Notices by Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io), page 2

tfw. you have an 8-port ethernet switch with many blinky lights, and you want to see them all blink, but you have no usecase for plugging in 8 devices into one switch :(

@Suiseiseki
oh, also, the URL should be stable, so that if you go through your password manager, changing passwords on all websites you have a password on, but you haven't visited for 5 years

@Suiseiseki
Yeah and no captcha so that you can call it with curl in a loop.
And without requiring cookies, just send the old password and the new password.

How many proprietary websites do you think satisfy that criteria?

Imagine if there was a standardized API to change your login credentials on any website.

1. I spent a lot of money implementing a thing
2. If nobody ends up using it then I'm a fool
3. Therefore, I will pay people to use my thing, so that I don't look like a fool

@whitequark
@filippo
IMO the messaging around passkeys gives off very strong vendor lock-in vibes.

@simontatham so you're saying that by not checking the ssh host key, we're funelling attackers into a single place where they can be easily shot at from multiple directions and killed?

@ellyqw
(for reminding you of not having friends)

Hmm yeah circa 2008 that makes sense, especially if it was just music and not games (a single game would often use most of the 700MB you could fit on a CD).

@ellyqw for me, back in ~2004, the only internet I had was my dad's BlueConnect data-capped to 500MB, which he'd take to work with him.

And I was mostly intersted in games instead of music.

So if a classmate had a game I wanted to play, there was the crucial question:
"chodzi bez płytki?"

If yes, then I'd borrow the CD, install the game, and return the CD.

If not, I'd have to buy a blank CD, we'd both go to a friend who has a CD burner and copy the CD while being careful not to bump the PC

cursed idea: DBus site bus.

One per a collection of LANs administered by the same person within one location.

So you can use MPRIS2 to control your TV.

@lanodan

@domi you might be onto something that a good hack violates the rules just enough to achieve the goal, while an ugly hack completely disregards the rules

@lanodan
@domi
IMO a large part of hacks are hacks because they punch through layers of abstraction, violating invariants and API contracts, and exploiting knowledge about the current implementation to achieve the desired goal.

All hacks are difficult to maintain (otherwise they wouldn't ve hacks).

What makes a hack good... sth about little code, a lot of effect, and ratio of cleverness to maintenance burden... I'll think about it.

@BrodieOnLinux AFAIU, the "K" is only allowed to replace "C", so maybe they couldn't find a state of matter that starts with "C", and had to settle for Plasma.

Finding an aquatic mammal whose namestarts with "C" is pretty hard too :/

@BrodieOnLinux AFAIK postmarketOS does not use HALium tho?
They're adding board support for phones to the mainline kernel and upstreaming those changes.

There are still firmware blobs tho, and if FSF could sponsor reverse-engineering one that's needed by both LineageOS and pmOS that'd be great IMO

@algernon
--default-bind

@algernon
my point is, changing defaults deoendng on whether in container or not can easily catch someone off-guard or lead them down a 10 hour rabbit hole of trying to find out why the the same config leads to two different results

@spook
> think of voltage like pressure in a water pipe

thanks, finally I understood how water works

I should learn perl...

@bagder
couldn't you just temporarly set the locale to POSIX, do the comparison, and then set it ba... oh, wait, threads exist and libc's locale is a global per-process state :(

@nivrig
what's next

> MS teams
> uses all resources available due to a bug that was later fixed

> 16GB RAM with 50 tabs now normal in Chrome
> linked article says 2GB with 20 tabs
> no mention of what kind of websites are loaded in those tabs

> Discord
> 32GB leaked in 60s =~ 512MB/s
> no fix yet

ok finally a number, and it is quite big

> Spotify
> uses all available memory, no timeframe specified
> no fix yet

so 1/5 examples has quantitative data