dan

@dan@upvote.au

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't ask for more pixels⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still call it Twitter because their emails are still branded as Twitter. I don’t actuslly use it any more but I do get so much spam through DMs that I’m considering deleting my account. I’m mostly holding it just so nobody squats on my name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure thing, website, my name is Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Websites don’t have an actual check for a legit email.

  Some do. You can connect to an SMTP server and pretend to send an email (send the EHLO, MAIL FROM, and RCPT TO commands, but dint actually send any content). A lot of servers will immediately reject as soon as you provide an invalid recipient email address

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thats right⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you mean in mixed language documents? Can’t you tell it that parts of the document are in a different language? You could do that in Microsoft Word 25 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ancient⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really do be like that. I work with some people who are nearly 15 years younger than me (I’m in my mid 30s and some newer employees have just graduated from university) so I feel this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give an inch take an inch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the recommendation!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give an inch take an inch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sandboxing does use some RAM, but it was a big win for security. One site can’t crash the entire browser or use a security hole to get access to data on other tabs. Still, the majority of the RAM is taken by the site itself. The processes do share some RAM - they’re not entirely isolated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give an inch take an inch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a game developer so I just used the first example I could think of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give an inch take an inch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most regular players didn’t encounter these bugs though, as often they’re edge cases that don’t occur during regular gameplay. A lot of them were found by people intentionally looking for them.

  I’d argue that games today are bugger than games in the past, just due to how complex they are now. Sure, they’re a different class of bug (and arbitrary code execution via buffer overflows isn’t really a thing any more thanks to ASLR and the NX bit), but I don’t think there’s fewer bugs at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give an inch take an inch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In some cases, the RAM actually is in use by the site. That’s especially the case on sites with heavy client-side logic. In that case, it’s not Chrome’s (or Firefox’s) fault, it’s the website’s fault.

  Chrome has a “Memory Saver” feature where it’ll unload tabs that are offscreen/hidden which helps quite a bit. Not sure if Firefox has something similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My doctor's office now has ads when checking in online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re also using something like Google Analytics to track users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give an inch take an inch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Apps like Chrome use available RAM if it’s available, but they should be releasing it for other apps to use when there’s high memory pressure.

  It’s the same with disk caching. If you have a lot of free RAM, the OS will use all of it for caching files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give an inch take an inch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Games were impressive in this way too. Computers and consoles didn’t have much CPU power or memory, so they had to squeeze every little bit.

  This was still happening even with 5th gen consoles. Crash Bandicoot couldn’t fit in the Playstation’s memory so they ended up overwriting system memory and memory allocated to features of Sony’s standard library they weren’t using.

  These days, game development is more “boring” in that aspect. Systems are powerful and frameworks like Unreal Engine handle all the core stuff. That’s not necessarily a bad thing though - it lets the game developers focus on the game itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just joking - it was a reference to the famous Bill Gates quote (that he didn’t actually say) about RAM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  480Mbps ought to be enough for anybody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unsubscribe page that crashes when you try to unsubscribe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, car mats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unsubscribe page that crashes when you try to unsubscribe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trunk/boot mats. Those are mostly the same across brands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unsubscribe page that crashes when you try to unsubscribe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure this is against the CAN-SPAM act in the USA. If you can’t get it working, email legal@ and complain.

  To be honest, Weathertech’s floor mats aren’t even that good. They’re okay, but I much prefer Tuxmat, which are a similar price but feel higher quality and usually have much better coverage. Lasfit is also good, if you want something a bit cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not time for your point release yet.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A few basic steps can keep Arch just as stable as anything else.

  “stable” in this case means “doesn’t change often”. Is that actually doable with Arch?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not time for your point release yet.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Debian testing is usually good enough. Packages have to be in unstable for ~10 days with no major bugs to migrate to testing.

  Of course, you can run unstable if you really want to live on the edge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  business class data plan that actually allows hosting

  You can get a VPS for $30/year. Self hosting doesn’t mean it has to be at your house. In some cases, using d VPS ends up cheaper than just the electricity cost for hosting at home, let alone hardware costs, internet costs, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Spam protection is hard given SMTP was never designed with it in mind.

  I also self-host my email, but I use an outbound SMTP relay to avoid having to deal with all that stuff. My server sends outbound emails to a company that’s got that all figured out. Maybe that’s not “true” self hosting, but it’s really no different to people that self-host but put Cloudflare in front of their server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the most feasible solution is municipal internet, where the city owns the fiber lines and essentially runs it like a non profit. Good cities that do this don’t see it as a profit center; they see it as providing a service to their residents.

  Palo Alto California is doing this. They’re modernizing their electricity grid, so they’re also running fiber at the same time as running the new electrical lines. Electricity in Palo Alto is run by the city, and as a result, electricity there is less than 1/3 of the price of electricity with PG&E, the investor-owned utility company that supplies most of Northern California.

  More community run mesh networks

  That’s kinda what settlement-free peering at an IX (internet exchange) is. Multiple networks agree to connect to each other for free. Of course, the networks are usually large ones, so that kinda goes against your other points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been self hosting my email for a long time, but I use an outbound SMTP relay so I don’t have to deal with IP reputation. The more interesting part to self-host is the receiving part, not the sending part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How does Docker reduce security?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just some parts of it. github.com/bluesky-social/pds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on a true story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But for there to be used cars, there needs to be new cars… How do the people that buy new cars pay for them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the modern web⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody is doing anything malicious.

  How do you know that though? VPNs are very commonly used to send spam, perform ransomware attacks, DDoS attacks, etc.

  What’s probably happening is they’re worried too many requests are coming from one ip address and you might be scraping their precious data to train your LLM.

  This is definitely also a possibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the modern web⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue with a VPN is that it’s likely that other people using the same exit node are doing something malicious. A site like reddit or a bank or whatever sees a lot of attacks coming from one IP (or a range of IPs) and mark it as malicious.

  You’d likely do the same thing with your own site - something like Denyhosts or Crowdsec that blocks people trying to brute force a password will end up blocking anyone else using that same VPN exit IP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used number 5 throughout high school and university and they always served me well. Sometimes I thought about trying the fancier ones with gel grips, but old reliable BIC was always there for me. I trusted the BIC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Win win⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, CTP. I never drove or owned a car in Australia so I’m glad I got it right haha. I lived in Melbourne and used public transport all my life. I didn’t learn to drive until I moved to the USA.