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mcc, to random
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I have literally implemented SRP at both the client and server side but I am still unable to figure out, if I were to purchase or set up a "Passkey", what exactly I would have, or how it would work, or which computers, web browsers or web sites I should expect it to work with

tomw,
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@mcc Yeah, I have swerved passkeys so far because I do not understand the failure modes or how to recover at all. And they're asking 'normal' people to use this!

tomw, to random
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All my emails go something like:

"Yes that's all good. Happy with Wednesday or Thursday.

Tom"

People either appreciate this brevity or find it weird, there's not really an in-between

tomw,
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@onnob Yeah, I'd maybe add something about time of day, though people I'm emailing tend to either expect office hours as obvious or evening as obvious, depending on who they are!

tomw, to random
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Windows people, please understand this. Sometimes people need to run Linux.

They’re allowed to complain about printers not working, or sound issues, or any other hardware compatibility problems, without you saying “use Windows” every time.

tomw,
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I like the idea of this group of annoying Windows evangelists going around replying to every post about operating systems. They tell you to please call it by its correct name, "Microsoft Windows"

tomw,
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Windows, is in fact, Microsoft Windows, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Microsoft plus Windows. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning Microsoft system made useful by Microsoft Office, Microsoft Edge and vital system components comprising a full OS. Many computer users run a modified version of the Microsoft system every day, without realizing it. Through a p

tomw, to random
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Do you need a database, or could you make do with 3,000 ~1KB json files filled with regexes?

(The database probably would have been easier but this is definitely cheaper to host.)

tomw,
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If anyone asks, I'm going to call this a "cached compressed key-value store"

tomw,
@tomw@mastodon.social avatar

Wait, maybe I can call my directory full of json files a "microservice"

tomw, to random
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Today I realised that I can put a CDN in front of other people's (read-only, public) APIs so that they don't rate limit my stuff.

Is this obvious? Commonly done? Kind of rude? No idea...

tomw,
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@TraitorJoe Set a pull zone (basically just a caching proxy) to point from a subdomain you control to their https://api.example.com

But a few caveats... you'd only want to go this for public and quite unchanging data, the sort of API where the same URL is going to give you the same thing each time. Putting anything private anywhere near this is a Bad Time recipe

j0, to random
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Hi, if you use Discord and feel bad about it for some reason, don’t. Don’t let the people on here try and convince you that matrix is secretly very easy to use and better and all it needs is adoption and just host this and etc. Same with any chat app or service or whatever. Discord is popular because it is a well made, usable service. People on here play the Privacy Game and switch browsers/search engines performatively. Switching which Product you use will have next to zero implications in your daily life, just use the one that is least annoying. Most “privacy” companies are just grifting (eg DDG funding right wing media, Kagi using AI, Brave doing crypto and AI, Mozilla doing AI, Proton baselessly shitting on other services in press releases, various companies doing VPNs, Element providing services to Police, Arc doing AI, I could go on forever…)

I’m not saying to go “doomer” and just use Chrome and Google, but people need to acknowledge that these services you use exist within capitalism, and evaluate whether they really Care about your privacy, or the Monthly Active Users metric. Don’t be shocked when your Private Service gets sold to a not-so-private company. You are being marketed to.

tomw,
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@j0 I think 99% of the rage about Discord on here is caused by open source projects treating it is a replacement for documentation. Couldn't care less if people use Discord, but don't make me use it!

Big agree about Kagi/DDG and it pains me that they take up all the space in the "alternatives to Google" discussion

tdp_org, to random
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Is it "no one is registering for our conferences so let's spam everyone and offer free tickets" week or something?
I must have had 5-10 every day so far.
Blocked every sender.

tomw,
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@tdp_org Companies really need to learn that me paying for (eg.) a CDN does not mean that I wish to attend CDN Fest.

tomw, to random
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rauschma, to webdev
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: I’m experimenting with aligning table columns. Maybe:

<table>
<style>
th:nth-child(1), td:nth-child(1) {
text-align: left;
}
th:nth-child(2), td:nth-child(2) {
text-align: right;
}
th:nth-child(3), td:nth-child(3) {
text-align: center;
}
</style>
<thead>
<th>Left</th><th>Right</th><th>Center</th>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1A</td><td>1B</td><td>1C</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2A</td><td>2B</td><td>2C</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

tomw,
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@rauschma In any situation where the table is being produced by code, it's usually easy enough to add <td class="col1"> etc or even <td class="align-right"> as relevant. I realise that's a bit tightly coupled but so is the nth-child way...

tomw, to random
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Mastodon has two types of people: people who really want replies to their posts and people who extremely do not.

(I am in the first category, reply away)

tomw,
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@mikej Oh yeah, that was an awful Twitter-ism:

"I don't think that's right..."
"Well you have 5 followers lol"

timbray, to random
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Beeper is outta Beta. I wonder if it’s going to be a big deal.

https://www.beeper.com

tomw,
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@timbray I expect I'll hear about this again soon when Facebook blocks it

cabel, to random
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I’m afraid to say this out loud, but I’ve always wondered why there’s an unwritten social contract that taggers don’t tag cars. Ignoring that it would be the absolute worst… like, why don’t they?

Which is to say, I wonder what the first taggable consumer vehicle will be — and why will it be the Cybertruck

tomw,
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@cabel Easier to find a dirty van and write "cleen me" in the dirt

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