Stephan Sokolow @ssokolow@qoto.org

@e0ipso @pcrock

My perspective is that, if something needs a CDN to be viable, then it's fundamentally unfit for purpose and must be replaced.

@Krypton @lucasdondo@fosstodon.org

The point is to disincentivize collecting the information.

@nextcloud I can't help but this of this quote:

You [should] not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered -- Lyndon Johnson, former President of the U.S.

@Gina I'm more a Melee fan. Once I got used to it, the original and Brawl felt too slow-paced.

Still, N64 FTW. At the moment, I'm trying to regain my old skills to beat Grunty in Banjo-Kazooie and beat the first Wizpig race in Diddy Kong Racing. Then, on to Banjo-Tooie.

(Emulated with the help of USB controller adapters. My N64 has an un-diagnosed reset problem.)

@fsf I'm about to get back to playing https://endless-sky.github.io/

It's a GPLv3'd Escape Velocity clone still actively soliciting and receiving new content and *very* addictive.

@normandc @brandon @DonMcCollough@fosstodon.org @elfio

...though I can only assume I'm a glutton for punishment because, if I could afford to spend $400 on a keyboard, I'd snag one of the IBM 6110347 keyboards that turn up on eBay periodically and hook it up via an adapter and some key remapping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_JTZo2rKmw

(The closest you can get to a US101 or US104 layout in Model F switches, given that https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/ only does ultra compact layouts.)

@normandc @brandon @DonMcCollough@fosstodon.org @elfio

I stick to standard US 104 (anglophone Canadian here), but I think I know the feeling because Unicomp stopped making a proper US 104 layout for buckling spring boards back in 2013.

https://www.pckeyboard.com/mm5/graphics/ProductNews7-25-13.pdf

(I had to set an eBay watch to get my current keyboard plus the couple of spares I eventually managed to snag at a reasonable price. One of these days, I'm planning to buy a box of replacement parts.)

@obi I'm very big on having a unified interface for things, so, when my choice was between here and fosstodon, the killer feature for here was "Domain Subscriptions".

Full-text searches, a raised character limit, bookmarking, keyword searches, instance ticker banners, in-timeline subscribe/follow buttons, and a light theme with non-fixed-width columns were also part of my decision though.

@freemo I watched The Cinema Snob's riff of it and decided that was enough for me.

(But I did enjoy him comically drawing attention to how many times the boom mic is visible.)

@randynose I didn't think you weren't... but a lot of people (myself included) don't know the details of how UEFI booting works and that post does a great job of covering them.

Since I'm impatient when it comes to partially finished stuff, you get another music roundup today. #game #music covers:

The two I wound up tweeting about are "original arrangement, better instrument" covers of songs I love:

Haunted Woods from Diddy Kong Racing for N64:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y37R33rTPD0

Fillmore from Actraiser for SNES... the "what Castlevania is this from?" song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b0GxFFourc

I'll probably also do a few faves rundowns covering stuff I didn't tweet about, like filk music.

@thewk @neildarlow@fosstodon.org Nothing more annoying than a bad guy with nothing better to do.

@thewk @neildarlow@fosstodon.org Ahh. Yeah. That's annoying.

Reminds me of a post I saw on /r/rust/ a few days ago with someone amused at the requests coming into their Rust app that were doomed to failure.

@neildarlow@fosstodon.org @thewk Have you considered a system where you hand out a different e-mail alias to each site (like a revokable API key) and auto-trash messages that don't pass through an alias?

I get maybe one or two spam a year that way... usually because a Bugzilla leaked my info or an eBay seller subscribed me to their newsletter.

(Phase 2 will be self-hosting so I can write a milter which replies to unauthorized senders for each alias with a CAPTCHA link and rewrites From in outgoing replies.)

@codesections @thor@noagendasocial.com See if you can find a cost-effective way to import the sugar-free options in this product line.

https://www.drinkreeds.com/

I've seen them turn up in health-food stories here in Ontario, Canada, from time-to-time and the ones I tried were delicious.

@moonman @wizzwizz4 Are you sure about that?

I tend to run tools like OptiPNG, AdvanceCOMP, and jpegoptim over the image files I serve to save bandwidth... oh and `pngcrush -rem gAMA -rem alla -rem cHRM -rem iCCP -rem sRGB -rem time`.

@moonman @wizzwizz4

It won't help as much as you hope.

First, the hashes apply to the compressed output, and the whole raison d'etre for tools like OptiPNG is that there's more than one way to compress the same grid of pixels. This isn't FLAC where the format contains an MD5 hash that allows verifying bit-exact decompressed output.

Second, it's not the overall PNG that's CRC'd, but the chunks. Each chunk consists of a 4-byte data length, a 4-byte type code, the data (can be zero-length), and a 4-byte CRC on the data and the ordering rules for the chunks have no total ordering.

https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/#5DataRep

(The rationale for the design is at https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG-Rationale.html#R.Chunk-layout)

Have you considered calculating and caching a hash on the raw pixel data after loading, and then using a (path, size, mtime) triple as the cache key? That should allow a Good Enough™ check on each emoji using only a single stat call.

@randynose You might also want to read this overview of how booting actually works on a UEFI motherboard.

https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/

@gxtony@fosstodon.org *chuckle* I'm male and my ponytail is so long that, when it's not time to wash my hair, I have to use a stretchy neoprene swim cap to contain it. (which implies that I have to wash my forehead before putting it on if I want it to get washed.)

@freemo Hard to choose.

If it has to be "true tea" and not herbal tea/tisane, a good blend of ginger and green tea.