FriedrichN

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by FriedrichN 1mo ago
That's pretty much what I mean. Implementing the authenticity measures is very easy, making sure the e-mails get delivered to peoples inboxes without getting marked as spam is hard. I just wish these big parties would give you a more f
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by FriedrichN 1mo ago
Self hosting is not that hard actually. The problem lies with the big e-mail providers marking your e-mail as spam, even if you have everything configured right (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, etc.) and you're not on any blacklists. They use th
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by FriedrichN 7mo ago
Very cool! I will be playing with this. The only thing that jumped out to me is a lack of a panic button that stops all sound.
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
You are right. However, it is my work and I do have an emotional connection to my work and my frustrations with certain technologies are very real.
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
They absolutely do. But I usually don't have to explain the config language and it's widely supported, that is an absolute upside of .ini files.
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
I'll use what I'll have to use, it's a tool like you said. But I don't have to love it. Configuration is a necessary evil and whatever I end up using, I'm never fully satisfied with the end result.
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
I'll just come out and say that I hate every single configuration language. All of them suck in their own unique way and every time a new one comes out it fixes some issues of the language it's supposed to supersede but never with
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
I actually really like the fact that my Garmin Instinct is not really a smart watch, it makes connecting it to your phone optional. Mine has never connected to a phone because I don't like to run Google's spyware on my phone. Yet,
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
That probably doesn't work either unless they work in an automated fashion. Did the chef put two or three dashes (official SI unit) of this or that on your meal? A a "dash" or "splash" or "spritz" of certa
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
I'll second the recommendation of fiction (I love the classics) and add a recommendation for reading philosophy and specifically the history of philosophy. Learning how our frame thinking evolved from the time of the Greeks to the midd
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
This is actually what I do most of the time. I feel like that anecdote of RMS where he says he wgets web pages and e-mails them to himself.
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
And they were caught and received 30 year prison sentences. https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/2-sentenced-to-prison-for-...
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has paid attention to their cats' behaviour when another pet dies. I remember when one of our four cats didn't come home, there were definitely changes in how the remaining thre
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
I would have done that if the venue were closer to me, but it's just a little too far away for that. There might be tickets available just before the show, but I'm not willing to risk driving all the way there just to be disappoin
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
Recently I attempted to buy concert tickets from a well known ticket seller. It insisted I was a bot, even after disabling my uMatrix and uBlock Origin. There was no way to prove that I was not, not even a CAPTCHA. So I decided to simply no
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
Not where I live (ace-K and sucralose). Maybe it differs per region.
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
I have yet to encounter a soda that uses sugar alcohols, most use aspartame, ace-K, sucralose, or stevia. Those don't bother me at all. But the side-effects of sugar alcohols are pretty well known (especially to anyone who has had the
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
Sugar alcohols will never be as popular as more obvious choices like aspartame and sucralose. Most people have at least some adverse reaction to sugar alcohols. Personally, all of them, used in any meaningful quantity, turn me into a bloate
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
Well call me a heathen, but I've never even considered React. Instead I always generate HTML server side and spruce it up using a little JavaScript if necessary (I even use jQuery sometimes). It's reliable, works fast, easy to deb
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
Nothing is the way forward. It's programming, we make stuff that does stuff. Preferably with stuff that makes making stuff that does stuff easier and with stuff that will be supported for a long time. Maybe I'm too cynical, but wh
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
Just the fact that Yarn seems to be the dominant package manager now when it seems like last week it was npm. What will it be next week? I truly wonder, do people use this stuff for software that is expected to be maintained for 5-10 years?
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by FriedrichN 2y ago
It seems that https://www.startpage.com also uses Bing for its images.
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by FriedrichN 3y ago
If you need guard rails to keep you from performing database manipulations in your views you have other problems to worry about. And if anything people are cutting corners on SOC in the M and C part of MVC, not the V part. Also I don't
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by FriedrichN 3y ago
1. I've seen enough terrible things in my time, but you can make a mess in any language using any number of frameworks. And it's been a hot minute since I've seen one of those 1000+ line PHP+SQL+HTML+JS+CSS monstrosities in a
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by FriedrichN 3y ago
Why is it a "bad idea"? I'm genuinely curious. It works great, it's fast and you don't have to learn a new templating language or dialect every 2-3 years. Or try to figure out how to do trivial things like loops in
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by FriedrichN 3y ago
The bad good old days, I sure don't miss writing pages with byzantine structures of tables within tables. I do miss web pages that weren't +10MB that load hundreds of JS and CSS files that clog up your computer and may or may not
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by FriedrichN 3y ago
When in doubt, blame your customers for not wanting your product. He's a true libertarian free speech absolutist alright.
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by FriedrichN 4y ago
I wouldn't worry about it, from what I gather the validity (of the claim erythritol: bad) of the study is questionable. Mainly because the study participants were very ill with hypertension, diabetes, CVD, and they didn't look at
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by FriedrichN 4y ago
This was something that bothered me too. I found that you need to set mail.server.default.check_all_folders_for_new to true in the config editor (can be found under settings).
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by FriedrichN 4y ago
I use uBlock Origin and I never see YouTube ads.

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