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my website: https://xpaw.me

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xPaw··on addons.thunderbird.net SSL certificate has expired
It is indeed Cloudflare, very strange.

> curl -k https://addons.thunderbird.net/cdn-cgi/trace

xPaw··on Open Terms Archive – Follow changes to terms of service
Looks like you can browse the changes without subscribing here: https://github.com/ambanum/OpenTermsArchive-versions
xPaw··on Migadu – No-nonsense multi-domain email at a flat price
Around the same time last year they also had a storage layer failure, and my catch-all rules disappeared. And about a month before that they changed POP3 address.

Both of these changes happened without any email announcement, only visible on their site. So effectively because I didn't login into Migadu dashboard, I was losing emails.

xPaw··on Netdata: Open-source real-time monitoring platform
Netdata does have alarms/alerts, and comes with default ones.

https://learn.netdata.cloud/guides/step-by-step/step-05

xPaw··on Behind GitHub’s new authentication token formats
For those that haven't seen it, "secret-token:" is an RFC. I've started using it at work.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8959

xPaw··on How to bypass Cloudflare bot protection
So is there any reason not to block any requests on your server if they contain the CF-WORKER header?
xPaw··on I made a site to explore the best UI/UX design tools out there
A website to explore UX tools and the first thing you see when you load the page is a popup asking to take a survey. I haven't even browsed your website yet.
xPaw··on Sega Lawyers Demand “Immediate Suspension” of Steam Database over Alleged Piracy
You are on point.
xPaw··on Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy
That doesn't appear to be accurate in Chrome, in 89 I am getting no-referrer-when-downgrade.

For example, I clicked a link on old reddit and saw the full referer being sent to another origin.

xPaw··on I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
Is HN actually filtering these, or they use utf8 in mysql which is famously not full utf8mb4?
xPaw··on Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
I tried to add a file using Windows file explorer, but it just complains "The Compressed (zipped) Folder is invalid or corrupted."

This is on Windows 10 19042 build.

7-Zip doesn't even see the folders for that matter.

xPaw··on Total Cookie Protection
Does this also break add-ons communicating from other site to another using a background script?
xPaw··on Why Is Esbuild Fast?
I recently switched to using esbuild [0] and certainly is fast for minifying js and even css!

For my site I basically only do minifying for js, and bundling+minifying for css, and it all gets done in 0.2 seconds. Right now the longest time in my deploy process is actually just doing a git fetch (with depth=1).

[0]: https://twitter.com/thexpaw/status/1358124690347339778

xPaw··on Free, Privacy-First Analytics for a Better Web
Referer includes the site you came from, what am I missing?

> Each web site can set its own desired referrer policy

Yes, and it won't be able to tell which site you come from if it's set to no-referer.

xPaw··on Free, Privacy-First Analytics for a Better Web
> If this product is capable of collecting that sort of data in the first place

It's based solely on the http referer, which your browser sends.

xPaw··on The Lounge – Modern web IRC client designed for self-hosting
Latest version has prebuilt images for ARM now :)
xPaw··on The Lounge – Modern web IRC client designed for self-hosting
Well nothing stops you from doing that yourself.
xPaw··on The Lounge – Modern web IRC client designed for self-hosting
I have no interest in that.
xPaw··on The Lounge – Modern web IRC client designed for self-hosting
> You do need an optional database installed if you want conversation history to persist

sqlite installs by default (unless something went wrong), but it's only required to persist between restarts (or leaving and reopening a channel). But just having it running will keep history in memory (up to a limit), so not strictly required to have it work between devices.

xPaw··on The Lounge – Modern web IRC client designed for self-hosting
At some point if you have too little spacing, everything becomes very crowded.

That being said, The Lounge supports themes, and it's trivial to reduce spacing to fit your needs. There's even a box in settings where you can put custom css directly in.

xPaw··on Show HN: Pattern.css – CSS-only library to fill empty background with patterns
Not to mention smooth scroll which takes definitely too much time to scroll for no good reason.
xPaw··on Publish NPM Package with GitHub Actions
How would the workflow run if they specify `on: release: types: [published]`?
xPaw··on WebKit Goals for 2020
Yeah that's a real bummer. Our open source web app [1] supports web push but it doesn't work on Apple's devices because they won't implement it.

The situation on iOS is even worse, because every browser is forced to use Webkit under the hood.

[1]: https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

xPaw··on Leaving irc.perl.org
The Lounge (https://thelounge.chat/) would be a good choice
xPaw··on Absence of certain features in IRC considered a feature
If you have many users/channels, you can tweak `maxHistory`, which controls how many messages are kept in memory per channel for the backlog. That's where most of the memory usage comes from.

https://thelounge.chat/docs/configuration#maxhistory

xPaw··on Stylelint – A modern linter for CSS
That's #rgba where 4th character is the alpha.
xPaw··on Travis CI acquired by Idera
Looks like a lot of people are having troubles with Travis CI in this thread, we do too.

With so many competing CI services out there now, it's kind of hard to keep using Travis. They've added Windows support, which is great, but it's ridiculously slow. (a minute to run on Linux, 14 minutes on Windows). And with these slow downs, you quickly run into parallel build (I believe the limit is 3 builds per user).

xPaw··on Using Slack through an IRC client
v3.0 adds message storage with sqlite, and message search will be built on top of that (there's a proof of concept pull request open with it).
xPaw··on Show HN: Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost
Last time I setup a certificate for localhost, I was unable to get *.localhost to work because wildcard "tld" certificates are rejected by the browser.

I wonder if browsers will allow this to work for localhost?

Here's the script I used to do this last time, just a couple of openssl commands: https://gist.github.com/xPaw/840f378f3fed64806b46211c2287b52...

xPaw··on Advent of Code 2018
It really is a thin font, I've pinged the author on Twitter a couple of days ago.

https://twitter.com/thexpaw/status/1067699713745530883

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