💭 Random Thoughts

╒═════╣▒ 09/21/2020 @21:36 ▒╟──────────┘

Wait, people care about «Bethesda[1]» still? Have they made anything good since Skyrim in 2011?

╒═════╣▒ 09/21/2020 @17:48 ▒╟──────────┘

I was going to embed this here but the code to do that is almost 7200 characters log because social media engineers are pretty much universally bad at their jobs. Anyway, «I agree with @chris.randall[1]».

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╒═════╣▒ 09/21/2020 @16:37 ▒╟──────────┘

One of the things that I love about old equipment is that gear used to be built with serviceability in mind. This Onkyo tuner has a single sided PCB with the track layout silk screened on the top so it can be troubleshot without disassembly. That is how you know they cared.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/20/2020 @16:46 ▒╟──────────┘

I can think of much worse ways to spend my birthday weekend...

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╒═════╣▒ 09/19/2020 @20:43 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @22:37 ▒╟──────────┘

So, I know this isn't new but can we get a way to turn this iOS Podcasts.app downloading pause "feature" off? I bought the extra storage for a reason, so like, keep downloading.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @19:23 ▒╟──────────┘

Can you hide the new iOS App Library screen? No, of course not. Why would you want that? We only give you features you want here at Apple. 🙄

╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @18:39 ▒╟──────────┘

The home control bug is still there at least. «Previously[1]», «previously[2]», «previously[3]».

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╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @18:31 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh hey, iOS 14 is here and I'm glad the new Music icon was 2.4GB and required a reboot.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @10:23 ▒╟──────────┘

Instead of sleeping last night I stumbled down a rabbit hole by the name of Kevlin Henney. «1968[1]», «Agility ≠ Speed[2]», «The Forgotten Art of Structured Programming[3]».

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╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @10:08 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://inessential.com/2020/07/28/untrue[1]» is a good walk through some of the BS I keep seeing about the Apple App Store ecosystem.

╒═════╣▒ 09/15/2020 @12:15 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't know why I made «this[1]», but it sure amuses me.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/12/2020 @13:11 ▒╟──────────┘

«I never thought I'd see the Lockpicking Lawyer call a lock unpickable...[1]» of course it ended up being German.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/11/2020 @10:51 ▒╟──────────┘

Having run my own e-mail infrastructure for at least 15 years this strikes close to my heart. «https://battlepenguin.com/tech/how-google-and-microsoft-made-email-unreliable/[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 09/10/2020 @22:16 ▒╟──────────┘

I am glad I didn't follow the iFixit instructions for replacing the battery on my A1398 MacBook Pro. It was a lot easier than they made it out to be. Now I do not have to buy a new laptop for several more years! 😁 #RightToRepair

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╒═════╣▒ 09/10/2020 @22:03 ▒╟──────────┘

«Do not buy this asshole's book[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 09/10/2020 @20:46 ▒╟──────────┘

In case you were wondering what the Sturgis Motorcycle rally cost...«http://ftp.iza.org/dp13670.pdf[1]»

New «@SDSUCHEPS[2]» paper by Dhaval Dave «@FriedsonAndrew[3]» «@Drew_McNichols[4]» & Joe Sabia ("Contagion Externality of Super-spreader") finds Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was a local & nationwide spreader of COVID-19. Estimated public health cost: ~$12B See: «https://t.co/uByz9ja6hL[5]» «pic.twitter.com/jdLlLkwRek[6]»— CHEPS (@SDSUCHEPS) «September 6, 2020[7]»

╒═════╣▒ 09/10/2020 @19:38 ▒╟──────────┘

We used to joke that most startups' plan to grow to operate at scale was to get acquired by Google. The reality seems that the real endgame is to be acquired by Google then killed off. «https://killedbygoogle.com[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 09/10/2020 @17:25 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/09/07/americans-need-to-take-more-personal-responsibility/[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 09/09/2020 @22:59 ▒╟──────────┘

If for some reason you're still reading hackernews, might I suggest instead you use the annotated digest version at «http://n-gate.com[1]» which I think you will find significantly better (if for no other reason than the comments are omitted).

