That cks. Overcommitted sysadmin, photographer, bicyclist, and other multitudes. I write a lot of words for a programmer.
Joined December 2011
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4 Nov 2022
Since it seems it may matter these days, I'm on the Fediverse at @cks@mastodon.social aka mastodon.social/@cks
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6 Dec 2022
So apparently @Dell Canada's business side are now awfully close to spammers, sending unwanted marketing email to my work address with the usual '10 days to maybe remove your address' claimed 'opt-out' stuff. I can't say I'm surprised but I am disappointed.
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22 Nov 2022
Looks like I discovered a fun Firefox (Nightly?) bug: with 'open previous tabs & etc' on, open two separate windows, dock one window into the other as a second tab, quit, and restart. Only one of the two (or more) tabs will be there on restart. Great way to lose tabs, oops.
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22 Nov 2022
In Firefox 107 (and possibly earlier), if you convert a browser window into a tab in another window, quit Firefox, and restart, you lose the window-to-tab tab. It doesn't even make it into the session store. Nngh. Data loss irritates me a lot.
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu…
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5 Dec 2022
My Firefox 'docking a browser window into a tab will lose it on restart' issue goes back much further than I thought. at least to Firefox 105. (Mozregression is being unhelpful and its downloads are extremely slow or non-functional right now, so I can't tell precisely.)
5 Dec 2022
It would be nice if 'mozregression --good 106 --bad 107' actually used Firefox 106' for the start point (and 107 for the end point). It would make finding this bug easier. Assuming it's the same bug.
24 Nov 2022
I give a special award to everyone who sends multipart/alternative email where the text/plain and text/html versions are identical. That's not what *alternative* means. Just send HTML-only email.
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23 Nov 2022
My reaction to the free hoodie that my employer has just gifted us is 'this will come in handy when our offices are under-heated'. It even has hand-warming pockets.
(It really is free, our salaries are completely fixed by things far beyond our control.)
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22 Nov 2022
Of course there is no 'abuse[at]sharepoint.com' so that you can't report that someone is hosting a phish spam landing site on them and spamming your users. Because Microsoft.
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21 Nov 2022
I wonder how Intel onboard graphics compares to AMD onboard graphics in current CPUs, for both performance and Linux open source support.
(Yes, I'm thinking about getting a new system. No, I don't like it, hardware is a pain.)
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20 Nov 2022
Twitter hidden complexity: in web twitter, have you seen the like/RT/reply count increase live, as you watch? It's scary to think what it must take to do that across hundreds of thousands of people using web twitter and <X> tweets being interacted with all the time.
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20 Nov 2022
Probably the in-app web twitter tells the twitter backend what tweets are visible on your screen, then some backend system exists to publish likes/RTs/etc and route that to subscribing frontends, then push the count update to your browser.
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18 Nov 2022
Toronto's bike lanes on my commute route this morning ranged from bad through 'disastrous if you don't have studded tires' (I don't). I mostly took the road, and biking felt like a mistake.
I'm not surprised, it's par for the course for Toronto and its priorities. Cars over all.
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18 Nov 2022
I don't expect Toronto's bike lanes to be really usable until the snow all melts or evaporates (or both), especially the counterflow lanes and the dedicated lanes. This suggests bad things for them later in winter with more snowfall and colder temperatures.
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18 Nov 2022
My view is that separated bike lanes make winter snow clearance problems far worse in multiple ways. It takes dedication to keep them usable and not dangerous, and that dedication clearly isn't there in Toronto based on current results.
Important note on downloading your Twitter data: All the images are still hosted on Twitter, and everything's in messy JSON. I used this Twitter Archive Parser to convert everything to Markdown and downloads full size images, in case Twitter goes down:
github.com/timhutton/twitter…
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18 Nov 2022
With the current status of Twitter, now I get to play the fun game of 'home ISP or Twitter servers?' when I see glitches. (Currently, seems like 'home ISP')
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One of the things in visual representations of the past, especially a 'fantastic' past (e.g. fantasy medieval Europe) is the tendency to skip over the period when mail was the dominant heavy armor, from roughly the second century BC to the 13th century AD.
So let's talk mail. 1/
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Chris Siebenmann retweeted
I know I’m a horrifying murderbot, and they know it, and it makes both of us nervous, which makes me even more nervous.
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Chris Siebenmann retweeted
12 Nov 2022
Whichever of us is the last person to leave Twitter, make sure your last tweet is just the word "CROATOAN"
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