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In a similar vein, a former medium-sized client of mine had a retail / b2c product range launch and used identical placeholder EAN bar codes for each variant of the range. All the SKUs + their variants (around 200, from memory) had to be quietly recalled when retailers noted all the products had the same EAN - which turned out to be the 330ml Coke can that the designer had on their desk when they mocked up the bar code.

Edit: removed EAN.

petecooperon Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities

> afconvert

See also XACT[1]. It's a macOS GUI, but it's nerd-friendly.

[1] http://xact.scottcbrown.org

petecooperon Bullenweg.com is no longer available following threats of legal action

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821837

>photomatt 14 days ago

>It actually is an excellent website, and the repo is here: https://github.com/bullenweg/bullenweg.github.io

petecooperon Self-Hosting Marketing Automation Software: A Guide

https://github.com/laudspeaker/laudspeaker

petecooperon No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda

>RACI chart

Today I learned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matr...

petecooperon IP.network: Check IP Address

In a similar vein, I use `dig` with Cloudflare to find IP addresses:

dig @1.1.1.1 ch txt whoami.cloudflare -4 +short | sed "s/\"//g"

dig @2606:4700:4700::1111 ch txt whoami.cloudflare -6 +short | sed "s/\"//g"

petecooperon IP.network: Check IP Address

or ifconfig.io

petecooperon IP.network: Check IP Address

>ParkedDomain

https://web.archive.org/web/20180615000000*/ip.network

The domain had a former life (pre-2024) where it bounced to a domain broker sales page, which may well be the trigger.

Aside: I worked at Sophos from '98 to '06, some of the best & worst years of my life.

petecooperon Ask HN: Experiences with self-hosted community apps with mobile app front end

That looks promising - thank you.

petecooperon Pre-Work for Setting OKRs

>OKRs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectives_and_key_results

petecooperon Bento: Open-source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos

>Bento

A trip down memory lane:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento_(database)

petecooperon How and why to make a /now page on your site

For anyone curious: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5785

petecooperon Sorry, wrong number

In a similar vein: https://www.pathetic.org.uk

petecooperon [dead]

Web app is back for me. UK, 1947UTC.

petecooperon Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams

Reading this has made me buy the last two physical items on my Bandcamp wishlist.

Bandcamp isn't perfect, but it fits well with my listening habits and I'm glad it earns _some_ money for you in the grand scheme of things.

petecooperon Original Pirate Material

>Original Pirate Material

>You're listening to The Streets, lock down your aerial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22U2LLVRwtk

Radio version, censored lyrics - likely safe for work.

petecooperon Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

Mailing list discussion:

https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,299130

petecooperon Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

Page won't load for me, Wayback Machine caught it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240214184151/https://mailman.n...

petecooperon Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?

>How many of you are self employed?

+1. Self-employed since 2006. Previously at Sophos.

>What do you do?

I'm a technical generalist, and it's slowly killing me. I need to specialise in…something.

>Curious to know what sustains people.

Fear of eviction & a broken anhedonic treadmill. Coming up to 20 years of that, there's a lot of damage to fix, frankly.

petecooperon Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)

I'm _slightly_ triggered by the border radius on the 88x31 .gif, but I'll cope.

Related (and brace yourself if you're on an older computer):

https://neonaut.neocities.org/cyber/88x31

https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/

petecooperon Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

>a perfectly acceptable kernel panic

I love this and I can't wait to use it.

petecooperon Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

>Davinci Resolve works on Win, Mac and Linux.

Black Magic also provide a custom Rocky Linux ISO with each release. It's not widely-advertised and I found it at the end of their release notes PDF.

>For users setting up new systems or looking to use a standardized DaVinci Resolve environment, a standard Rocky Linux 8.6 ISO is available to download at:

>https://downloads.blackmagicdesign.com/DaVinciResolve/DaVinc...

>(MD5: https://downloads.blackmagicdesign.com/DaVinciResolve/DaVinc...).

>The ISO file can be burned to a bootable USB flash drive or a DVD for the installation process. Before installation, ensure that you have backups of your files, including media and Resolve project libraries. Turn off UEFI Secure Boot in BIOS configuration and boot from the ISO.

>Selecting the Automatic option will erase all the files on your connected drives during installation. Please ensure that you only connect a single boot drive to install the OS onto. Alternatively, select Manual configuration and customize the target drive and partitions when installing the OS.

>The installer takes care of all dependencies - including standard libraries, Nvidia drivers and DeckLink drivers. When the installation is complete, you can reboot the system once, and download and install DaVinci Resolve using the instructions above. When upgrading DaVinci Resolve, please check this section in the new installer for any special instructions you may need for the new version.

petecooperon Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

As a desktop Mac user, I see exactly what you're saying.

For clarity, my comment was more along the lines of 'saved you a click' than expectations/aspirations for every tool to cover every popular-ish environment.

petecooperon Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

>Windows and OS X are not supported. Flowblade has focused on providing the best possible experience on Linux and other free platforms.

Perhaps "Flowblade: Open-Source Video Editor for Linux" would be a more appropriate title.

petecooperon Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

2 million views in about 5 hours. Wow.

petecooperon Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)

Since we're sharing…

I use 3x Dell P2715Q in portrait mode, side by side, 1440 × 2560 for an equivalent resolution of 4320 × 2560 (27:16), at a stand up IKEA Jerker desk.

petecooperon Terrapin Attack for prefix truncation in SSH

>I am an admin, should I drop everything and fix this?

>Probably not.

(I will preface this by saying I'm likely missing something obvious.)

I am an admin, and it's not clear _how_ I might fix this at the server end.

Edit: thanks for the replies, I'll sit tight for now.

petecooperon Books of 2023, as Chosen by The Economist

>I can't access the article because I have failed the captcha several times.

Do you use Cloudflare DNS? I recall archive.ph + Cloudflare don't play well together.

petecooperon FreeBSD 14.0-Release

I was introduced to FreeBSD (v3.3) in the late 90s by /user?id=gjvc. I bought the CD set and the FreeBSD Handbook in paperback format from The FreeBSD Mall.

I was too young to appreciate it back then, but now in my mid-40s I find myself hankering back to those early days for me. It's a shame that some cloud providers like DigitalOcean and Hetzner have dropped native support for FreeBSD as base operating systems for their VPSes. I think this release will be the turning point for me getting back into FreeBSD after too many years away.

Thanks to the FreeBSD release team!