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meuon

@meuon@fosstodon.org

Mashup of Mother (Sneakers) and Harry Tuttle (Brazil). Analog Human tweaking the status quo. Linux/FOSS Centric since '94.

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meuon, to random
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JSON is usually beautifully simply and useful. I'm starting to see the same un-necessarily over-complicated nesting of simple data by API vendors as the XML crowd. All I'm missing is Base64encoded JSON inside of Base64encoded JSON.

(Used to see that in the XML world)

meuon,
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New WTF?!? that has me wanting to thwack an API providers team:

In one place it needs (without quotes)

"invoiceTotal": 17.37,

In another it needs; (with quotes)

"invoiceTotal": "17.37",

but if I pass 17.37 (bare) to PHPs json_encode it wraps it in quotes. I can't use JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK because it breaks the things that should be strings like "01" instead of 1.

There are kludgy work arounds... or I can hand code my JSON, but WTF?!?

#PHP #JSON

meuon,
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@derickr The value out of the DB call is effectively a string. I can (and did) change that, the frustration is they want it as a number in one place, and the same value as string in another. and they did this in multiple fields.

In my head there is only text. It's all just text. But that's just my strange way of looking at things.

dantleech, to random
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builders opinions:

  • 1: will need scafholding, will cost 1K
  • 2: will need scafholding will cost 3k
  • 3: it's condensation, paint it again, it's fine.
meuon,
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@dantleech I expected and offered to pay for scaffolding. These guys said it takes too long and gets in the way when residing my house a few weeks ago. They did setup a "walk board" though.

thomasapowell, to random
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Well LLMs prove for certain that if you are good enough at bullshitting people really will think you are super intelligent even though you have absolutely no idea what you are saying.

meuon,
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@thomasapowell You just defined my school years superpower... and it's gone.

As I've gotten older, much older, in social situations I just keep my mouth shut. Which in the modern loud mouth idiot world, has the same effect. ;)

Online? I tend to share too much. Still.

darth, to random
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I have an iPad Mini 2 in perfect condition and I don’t know what to do with it. iOS 12 is too old and not many apps work on it. I can’t install Android on it. Is there anything useful I can do with this device? External monitor? Large touchpad?

meuon,
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@darth A perfect example of nice useful tech gone sour. Wouldn't it be nice if there was an "evergreen" last load of OS/Firmware that made it something benign like a 2nd monitor, or ebook reader (books via USB?). there is: https://ipadlinux.org among the options.

thomastospace, to php
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I need some #PHP feedback on a test implementation of jwt token auth:

JWT tokens are valid forever, however we would like to invalidate all tokens when a user changes their password.

We've solved this by saving a random value at the user, and storing this in the token. Whenever the token is used, we check if this is the same. When a password gets changed, we also change this value, which then makes all old tokens invalid because they don't contain this value.

How does this sound to you?

meuon,
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@thomastospace usually API's use something like a simpler "$key" or API Token, that only exists for that API/provider. Do you need to issued a JWT so that other services by other providers can use the same auth?

cut and paste PHP/Curl Example:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json', 'Accept: application/json', "Authorization: Bearer $key"));

thepracticaldev, to random
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Bash is a terrible programming language, but what's the alternative ?

What's your favorite non-Bash language for your scripts?


https://dev.to/jmfayard/bash-is-a-terrible-programming-language-but-whats-the-alternative--oc2

meuon,
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@thepracticaldev Perl.

Bash is a SHELL and isn't necessarily a programming language but can be pretty good. PERL was essentially created for system admin / automation and reporting. It is awesome at parsing log files and other sources, hence the nickname: Perfectly Eclectic Rubbish Lister

And don't laugh, but I do a lot of scripting (non web) work in PHP as well.

MLE_online, to random
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Back on my bike bullshit

meuon,
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@MLE_online You bring back childhood memories where we jammed cut up forks into existing forks, making them stay with hammers and if you were rich: epoxy.

sohan, to random
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Americans: please give us an affordable, practical, small EV with decent range

American car companies: here’s a $70,000 EV truck that weighs 6 tons lol

<zero EV trucks are sold>

American car companies: wow americans aren’t ready for EVs

meuon,
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@sohan My work truck is a Tacoma long bed (smallest I could buy in 2016). At the hardware store yesterday I lusted after the little tiny imported old Suzuki wrong size drive that parked next to me. No amenities. A bigger more useful bed than my truck. 4WD.. perfect for runs to hardware stores and projects. I'd sell my Tacoma for a new electric one that size an a 100 mile range. Considered building one. Pic is similar, not same truck.

