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tomw

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Web developer. Sometimes designer. I like code, words and mass movements. Jag lär mig #svenska.

Interested in/may post about #html #css #wordpress #openweb #decentralisation #socialism #protest

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tomw, to random
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Someone needs to invent something worse than screens so that all the people who rabbit on about "screens" being bad will embrace them as "the wholesome alternative to (new bad thing)".

This is basically what has happened with kids' comics at this point.

tomw,
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Luckily this is one of the times when I'm pretty sure Silicon Valley is on the case

kev, to random
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I recently wrote about how Mastodon is DDoSing me every time I post a link to this site. I've managed to fix the problem...I think.

https://kevquirk.com/i-stopped-mastodon-ddosing-me-i-think

tomw,
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@kev Yep, a caching plugin fixes it as you discovered. I'm not familiar with your CMS but for the more common case of Wordpress, installing WP Super Cache (or similar) fixes the problem at a stroke.

tomw, to random
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I just used jQuery in a new project and you know what, I don't even feel bad. I just needed to hide all the elements with one class and show all the elements with a different class. A one-liner in jQuery and not in anything else!

tomw,
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(It seems like it would be easy in vanilla JS but you have to do some messy iteration as far as I can tell)

tomw,
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Name a better API than

$('.myclass').hide();

(Which hides not just one element, but all with that class.)

I'll wait.

tomw,
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Everyone turned against jQuery because it was a "big" dependency, which it kind of was... 10 years ago.

Nowadays people are importing 100x more JS without a second thought. jQuery is snappy compared to 'modern' websites.

tomw, to wordpress
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I think @dbushell is correct that modern , at least the way they want you to do it, is a "CSS-in-JSON-in-HTML-comments-in-a-PHP-file" mess.

Luckily you can just ignore full site editing and the not-quite-React nonsense and continue to happily write themes in PHP/HTML/CSS.

https://dbushell.com/2024/05/07/modern-wordpress-themes-yikes/

datarama, to random
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Where do people who self-host their websites, mastodon instances etc. actually host things these days?

(Hetzner are villains now, and so are DigitalOcean I gather?)

tomw,
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@datarama If you move web hosts every time a web host does something bad, you'll be moving web hosts every day

infobeautiful, to random
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WARNING! This image may trigger PINSecurity.

From an analysis of 3.4m PIN code leaked from several data breaches https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/most-common-pin-codes/

A diagonal line of ‘heat’ from bottom left to top right reveals people choosing double digits (2323, 6868 etc). A strong horizontal line at the 19 point shows people using their birth year as a PIN code (1971, 1998 etc). And a large amount of heat in the bottom left shows how people commonly use their birthdate in a MM/DD or DD/MM format. The most common code in the set is 1234.
The Top 20 most common 4 digit PIN numbers, as revealed by an analysis of data breaches, constitute 27% of all PIN numbers. They are 1234, 1111, 0000, 1212, 7777, 1004, 2000, 4444, 2222, 6969, 9999, 3333, 5555, 6666, 1122, 1313,8888,4321,2001,1010

tomw,
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@infobeautiful This is why if you're ever trying to guess a padlock code, you should start at around 1950 and keep incrementing by 1

mrpjevans, to random
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One for fellow software devs out there.

I thought 'Oh, a silly grammar cock-up that makes for a fun local news story'. Then I read the first line. I won't spoil the surprise but maybe make sure there's no-one close when you yell 'OH FOR FU...'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

tomw,
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@mrpjevans St Mary€™s Walk, I know it well

tomw, to random
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ncrs yr typng spd by lvng t ll th vwls

tomw,
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fllw fr mr lf hcks

tomw,
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@mahryekuh You got it! (The first one)

tomw, to random
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Every security expert ever: "Do not use incrementing ID numbers"

Every Shopify-based shop: "Thanks for your order # 1201"

tomw,
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I've also not followed this rule in the past because it is Too Annoying in most cases.

But I felt kind of bad about it. Clearly they don't, so whatever.

tomw,
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@flakess True - unless they deliberately change the numbers sometimes, it does leak all-time total and rough rate

davepolaschek, to random
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I saw the fuss about the “Don’t link to our website” people yesterday, and didn’t comment much until this morning, because I hadn’t realized just how crap-laden their page was (my ad-blocker did its job). My initial reaction was that they kept talking about “the mastodon devs should fix this” but isn’t part of the deal with open source (which mastodon is, right?) that if you see a problem, you can go fix it yourself which they didn’t seem to have any interest in. Open source much, guys?

tomw,
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@davepolaschek I think they are one of those crapola sites that started as a social media page and then set up a website. It does seem a very self-imposed web performance issue

ifixcoinops, to random
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🦆🐰🐺🐇🐭🐨🐴 we're all gonna visit 🐧's site at once to make a link preview
🦝 ooo, you shouldn't do that
🐧 I'm going to serve each of you six whole damn megabytes
🦝 ooo I've got another shouldn't just for you
🐧 maybe I should post about why is my site so slow
🦝 furtling for crumbs at the bottom of the Shouldn't Bag ooooo
🦊🦅🐗🐫 let's post about how none of this is actually a problem for anyone
🦝 turning the Shouldn't bag upside down and shaking it oh god hang on one at a time ONE at a TIME

tomw,
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@ifixcoinops Going to borrow this post format for future use

tomw, to random
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If a few hundred simultaneous requests can bring down your website, don't moan about Mastodon instances for sending them. Fix your website.

This doesn't need to be a big job – for most servers it's a couple of config lines, plus for Wordpress or similar you'll likely need caching.

It will prepare you for the day when you publish something that gets a lot of (genuine) traffic.

This level of traffic is not a "distributed denial of service", it is a "small-to-medium-sized request for service".

tomw,
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I do have some sympathy if you're just out here trying to run a little website, but honestly none if you claim in any way to be a person who knows anything about software, for example the type of person who might use the term "DDoS".

gamingonlinux, (edited ) to random
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I want to do a test on how much traffic and resources the Mastodon embed takes on my server, so boost this plz

Edit: all done, you can stop sharing now lol

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steam-deck-most-played-for-april-2024-has-plenty-of-fallout/

tomw,
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@gamingonlinux This is because you are not running your website on a potato

tomw, to random
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Stop releasing "new web browsers" that are just Chromium.

Stop releasing "new search engines" that are just Bing.

What a colossal waste of time.

tomw, to random
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It's strange to see people on here defending Tiktok, the most obvious Trojan Horse since 1000BC.

The main defence seems to be that Facebook also sent us a horse full of soldiers. Which is true. So we... just have to accept horses full of soldiers now? Out of a sense of fairness? I don't see how that follows.

yvanspijk, to random
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The word 'bairn' (child), which is used in Scots, Northern and Scottish English, is closely related to 'born' and 'to bear'.

These words all come from a root meaning "to carry".

When a baby is born it's been carried to term.
The infant is then carried around.

Zoom in for more:

tomw,
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@yvanspijk It was interesting as a (British) English speaker to learn that child in Swedish is "barn" because you do immediately make the link to Scots "bairn". There is something a touch Scandinavian about the whole sound of Scots.

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