Notices by see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io)

how on earth is "duopolize" a word that is "obsolete" and only was used in the 1600's?

it's the dominant mode of most of modern commerce, industry, politics, that doesn't just happen.

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/duopolize_v?tl=true

I don't really want to reprogram my electric teakettle, but I am curious about one part of its programming: What was the idea behind making its base emit a plaintive beeping cry when the kettle is left off of it for 5 minutes? Poor sad base separated from its child, wanting to warm it back up.

This is how behind I am on everything. After deleting about 6000 other blog posts unread.

I'm pretty behind on everything, but how did I not hear that every major browser let javascript connect to 0.0.0.0, even the ones that tried to block access to localhost and localnets?

I mean, I have code for my own little thing that gets this right. I read an RFC while implementing it of course. Thought that 0.0.0.0 was common knowledge anyway.

what have I done?

(he asks, having planned it out in detail with multiple contingency plans, and succeeded down the best path)

@JetForMe @cinebox not ones implemented in javascript on web pages, but browsers back then could absolutely be configured to ask the user if they wanted to accept a cookie

(there were rather fewer cookies back then so this was sorta feasible)

@mjg59 hahaha I thought you were just shitposting

also I remembered I used to have one of these in production, except it was 5v with the polarity switched and had a barrel jack on the other end. Made it myself.

aha! this appears to control where #paperwm places a new window! Ie to the left or right of the current window, or split the screen with the new window below it.

Which, very weirdly, is probably based on an issue I filed asking for a way to configure that. lol

upgraded gnome and got this handy arrow in the bottom bar that can point left, right, or down, but not up

I do wonder what this thing is for, besides recording my current mental state or something?

The tooltip would presumably tell me, if I had not hacked gnome to move the top bar to the bottom. As it is, the tooltip is mostly below the bottom of the screen.

@jzb @juliaferraioli FOSSY grew a live stream today https://2024.fossy.us/livestream/

the unasked-for transfer of my account from #Vanguard to Some Company, which I never wanted, is off to a great start with 3 emails purporting to be from Some Company, whose headers suggest 2 other companies sent them, and the one with the login link not even using Some Company's domain.

And then after setting a password, login fails.

Good this this is not important...

looks like if your password doesn't meet their arbitrary and capricious requirements, they silently lock the account, rather than rejecting the form submission

perfect. no notes.

Actually, a password that meets those reqirements was still rejected as not. Not even gonna speculate, I used a cat to generate a password they happen to accept.

Stuck on an island because the ferry BSOD. Sweet

type checker just informed me I'd forgotten to include a header in my http response

let's leave aside any reaction to djb and/or the part of the netstrings spec where he gives in an example /* >999999999 bytes is bad */

Like, gigabytes do exist, djb.

happy 4th of july to everyone in the UK btw

pondering installing a Schuko outlet in my #offgrid house

yes, I'm in the US, lol

Time to make #gitAnnex proxy (and cluster) support special remotes. I had not been looking forward to implementing this. And yet, the code... it is writing itself.

after chatting with a helpful local guy, I've embraced the fedex freight outlook

It'll get there when it gets there

the tracking is wrong, it's not where that says it is yet

probably tomorrow

it can sit in a warehouse for half a week until I'm ready to deal with it