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xnaas

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xnaas··on Using HTTP Basic Auth in 2022
Bitwarden has 0 issues 'autofilling' basic auth. It just passes the login credentials on connection and you never see a basic auth prompt.
xnaas··on Caddy Server Is Acquired By Apilayer
I played with Caddy a lot in the v1 days and again recently with v2.1. I ended up not sticking with it since there's things I do with nginx that aren't easy to do with Caddy if you don't have extensive Go knowledge. I am tempted to give it an honest go again, though, and see what I/it can do.

As for Caddy advantages, I think it's really just about having a super easy to manage JSON or Caddyfile. In migrating a few of my nginx configs to Caddyfile, I was able to reduce line counts from dozens to 2-3. That's pretty impressive, tbh.

If you've been using nginx forever and have no issues with it...I don't see any valid reasons to move to Caddy.

xnaas··on Butthole recognition is now here
What a truly remarkable time to be alive.
xnaas··on Apple apologizes for continued reliability problems with its MacBook keyboards
>There are 4 USB-C ports anyway.

Only if you buy any MacBook Pro configuration with the touchbar. If you want normal F-keys, you're limited to 2 ports because "fuck you," I guess.

xnaas··on Meet Q, a Genderless Voice
heh, seems you replied at the same time as me and included a screenshot. Bastard! ;P
xnaas··on Meet Q, a Genderless Voice
You can choose male and female voices for the following accents: American, Australian, British, Irish, and South African. Source: my iPhone.
xnaas··on Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent
Per a buddy who is using said Edgium (Chromium-based Edge): https://i.imgur.com/p6ZMoJY.png
xnaas··on Google Phone app gaining direct-to-voicemail spam filtering, beta test program
Yeah, spam calls have gotten out of hand in the last year or two...really not sure what happened. I try and report as many as I can since I'm in the Do Not Call Registry...I am but one man, though.
xnaas··on Ask HN: What is the maximum traffic a site hosted on GoDaddy shared plan handle?
If you're hosting with GoDaddy, I would highly recommend switching to pretty much any other provider on the planet other than 1and1. GoDaddy is notorious for screwing over users for basically as long as they've been around.

I'm not specifically sure about GoDaddy, but this Quora answer suggests that even the best plans can't handle more than 5,000-7,000 visitors per day: https://www.quora.com/How-much-website-traffic-a-sharing-hos...

xnaas··on Sneak Peek at WebAssembly Studio
Glad to hear! I'll have to check back in on it this weekend. :)
xnaas··on Japan team maps trove of rare earth elements
Here I am, sitting at work, trying to come up with silly ways to pronounce a combination of "semi" and "infinite."

Seminfinite -- sim-infinite -- has a nice ring to it when said quickly.

xnaas··on How slime-crazed kids made gunk a booming business
Some kids find out they like slime. More kids find out they like slime. Lots of kids like slime. Slime sells.

Edit: a word

xnaas··on Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?
>So many of these games are inspired by movies in the first place, and their stories are mostly just cliches based on their source material.

Just Cause 2 was the best "shitty action movie" video game I've ever played!

xnaas··on Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?
On the other side: I know a few games, like TLoU, have tried to go the "movie-esque" route, with mixed success. TLoU was quite successful, but I don't think there have been too many other video games that have done well with the "movie-like" approach.

I think you're right that video games often sacrifice storytelling for gameplay, which I definitely don't mind.

xnaas··on Sneak Peek at WebAssembly Studio
I haven't looked into IPFS in a long while. Is development going well? Has the userbase grown somewhat significantly in the past couple of years?