Notices by Lucas Werkmeister (lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world)

mods are asleep post subtly wrong pride flags

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@ryanc nope, not an april fools joke. you can find the chromium bug on the linked mdn page

fun fact: User-Agent is not a forbidden request header (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Forbidden_request_header); browsers are supposed to let JS code make requests with custom User-Agent headers, and indeed Firefox (Gecko) and GNOME Web aka Epiphany (WebkitGTK) both permit this. but because Google Chrome blatantly violates the spec and has a dominant market position, everyone has to perpetually act as if setting the User-Agent request header is not possible

Good morning! On this first Tuesday in February, you are all invited to read through Wikipedia’s List of common misconceptions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions) per ancient xkcd custom.

#xkcd #xkcd843 #misconceptions #Wikipedia

The Improv Comic Who Became A Unix Programmer: A Cautionary Tale

I haven’t looked at the explain xkcd for https://xkcd.com/2994/ yet but I suspect it needs two entirely separate explanations for two distinct sets of people :D

oh my GOD look at the file description of the photo on the cybertruck article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Cybertruck), which gets shown in the media viewer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Cybertruck#/media/File:2024_Tesla_Cybertruck_Foundation_Series,_front_left_(Greenwich).jpg)

amazing

@mansr I think the only case where swap is really pointless is if you just have too much RAM.

Say Firefox allocates a couple hundred megs of memory for JS sources and metadata about JIT compilation (deoptimization info etc.). Unless the website behaves very unexpectedly, that memory is never going to get accessed again.

What would you rather have in RAM – that, or libxul.so?

and if you think swap is pointless on modern systems, I recommend reading https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html, it’s really good (and starts with a tl;dr :P)

by the way, a Linux lesson that I’m only slowly learning: if you want to have a swap partition (rather than a swap file), for the love of god put it *at the end* of the disk, *after* the file systems

resizing file systems isn’t fun already, but it’s way easier than moving them, so if you change your mind about your file system / swap size, it’s much easier if you don’t have to move the beginning of the file system partition(s)

ze table has been commandeered

#Wikimania #Wikimania2024

wie viel Lack haben die beim BBK eigentlich gesoffen, dass man Katastrophenwarnungen ohne JavaScript nicht sehen kann?!

@brooke I will never not post this

Good morning! It’s the first Tuesday in February, and so you’re all invited to look through Wikipedia’s List of common misconceptions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions) per xkcd custom.

@thomasfuchs I’m so confused by that first text

who the hell is *Carl* Zuse, and what’s he supposed to be doing in England?

what are the three instances supposed to be, when only the United States and England were listed? is it supposed to be ENIAC, Bombe, Z3, but Alan Turing got merged with Konrad Zuse somehow?

why is this section of the interview so much shorter in the linked PDF (https://web.archive.org/web/20211020234153/http://tech.mit.edu/V105/PDF/V105-N16.pdf)?

what?

@thomasfuchs (sorry to barge into your replies like this… you’re not obliged to answer of course, but I’m very confused and had to leave it somewhere 😅)

@harmonia_amanda we have to fix that

@brion if civilization is so good how come they never invented civilization 2

did you know there’s a wikipedia article for Spiders Georg? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiders_Georg