@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy
Tricking software into working since the 1980s.
I do all kinds of tech things. Here you'll find: rants, ops/devops, microcontrollers, electronics, food, beer, opinions, and […]
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@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy@evert I haven't been before, but it looks like a good time. We're planning to have exhibitor tables for @foulab. Definitely say hi if you see me!
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@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy@b0rk Yes! Perpetually recurring conversation with the 14-year-old; most recently yesterday in the context of how much something cost:
“[mention of something that might make a good Christmas gift]”
"Oh, cool. Did you see how much it was?”
"Hmm. I think $25.”
"You think $25? Or you saw that […]
@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy@evan If you had… say… a million dollars, how much of it would (would) you spend?
@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy*youth techno-cult leader voice* > You know who wouldn't make that kind of mistake? LLMs.
@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gyDone with talking about Québec politics after this, but: - Minority governments are more representative of the people. It'll be harder for the PQ to suck. 👍 - The CAQ are… as they say… *finding out*. Glad they won't be burning things down anymore. 👍 - Montreal will actually have representation […]
@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gyWhat in the Jobs? (Seems exercising it brought out the power supply gremlins, so now it’s a hardware problem before the networking problem… We didn’t know this was called yak shaving in 1991.)
@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy@GarrickWinter I'm no political scientist, but—yes—I think at least part of it is that there are so many people 55-74 years old, and the two blocks in that range have the highest turnout, and that 18-34 (also two blocks) have the lowest turnout. See “Graphique 9" (page 19/20) here […]
@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy@maj I mean… I couldn't fit it into my last reply, but I did consider that the reason it’s easier on Facebook might be a conspiracy with whatever disinformation campaign botnet makes them the most money…
@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy@maj I agree that it SHOULD be better; I'd love it if more systems empowered their users instead of their owners.
In “ancient" times, this was indeed easier, too. phpBB is probably one server. Today we have highly distributed systems that are optimized for reads and relatively occasional writes […]
@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy“During the test phase of the WWW project, the port number to which the daemon listens was 2784. W3 has officially allocated port number 80. Servers should use port 80 and advertise their address with the explicit port number (i.e. http://host:80/etc…).” –1992 This stuff is fascinating […]
@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy@maj I realize this might be rhetorical, but writing is waaaay less work than removing (and writing again (“editing”)). Architecturally, it makes sense to give it some friction, if that's where they're pinched.
Sincerely trying to be helpful and sorry if it’s not. Doubly sorry if you already […]
@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gyMy geolocation-targetting ads sure are messed up after travelling across Canada by land in the past 3 weeks.
@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy[Why did the solderer have a hard time making connections?] He had no flux left to give. (sorry/not sorry)
@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy“First import of WWW Library source files. (not in working state)”
1993-Feb-03
https://github.com/w3c/libwww/commit/edb73538ebd51aa92e7bbebcad16d1f74ec093fb
It's truly amazing that this is still out there, and readily available (once I was able to find it).
@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gyHTDaemon.c-Tim-development
@sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gyIt's a weird thing when: - spinning my wheels on not finding something (WWWDaemon source code for NeXT Cube, in this case) - finally give up and ask [specific] others for help - IMMEDIATELY find the thing I asked about, before anyone could have possibly helped (I deleted the original post […]
