Posts by dan@brvt.telent.net
(DIR) Post #AhpQYsNIYiySUhOKpc by dan@brvt.telent.net
2024-05-08T14:14:10.335739Z
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I am still annoyed about this now I find out how much they _usually_ sell for on Ebay. Think I must have paid about half the going rate
(DIR) Post #AhvI7uPlEZ8IJgvuPQ by dan@brvt.telent.net
2024-05-05T18:00:26.722685Z
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If you thought google search had gone down the pan lately, you should try searching for products on amazon
(DIR) Post #AhxR2RSIlNjGxQVdNA by dan@brvt.telent.net
2024-04-29T09:12:33.934675Z
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@cstross @BashStKid in 1984 I was ~ 10 years old and lived in a small town that had a Dixons and a Boots (I don't think Currys sold computers back then). I used to spend my Saturday mornings in one or the other writing BASIC programs - usually of the 20 GOTO 10 level of complexity - on the computers they had on display.I apologise now to all the staff for my unwitting contribution to making those places more awful to work in
(DIR) Post #Ai1VMSu0Gpj7gY6qwq by dan@brvt.telent.net
2024-05-05T08:35:29.799541Z
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> Do not turn the [steering lock] key to LOCK while riding the motorcycle; loss of vehicle control will resultI hope i would have worked that much out without the warning in the manual
(DIR) Post #Ai5e01egZPc11r9wSe by dan@brvt.telent.net
2024-05-02T08:34:35.486661Z
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> e, and HTTP/3 (QUIC) uses UDP transport. SNI Proxy just doesn't support these protocols, and adding support for them would complicate it significantly. For these reasons, I'm transitioning SNI Proxy to a deprecated status.Aargh. Am I going to have to implement proper split DNS just for android phones on my lan that suddenly decide they'd rather v4 than v6
(DIR) Post #Ai6Ie9q9YQc2AEDLzk by dan@brvt.telent.net
2024-04-30T21:12:47.577815Z
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@molly0xfff web sites that weren't covered in cookie consent banners, newsletter signup dialogs and other modals that won't take no for an answer ("maybe later")search engines that workedblogs written by people for whom blogging wasn't a career
(DIR) Post #Ai6V4xfE8Fr1fWeQsa by dan@brvt.telent.net
2024-05-02T17:15:54.065620Z
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Things I know how to do in theory but do rarely enough that I still get a sense of satisfaction when they work, #3941: crimping ethernet connectors
(DIR) Post #Ai6aiia28FY0F1zyuu by dan@brvt.telent.net
2024-04-29T17:49:00.830674Z
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@revk @noybeu GDPR aside, this approach would not (I think) get them very far if a defamation action was brought. "Oh, I didn't mean you" or "the small print says its fictional" tend not to work well as defences to libel or slander
(DIR) Post #Ai6gFc5HnvGxQD7ccS by dan@brvt.telent.net
2024-05-01T06:48:04.152212Z
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@BrodieOnLinux 1920: here's thing but we painted it with radium
(DIR) Post #AmHAOcL8VJ1FRJVbQ8 by dan@brvt.telent.net
2023-07-23T22:34:08.050945Z
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@mtearle @sc_griffith para 1.2 is lacking the “Simply” or “This is a simple matter of” that is needed to reinforce in the reader that they are an utter dumbass for not understanding it already
(DIR) Post #AmHGNbpvUPRLJVoTFg by dan@brvt.telent.net
2024-09-22T21:04:36.663568Z
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@feld with a marginal understanding of technology and a monetary outlay which is negligible to anyone with a salaried job in a developed country, I can *purchase* the domain name, and then when one host shuts down I can copy my stuff to the new host and repoint the domain name there.I've done this for over 20 years for my personal blog (admittedly for at least some of those years I haven't actually _written_ in it), and there's nothing magical about it - it's simply that I was able to choose straightforward/open/easy-to-manipulate formats (HTML, Textile, Markdown) for the source data. Migrating my fediverse presence the same way (I have already tried once and then given up) would be an order of magnitude more complicated if it were even possible.
