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

@ayo that's... surprising

any idea what's going on?

@izaya unfortunately it's for US election, not Australian election :/

@izaya

@drewdevault
> beta 1.7.3

that was a fine vintage

@mikoto oof...

sounds like a game where teamwork is very important - I too would probably prefer to play those with friends

@mikoto I'm guessing different players have different expectations (and hence having different servers would be better instead of a one-size-fits-all matchmaking) but in my case, I don't mind getting destroyed by better players... as long as (a) I know they really are that good and it's humanly possible to do what they did, and (b) it's the same people over and over again, so I can see if I'm getting better.

@algernon no, I mean on a higher level.

Chunked encoding is one of the ways to drliver a response incrementally.

The browser makes several types of http requests that are not initiated by JS - requests for img src, for stylesheets, for the html document itself, etc.

Which of those accidentally support incremental responses, and who was the first to abuse it as a way to send server-initiated content changes?

I vaguely remember there was a cool hack with some part of a website being served by a server that just never signals end of file, and adds new content to it in a streaming fashion... in a way that the web browser isn't aware of but it still happens to work... doea anyone remember what that was?

@feld @pony
tbh seems too big and appliance-y for my taste... kinda like InfluxDB... I'll keep it in mind, might give it a try later

@pony
- makes my computer slow if I open 20 tabs of it
- has some stupid limit on temporal resolution
- some other edge cases I forgot about
- in principle, I don't like when there is only one piece of software doing a $thing

And yeah datadog is probably not what I want.

@izaya tbh I don't know which is worse:
- Mozilla being arrogant and thinking it knows what's best better than the user
- Mozilla forgetting they have a customization framework and adding a hardcoded $thing, where every other $thing that already existed in the browser was user-configurable

@pj @kline @lanodan @nytpu
tbh I think an sh replacement doesn't need to be a good interactive shell - we have plenty of those.

And in that area, there's execline[1] and while it has some good primitives for manipulating process state, I don't think it'd be a good fit for more high-level uses of shell.

[1]: https://skarnet.org/software/execline/

@lanodan @pj @kline @nytpu
also, tools to sync mirrors probably aren't as widely used as the distro itself, so I'd say it's fine if they have more dependencies (that are also packaged by the distro)

@pj @kline @lanodan @nytpu default shell soesn't matter, all that matters is that it's installed everywhere and has a consistent path. If you have a one #!/usr/bin/perl script in a #!/bin/sh world thay would work fine.

Question is, do your scripts that mostly invoke other programs become more maintainable and less error-prone after you rewrite them in Perl

@lanodan @kline @nytpu i think we need a new language

1. spend time making an unhinged TRON-like gtk2 theme that looks sick but makes your eyes hurt

2. notice how your eyes got used to it, and now it only looks sick

3. run pacman -Syu

4. the world moves on

5. nothing uses gtk2 anymore except hexchat

:blobsad:

@domi sounds like a unique opportunity to test Alpine's bootstrapping capability :P

@mikoto
- irc
- phpBB
- Thinkpad Power Bridge
- T9 keyboards
- small phones
- dual GPU rendering
- 5.25" bays
- data-dense UI
- netbooks
- laptop docks that connect from the bottom, with a very large and springy release button

@lanodan @piggo @eal wait so if I'm autistic, my body naturally produces thw vaccine?

@ignaloidas you have all the clue you need :D