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Block AI Scrapers with a Caddy Plugin(mediocregopher.com)
1 points by mediocregopher 2y ago|0 comments
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Expectation Fields Are Real(autodidacts.io)
2 points by mediocregopher 4y ago|0 comments
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by mediocregopher 4y ago
It's very clearly a toy example to demonstrate the idea, and it does so well. > What we have here is a Rube Goldberg machine, not a cleanly solved engineering problem. And what _we_ have here is unfounded indignation over a perfectl
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Mastodon's Biggest Problem Is Its Name(blog.mediocregopher.com)
5 points by mediocregopher 4y ago|2 comments
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Thoughts on the potato diet(dynomight.net)
348 points by mediocregopher 4y ago|498 comments
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by mediocregopher 4y ago
War is a symptom of various causes, like over-population, changing geographical conditions, and just plain old greed. It is not a root cause. If humans had no bloodthirst we would still wage war, so long as we had a will to survive (somethi
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by mediocregopher 4y ago
They did this in a few places in caphill during covid, 16th and 11th being big examples. The cars have since been allowed back on those roads, though. Someone went tearing down 11th in their jeep at easily 50mph the other day, made me reall
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The Himitsu keyring and password manager for Unix(drewdevault.com)
5 points by mediocregopher 4y ago|0 comments
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The Message Behind the Medium of a Personal Blog(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
3 points by mediocregopher 4y ago|0 comments
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Why it's bad to kill Grandma(dynomight.net)
9 points by mediocregopher 4y ago|7 comments
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What caused the hallucinations of the Oracle of Delphi?(dynomight.net)
151 points by mediocregopher 4y ago|163 comments
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Why Do We Have WiFi Passwords?(blog.mediocregopher.com)
1 points by mediocregopher 4y ago|0 comments
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by mediocregopher 4y ago
- A lot of practice, which stemmed from a lot of fooling around and abandoned side-projects. I would deliberately start projects which were way over my head, with no intention of even getting something working, just to see how far I could g
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by mediocregopher 4y ago
I don't think that's what web3 is, that's just one direction some are taking it. Web3 is a move away from centralized platforms to ones which are either decentralized or more directly controlled by users (self-hosted, federat
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by mediocregopher 4y ago
Link doesn't load, so with only the title to go on... It feels like it's implying that sincere is the opposite of cynical? But someone (me) could be sincerely cynical. Or falsely optimistic. In any case, signaling sincerity sounds
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by mediocregopher 4y ago
If anyone had ever perused around the steem network (pre-Justin Sun takeover), you'd know what twitter would become if posting/liking/retweeting ever got monetized. It was a strange place. It might still be, but it seems to m
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by mediocregopher 4y ago
There's no perfect solution, but you can make it painful. One solution I've seen, which only works in a server-side rendered site, is for the server to generate a random name for each form field being rendered. The mapping of rand
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by mediocregopher 4y ago
Love this, reminds me quite a bit of stumbleupon. In putting together my own RSS feed recently, and trying to figure out the best way to sync it with all my devices, I realized the simplest way was to just turn the aggregated links into a w
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by mediocregopher 4y ago
> "hike" (just long walk since I live in flat Houston) I've been calling it "urban hiking" and everyone thinks I'm joking. But why drive all the way to the wilderness to do a hike, when I can just walk out t
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by mediocregopher 4y ago
> When Peña downloaded the Bird app and agreed to its terms in August 2018, he unwittingly indemnified Bird against any lawsuits. Bird now claims that Peña owes the company $322,171, the amount it has spent so far defending Los Angeles a
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The case for open infrastructure(blog.mediocregopher.com)
76 points by mediocregopher 5y ago|34 comments
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
That's ok, and happens frequently. "I don't have time to fully comprehend everything that's happening over there, but COWORKER is handling it and I don't see any obvious problems with their approach. :+1: and moving
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Nowhere in the post does it mention the author asking anybody to do any work. Their coworker showed up asking questions about something they're working on.
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Fwiw, I'm born-and-raised in the USofA and I couldn't tell you the difference, I think that person was just an asshole. (Though I suppose I also have learned most things from tv shows and the internet.)
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I'm afraid you don't understand how nebula works. A nebula cluster is fully self-contained, you are responsible for distribution of your own certs and hosting of your own lighthouse instances, there is no phoning home to any outsi
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
If anyone has tried this on arch I'd love to hear your experience... I've got a home server sitting in my living room that looks bored.
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
A more recent article from the same magazine, about nearly the same topic: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/01/the-revenge-of-the-h...
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Most software that I use regularly which does color output does it well, and it's probably a net benefit for me. But sometimes software that I use irregularly, or only in specific circumstances, does it poorly, and it's a real pit
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Bitcoin. People may complain about the volatility, but you only have to hold it long enough to send it, and they only have to hold it long enough to sell, if that's what they care to do.
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Has legal decreed you can't have a wiki as well?

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