(DIR) Post #AmHGNdJjz2snuGlnMW by dan@brvt.telent.net
2024-09-22T21:18:19.410214Z
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@feld unless the domain is taken away from you. Or the TLD is retired. Or the registrar shuts down and the domain expires and you can't renew it because it's stuck in limbo.Assuming an old-school TLD (com/net/org/iso 3166 country) that's not run by muppets, any of these things happens less often than hosting providers going under and a lot less often than fediverse hosts throwing in the towel.I'm not saying it's a panacea nor is it available to everyone, but it's still a shitload easier than self-hosting your fediverse instance. "It's ok to lose your fediverse presence and have to start again because it's also possible to lose your domain name" doesn't strike me as a particularly great argument given the relative probability of those events.And it doesn't even seem like it'd be especially hard to fix, if the software folk wanted to. A tool to export the database as plain text (JSON, whatever) and another tool to import it in the new place.
(DIR) Post #AuE33Z7Sz60e2WOfce by dan@brvt.telent.net
2025-05-18T17:32:00.025141Z
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looking for a phrase of between 1 and three words for the concept "number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC" and pretty sure that whatever I choose is bound to be unsatisfactory
(DIR) Post #AuWh2ZxX8SgvSwm00W by dan@brvt.telent.net
2025-05-27T17:30:12.050522Z
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@Suiseiseki this argument is the same level of speciousness as saying that software on a write-protected 5 1/4" disk is actually hardware because you need to physically cover the write-protect notch before you can change it
(DIR) Post #AuWmA11bP73HCr2eG0 by dan@brvt.telent.net
2025-05-27T18:27:49.233104Z
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@Suiseiseki if I can change the rom by removing the cartridge and replacing it with a different cartridge, and this causes the computer to execute a different program, then clearly the program must have been present in the cartridge. The comparative ease/difficulty of changing the bits on the medium doesn't alter the fact that their value is as bits.
(DIR) Post #AuhBzRxSvrB3vhVy52 by dan@brvt.telent.net
2025-06-01T18:42:28.628520Z
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@lxo @mjg59 @freetar @Suiseiseki "if you buy a piece of hardware assuming it cannot be modified" ... why would you assume that? People modify hardware (or pay other people to modify it for them) all the time: whole industry segments exist as a result. Its just a different skill set to that required for software modification.
(DIR) Post #AuhLx8qC2PldbJeQCW by dan@brvt.telent.net
2025-06-01T20:15:20.476888Z
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@lxo @freetar @Suiseiseki @mjg59 > but you seem to mistake a conditional for a certainty. it's a fact that people frequently (are led to) hold the assumption, while challenging that assumption is an exception. it's up to hardware freedom activists to change this unfortunate environment.It wasn't clear to me whether you viewed it as a conditional or a certainty as the rest of your argument seemed to rest on the condition holding, which I think is the case far less often than you believe. Consider the right to repair movement, for example, which is far bigger than (is probably a strict superset of) "hardware freedom activists"
(DIR) Post #AuhVy1u6JWwruwXbEm by dan@brvt.telent.net
2025-06-01T20:12:05.713925Z
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@lxo @freetar @Suiseiseki @mjg59 > I suppose people would make that assumption because so much hardware is made to not be modified. Really, though? Cars get modded, clothes get altered, furniture gets reupholstered, white goods get repaired with pattern parts, bicycles get upgrades, houses get extended ... seems to me that computers (and, to an extent, consumer electronics generally) are the outlier here. Maybe I can't directly alter the software in the ROM in the ECU that controls the fuelling for my motorbike, because it's ROM. But that scarcely makes a difference to my overall objective: I can swap it for a different ROM (or an EEPROM) with slightly different software. It would still be considered as modifying the bike, and it would still be simpler if I could read the source code that the ROM was produced from.
(DIR) Post #AujB0VhSnID4BctK3k by dan@brvt.telent.net
2025-06-02T14:21:16.825338Z
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@lxo @freetar @Suiseiseki @mjg59 honestly I don't see a hard and fast distinction. If I break the bottom bracket on my bike I could replace it with an identical component or I might put a better (lighter, stronger) one in. Especially for older items, the original part might no longer even be made and a different part would have to be substituted. If I take my holey jeans to the repair cafe maybe they put a patch over the hole - that's both a repair and a modification
(DIR) Post #AvrKyZZ1ZpRX9fkvxI by dan@brvt.telent.net
2025-07-06T14:26:39.165886Z
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@clacke @sullybiker there's a sign outside a local shop here saying "free cash machine" but from prior experiences I feel certain it doesn't actually dispense free cash