╒═════╣▒ 09/09/2020 @21:29 ▒╟──────────┘

Hm, so I've had «Little Brother[1]» in my Amazon wishlist for years now so instead I decided to get it and the two sequels all at once «on Kickstarter[2]». 🧐 Bonus points for not sending any of the money to Amazon.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/09/2020 @20:15 ▒╟──────────┘

The key takeaway for everyone should be the last sentence: «"The next time you pick up your phone, or tablet, or laptop, ask yourself if the experience is ‘enriching’, or just ‘engaging’, and take a moment to consider just putting the device down."[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 09/05/2020 @18:55 ▒╟──────────┘

Whoever it was at IMDB that decided to whine about their app in an interstitial should be fired publicly as a warning to others who think this might be a good idea.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/03/2020 @11:39 ▒╟──────────┘

I love how the JavaScript frontend ecosystem continually seems to forget the last 60 years of computer history.

«https://blog.cloudflare.com/rendering-react-on-the-edge-with-flareact-and-cloudflare-workers/[1]»

The answer is never *stop building websites with piles of JavaScript*, no the answer is another JavaScript library. Because ad-laden, opinion filled, listicles need access to a Turing complete system on every view. 🙄

╒═════╣▒ 09/02/2020 @10:58 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/BlameAndWorksOnMyLaptop[1]»

August

╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2020 @16:41 ▒╟──────────┘

As a follow on to my blog post on «Epic v. Apple[1]» we have a look at the instant motion for a temporary restraining order thanks to our favorite copyright attorney Leonard French «https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p9zDPkbqyc[2]». I would love to see an anti-trust ruling eventually but I really don't see how it gets done and frankly it's still painful to watch a multi-billion dollar company throw a temper tantrum at a multi-trillion dollar company because it's not making enough money. 🙄

╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2020 @15:03 ▒╟──────────┘

Funny how common sense gets lost as new things get normalized into infrastructure.

«https://yeahiwasintheshit.tumblr.com/post/627524104462991360/sugdenlovesdingle-i-grew-up-in-the-90s-when[1]»

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╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2020 @14:51 ▒╟──────────┘

This pretty reasonably articulates things that have been low-key rattling through my head for a while now that I have not been able to effectively articulate. Fixing so many of the ills we experience at the hands of capitalism seems so difficult and unattainable without bespoke solutions for each problem. The reality turns out to be that a lot of it is likely fallout from monopolistic, oligarchic, and generally corrupt actors, and as such we actually do have tools to combat them. «https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/627523017255370752/surveillance-capitalism-is-just-capitalism-plus[1]»

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╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2020 @10:02 ▒╟──────────┘

Duncan v. Becerra - California's "Large Capacity Magazine" ban decision (read by Leonard French) «https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8v-Eu0nCzM[1]». (Full opinion read «here[2]»)

╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2020 @09:36 ▒╟──────────┘

“It is a fairly specific workflow that is a challenge for some newer developers to engage with. As an example, my partner submitted a patch to OpenBSD a few weeks ago, and he had to set up an entirely new mail client which didn’t mangle his email message to HTML-ise or do other things to it, so he could even make that one patch. That’s a barrier to entry that’s pretty high for somebody who may want to be a first-time contributor.”

«https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/[1]»

I'm skeptical of the quality of a developer that cannot install and configure an e-mail client so perhaps the barrier to entry is in fact useful. Operating system development is difficult and nuanced and has very real risks if you do it wrong. The infamous Apple «"goto fail;"[2]» comes to mind.

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╒═════╣▒ 08/25/2020 @14:11 ▒╟──────────┘

«The date is now Tuesday, March 178th, 2020.[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 08/25/2020 @13:12 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/arkham-board-of-health-feedback-on-miskatonic-universitys-draft-plan-for-a-safe-campus-reopening[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 08/25/2020 @13:11 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/web-browsing-histories-are-private-personal-data-now-what/[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 08/24/2020 @13:11 ▒╟──────────┘

My MacBook Pro has thrown the 'Service Battery' alert recently so I pulled the bottom off to check the battery part number to order a replacement. When I bought the MacBook Pro I checked to verify it wasn't subject to the inflating/exploding battery recall and Apple's website said I was either not effected or the battery was already replaced. Sure looks like that was the case, eh? Welp, good thing I have a replacement on the way.

