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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 Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky
examples are numerous. There was this father who sent the doctor photos of a medical problem of his child and the trustee of the digital identity locked his account. With all his digital life, payment channels, communication, you name it. Even the police asking the trustee to unlock was of no avail. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...

Or there is this munich company whose employee visited it's parents and immediately the company github account got locked. Parents happened to live in Iran.

The tip of the iceberg, however.

mro_name··on Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky
> nothing but a method of verifying internet presence.

isn't that what it's about? What else do you think of?

mro_name··on Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky
nothing will be as simple to onboard as a billion-dollar monopoly solution.

agency requires a least bit of activity.

mro_name··on Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky
yes, I prefer this to being kicked out because my child needed medical care and I followed the doctor's advice. Or my device vendor considers the device 'too old'. Or any other arbitrary reason.

Where I live domain contracts auto-renew. And have reclaim processes.

mro_name··on Reliability: It’s not great
might well have been yak shaving. If a company is under US jurisdiction it simply cannot comply to EU data protection.
mro_name··on Comparing static website hosts (2022)
what maintenance do you think of that brings downtime? Right, openssl, systemd, udev & the like. There are some, but really less than the TOS.

What bothers me, isn't that this isn't for anyone. But that it's missing in comparisons. That's pretending doing overviews but wearing blinders. Deplorable.

mro_name··on Comparing static website hosts (2022)
a box in your closet or bare metal in the datacenter, repectively?

While you read the TOS end-to-end (you do that, right?), I finish the site and have lunch.

mro_name··on Are we racing toward AI catastrophe?
> not going to look like Terminator

we're approaching Brazil.

mro_name··on If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is good enough
as you mention gaming – do you know the doom-in-lego-brick? https://kilograham.github.io/rp2040-doom/ and brick assembly https://youtube.com/watch?v=6wBrOV2FJM8

There are some video links in the (german) article https://heise.de/-7448263. Mind-blowing.

mro_name··on If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is good enough
indeed, developing fast software requires slow hardware.
mro_name··on Young adults and mental health: Is more childhood independence the answer?
autonomous mobility is huge for kids 6-12.

It helps if they have not previously perceived the world only through a car window.

mro_name··on An M1 for Curl
have you ever tried? How was it complexity-wise?

(And critical IMO means 'important in fact' not 'not replaceable in theory'.)

mro_name··on Turn your best programmers into managers
see what people can do best and have them do something else. I am not convinced.
mro_name··on RssCloud, WordPress. FeedLand, and Dave Winer
why seems everybody to ignore Atom (RFC4287)? Is it to follow iTunes' innovation leadership in doing so? I'd be curious.
mro_name··on Ask HN: Host a website from a living room in 2022?
interesting hint – what is the percentage of infected windows boxes again? 80%?
mro_name··on I almost failed to search a 37 GB text file in under 1 millisecond
You're a bit hasty, young padawan. Do you insinuate this has never been tried while you don't even take a glimpse at it and see how it's done? What use is it linking the cdb docs? The article has it all in context if you bother reading.

The dataset is turned to 16 cdbs to be precise in case you wonder how 37GB fit into the 4GB cdb size limit.

mro_name··on I almost failed to search a 37 GB text file in under 1 millisecond
create cdbs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32648589
mro_name··on My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs
Yes. I have to build small, permacomputing-inspired stuff, so I resort to (neo)vim wherever possible.

The complexity of the toolchain tends to sip into the result over time.

Conway's law.

mro_name··on Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language [pdf]
they lost me at metaverse.
mro_name··on Humans.txt
mg is to the point but doesn't invalidate your personal opinion either. Exception, rule.
mro_name··on Yahoo Pipes
go to e.g. irc.w3.org #social and claim it. We would be +1 then.
mro_name··on Thinking Forth (1984)
are there any webprojects or cgis in forth to study?
mro_name··on KDE beats macOS
there are few intuitive things other than a mother breast.

Take doors handles or light switches. Must be learned.

mro_name··on Browsers, JSON, and FormData
this asymmetry between html form post to binary dump wire format bugged me a lot. So I made glue to convert formdata dumps back to html forms (which then can be processed with standard xml tools or viewed as is): https://code.mro.name/mro/form2xml

Works like a charm in e.g. https://mro.name/2021/ocaml-stickers/

mro_name··on Ask HN: Where can one learn about boring web development?
begin with it. On your own webspace and own domain.

And backend can start as simple as https://codeberg.org/jugendhacktlab.qdrei.info/gaestebuch. You may not even need one to start.

mro_name··on I fought the PayPal and I won
how would one do that from within the EU? Is it still sending a certified letter to Omaha?
mro_name··on BearSSL: A smaller SSL/TLS library
is there a tutorial how to run bearssl on lighttpd/devuan.org and achive good marks in ssllabs.com/ssltest?
mro_name··on BearSSL: A smaller SSL/TLS library
there isn't an automatic, global, eternal best choice just because a topic is important.
mro_name··on I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer
at de.farnell.com it costs EUR 85 - but has over 1 year delivery time :-(
mro_name··on Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)
> Price

I think one should let the suppliers live and pay for what one uses. 0 is a stupid price, you will be farmed.

> Best-in-class search

I don't use web-clients to read email, so wrong class.

> Availability

the track record of google+ and google-reader isn't convincing.

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