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by basscomm 1y ago
> Since the advent of LetsEncrypt, ACME, and Caddy I haven't thought about SSL/TLS for more than about an hour per year I run a couple of low-stakes websites just for fun and manually updating certificates takes me about 10 min
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by basscomm 1y ago
Logitech specifically. They haven't made a wired trackball in some time, as far as I can tell. Their only options are AA battery or rechargeable. I'd rather not have to futz with batteries at all on my desktop computer
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by basscomm 1y ago
I still haven't figured out why they no longer make wired trackballs. The thing never moves, why do I need it to be wireless?
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by basscomm 1y ago
Looks promising! This looks like as good a place as any to show the XML/XSLT code that I've been tinkering with for the last couple of years: https://github.com/zmodemorg/wyrm.org
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by basscomm 1y ago
Okay, let's say I have a list of widgets that's in an HTML table. How do I sort the list if I don't want to use Javascript or install some programming language on the web server I'm using (let's say I'm using s
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by basscomm 1y ago
Because you can do things with XSLT that you can't do with pure HTML For instance, I can provide an XML file that is a list of widgets, and then I can use to XSLT to give you a table with the values sorted in some way. I can't do
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by basscomm 1y ago
> Is there any reason this cant be solved with a proxy server? So that legacy software that uses XLST can still run on the new browsers that lack it? With XSLT in a browser I can throw some static XML and XSLT files on any web server and
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by basscomm 1y ago
The problem with this is that it incentivizes browsers to only implement features if it makes them money and to remove everything else.
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by basscomm 1y ago
> Does it matter whether it will take three months or three years? It does! I run a small hobby site built with XML and XSLT because I'm not a great programmer, but XSLT is something I can actually wrap my head around and use witho
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by basscomm 1y ago
> If I used XSLT on my tiny, low-traffic blog, I think it's reasonable for browser devs to tell me to update my code. I _do_ use XSLT on my tiny, low-traffic blog, and I _don't_ think that it's reasonable for browser devs
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by basscomm 1y ago
> PBS would always make mention of support from, 'Viewers like you". When in reality it was from "Tax payers of which 50+% likely do not agree with funding this content". 'Viewers like you' send in donations
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by basscomm 2y ago
> Take Wikipedia, the content is perfectly fine in Lynx and Links, but the menus are defined at the top of the page, meaning that you'll need to scroll multiple pages to get to the actual article. Wikipedia has a link at the top of
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by basscomm 2y ago
I also hand code my website and rss feed, so my feed is basically a changelog disguised as a blog post masquerading as a news feed. If you want to read the full articles, you have to visit the site.
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by basscomm 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by 'automatic content grouping'. Are you talking about somehow automatically grouping the posts from disparate sites into buckets based on some criteria? Newsboat, for example, lets you
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by basscomm 2y ago
I remember the Internet before Google, Facebook, YouTube, Myspace, etc. The whole thing was what is now being referred to as 'the indieweb' and it was the best incarnation of the Internet. Consolidating most of the web into giant
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by basscomm 2y ago
> Subscribing to 50 people is enough to make the feed unusable since there’s little to no organization. What kind of organization do you want? Every feed reader I've ever used let me categorize/organize feeds in whatever way I
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by basscomm 2y ago
I assume you're talking about me. I said that I want the government to keep the money I paid them to provide services that I and 340-odd million other people rely on. You seem to think that means that I want the government to spend as
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by basscomm 2y ago
I guess the question that should be asked if the examples of waste presented thus far are exceptions or if there's just rampant waste everywhere that nobody has been able to find. We have (well, had) a Government Accountability Office
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by basscomm 2y ago
> ignoring the millions wasted on everything from a $90,000 bag of bushings to $1,300 coffee cups to $150,000 soap dispensers to billons on empty government buildings Who's ignoring it? Once the problem is identified by someone, you
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by basscomm 2y ago
Jumping into a complex system and trashing big swathes of it without taking the time to understand why it's there, what it does, and the consequences for destroying it will be, is one of the worst possible ways to 'reduce waste&#x
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by basscomm 2y ago
> The reason I still give them benefit of the doubt on their intentions is...because they did come out and say that 20% of the savings should go back to taxpayers as a refund and that 20% should go directly to reducing the debt. That bei
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by basscomm 2y ago
It's only illegal if someone enforces the law
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by basscomm 2y ago
> At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast amounts of employees out of work It's this part. Salaries and benefits are expensive. A computer pr
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by basscomm 2y ago
I don't use reddit, so I'm probably missing something, but subscribing to only the 'best' posts doesn't sound like a way to find the 'hidden gems', it sounds more like a way to subscribe to whatever the us
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by basscomm 2y ago
> The biggest cost of RSS feed items as a consumer is figuring out whether something is worth reading. A lot of feeds these days don't provide anything useful in the body to make a determination on this, and others just dump the ent
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by basscomm 2y ago
> I used to lick my finger to open plastic bags on the supermarket and now try to find something wet instead - usually alcohol bottle. I just find something cold in my cart and use the condensation to wet my fingers
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by basscomm 2y ago
I follow RFC 1178: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1178 The theme I use is Final Fantasy characters.
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by basscomm 2y ago
Because once I get a product from a vendor, it's none of the vendor's business how I use the product unless I want to tell them about it. Software vendors seem to think that they're entitled to this information because they r
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by basscomm 2y ago
> How do you navigate via memory without some degree of mental visualisation? How do people who are physically blind from birth navigate without mental visualization? > I’m convinced many aphantasia folk are just heavily overrating w
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by basscomm 2y ago
Believe whatever you want, but visualization ability is like every other aspect of human experience: it exists on a spectrum I can only visualize involuntarily as I'm drifting off to sleep, so I know what it is and what it's like.

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