basscomm

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by basscomm 10mo ago
> It's not about their careers. That's the thing, though, it is about their careers. It's not just that people are annoyed that someone who spends years to decades learning their craft and then someone who put a prompt i
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by basscomm 10mo ago
> Pronouncing every single letter. Now I want to know how you pronounce words like: through, bivouac, and queue.
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by basscomm 10mo ago
I'm talking about managing two certificates so I can share a static site with a handful of friends. Each one takes about 10 minutes a year to update. Adding automation means I have to set up a process that I have to check up on at leas
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by basscomm 10mo ago
It's not about having time, it's about making time. One thing that helps me is to actually schedule time to do the cool, fun stuff, put it on my calendar and treat that appointment as inviolable as missing work. Because it is
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by basscomm 10mo ago
> the point is to force companies to automate renewal Cool. I'm a small-time webmaster with a couple of hobby sites with no more than a handful of visitors. Why do I need to set up automation to renew certs every 45 days, too?
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by basscomm 10mo ago
> The reality is that it was told to run commands and just made a mistake. The mistake is that the user gave an LLM access to the rmdir command on a drive with important data on it and either didn't look at the rmdir command before
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by basscomm 10mo ago
> the main reason I liked computers was because we were all equals on the internet You must have had access to a different internet than I did. That is not and has never been true. The only way for everyone to be 'equal on the inter
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We are losing the browser war (2001)(web.archive.org)
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by basscomm 11mo ago
It's hard to describe the experience now, but Slashdot in the early 2000's was more of a community disguised as a tech blog. Sure the editors selected the stories from the queue, but everyone had a chance to submit something they
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> Using for-each or choose should be a sign you're doing it wrong. I wouldn't say that I did it wrong, I just didn't do it efficiently. And I knew that at the time. I appreciate the work, but I've said it elsewhere: I
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by basscomm 11mo ago
Using the technology and opting in to telemetry, feedback forums, user surveys, newsgroups, letter writing, email campaigns, telnet into a BBS, grass-roots websites, semaphore, Morse code, teletype, fax, etc. Anything is better than nothing
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by basscomm 11mo ago
https://wyrm.org/index.xml I migrated to an Org-mode-based workflow a couple of weeks ago because I can see the writing on the wall, but most of the XML and XSLT files are still in place because cool URIs don't change(
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> but it would have been trivial to do with JS Maybe! How much Javascript would I have to learn before I could come up with a 'trivial' solution? > the hundreds of lines of XSL you wrote. Those hundreds of lines are the same
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> The relevant use case is you come here to see links people share and comment on them. That's sufficiently "social" in this context. Just having users submit links that other users can comment on doesn't make it soci
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> You can always subscribe to a newspaper. The circulation for my local newspaper is so small that they now get printed at a press a hundred miles away and are shipped in every morning to the handful of subscribers who are left. I don&#x
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by basscomm 11mo ago
Users don't log in to my site. I eventually started using server-side XSL processing ( https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_xslt_module.html ) because I wanted my site to be viewable in text-based brows
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> but deprecating XSLT is a rare opportunity to shrink the surface area of the web’s “API” without upsetting too many people There's a lot of back and forth on every discussion about XSLT removal. I don't know if I would catego
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by basscomm 11mo ago
I tried the JS polyfill on some of the basic XSLT that I wrote, and it only kinda worked. I can't imagine how it would fail on anything with any complexity.
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by basscomm 11mo ago
Shouldn't the users of the Web also get a say? There's been a lot of blowback on this decision, so this isn't as cut and dried as it's being made out to be
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by basscomm 11mo ago
I've been running a small hobby site using XML and XSLT for the last five or so years, but Google refused to index it because Googlebot doesn't execute XSLT. I can't be the only one, but good luck Googling it
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> But for keeping up to date on news, people use social media. RSS isn't the missing piece of the puzzle for changing that, an app on top of RSS is. And in the absence of Reader, nothing has shown up to fill that role that can compe
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> I have yet to read an article complaining about XSLT deprecation from someone who can explain why they actually used it and why it’s important to them. I used it to develop a website because I'm not a programmer, but I still want
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> Why would adding a fragile and little-used technology like XSLT help? A few years ago I bought a bunch of Skylanders for practically nothing when the toys to life fad faded away. To keep track of everything I made a quick and dirty XSL
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> Have you ever met a single non-programmer who successfully picked up XSLT of their own volition and used it productively? Hi! I'm a non-programmer who picked up XSLT of my own volition and spent the last five-ish years using it to
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by basscomm 11mo ago
There's already an Interet2; do we need to invent Internet3?
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> where they disable hyperthreading outright due to side-channel attacks. You can turn on hyperthreading if you need/want it: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#SMT
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by basscomm 11mo ago
It's amazing that this person published an article called "Don't turn your brain off" that appears to have been written by an AI
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> but for me pen and paper is a non-starter due to hand fatigue You may want to look into writing with your arm instead of your hand
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by basscomm 11mo ago
All I can see is a full screen 6 step checklist with the first step being 'install tweeks'. There's no 'see it in action' link anywhere, unless it's behind the modal
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> Nobody really gave us training on this stuff, do other countries use a coin purse or some such? Americans also use coin purses or rubber coin pouches, but I mostly only see older generations using them.

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