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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

@social@mro.name

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mro_name··on Building software to last forever
'planning' does not go well with 'guarantee', does it?
mro_name··on Building software to last forever
while bear looks all nice and good it's saas, right? Run by a mortal. How can that be guaranteed forever?
mro_name··on Curl doesn't add libproxy due to its quality issues
> compile flags

they don't play nicely with os package managers like apt.

mro_name··on Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)
what is the thing with gmail in 2022 other than lock in?
mro_name··on Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)
this bothers me a lot. That bystanders can read my cleartext email is one thing. But that somebody hords and data-mines a huge quantity of them is a bit creepy to say the least, isn't it?

I would bounce gmail if my email provider offered that option.

mro_name··on How to Index Anything (2003)
how does is compare to e.g. xapian?
mro_name··on Alpine Linux Minimalist Desktop
anyone seen it on an asus x205ta (32 bit BIOS, sigh)?
mro_name··on Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe
no, it's too bloaty to run it longer than the mentioned 5 seconds in good faith to not deplete the biosphere with bloat like that.
mro_name··on Show HN: A social network like Myspace, built on top of Notion
fair enough, but how can a 'network' be 'social' if there is only one provider. ('Thou shall not have others before me').

Making means of communication a matter of taste of those who don't care won't yield good results. That's what brought us into that surveillance capitalism mess.

mro_name··on Show HN: A social network like Myspace, built on top of Notion
What's scary/techie about servers communicating? How to change that and make federation fearless?
mro_name··on Show HN: A social network like Myspace, built on top of Notion
it's sad that in your eyes federated is tied to techie.
mro_name··on Your website should work without JavaScript (2021)
> Building everything you can without js will make your site:

an immediately readable text rather than a program that tries to generate one.

mro_name··on Your website should work without JavaScript (2021)
> a lot better than having your site break altogether.

that's a humble baseline, isn't it?

mro_name··on Aerc – a pretty good (terminal) email client
OT. I just don't want it.
mro_name··on An unexpected revival of Firefox OS
how many planets do you guess would it take if there were 9 billion people carrying, patching und using Apple phones?
mro_name··on A Memory Safe Implementation of the Network Time Protocol
expat, sigh. openssl, sigh again.
mro_name··on I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
wonderful. That spirit is what we aim for at our youth centre http://jugendhacktlab.qdrei.info/. Raspis all the way down.
mro_name··on Aerc – a pretty good (terminal) email client
how would I use aerc and not maintain a go toolchain?
mro_name··on Looped Square Or ⌘
Raspberry Pies have their mascot-fruit on that key.
mro_name··on How to build a personal webpage from scratch
I am lazy and run html-tidy.org.
mro_name··on macOS keeps a huge wallpapers cache
> usability is much better

of the download/onboarding! Which is not what I should spend most my time with Xcode anyway.

I would eagerly spend 5 minutes more choosing if I could reduce the several hours (sic!) download time and save insane amounts of energy.

mro_name··on macOS keeps a huge wallpapers cache
compost!

you could emulate that with $ find, but expiring stuff will require quite a mind-shift, I guess.

I do similar for mp3 recordings at https://codeberg.org/mro/internet-radio-recorder/src/commit/...

mro_name··on macOS keeps a huge wallpapers cache
Who needs it all? Don't force on me what I don't need as once was and alas is no more.
mro_name··on macOS keeps a huge wallpapers cache
I find it so embarrassing because every dev gets fed this culture. Or take the insane update sizes. Os or Xcode. Or the upload to the app store useing bandwidth several times the binary size. An app that used to be .5MB in objc is now in swift 15MB tesflight, 70MB production ipa and 300MB upload traffic.

That's what sustainability looks like in the eyes of a hardware supplier.

mro_name··on Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar
septem, octo, novem, decimus is latin for the numbers 7, 8, 9, 10.
mro_name··on Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website to host it
why do so many need a CDN recently?
mro_name··on Show HN: Have I Been Pwned? – DIY style
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32648589
mro_name··on Large scale Internet SSH brute force attacks seem to have stopped here
have you thought about serving them eicar?
mro_name··on A CSS-Inspired Syntax for Flowcharts
bear with me slightly OT: I am looking for a tool to edit drakon[1] flowcharts offline on a M1 mac.

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

mro_name··on The slow death of the traditional business card
that's what I did with "{first_name}@{last-name}.name" and a quite light grey for @ and .name.

On the card are the only immutables – my name.

All else has to go handwritten when handed over.

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