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╒═════╣▒ 08/23/2020 @19:48 ▒╟──────────┘

Ok, so... I laughed out loud several times in the first few minutes of reading... an opinion... from an Ontario court... over a traffic infraction. They should teach this case in high school to encourage people to learn more about the law. «https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7haZ3ekuSg[1]». No kidding, literally laughing. 😂

╒═════╣▒ 08/21/2020 @20:27 ▒╟──────────┘

Quality content. «https://www.tiktok.com/@streetmagiciandude[1]»

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╒═════╣▒ 08/21/2020 @20:19 ▒╟──────────┘

Honestly, I think stuff like this happens when any piece of the ecosystem hits the `defacto standard` / `near monopoly` status. Seemingly reasonably and useful pieces of code turn into dangerous misfeatures.

«https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/[1]»

Of course you can also point out that the real root cause of this is the NXDomain hijacking by ISPs that everyone smart said would come back to bite us in the ass in fact biting us on the ass.

╒═════╣▒ 08/20/2020 @16:26 ▒╟──────────┘

Today's jam: «https://timecop1983.bandcamp.com/album/night-drive[1]»

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╒═════╣▒ 08/18/2020 @15:57 ▒╟──────────┘

If my ~10 years of experience at an ISP taught me anything, «this[1]» is *extremely* optimistic.

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╒═════╣▒ 08/16/2020 @13:51 ▒╟──────────┘

*snort*

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╒═════╣▒ 08/14/2020 @19:29 ▒╟──────────┘

The fact that I have not felt able to write a truly spleen-venting rant about how awful «Electron[1]» is (it is a vile construct) and how you should be ashamed for using it (you should be) is testament to how mind wrenchingly terrible it is to develop software using the native tools. Microsoft and Apple should be truly ashamed of themselves.

╒═════╣▒ 08/11/2020 @09:27 ▒╟──────────┘

The WSJ article is behind the paywall but Bruce Schneier has a «synopsis[1]». The tl;dr is basically 'another company caught hiding data collection in their API is selling your data everywhere.' This is why I don't install mobile apps. You have to trust not only the app vendor but every single library they use all the way down to the OS SDK. Good luck with that.

╒═════╣▒ 08/11/2020 @09:14 ▒╟──────────┘

A statement from [Brand]® «pic.twitter.com/XT9tXF9hvz[1]»— Chris Franklin (@Campster) «May 31, 2020[2]»

This behavior is up there with millionaires begging me to donate money to their charities in the continuum of 'tone deaf horse shit'.

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╒═════╣▒ 08/09/2020 @10:04 ▒╟──────────┘

Hey, I have an idea. Instead of displaying a modal dialog box you open news urls in Safari like normal people? Deleting the app is a pretty strong indicator that I don't want it.

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╒═════╣▒ 08/09/2020 @00:09 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/27/opinion/republicans-demographic-trap/[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 08/08/2020 @18:22 ▒╟──────────┘

Dan Rather throwing shade on Twitter? Yeah, must be 2020 still. «https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/625904233892429824/vbartilucci-sirfrogsworth-dan-rather-a-stoic[1]»

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╒═════╣▒ 08/06/2020 @17:34 ▒╟──────────┘

I feel like this list is missing something...

«https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/08/doom-scroll/[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 08/06/2020 @17:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Well this is a new low in app design. Just deleted the SiriusXM app from my AppleTV because there is no obvious way to stop it from playing. Even quitting back to the home screen doesn't seem to shut it up. Nice.

