Notices by vriesk (Jan Srz) (vriesk@hachyderm.io)

@akareilly Back in the days, some window managers (like `awesome`) could be scripted (and some scripts were readily available to download) to make an (almost) mouseless experience.

But that was 15 years ago last time I checked, and then they got harder and harder to integrate to the everbloating GNOME/KDE ecosystem.

How is it now these days?

@project1enigma @akareilly No, sure, that's totally different aspect. Of that, I have no idea.

@thomasfuchs @CMDR_Royal_Mons And yet, we're definitely missing South Korea. They would be such an awesome fit.

@0xabad1dea but, have you seen timestamps (expressed as seconds since the Epoch) declared as a 32-bit float?

Because I did. In production code. In a BIG company.

The result was a ~2-minute precision of said timestamps, which triggered interesting bugs elsewhere.

@feld @RandomDamage @mathaetaes early 2000s in my case. Worked at a hosting provider with around 7k individual websites hosted (around half being e-commerces), and I remember spending a week polishing a "petition" to RIPE to grant us some IPs and the screams of joy when we received a /24 share (from /21 or /22 requested, don't recall now) up from the /27 range we were squeezing in previously.

@feld @RandomDamage @mathaetaes "IPs weren't that hard to come by" is a strange way to say "I haven't worked for a non-US hosting provider".

@mathaetaes @feld @RandomDamage also, multi-hosting (multiple web services hosted on the same IP/port) didn't work with SSL at all, each SSL-enabled service required their own dedicated public IP.

(multiple certs on the same IP require SNI which was only fully included in OpenSSL 0.9.8j in 2009)