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Just smart enough to know I'm not smart enough. Also, my desk might need a tidy…

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I'm having a brain far moment.

If you're forced to use AM and PM (which…IDK), anyway, if the time (24 hour clock) is 12:30, what time is that using a 12 hour AM/PM clock?

Is it really 0:30PM ??! That's…that's so dumb.

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I've been giving serious consideration to removing SSL from my blog… it doesn't accept data and I keep bringing up old browsers that really can't handle the "new" versions of https (TLS, or something…).

Or maybe optional… 🤔

Give me reasons why I absolutely shouldn't do that (please ❤️ )

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@ln absolutely, but that's for taking data - which my blog doesn't do (no analytics)...

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@dorigo I mean, that's definitely true. Very edge case, but true.

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@alexwilson serving http on a different port would… could be terrible. I get the thinking, but if we considering it's the super old browsers that I'd be supporting, there's no way they could land on that port.

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Just to add, there's also the loss of browser support. My blog also works offline (storing pages you visited) and when you hit an uncached page, you get a fail page offering previous posts you've read.

What I really want is server side detect, does browser support TLS 2.0 => redirect to HTTPS.

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@kornel yeah, I think this is the strongest argument in favour of SSL (regardless of version).

It's just shit that servers couldn't (or services like netlify) negotiate which version of TLS the browser supported and then encrypts with that.

I know 2.0 is better than 1.0, but there's a whole host of machines/tech that can't do 2.0 at all.

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@mattwilcox @JonGretar I can't find it (yet) but I'm sure I have a blog post when this happened to me - over mobile, not even wifi. Gotta find it, it was an interesting post.

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@tdp_org it's handled through Netlify (or CloudFlare - can't remember), but I'm also trying to view the page on IE4 and older tech!

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@tdp_org I suspect the reality is that I end up making a fork or something of my blog to play with on those devices. It's a very pointless exercise!

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@nimphal there's a thin line here (on the part where public institutions are locked out). I agree that they should be dragged forward, but reality is not as simple for them - there could be very, very good reasons to need to stay on specific tech - and blocking them out because they're not up to date doesn't sit well for me.

In my case, it's not the same, I'm using an extreme, unrealistic, almost laughable, browser, so really I should just host a 2nd version of my blog for that experiment.

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@ben_seven yeah, this is one place where backward compat was lost - I can see why, it's a bummer, and on balance, there's a microfraction of users trying to use IE4 (and even then, they're dodgy guys like me doing it for kicks), but things like the Wii browser doesn't work too…that still feels new-ish.

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@dalereardon and that's fine, so long as it redirects intelligently (ie. tests if port 443 is open)

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My new retro game cabinet is complete!

It includes:

  • My original Sony Trinitron 14”CRT TV and hifi (early 2000s)
  • Sega Saturn (Christmas present 95)
  • PlayStation (birthday present ‘97)
  • Super Nintendo (my brother’s Christmas present, ‘97?)
  • SCART multiplug (Argos, purchased today - pretty good!)
  • SCART cables for each machine from Retro Gaming Cables - everything looks amazing

Richter Belmont approaches Dracula sitting on his throne in Castlevania Symphony of the Night. “Die, Monster! You don’t belong in this world!” “It was not by my hand that I am once again given flesh. I was called here by… humans! Who wish to pay me tribute!” “Tribute?! You steal men’s souls! And make them your slaves!” “Perhaps the same could be said of all religions!” “Your words are as empty as your soul, mankind Ill needs a saviour such as you!” “What is a man?!” - Dracula tosses and smashes his glass - “A miserable little pile of secrets! But enough talk! HAVE AT YOU!”

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@janl @katiefenn

Ryan Gosling in Barbie Movie, saying "so cool" with a schmoozy look

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Can anyone recommend an electronics book that covers digital electronics but also has lots (or some?) real examples that can be built to understand (i.e. I'm a hack-learn person).

Not PI/arduino/etc electronics, the raw stuff, like transistors, logic ICs, 555 timers, etc.

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@thaggie yeah, that's a great series - bought and built the 6502, but the end of the series has landed on coding ASM to control the 6502, which is fine, but I'm after the land of "why does a voltage drop to 0.5v using a transistor"

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@midknight cheers, I think this is the one I'm going to go with 👍

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Does anyone remember the Super Mario (dance) song that came out around the same time as the Doctor Spin Tetris mix?

Trying to find the artist... hopefully I didn't dream it...

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@tanepiper you star!

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I have an annoying problem.

I have a <div> with display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap;
All the elements in it form a nice grid.

If I change the <div> to a <details> then suddenly the grid becomes a column.
If I set width:100% then it become a very fat column.

What stupid and obvious thing am I missing?

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@AmeliaBR @mia @Edent I discovered this whilst I was live coding the web site. Only because I needed to visually move the summary. I ended up coding my own details web component which was fun, but sucked.

There was another weird thing about details (but I forget), related to how chrome was behaving inconsistently between devtools and user code access to the details component...wish I could remember...

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Can anyone explain this to me? Why the "speaking head" emoji, when copied from the macos character view is different (and non-FF browser rendering) to the one here: https://emojipedia.org/speaking-head

As seen by this hexdump, the "correct" emjoi (the one that works in FF) includes $EFB88F

rem, to random
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Anyone at Microsoft that follows me? I'd love to have them return as an @ffconf sponsor this year, but apparently our contacts had moved on (last we heard was pre-pandemic). 🙏

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You know it's hot when the posh boys in cheltenham have their salmon shirt and chino shorts on

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@andy the red flag for me was having to use a pair of scissors to get out of my t-shirt and pants.

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I bought a new RGB SCART cable after finding my old PlayStation at my parents’ house. I booted up Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and was absolutely floored by its beauty on a CRT.

I really hope some day that the community ports it to the Saturn properly, it would be a sight to behold.

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@katiefenn oh, the MMS - I actually bought one when they were released and ended up selling it because I had a MiSTer bare version already and realised I really didn't use two! Might be worth buying the DE10 nano separately, you can start playing games whilst you wait for the MMS board to come back into stock.

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@katiefenn as a bare board you'll be able to play some arcade and some console systems, but for the full set you'll need more RAM. But the MMS comes built with the RAM so if you're set on buying it, you might not want to buy a RAM upgrade for the bare board... (or you could buy it and sell later down the line).

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