox security error messages?

mro_name··on Notepad Tab
this could be a static website on a local webserver, right?
mro_name··on Born to run? Endurance running may have evolved to help humans chase down prey
really! Drinking may have evolved to help humans quench thirst.
mro_name··on Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)
simplicity is the habit of zen, toaists, sufis and franciscans or the school of wirth - the mystics. Minorities each. It's just not appealing to the masses and the proponents don't really care about mass-recognition, either.

But they go on nevertheless, stubborn as they are.

Edit: Oh, and the razor Occam was a franciscan, too.

mro_name··on Death and typos: my six years screening online obituary comments
during my last year of latin in school we translated lot's of one-line obituaries, originally carved in headstones. Many satirical. Their orthography and grammar was as liberal as the content, which came very handy matching our skill level. The carvers hardly knew more latin than we :-)

Life ends, typos last.

mro_name··on Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site
I'd even say build your system so as it can run on shared hosting. This way you even save the management.
mro_name··on RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information
https://seppo.social/demo is a microblog server (I am building) combining ActivityPub and Atom.

I agree Atom is here to stay.

mro_name··on HTML First
doesn't the inline JS (onlick="this.classList.add('green')") harm/complicate CSP headers?
mro_name··on We are investigating reports of degraded performance
I'll defend.

> just the name of repo could be sensitive info

The phrase "sensitive info" tells me disclosing it to a mass code hoster bare any liability deems irresponsible. Remember Eric Schmidt about privacy on the internet?

Choose your priorities.

mro_name··on We are investigating reports of degraded performance
It shouldn't be on github then. At all.
mro_name··on Ceasing print publication of ACM journals and transactions
A magazine moving to the cloud dissolves in thin air. Reading the articles with a low entry barrier is something for the beach, the cafe and the train. That will not happen eletronically. Also "casual reading", where I read a 2nd or 3rd article, besides the one that drew my attention, won't happen anymore.

Charles Simonyi said in his Bravo Demo about electronic documents "there is no such thing as an original anymore" https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/q_Na1SJXSBg?t=371s

I may execute a special right of termination of my 15-year membership.

mro_name··on Germany's terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency
popcorn!
mro_name··on Germany's terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency
oh, the railways recently became measurably more on schedule. Simply by raising the threshold value for 'belatedness' for the statistics. Magical.
mro_name··on Germany's terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency
in fact we germans bet on Italy being the one to blame for failure and did - nothing!
mro_name··on Germany's terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency
German railway is managed by former car managers for decades. Doesn't work out. Surprising?
mro_name··on Why don’t Americans eat mutton?
maybe because Northern America was a bovine continent when the europeans took it.
mro_name··on Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem
when I started designing mobile applications in 2009, I was fully convinced they are inept for (keyed) text entry. No one would type more than a few characters on such devices.

Since I found me proven both wrong and right in some sense. Looks we rather sacrificed quality for immediate reaction and enthusiastically do bad text editing and sloppy writing on the go.

mro_name··on On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules (1971) [pdf]
canonical https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/361598.361623
mro_name··on macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported
this, the mere size and constant growth annoys me a lot about those megacorp products.

Thanks for the writeup.

mro_name··on FreeBSD 13.2 on ThinkPad T14 (GEN1)
awesome, bookmarked, many thanks!
mro_name··on FreeBSD 13.2 on ThinkPad T14 (GEN1)
I own a X250 and failed with 13.2 for now but want to retry[1]. FreeBSD appeared refreshingly unbloatet and to the point. However, hardware driver support seems peculiar. So this is really interesting, thanks!

[1] https://blog.mro.name/2023/04/thinkpad-x250-freebsd-xfce/

mro_name··on 0x0: Share Files from Terminal
> get rid of some but not all

usually there's always one solution to get rid of all but that's prbly not what you think of.

So getting rid of some is what it's about, isn't it? And some more by another means.

mro_name··on 0x0: Share Files from Terminal
nat with ipv4 may be a showstopper.
mro_name··on 0x0: Share Files from Terminal
I assume you intended this service mostly for your personal use and wonder if making it

a) unreliable (e.g. having opening hours a.k.a. intentional downtimes)

b) applying client side encryption a la https://privatebin.info

c) expire & purge the (encrypted) content quickly

would have mitigated your problem.

mro_name··on PayPal has restricted our account after we invoiced a key containing “ALEP”
the P must be for paypal, I am sure.
mro_name··on Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky
no, what does it take and mean to identify someone. In general and on the internet. How do you build trust? A domain is no worse than trusting any arbitrary billion dollar enterprise.
mro_name··on Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky
I hope a judge will have a say.
mro_name··on Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky
I know, David won.
mro_name··on Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky
what is personal identifcation in your eyes?
mro_name··on Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky
exactly
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