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joby

@joby@hachyderm.io

New Mexican elder millennial. Outdoorsy. Nerd shit. Reasonably politically engaged. Socially anarchist, fiscally communist, practically pragmatic.

As a wise six year old once said: I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.

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hazelweakly, to random
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Tell me you're doing the GitOps thing without telling me you're doing the GitOps thing

joby,
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@hazelweakly I'm in this toot and it stirs unpleasant memories.

Not because I no longer do GitOps, mind you. Simply because I haven't had to touch it for quite a while.

joby,
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@jenniferplusplus @hazelweakly I'm undocumented nonsense for sure

hrefna, to random
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People who know nothing about ecology hear about something that requires no work or understanding on their part but where they can "spread awareness online": "YES THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER."

Applies to more than just ecological activism, of course

Rather than saying "I'm not going to mow for a month!" take a while and actually learn what is in your yard. Don't just hop on arbitrary bandwagons with no understanding of what you are looking at

But learning is complex, "not mowing" is easy 1/

joby,
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@hrefna It all takes such a long time, to even learn and build a solid intuition for plants. As my dad always says about gardening: "the hardest part of learning it is that every experiment takes a year."

StillIRise1963, to random
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White overrides a lot of things. Gay can certainly be one of them.

joby,
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@benroyce @StillIRise1963 The Texas GOP? Deeply and irreconcilably homophobic? How could they have possibly foreseen this?

alienmelon, to random
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i’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be a solodev, the misconceptions, how difficult it gets…because i’m 💯 set on starting an event that celebrates & highlights that. if we had that it would help with negative conceptions & give space for others to find eachother!
1/3

joby,
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@alienmelon Words cannot express how much it warms my heart to see somebody use the word "artistic" in this context.

I went to art school my first time around, and while I don't do much of what most people would call "art" any more, I feel like making unconventional PHP content managers kinda is my artistic practice these days.

It's just ... very abstract art.

michael, to php
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Got to say: Just been through upgrading an app from 8.1 to 8.3 and it's really nice and painfree.

Very few breaking changes, and the few that are there are stuff that a sensible person would've addressed a long time ago.

Unfortuantely that means that apart from readonly classes, there are also few exciting new things in there. But I guess these also are just point updates after all…

Almost boring 😉 (Not a bad thing! Stability is also nice.)

joby,
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@michael This is why I like PHP so much. There was a website I built in high school that launched in 2004 using the then-newfangled PHP 5. I occasionally did a little more work on for them to keep up to date whenever their host forced them to upgrade their PHP version, but it mostly just worked. They only turned that thing off in like 2022.

joby, to random
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Normalize building web tools that are easy to FTP onto cheap shared hosting. Make them easy to hack on just by putting files in folders. Everything doesn’t actually need to be so damn complicated.

ctietze, to php
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A question for more experienced 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?

joby,
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@deanatoire @ctietze Yeah, if the implementation just uses readfile(), or fopen() with fpassthru(), or similar I wouldn't worry much unless you've clearly identified performance right there specifically as a problem.

There are probably some shenanigans that could be pulled with HTTP authentication, but I probably wouldn't.

joby,
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@ctietze @deanatoire @Crell Nice. Yeah, I've got a few sites I run that while admittedly not very high traffic, do involve routinely serving hundreds of megabytes at a time through readfile() (same deal, big PDFs that need access control) and it's been totally fine even on a pretty modest server.

mekkaokereke, to random
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I told y'all, cops don't do what you think they do.🤷🏿‍♂️

Black folk know this from lived experience. Some white folk only learn this when they go to report a theft or sexual assault and find out that the $11B/year NYPD are not equipped to handle that.

15K NYC bikes stolen a year!

https://www.404media.co/nypd-bike-lock-chain-kryptonite-columbia-university-protests/

1/n

joby,
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@blikkie @mekkaokereke It's just so brazen. I mean the lock portion he's holding is Kryptonite orange and clearly says "Kryptonite" on the side. If there's one bike lock brand people know it's gotta be that one.

The chain probably had a cloth cover over it that also said "Kryptonite," and I guaran-goddamn-tee you the cops went out of their way to take that off specifically for optics/propaganda purposes.