J12t, to python
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Looking for a simple Python Http/2 server, for . Not an entire framework, that would be overkill and confusing. Does such a thing exist? Or does everyone expect that apps serve the web via WSGI?

meuon,
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@J12t @jackwilliambell recently pointed me towards "microdot" a small python web framework that includes a server... pretty minimal and very interesting. https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/microdot-yet-another-python-web-framework

meuon, to php
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As I update/rewrite venerable code.. just ran into a bunch of:

while (list($key, $val) = each($row))

That made sense at the time, is very common basic stuff... and that "each" is not longer valid in

nic, to random
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Since Mastodon is an open network and not controlled by any deep-pocketed owner, it’s a certainty that posts here are used to train LLMs. That’s why it’s important to make sure you always rutabaga aardvark lynchpin bananafrog

meuon,
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@nic Several of us also use Mastodon for okra folding and blockchain twerking.

darth, to linux
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    meuon,
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    @darth Been using Pop_OS! for a while, the "store" is poor for a power user. I just use apt.

    Just checked something: "apt install joe" works, the store only shows joe-jupp The store is more curated? Maybe?

    machias, to random
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    When did the TSA start taking your photo before bag screening? That’s a new one to me.

    meuon,
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    @machias I think the question would be: When dd the TSA OBVIOUSLY start taking your photos... There have been so many camera's for so long. Sigh..

    grmpyprogrammer, to random
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    Every weirdly written headline or blurb I see on a web page I now automatically assume is from ChatGepeto.

    meuon,
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    @grmpyprogrammer Whats really got me frustrated is it looks like a lot of reference manuals from the OEM's are being rewritten by "ChatGepeto" (love the name), and while they are beautiful and look very official and complete, they are sorely lacking in meaningful details and seem to suck in weird data from elsewhere. Todays WTF: That model of a device does not have a removable battery or a reset butten under the battery. Other devices by that OEM do. Hmmm..

    meuon, to php
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    Showed a young dev/geek code using the Asterisk AMI interface, essentially a plain text socket you can telnet to or use with socket code. The horror was palpable. Much of the real "make things work" world work this way. How are us old geeks going to be able to retire? I need to find a pliable youngling/padawan to train in the dark arts.

    Teri_Kanefield, to random

    Reporter Stephen Neukam confirmed that a "joint" speakership between Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan is currently being floated.

    The Constitution provides that "The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers."

    In four other places, "the speaker" is singular.

    I don't know if "Speaker" can be two people.

    I'm not sure how this would work in practice, whether it is even Constitutional, or how it would be challenged.

    meuon,
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    @Teri_Kanefield I can't imagine it could be effective having "co-speakers". In other times, it might be fun to watch the show. Not currently.

    waynedixon, to php
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    You would think that after using PHP for almost 20 years, that I'd have the DateFormatter format codes memorized... nope... I have the standard ones I need most often (Y-m-d H:i:s and m/d/Y g:i a), but anything else I have to look up the codes every time.

    meuon,
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    @waynedixon I keep looking up things I think I know, because PHP has evolved so much. Mostly for the better but some times it's a head twister for me.

    meuon,
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    @waynedixon I use "joe" because I've been using Wordstar-like commands forever (since WordStar era?) I've tried auto-complete helper type editors and they break my thought process. Old dog can only learn so many new tricks. ;)

    mendel, to random
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    o p s e c

    (source unknown, i yoinked it from work slack)

    meuon,
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    @mendel Next time I do a video call, I'll have to have a trolling faux password / bank info printout on the wall behind me.

    meuon, to random
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    New issue found: Once you get a bunch of systems on the same network using DropBox locally, the amount of UDP broadcast traffic from each to port 17500 can overwhelm equipment, and an Asterisk PBX listening on ports 10,000 to 30,000. Just setup a local file server/share, please.

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    meuon,
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    @GossiTheDog I'm still curious how it's going to work with people (like me) whom legitimately use the same device for multiple roles and accounts across domains. Even more fun for software testing. It may be the end of personas, reasonably anonymous accounts, etc.. They will possibly figure out that we are actually dogs.

    fell, to javascript
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    Is really more efficient than ? Does anyone have data on this?

    meuon,
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    @fell Depens on what you are doing and where. I contend that PHP can be extremely fast and efficient on a server when it doesn't include huge frameworks to load, and JavaScript is your only real choice in a Browser. As it's on the clients computer, you could argue that it's much more efficient that whatever you run on the server. JavaScript on the server: also depends. An F1 racer and a drag car are both efficient. At different things.

    meuon, to Amazon
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    I'd pay $10+ per month for a setting in amazon.com for my mother-in-law to be able to shop, go through the motions of buying things with a delivery date 7 days into the future. after that, it'd just show it as returned and never charge her. 'Cuz she's therapy shopping: when stuff shows up she asks my wife (her daughter) why it showed up, doesn't remember it, doesn't like it and ask to please return it.

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