╒═════╣▒ 08/06/2020 @15:58 ▒╟──────────┘

I can't help but wonder if he ever got his data... I also can't help but wonder if we'll have meaningful privacy legislation in my lifetime. «https://www.wired.com/story/one-mans-obsessive-fight-to-reclaim-his-cambridge-analytica-data/[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 08/03/2020 @17:21 ▒╟──────────┘

Man, I forgot how amateur hour Nintendo's networking is. I love that they think it's totally reasonable to forward every single UDP port to your Nintendo device. Because no one plays any games on anything other than their Nintendo Switch that uses UDP... («Nintendo Support Article[1]»)

╒═════╣▒ 08/02/2020 @19:28 ▒╟──────────┘

In today's garbage fire tech-bro fueled own nothing culture, billionaire continues to screw people who actually make things. «via jwz[1]»

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╒═════╣▒ 08/01/2020 @20:48 ▒╟──────────┘

The US Post Office is a really important part of the machinery of the country and we really should be protecting it instead of putting it through a meat grinder so it seems like a good idea to privatize it. Privatizing parts of the government only leads to taxpayers getting leas for their money, and private industry being funded by taxpayers.

«https://dynamoe.tumblr.com/post/625263393907113984/saveusps[1]»

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July

╒═════╣▒ 07/28/2020 @14:19 ▒╟──────────┘

Remember the days when web sites provided you with RSS feeds? I miss those days. Those days would have saved me over 2000 lines of Python.

╒═════╣▒ 07/28/2020 @14:08 ▒╟──────────┘

Well shit, now I want a pond in my back yard even more than before... (also, lord these listicle sites are smoking garbage fires of attribution. Google image search returns about a million imgur and giphy links and nothing that looks like an original source...)

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╒═════╣▒ 07/28/2020 @14:02 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't know why I keep going round and round trying to make my iOS devices better at creating things than they are, it never works. I should put a sticker on my phone and tablet that says 'For Consumption Only'.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/26/2020 @16:15 ▒╟──────────┘

So a bit ago «tedu[1]» shared a blog post that caught my eye. It was about «writing a network protocol client using Swift and Network.framework[2]» and while that in itself was interesting the bit that dragged me down a rabbit hole was this talk of a «Gemini[3]» protocol.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/17/2020 @21:33 ▒╟──────────┘

Once again a reminder that consolidation of resources on the Internet is not only asking for failures of all kinds but is in fact antithetical to the design principals of the network. «Cloudflare Outage on July 17 2020[1]»

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╒═════╣▒ 07/17/2020 @10:25 ▒╟──────────┘

Specifically, twitter seems to have, along its way from being a crappo SXSW chatroom, perfected an algorithm where you go 'I really don't think we should shred nuns' and Twitter will do its absolute friggin' best to find @TheNunShredder⚔️ and make sure he comes crashing in.— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «July 17, 2020[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 07/14/2020 @22:01 ▒╟──────────┘

I spent a good amount of time today writing a new scraper for one of my RSS feed generators. Watching log files during that reminded me how much of the Internet is just machines howling at other machines in the interminable darkness.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/10/2020 @21:06 ▒╟──────────┘

Can we all just agree that Silicon Valley turned into a «horror show[1]» a while ago?

╒═════╣▒ 07/08/2020 @22:16 ▒╟──────────┘

Is it just me or is finding anything in any of the Apple storefronts an exercise in futility? I swear, the *smarter* they claim they make this crap the more frustrating it is to actually use.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/03/2020 @09:22 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/opinion/private-equity-inequality.html[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 07/02/2020 @16:56 ▒╟──────────┘

I've been thinking about this a lot recently for obvious reasons and this is a pretty succinct essay that sums up my thoughts. «https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/07/the_security_va.html[1]» I'd only add the warning that the consolidation of carriers and the general reality of the 'big four' Internet companies has started to erode the resiliency that was inherent in the Internet of the last decade - and we should look at that as bad a trend as what has happened, well, everywhere else.

June

╒═════╣▒ 06/30/2020 @09:17 ▒╟──────────┘

One of the things that I think the video in my «previous Thought[1]» shows, perhaps unintentionally is how much time a computer has to dedicate to simply interact with humans. I'll try not to take printf(3) with %d for granted in the future.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/29/2020 @23:02 ▒╟──────────┘

If you have not been watching any of «Ben Eater's[1]» videos on computers you are missing out. In his «latest[2]» he answers the question, binary to decimal -- how hard can that be?

