ghorwood

ghorwood, 18 hours ago to random

the gang is playing this game that involves a lot of running and has a stamina mechanism and i’ve been yelling “fartlek! do fartlek!” and only discovered now that no one knows what i’m talking about.

ghorwood, 23 hours ago to random

you want enshittification? the bell phone monopoly gave us, free of encumbrance, the transistor, the solar panel, telstar, three different types of lasers, pressure treated lumber, and two operating systems, one of which i like.

and today at&t is bribing the friends of public officials to get out of providing landlines.

mcc, 1 day ago to random

I am (unfortunately) on a Macintosh. A program is segfaulting, and I need to run in a debugger to find out why. I run lldb executable-name, and then "run". It prints:

error: the platform is not currently connected.

I do not know what this means. Googling for this error message turns up various things involving iOS and XCode, but I am not using either of those things, I am using lldb at the command line.

What should I do?

ghorwood, 1 day ago to random

just used 'per-fuckin'-se' in a business email.

please clap.

ghorwood, 2 days ago to random

i blogged about nginx's X-Accel-Redirect header, which you probably aren't using and probably never will.

https://gbh.fruitbat.io/2024/05/12/nginx-serving-private-files-with-x-accel/

bobmagicii, 4 days ago to random

writing my own backup solution is kinda fun. there is a lot of attempts to over engineer when in reality all i need is:

• cp or scp that to here
• git clone first run then git pull later
• mysqldump

i always struggle to just make a thing that does what i need now at this moment so that is my exersise this time.

"try not to turn it into a framework that does nothing for nobody"

ghorwood, 5 days ago to random

a client is running a closed beta and some total rando from china signed up out of the blue on day two and is doing a better job of using the application than the beta users who've had their hands held through the whole process.

ghorwood, 6 days ago to random

good news! the terrifying thing i said five years ago would happen within the next twenty years is fifteen years ahead of schedule!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/robot-dogs-armed-with-ai-targeting-rifles-undergo-us-marines-special-ops-evaluation/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned

jwz, 7 days ago to random

Political Journey.
https://jwz.org/b/ykP-

ctietze, 8 days ago to php

A question for more experienced #PHP developers than me:

We have this setup where all requests go through a PHP script for authorization (think: cookie) checking before serving files.

That's fine with HTML, but less ideal for 5MB PDFs.

I'm trying to search for ways to use PHP to allow/deny access, but otherwise let the web server (Apache) do its job.

Is there such a facility to rewrite requests for auth, but then go on serve the static files?

ghorwood, 8 days ago to random

it’s that time of year again when the government sends you an alert to remind you that bears still exist.

ghorwood, 9 days ago to random

i blogged about the mysql slow query log on the off chance other people are as bad at writing sql as i am.

https://gbh.fruitbat.io/2024/05/06/mysql-using-the-slow-query-log/

ghorwood, 13 days ago to random

me: all the music i like is objectively terrible
cody: i'm sure that's not true...
me: the band i'm listening to right now is called 'witch piss' and their album cover looks like this.
cody: ah. i see what you mean now.

ramsey, 13 days ago to random

What’s up with 19.2 fl oz beer cans? I mean, I like the size, but it’s not an even amount of anything. It equates to 567.81 ml.

Yes, I know American units are wonky, but sometimes they’re weird because they actually equal to an even metric number. For example, they sell 16.9 fl oz water bottles because that’s a half liter.

So, what gives on the 19.2 fl oz / 567.81 ml measurement for these tall cans?

ghorwood, 13 days ago to random

two weeks ago i was “i should get a quieter keyboard so i don’t disturb lee so much” and since then i’ve found myself reading reviews of switches and posts on whether key sculpting actually does anything and counting the u’s on the bottom row of my corsair.

“keyboard people” are detached from reality. and i fear i could easily become a “keyboard person”.

ghorwood, 14 days ago to random

lord save me from lengthy slack conversations with people who type at fifteen words per minute...

ghorwood, 16 days ago to random

i blogged about disk space monitoring with standard bash tools because, apparently, that's what all 'the kids' are into these days.

https://gbh.fruitbat.io/2024/04/29/managing-disk-space-in-bash/

ghorwood, 17 days ago to random

lee is making me watch a movie called “the man from toronto” and, thirty minutes in, i’ve finally realized it’s because she finds it hilarious watching me cringe every time a hollywood actor says the word “toronto”.