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Then TLS, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 enter the chat, and now you can’t just send a request.

Secure for whom?

Necessary, but not sufficient. Sometimes you want to block certain URLs and not whole domains.

In some jurisdictions, it depends. You may film “a street”, and people go into and out of the frame all the time, and it’s okay. But if you take a random passerby and make them the focus of your recording, you may run into problems.

I’m actually glad they say the quiet part out loud. Leaves no room for doubt about their nature.

You should trademark Metaslop™!

The discussions around this have devolved to excrement anyway, I feel tempted to invoke the meme where the goose asking a guy what his jacket is made of, asks “where is your reproducer case!?” instead.

Instead we have a shitstorm over presumably legit issue, for which the only source is some mastodon post.

One command that used to work in 3.4.1 and stopped working in 3.4.3. Just one! We could have already bisected the living shit out of this and go home, but no.

I hope some record of us stays so whoever comes next would be able to learn from our stupidity.

Yeah, and eternal shame is all we deserve.

The number of electrons involved in the so-called consciousness, compared to the number of electrons in the universe not involved in it, is so small that they are a mere temporary statistical aberration.

Yeah, I'm a man of culture like this. However, systemd with its service dependencies runs circles around launchd in pretty much every aspect.

/me cowers in fear

Since systemd is successfully parsing its INI files, and barks at you when you put weird shit into them, a grammar for them does exist as well.

XML is that wonderful format that gave us vulnerabilities like death by million laughs, up to a certain moment, you could MitM DTDs, and a whole slew of everything-XML stuff back when XML was like AI is today, none of which I miss today.

Oh, and remember times when programmers would argue whether argument order in XML files should be significant or not?

But XML books with their idealized XML future description did give me the same warm fuzzies as some intricate clockwork mechanism to a Victorian geek.

Could have been worse.

Could have been YAML.

Could have been XML.

Many people swear by Unicomp, but I had that bad luck that I first paid for the thing, got the thing, and then read that as of recently, there had been problems. Problems with quality, problems with output. Then they went so quiet people thought they had gone out of business, then they resurfaced. By that time, I've had an original Model M and two different OG Model Fs. When I buy old stuff from eBay, at least I have my expectations calibrated to the fact that this shit is real old.

Your unit must have been a couple years older than mine, so it just might be of that more legendary quality. Yours is from at least 2008, right? You may even had got it before markets went bonkers!

I don't want to have high friction from having to copy files to my host then back. I also don't want to experience latency from editing remotely. Thus, this.

My Endura Pro started having issues three months in after arriving to me in 2013; I remember how it was $99 and shipping was $98, and then I had to pay VAT on it.

It died quite quickly after and become parts donor for old IBM Model Ms I bought out from people’s attics. It was a wonderfully repair-unfriendly thing, too.

Mine is now at customs. Wondering how fucked it’s going to arrive. But I guess I like pain.

The 104-key model F I’ve got has a dead spring in numpad delete, and I can’t carve out enough time to disassemble and fix it. Mind you, I did disassemble, put in DIY foam, and reassemble a Model F XT, so I’m not afraid to do it.

Between me ordering the beam spring one and getting it, I managed to change my citizenship, name, and house. But it was only a two year wait, the first Model F remake (60%) took three years and I was quite late to that party.

I remember reading a book, Red Hat Linux System Administration Unleashed from 2000, where it has been postulated that knowing several tools with overlapping functionality is an essential skill, as you may end up on a broken or intentionally crippled system where, say, ls is unavailable, and you may need to cobble it together from shell and awk and what have you.

Back then you could indeed run a risk of having /usr nibbled by a grue such that it wouldn’t mount on the next boot, or you could get pwned and half of coreutils would turn into explosive pumpkins.

I’m pretty sure we are past many of the threats listed in that book, but the skill is still useful, as can be seen.

One of unexpected outcomes from AI-induced hardware shortage may be that, in fact, compute won’t be getting cheaper and may in fact get more expensive…

I keep VSCode because their seamless SSH integration (remote files editing) is so damn good.

> will AI increase frontend churn, or calm it down?

The former. It’s definitely the former, at least until subsidized tokens run out.

Web has always fucking sucked, and it fucking sucks today. The only way to make the web technologies not suck is to use them to power a vacuum cleaner.

The phenomenon of bootcamp graduates who knew React but did not know JavaScript.

> frontend used to be a highly specialized skill, requiring knowledge of semantic HTML, CSS, the differences of various browsers, accessibility, progressive enhancement, network performance, interface design and user testing

I remember this period differently. The frontend work was mostly, sometimes solely, all about turning whatever monstrous PSD came from the designer’s sick mind into HTML, and getting shafted if the result was not pixel-for-pixel identical. When project leads heard the word “semantic”, they had to reach for the dictionary. Upon hearing the word “accessibility”, they would set the dictionary on fire.

(is appalled!)

As AI gets more successful in taking away bullshit makework, instead of having days off or doing something else meaningful for the company, the bullshit makework just multiplies to keep everyone and everything just as busy as before, like kipple.

And then this phenomenon is being called 10x productivity and celebrated.

This is why we cannot have nice things.

/me is off to rewatch They Live

You see, I believe that cars with enough mileage have a soul. My car definitely has grown a soul. Yours might be a rust bucket for all I care. And yet it has a soul of its own.

Programs also have souls. Especially the little well-crafted programs which are works of art. Their authors took a part of their soul and put them into code, and you can see it in the way the code is written and in the way the programs work. They are not anthropomorphic, and yet they have a soul.

A clanker is anthropomorphic in a way that an advanced enough mimic in a dungeon that looks like your ideal waifu is anthropomorphic. It will infect you the moment you get kissably close to it. It subsists on egregious acts of copyright infringement. It’s a parasite that seeks to destroy a part of your brain and replace it with itself, making you quiver in pain each time you try to think for yourself, and the pain stops when you let it mimic your thinking while paying its creators per word-chunk it outputs.

The clanker seems anthropomorphic enough for the people it has infected, so they get offended to the point of blind rage when someone points out that no, this is its mimicry, and that it doesn’t actually experience things.

In this case I have a perfect agent code right here:

    const perfectAgent = (prompt) => "Nope";

Sometimes I’m wondering what to call people who get offended on behalf of other people or entities that they imagine might be offended by some term or other. See, they feel bad, and like small children, they assume everyone else must feel bad.

Okay, in case of people and words like n___er, one could argue they have a leg to stand on. But stupid computer programs? Really?

And then I remember that in my part of the galaxy, we indeed have a word to describe such people. We call them “dumbasses”.

At this point the US is the kid eating glue, it looks like.