StillIRise1963, to random
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"What do you think, Bob? Should we destroy ourselves with Trump to get the Blacks?"

joby,
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@StillIRise1963 They will. There's a contingent of people so broken they can't even judge their own basic wellbeing except in relation to other people they think should be below them.

They could live in a mansion, without a care in the world, and would feel bad if they met one Black person who had a slightly bigger mansion.

They could die homeless in a cardboard box, of a preventable disease, and they would feel great about it as long as they knew their Black neighbor didn't get a box.

joby, to random
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If anybody is thinking of building a new computer and putting Windows on it, you can get a Windows 11 pro license for $20 on Woot today.

This is the only way I buy Windows licenses. I refuse to give them $200 for the "pro" version of a bundle of tracking software with an OS on top.

Also if you're using Windows you should use Pro, because Microsoft made the greedy/irresponsible decision to hobble Bitlocker in the home edition.

https://computers.woot.com/offers/microsoft-windows-11-home-or-pro-your-choice-7?ref=w_gw_zl_lc_1

joby, to random
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Stop abstracting the file system. Files existing in folders, which all live in either a root filesystem or collection of drive letters is not too complicated for people to understand.

Files existing in weird one-off interfaces, which are maybe integrated into file managers, and which hide or obfuscate the underlying folder hierarchy are too complicated for people to understand.

I'm looking at you, Microsoft, Apple, Google, and amazingly even kind of a lot of Linux distros these days.

joby,
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@SuperSynthia @dvdnet62 because once untamed capitalism sees a money spigot they can't help but wonder how wide it will open.

billyjoebowers, to random
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I don't even know what this is supposed to mean, but I've wondered for a long time if there's going to be a point where it makes sense to stop buying new computers and what the most valued cutoff models will be.

"Apple plans to go big with AI and M4 Mac processors, starting later this year"

https://www.macworld.com/article/2302124/apple-plans-to-go-big-with-ai-and-m4-mac-processors-starting-later-this-year.html?utm_date=20240411214809&huid=6be40316-0a5d-4e31-8b8f-c105e2864f21

joby,
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@billyjoebowers I’m also worried that certain capitalist monsters have probably noticed that electronic hardware is plateauing in terms of what further processing power increases actually offer in usefulness. They’re probably desperate to get the hardware upgrade cycle treadmill running again like it’s GPUs in 2005, and if they figure out ways to juice it they’re not gonna show any restraint.

writerethink, to random
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Re: the , I'm seeing so much stuff from folks in my region calling us foolish for the all the preparation that was done in anticipation of being in the path of totality, and for getting our hopes up at all. And I'm just not here for it.

It wasn't foolish. Yes, we got our hearts broken by the thick cloud cover (but y'all, 3.5 minutes of darkness was still magical even if we couldn't see the cause). But I refuse to live from a place of cynicism just to protect myself against heartbreak.

joby,
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@danhulton @writerethink we only got like 70-some% occlusion and I still went outside to experience it because even that is noticeably weird if you’re paying attention.

alabut, to random
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Let’s see if I can turn the into the lazyweb. Does anyone have any examples of blog posts that handle vertical video well?

Just embedded without the usual platform cruft would be great, but I’m also curious about reach goals for Instagram levels of polish, ideally with just plain HTML. Can you do things like auto-playing silently until you click on it to unmute, playing only the video that’s in the viewport, etc, without a bunch of javascript wizardry?

joby,
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@alabut I haven’t touched near this for a while so I’m rusty, but you should be able to get a decent level of polish out of straight HTML, and a really pretty high level of polish with fairly minimal JavaScript. To keep it really lightweight and simple you’ll probably need to lean heavily on the native browser controls. Having good buffering also relies on your server supporting range requests. If I were you I’d start by getting on MDN and learning everything about the HTML <video> element.

snarkysteff, to random
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If YOU want to buy ESTABLISHED PLANTS so you have a plug-&-play garden with less of a learning curve, then go you!

You buy that shit, man! Plant those plants!

Insta-food-garden? Fuck, yeah!

Don't you let ANYONE shame you for taking shortcuts that get you planting & growing your food. However you get that hobby started, let it empower you!

These "plant seeds, not seedlings" people are HARMING the grow-your-own-food culture.

