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georgeharito

@georgeharito@mastodon.au

Web developer by day, amateur photographer by night. Commodore Amiga afficionado. #nobridge He/him. 📷 | 🖥️ | ⌨️

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damieng, to random
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Okay, so my wife's business site stopped building on Cloudflare Pages because one of the Nuxt generated files - a JSON file - exceeded 25MB.

Just what was this file and why was it so big?

Was it even needed?

The full exhilarating story and investigation at https://damieng.com/blog/2024/05/14/nuxt-content-db-and-size/

georgeharito,
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@damieng Wow 25MB down to 53KB! What a difference.

decryption, to random
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really wish the internet was as interoperable as designed, so I could see all my friends posts on various platforms (X, Threads, Masto, Instagram Stories, Facebook, etc) in the one spot now that everyone's been shaken out of the Twitter tree and settled on their little patch of internet land

georgeharito,
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@decryption Bring back and expand Adium!

jpm, to random
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Get you some mushrooms with actual flavour

georgeharito,
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@jpm From the thumbnail I thought that was porcini-flavoured Nippys milk for a sec there

NanoRaptor, to random
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Having a charge-the-collection day. Every time I do this iPod I forget it's a HD based machine until partway through it fires up the drive with a noise that sounds like the ones that early morning huntsman spiders make when they click to each other on the walls.

georgeharito,
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@NanoRaptor “early morning huntsman spiders make when they click to each other” I am all too familiar with that sound.

georgeharito,
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@engagedpractx @NanoRaptor The male apparently “ticks” with its abdomen like a clock when it wants to mate with a female. In a quiet room it is audible.

jpm, to random
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Ok computer-touches of the fediverse, I’ve had enough of the Windows fucks and will be installing Debian <soon>. Maybe 20 years has been enough for a viable Linux on the desktop, who knows…

So what window manager are the cool kids using these days? Is Enlightenment still a thing? I want to not have fuck with things

georgeharito,
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@jpm Grab a few Debian-based distro ISOs, burn them to a USB drive and boot em up one by one to see what you like. I recently upgraded my ancient ThinkPad T430s which half its shit was not working / detected by the version of Ubuntu MATE I had installed on it, so over a few nights I picked up some other distros and tried them one by one. Eventually I settled on Linux Mint Debian Edition, am very happy with my choice. Most kids nowadays use GNOME, and it’s nice I guess but some of its paradigms didn’t rub well with me, hence sticking with Cinnamon (what LMDE uses as a DE).

georgeharito,
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@jpm (forgot to mention, the upgrade I did was from a T430s to a T480s, which is lightyears better than the prior machine)

georgeharito, to random
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I’m too far north for Aurora Australis ☹️

georgeharito,
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@NanoRaptor That’s disappointing. That kind of weather for such an event is something I would’ve expected for Melbourne.

jpm, to random
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Wait… how the fuck does that even work?

georgeharito,
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@jpm the best bit is the ~10% error tolerance on top of those dubious measurements.

jpm, to random
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I thought that tyre looked low, turns out it was at 115kPa. It’s supposed to be 240.

georgeharito,
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@jpm give it a break, it’s been working hard all week.

dbarros, to random
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Stack Overflow originally came about to replace sites like the shit-show that was Experts Exchange. Stack Overflow has now become a shit-show.

georgeharito,
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@dbarros “now”? That “now” has been going for a few years now. There’s just another layer of enshittification with the recent OpenAI stuff.

georgeharito,
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@dbarros 100%

georgeharito, to random
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Finally, all those years of reading and copying code from StackOverflow and related sites, while not giving anything back to the community, is paying off. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/6/24150341/openai-stack-overflow-partner-api-coding-assistance

georgeharito, to random
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I’m in a couple of Melbourne history Facebook groups, where someone will post a historical tidbit. Someone else will post a comment adding to the history, whether they read it somewhere, or actually lived it. One example is how radio licences were a thing back when radio was new in Australia, one scheme being listeners having to pay a subscription to a particular radio station – that didn’t last long.

There’s always one boomer saying “Well I lived in Melbourne in the 1960s and I have no recollection of that ever happening”, insinuating that the information is completely wrong, because they personally did not experience it.

I love how these boomers always think that they are the main character. And I love correcting them – “The scheme was abolished in 1923 Karen, well before your personal recollections of the 1960s”.

decryption, to random
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lets say i wanted to use something that isn't a smartphone for TOTP purposes - what's out there? something stand alone, probably not internet connected or reliant on a business providing updates to keep it working, and that I can have multiple copies of

georgeharito,
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@decryption @wezm I remember my Handspring Visor, I loved that thing, but it was just a toy for me as I was in uni and didn’t really use it for any serious work.

decryption, to random
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any other apple themed stickers I should add to this sheet?

georgeharito,
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@decryption Disk icon with question mark (like when a Classic Mac can’t find a disk to boot from)?

georgeharito, to random
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Affectionally called “mouse on a rope” by some, this two-handed mouse from Apple finally brought right mouse clicking to the masses.

A design flaw was discovered however, where you could never really tell which button was left or right, depending on how you held it. Later revisions added a small divot to both buttons, which still failed to resolve the usability issue. https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/112398864171699499

decryption, to random
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can you believe someone drew this as a vector illustration back in 1992?? found it on the cover CD of Personal Computer World, July 1994

http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/22928/pcw-0794.bin/mac/Adobe%20Demos/Adobe%20Illustrator%E2%84%A2%205.0/Illustrator%E2%84%A2%20Samples/Illustrations/Color%20Macintosh

georgeharito,
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@decryption Definitely a labour of love

georgeharito,
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@decryption You know that this vector would take a good minute to load up on Macs / PCs back in the day, all those calculations.

georgeharito,
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@lunarloony @decryption That would be so satisfying to watch

georgeharito, to random
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What in the actual fuck?! https://vmst.io/@vmstan/112380780000684531

mvyrmnd, to random
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Ads in the Start Menu, maybe?
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/112380075261362441

georgeharito,
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@mvyrmnd LINUX ON THE DESKTOP, LETS GOOOOOOO

jpm, to random
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checks date

Oh no

georgeharito,
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@jpm I fucking hate this date today

jpm, to random
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If I wanted a traumatic brain injury, I’d simply run Kubernetes at home

georgeharito,
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@jpm Do you need to have the brain injury before running Kubernetes, or does Kubernetes give you the brain injury? Both situations much of a muchness to me.

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