Posts by krinkle@fosstodon.org
(DIR) Post #APOyS25FwSGq19J88O by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2022-11-08T17:19:54Z
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I wrote about how Wikipedia's HTTP/2 and SPDY deployed to its CDN and the regressions, benefits, and lessons we learned around paint time and load time metrics.It took place back in 2016, but the topic came up recently and the caveats esp at scale are still somewhat unknown. Enjoy!https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/11/04/http-2-performance-revisited/#webperf #http2 #spdy #http3 #cdn #NetOps
(DIR) Post #ATNgRHk0r89kIvwPPE by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2023-03-05T04:04:35Z
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You can probably find the location of SSH servers belonging to any GitHub user (and identify who attempts to connect to yours).This because GitHub offers easy access to public keys, and your SSH client defaults to trying each local key.Nice write-up by Andrew @agwa:https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/whoaretheyNOTE: You can avoid this by pinning IdentityFile to a Host section in your ~/.ssh/config file. Example: https://github.com/Krinkle/dotfiles/blob/v2022.05/hosts/primary/sshconfig#L35#infosec #ssh
(DIR) Post #ATtp8ejf9snOsoj81g by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2023-02-04T16:51:40Z
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Introducing FOSC, Flash of Styled Content.When a website briefly appears to render okay but then through needless use of JavaScript shits itself and can't wait to tell you about it by blanking out the perfectly good page. #FOSC
(DIR) Post #AVc9w15UK9QvBX5yLo by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2023-05-13T14:06:29Z
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@simon This mostly led by and biased around Google and their comms.I wonder how this relates to the seemingly more neural "Interop" initiative that's been going for a few years.
(DIR) Post #AYJtA0PekRKvRaS0Rs by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2023-08-02T12:07:16Z
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@webmink Wow, you weren't kidding!In a Portugal case against Wikimedia:"the lower court in a surprising decision brought up arguments [plaintiff] had not even made [..]"and "the court once again appears to have raised arguments [plaintiff] did not make [..]"https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/07/27/high-stakes-for-the-wikimedia-projects-in-portugal-fighting-a-strategic-lawsuit-against-public-participation-slapp/#wikipedia #wikimediafoundation #slapp #lawsuit #legal #portugal
(DIR) Post #AYyqMGYNi3NKWSWgnw by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2023-08-22T06:23:26Z
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@stux Don't worry Stux! Apple will find a way to keep blocking a random Mastodon or Matrix client from their App Store every six months for showing (any) user generated content, despite having mod tools. And they'll keep bending the rules for Twitter, and we won't know why. (Recall Apple was fine pissing off Netflix and Amazon for many years with no in-app sign ups for "reader" apps. So it really seems they're uniquely friendly toward this one platform.)
(DIR) Post #AaMvCBziHFKnRhsNma by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2023-10-02T19:01:40Z
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@textfiles TIL: The Declaration of Independence was signed by a time-traveling John Malkovich ("Being John Malkovich").It sure seems like every person around Washington is Washington...
(DIR) Post #AhULRvGKZDBAJrP0r2 by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2024-05-02T09:53:40Z
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Charged thousands of dollars for an empty Amazon S3 buckets?"""I opened my bucket for public writes and collected over 10GB of data within less than 30 seconds."""It's like registering a domain previous used by malware. I forget where I read it, but it was something like $huge amounts of Internet web and email traffic are former malware and viruses still diligently trying to seek instructions or deposit data.via @jonty via @WPalanthttps://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1
(DIR) Post #AkhSOSQK87qsMtw4ps by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2024-08-06T19:30:02Z
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@jaffathecake "This is 1.1 MB [..] via VP9, and 3.4 MB [..] via HEVC. The VP9 is double the size of the AVIF, which shows the generational gap between codecs."Wow! I wonder what playback performance is like on different devices. That's a factor in what we transcode to and serve on Wikipedia. Sometimes decoding in ogv.js.https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209437Currently (see format options in player control, or transcode list at bottom of page):https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eurasian_jay_(Garrulus_glandarius)_feeding.webm#VP9 #WebM #AV1 #webperf #mediawiki
(DIR) Post #AkhrdJ0NvYHeM6yonQ by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2024-08-07T00:12:55Z
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@jaffathecake MP4/H264 is troublesome for Wikimedia as we principally require a fully freely licensed and patent-unencumbered software stack.Safari refused for nearly two decades to (reliably) implement any free video codecs in their browser. It's gone from absent to spotty in recent years with it now depending on device age and mobile vs desktop whether it works (despite shipping the actual codecs many years ago for WebRTC, "normal" videos didn't).https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_MPEG-4_AVC_expired_yet%3F
(DIR) Post #AqwgY9h0VCQhaPKfHE by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2025-02-08T15:28:54Z
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(mac)OStalgia by Michael Feeney.A delightful dive into classic macOS 9, with reimagined versions of modern day applications, showing how they might look and feel if they met the expectations and interface conventions from back then.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DwJNQMBCOkBackground on how it was made and beautiful stils:https://swallowmygraphicdesign.com/project/macostalgia#macOS #nostalgia #macostalgia #retrocomputing #computerhistory
(DIR) Post #AtzQJUMXwnuMqaoNnM by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2025-05-11T16:20:20Z
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@xkcd RE: Today's XKCD,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruina_montium#xkcd #wikipedia
(DIR) Post #AuzSQIVVH5byY4XQ0W by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2025-06-10T06:19:37Z
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@brucelawson How the times have changed.Steve Jobs at the end:"Microsoft spent 500B a year on R&D and yet all they seem to be able to do [..] is copy Google and Apple.""Money isn't everything."https://youtu.be/N-2C2gb6ws8#wwdc
(DIR) Post #AvK2dD1hqAese6ym9I by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2025-06-20T07:18:47Z
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You'd think Google, having launched schema.org, knows how to produce valid schema.org metadata and HTML5.YouTube: How about a `<span>` inside the head, and `<link rel=alternative>` inside the body?HTML5 parsers:Thanks, I'll take that span as your implied end of `<head>`, and raise you an implied start of `<body>`. Everything that follows is now part of the body.Context:https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues/902#issuecomment-2990075755#NetNewsWire #WebStandards #whatwg #HTML5 #schemaorg #google
(DIR) Post #Aw1IINYdZJwnQbvWzo by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2025-07-11T07:32:31Z
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When applying a thick border all around an element in more than one color, the corners meet in a 45-degree angle, forming a diamond of sorts. That is established and seems reasonable.But, when you apply a thick edge on one side, with a thin 1px border all around, this border gets squeezed into a slope, and won't reach the edge!This is more noticable with todays high-DPI screens. It is rather unsatisfying, and hard to unsee...Example:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cleanup#css #WebDesign #WebStandards
(DIR) Post #Aw1l9ZPd1NPEG8rgtk by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2025-07-11T15:03:20Z
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@phnt @SuperDicq It renders the same in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. And happens without HiDPI too, just less obvious until you zoom.The top border is exactly 1px at all times. The color of that 1px transitions from grey to yellow, at an angle, the same way that it does for the thick orange/blue example.20px/1px should render the same as 200px/10px, right?Our brain seems to like it in some cases and dislike in others.
(DIR) Post #B0hLFzob6VTiNtUzj6 by krinkle@fosstodon.org
2025-11-24T14:48:59Z
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📝 Wikimedia blog: Unifying our mobile and desktop domainsReduced mobile response times by 20% worldwide and un-broke Google indexing.https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/iq1zrm/unifying_wikipedia_mobile_desktopOrange: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047958#mediawiki #wikipedia #wikimedia