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╒═════╣▒ 06/29/2020 @12:49 ▒╟──────────┘

The 'designers' at YouTube continue to amaze me at how bad they are at their jobs...

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╒═════╣▒ 06/24/2020 @16:09 ▒╟──────────┘

Today's feels...

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╒═════╣▒ 06/23/2020 @20:27 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 06/23/2020 @16:06 ▒╟──────────┘

Just pushed a new container, it uses nginx to transform a RTMP stream off of a camera watching my bird feeder into a HLS stream so I can publish it to the web. Yep. That's a thing I just did.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/14/2020 @23:15 ▒╟──────────┘

So in today's iOS is still trash news, 13.5.1 still will not register scroll inputs while it is fading in the highlight during multi-select in a ListView. Makes deleting and filing messages really awesome in Mail.app, nothing like adding a 200ms delay in the tap tap scroll tap tap scroll dance.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/12/2020 @23:59 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Ckb_Qa8Qw[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 06/07/2020 @12:32 ▒╟──────────┘

I love this kind of stuff: «Recovering the Lost Apollo 10 LM Software[1]». If you didn't see the Apollo Guidance Computer restoration series, «you should watch it[2]».

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╒═════╣▒ 06/06/2020 @13:09 ▒╟──────────┘

Finally got around to playing the Tomb Raider reboot, it was enjoyable and it looks pretty great in 2k on a GTX 1080.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/02/2020 @13:53 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/06/everyone-at-facebook-is-qwhite-complicit/[1]»

May

╒═════╣▒ 05/29/2020 @15:56 ▒╟──────────┘

I wonder how many different variations on «this script[1]» I have written over the years. I gotta believe at least 20.

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╒═════╣▒ 05/28/2020 @08:43 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://xkcd.com/2312/[1]» mbmbam is a pretty good unit of measure if you ask me.

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╒═════╣▒ 05/23/2020 @23:05 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/05/22/[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 05/20/2020 @21:20 ▒╟──────────┘

So TIL that my hatred of the iPadOS dock means most of the multitasking stuff is useless to me. «https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207582[1]».

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╒═════╣▒ 05/19/2020 @10:52 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/05/pizza-arbitrage/[1]»

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╒═════╣▒ 05/18/2020 @08:54 ▒╟──────────┘

«http://www.righto.com/2020/05/extracting-rom-constants-from-8087-math.html[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 05/15/2020 @17:57 ▒╟──────────┘

Turning on an availability monitor in Azure Application Insights has eliminated the cold start penalty and drastically reduced my HTTP triggered function execution time. I should still be well within the free usage allotment for the Pay-As-You-Go tier as well. Bonus.

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╒═════╣▒ 05/15/2020 @11:55 ▒╟──────────┘

Worth a read. «https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 05/15/2020 @10:10 ▒╟──────────┘

tl;dr: monopolies are stupid and make short sighted decisions.

«https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/frontiers-bankruptcy-reveals-cynical-choice-deny-profitable-fiber-millions[1]»

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╒═════╣▒ 05/12/2020 @22:25 ▒╟──────────┘

Spent an hour figuring out the hard way that SERVER_PROTOCOL is not available when ProxyPass is processed for some reason (surely Apache knows the HTTP version of the incoming request it is about to proxy) so instead of committing an act of barbarism against my config to work around this with mod_rewrite I yanked my app out of the container and put it back under mod_wsgi. Simpler is often better.

╒═════╣▒ 05/12/2020 @11:38 ▒╟──────────┘

The latest «Last Week Tonight[1]» on the USPS is not only hilarious and informative as usual, but come on, who doesn't want an "«AND NOW...A STAMP[2]»" stamp.

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╒═════╣▒ 05/06/2020 @22:54 ▒╟──────────┘

I know that Mercury is an «insane hellscape[1]», but if you squint all sciency like it looks «really pretty[2]».

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╒═════╣▒ 05/06/2020 @21:49 ▒╟──────────┘

Remember when looking at the logs of your own system was as easy as grep *something* /var/log/* and not *log show --last 1h --style syslog --debug --predicate 'senderImagePath == "/System/Library/Extensions/Sandbox.kext/Contents/MacOS/Sandbox"'*. Man those days were *awful* weren't they?

