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roywashere

1,133 karma · joined March 25, 2020

meet.hn/city/52.1594747,4.4908843/Leiden

Socials: - mb@x14.nl - codeberg.org/michielb/ - mastodon:fosstodon.org/@mwb - https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/

Interests: Networking, Open Source, Programming, Technology, Web Development

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roywashere··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Sure! I understand that everyone buying stuff on Temu and Shein is horrific. At the same time, me paying $$$ for ordering electrical components from China is rough for me. And also, I find it mind-blowing and ridiculous that Ali offered free shipping for small orders for so long whereas if I'd buy local I need to pay up for shipping, and if I'd start a small business in the Netherlands, shipping to the rest of the EU for small parcels is prohibitively expensive, not even taking into account PPWR
roywashere··on The USB Situation
I hate obviously AI written posts so much. Not spending my time with reading
roywashere··on I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers
I hate these signs of LLM generated texts so much!!

> The real annoyance is that it wasn’t just one machine. It was layers.

roywashere··on Why I forked httpx
thanks, I hope I fixed the https://pythonleiden.nl website now
roywashere··on Why I forked httpx
Thanks, I'll link to your project
roywashere··on POSSE – Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
I created https://tildeweb.nl just for this
roywashere··on Push events into a running session with channels
Probably all managers and engineers working on Teams have similar copious amounts of memory and powerful CPUs on their devices and hardly use their own product. That would explain a lot
roywashere··on Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol
but it is http! why can't you do virtual hosting on a reverse proxy?
roywashere··on Access to a Shared Unix Computer
pls drop me an email: address in profile
roywashere··on Access to a Shared Unix Computer
pls drop me an email: address in profile
roywashere··on Access to a Shared Unix Computer
I started my own! Scrappy https://tildeweb.nl
roywashere··on 65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
Let's start a company and raise money from investors!!
roywashere··on 65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation
I just packaged the extension for the fun of it! And I do want people to try for themselves, that is the point. About people that are not dumb; surely many people are not dumb; many people are very smart indeed. But that does not prove there are no dumb or gullible people!
roywashere··on JPEG XL Test Page
yeah, it's a typo :-)
roywashere··on 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop
I am wondering if, with memory and storage prices skyrocketing, there will be more effort on making computing use less resources?
roywashere··on How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers
Sure, but the whole point of self-hosting forgejo is to not use these big cloud solutions. Introducing cloudflare is a step back!
roywashere··on The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project
The table lists very limited support for M1 and not even lists newer variants! I guess it was only to be expected, asahi Linux also has challenges and of course FreeBSD has less eyeballs than Linux
roywashere··on Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to (2016)
Me three! mjd fanboy here
roywashere··on Google is killing the open web, part 2
All browsers ever implemented was XSLT 1.0, from 1999. There were 2.0 and 3.0 for which there is an open source Java based implementation (Saxon) but this never made it into libxslt and/or browsers!
roywashere··on Smartphones and being present
I think this is not too weird? I write text messages all day on my phone. Every holiday I keep a dairy of my travel in a Google doc. While I prefer a proper keyboard I also appreciate the way I can just type some stuff on my phone while in a bus or waiting for a train, or at night in my hotel room. This adds up to significant documents. And then indeed I prefer the writing over mindlessly ‘consuming content’.
roywashere··on Wireguard FPGA
The project got a grant from NLnet. I think they do a great job, they gave grants to many nice projects (and also some projects that are going nowhere, but I guess that is all in the game). NLnet really deserves praise for what they are doing!! https://nlnet.nl/thema/NGI0CommonsFund.html
roywashere··on Top Programming Languages 2025
Plus TIOBE had Perl enter the top 10 suddenly this year but I do not see any new developers. And Ada too! Where are all those Ada programmers?
roywashere··on GNU Midnight Commander
And who started Gnome Desktop! That always strikes me as funny. That he made the ultimate tool for in the terminal, and then move on to write a desktop environment
roywashere··on ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way
Also, Apache 2.4.57 is exactly the version of Apache you get when you'd run RHEL 9 / AlmaLinux / Rocky 9. In that case, the OS would provide backports of the CVE fixes for you and the banner still reads Apache 2.4.57!
roywashere··on Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters
I’m surely happy to not live in the UK at the moment. And Indonesia of course. If I would live in one of these countries I’d be using VPN. And maybe in the (not so distant) future this is preferable in the US too.

> We're trying to build public opinion against that.

Good on you!

But to be honest; it seems that it would be in Mullvads interest if the US starts requiring “open encryption” for internet services! Then more people would feel the need for VPNs

roywashere··on Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
I like it!!! I am using Apache mod_md on Debian for personal project. That is working fine but when setting up a new site it somehow required two Apache restarts which is not super smooth
roywashere··on This website is for humans
That is not how it works. The ‘cookie law’ is not about the cookies, it is about tracking. You can store data in cookies or in local storage just fine, for instance for a language switcher or a theme setting like here without the need for a cookie banner. But if you do it for ads and tracking, then this does require consent and thus a ‘cookie banner’. The storage medium is not a factor.
roywashere··on F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
This is sort of like a bug I hit last year when the mysql docker container suddenly started requiring x86-64-v2 after a patch level upgrade and failed to start: https://github.com/docker-library/mysql/issues/1055
roywashere··on Bringing a decade old bicycle navigator back to life with open source software
Raymii is one of my heroes! :-) great and accessible hacking on this device
roywashere··on The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous
I also got contacted via LinkedIn by a “normal” profile of a Dutch guy with normal connections, that was even connected to people I know, offering me the same. I politely suggested it’s not a great idea and declined
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