anth

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TWO HOURS wasted today trying to figure out why an image wasn’t loading on some web page and what I was doing wrong… when the issue is the friggin’ DSL router is injecting headers into http (non-https) pages. GAH! I’m ready to throw the thing. I’ve never been so mad at CPE. 🤬

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Reading about browser security measures and getting sad we don’t live in a world where cross-site scripting is a feature instead of a bug.

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Earlier this week I found myself on the RIAA’s side in a legal dispute. Now I think Amy Coney Barrett got it right in her SCOTUS dissent. Truly we are in Bizarro World.

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In-reply-to » Fire-proof safes are generally designed so the internal temperature stays at or below ~350°F. Is there a computer medium I can write that's likely to survive an extended stay around that temperature? Storage size doesn't matter too much; a CD would be plenty (although an actual CD would presumably turn to soup).

There are apparently dedicated “fireproof” external hard drives available that do this, and this coincidentally-timed piece suggests I might be able to get closer to what I was thinking in the not-too-distant future: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/ssds/researchers-have-developed-a-type-of-flash-memory-storage-that-can-withstand-temperatures-higher-than-the-surface-of-venus/

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Fire-proof safes are generally designed so the internal temperature stays at or below ~350°F. Is there a computer medium I can write that’s likely to survive an extended stay around that temperature? Storage size doesn’t matter too much; a CD would be plenty (although an actual CD would presumably turn to soup).

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In-reply-to » Media

I run Plan 9 on my server and my main home workstation (a raspberry pi). My “daily driver” time is basically split between that and a Mac (excluding time on my phone, i suppose). I think it looks elegant, too. :-)

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In-reply-to » This was interesting: I didn't expect so much variation in reported times. If you happen to have #plan9 running on some other VPS, I'd love to hear your results. https://pdx.social/@a/112481970480703254

There’s other potential uses for the tool (compare syscall latency between OSes, stat latency between file systems), but not what i’m after.

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In-reply-to » This was interesting: I didn't expect so much variation in reported times. If you happen to have #plan9 running on some other VPS, I'd love to hear your results. https://pdx.social/@a/112481970480703254

For my purposes, the comparison would only be useful to systems running Plan 9; if you happen to have that, yes please!

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Well crap. I think I just realized that if my profile photo was a person it could vote in this year’s election. Probably time for a new default one.

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Huh. At some point, my twtxt-via-ssh shortcut from my phone stopped working. It does again now! I’ve changed nothing. Yay black boxes! 🤷🏻

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