╒═════╣▒ 05/05/2020 @22:36 ▒╟──────────┘

Why yes. I did have tacos today. Thanks for asking.

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╒═════╣▒ 05/02/2020 @17:57 ▒╟──────────┘

Honestly, my browser tabs are often a bit weird but I think I am turning some kind of corner here.

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╒═════╣▒ 05/02/2020 @17:13 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52504130/captain-tom-cockpit-view-of-raf-flypast-in-marston-moretaine[1]» I have always wanted to fly a Spitfire.

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╒═════╣▒ 05/01/2020 @21:56 ▒╟──────────┘

«This is an amazing story.[1]»

April

╒═════╣▒ 04/28/2020 @22:43 ▒╟──────────┘

«This[1]». So much this. If you made a website do these things be ashamed.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/28/2020 @21:30 ▒╟──────────┘

And sometimes people ask my why I don't like using random libraries off the Internet... «This is why[1]».

╒═════╣▒ 04/28/2020 @20:07 ▒╟──────────┘

I think I found a picture of the first piece of hardware that I built and hooked up to the Internet... Can you believe there was a time when people would just expose binaries with write-access to their parallel port to the world?

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╒═════╣▒ 04/27/2020 @15:15 ▒╟──────────┘

No. Autoplay is disabled for a reason. This modal overlay is bad design. Respect your users' choices instead of interrupting them to whine.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/26/2020 @18:50 ▒╟──────────┘

It's probably a decent time to mention that hey, if there are people out there that make things that you think are cool and get enjoyment out of, this would be the time to support them if you can. Personally I've been plowing through «my favorite podcasts[1]» so I sent some money their way.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/25/2020 @21:24 ▒╟──────────┘

I was only marginally into USENET (having not had an Internet connection until the late 1990s but I was very much into Fidonet -- a similar construction created later for the BBS world), but this is still a «fascinating read[1]».

╒═════╣▒ 04/25/2020 @19:54 ▒╟──────────┘

There is something beautiful about «this[1]».

╒═════╣▒ 04/25/2020 @16:03 ▒╟──────────┘

Front lawn de-thatched, mowed, and fertilized. It almost feels like spring.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/24/2020 @13:11 ▒╟──────────┘

On today's episode of things I didn't realize I would be glad to know how to do... building a bespoke null modem RS-232 cable.

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Pirate History Podcast [1]

╒═════╣▒ 04/24/2020 @09:39 ▒╟──────────┘

For more of your stay at home listening pleasure, Matt over at «https://piratehistorypodcast.com[1]» not only kills it every week with historically spiced pirate content but he is now lending his dulcet voice to the delight that is Treasure Island in between episodes.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/22/2020 @08:55 ▒╟──────────┘

I think I might be working too hard to get a picture for a blog post...

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╒═════╣▒ 04/21/2020 @19:08 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't know why but «Carl Sagan flying through space[1]» *never* gets old it seems.

╒═════╣▒ 04/19/2020 @22:59 ▒╟──────────┘

I love that «this[1]» and «this[2]» are both only 256 bytes. That means that *half a sector* of a traditional hard drive holding either of these files would be *empty*!

╒═════╣▒ 04/18/2020 @11:50 ▒╟──────────┘

Music I have been staying at home to: «SomaFM[1]», «Big Sonic Heaven[2]», and «DNA Pizza's[3]» massive collection of music videos with a «request feature[4]»!

╒═════╣▒ 04/17/2020 @14:51 ▒╟──────────┘

Hey Apple, it would be nice if your security updates would stop clobbering files that I modified. Yes indeed I do want to use automount in 2020.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/11/2020 @22:45 ▒╟──────────┘

«This is 100% my shit.[1]»

╒═════╣▒ 04/11/2020 @09:57 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't hate the crafting aspect of «Animal Crossing New Horizons[1]» as much as I thought I would but seriously, can we please get rid of tool durability?

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╒═════╣▒ 04/11/2020 @09:51 ▒╟──────────┘

Once again, for the second time.

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