Whatever gets you gardening is a beautiful thing. Just grow it.

joby,
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@snarkysteff this advice can be generalized to almost everything, and I am here for it.

billyjoebowers, to random
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Haha, no, I am not trying to up my coffee game, I'm trying to have coffee available with the least amount of work possible.

joby,
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@billyjoebowers I am oddly kind of doing both?

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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As we hear reports that it will take 10 years (🤯) to replace the 1.6 mile Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, remember that China built the Danyang-Kunshan bridge and Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in 4 years each.

Danyang-Kunshan Bridge is 102 miles long, and 100 ft above the water.

Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is 16 miles and 623 ft tall, earthquake and typhoon proof, and can withstand a direct strike from a 300,000 ton cargo ship. That last point is unfortunately topical.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U7iQqogVmr8

joby,
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@huitema @djcapelis @bouriquet @AdeptVeritatis @mekkaokereke @UncivilServant @McBeth @hazelweakly I think you might be underestimating the level and thorough distribution of dysfunction that pervades America at basically every level. We are not okay over here.

arstechnica, to random
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Some states are now trying to ban lab-grown meat

Spurious "war on ranching" cited as reason for legislation.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/some-states-are-now-trying-to-ban-lab-grown-meat/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

joby,
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@arstechnica I mean, as a resident of a western state who possesses the ability to think I do harbor a profound dislike for ranchers. Just the most entitled whiny babies, slurping down government handouts left and right, all while pretending they’re self sufficient and producing honestly not a lot for society in an inefficient way. Maybe there should be a war on ranchers.

mekkaokereke, to random
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PSA: How to open a Tesla door in an emergency

I have friends that happily drive their kids around strapped into child seats in Teslas. I ask them a few questions about this, and I've never had a friend of mine who is a parent answer these questions satisfactorily:

  1. Do you know that Tesla doors might not open if there's no power?

  2. Do you know how to manually open the doors?

  3. Have you timed how long it would take you to get your kids out?

Here's how to get out
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6PbRBbIGnv4

joby,
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@mekkaokereke I’ve really never understood the appeal of door latches by wire. Like in this video when he says “the doors latch and unlatch electronically and it’s great” I was like “is it though?”

Also when he’s talking about how the manual release doesn’t care if it’s locked or if the car is moving, it kinda comes off like it’s revolutionary that they thought to provide that feature. But … like … that’s just how the normal door handles work on every other car.

cstross, to random
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‘Brain fog’ from long Covid has measurable impact, study suggests

Equivalent to knocking up to 6 points off IQ. (Yes, we know IQ isn't even as useful a measurement as BMI: nevertheless, it's measurable and it implies population-wide impairment) https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/brain-fog-from-long-covid-has-measurable-impact-study-suggests

joby,
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@cstross @TonyJWells @Infoseepage The street I live on is 35mph. Since it's wide and there are zero traffic calming measures and very few lights people routinely go 60+, and 100 isn't uncommon. People die or nearly die in absurdly terrible traffic accidents on this street about yearly -- just on my block. Last year somebody crashed their car into our building at over 100mph and died. In just the 7 years I've lived here three pedestrians have died in sight of my front door.

billyjoebowers, to random
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I keep thinking about how we buy into all this. We say things like "I'm going to lose followers" like that matters.

Some people on social media, mostly other platforms, use it to make their living, and keep score constantly.

I'm not getting paid for this. So thinking about things I want to post in terms of worrying about losing followers is silly.

joby,
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@billyjoebowers It's been pretty lovely moving here and learning to have a healthy relationship with social media again. Similar vibes to building a personal website and just not even installing analytics on it. How much traffic am I getting? I dunno, that's not what it's for. I don't especially care (actually my website is down right now, but ... also don't care).

joby, to random
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So in Excel if you have multiple windows open with different documents, your undo/redo history spans all open windows. So when you hit Ctrl-Z it might switch windows and undo in a different document than the one you have focused.

Who thought this was a good idea?

joby,
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@danhulton I guess I see some reason there, but I also feel like the way they opted to handle it is really wild. Like they expended a ton of effort to make the undo stack work differently than the way anyone is used to it working anywhere else.

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