thedanbob

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by thedanbob 15d ago
I ran sound at a friend's wedding recently and unfortunately the music was all on Spotify. Every time I tried to play a specific song from a playlist, "Spotify can't play this item right now" and it would skip to the nex
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by thedanbob 23d ago
Reminds me of a sci-fi book I read where the protagonist goes to hack a computer but can't because it's running a 50 year old alien OS that none of his tools will run on. That said, as a strategy it will only protect you from bots
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by thedanbob 2mo ago
I have a "paper-feel" screen protector and a metal nib on my Apple pencil. The combination provides a comfortable amount of friction for me, and the fact that it's matte cuts down on reflections.
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by thedanbob 2mo ago
When I was a kid, my dad (a physicist) would often read stories to me and my brother. He would sometimes fall asleep while reading, and we could tell when that was coming because suddenly our children's story would stop making sense an
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by thedanbob 2mo ago
0 probably comes from things like "0 day (vulnerability)" and "0 deps".
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by thedanbob 3mo ago
I switched from a giant docker compose file to podman quadlets on my homelab. IIRC it look me a little while to translate the first couple of services because there wasn't (at the time, at least) as much documentation/examples of
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by thedanbob 3mo ago
I don't like my wife's car for several reasons, but one thing it absolutely nails is the dash: all the lights are orange. It's a night-and-day difference (pun intended) to most cars that have blue lights everywhere, plus an L
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by thedanbob 4mo ago
When I first heard about the reboot all I could think of was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HeNZBItzps I'm going to call this news a win.
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by thedanbob 4mo ago
It's been a few years since I went with Fastmail over Proton, but if I remember correctly Proton prioritizes privacy while Fastmail prioritizes other features which were higher up on my list, like storage (not as important to me now),
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by thedanbob 4mo ago
It's actually not as hard as it seems. Just set up forwarding from gmail to your new email address, then update your email everywhere at your leisure.
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by thedanbob 5mo ago
He's the guy who reported the bug. It looks like he copy-pasted an email from Anthropic without context, and the gif is his response.
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by thedanbob 5mo ago
The vast majority of "AI screwed up" posts I've seen on HN have been written with AI.
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by thedanbob 5mo ago
And yet even in that shallow of water the pressure would have been around 10 atm. It's amazing how dangerous something as mundane as water can be.
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by thedanbob 6mo ago
Seconded. Even if one unknown number call isn't a scam, they will almost certainly pass on your number to ones that are. I made the mistake of answering one last week and since then I've been absolutely drowned in spam calls. Some
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by thedanbob 6mo ago
> Sending HTTP requests is a basic capability in the modern world, the standard library should include a friendly, fully-featured, battle-tested, async-ready client. I've noticed that many languages struggle with HTTP in the standar
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by thedanbob 6mo ago
Very nice! I switched off video.js some time ago because it kept giving me trouble. Looking forward to trying this new version.
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by thedanbob 6mo ago
> While it is theoretically possible that the relays could fail on through some sort of physical failure, this is so unlikely that we did not design for it. Anecdotally, I've had a relay fail on when I inadvertently pulled more amps
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by thedanbob 6mo ago
Web development has certainly gotten more complicated, but that's mostly because people are doing more complicated things. Writing the equivalent of a "Geocities, Blogosphere, and StumbleUpon era" site doesn't have to be
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by thedanbob 6mo ago
I think that section left out some details. On my Unifi setup, the router's IPv6 connection is configured with DHCPv6 (SLAAC isn't even an option) while the local networks are configured with SLAAC.
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by thedanbob 6mo ago
My experience has been the opposite, especially since Rails has included more batteries over the years. You need fewer non-Rails-default dependencies than ever, and the upgrade process has gotten easier every major version.
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by thedanbob 6mo ago
> What does this mean? The computer isn't alive. But they want you to think of it as alive. They're anthropomorphizing it.
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by thedanbob 7mo ago
My org (USA) was affected. I wasn't the primary person dealing with it, but from what I gather one user marked one of our emails as junk, and then suddenly all of our emails to Outlook users started getting blocked.
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by thedanbob 7mo ago
I really enjoy the original Earthsea books. I guess my expectations of sci-fi are different than magic/fantasy; technology feels like it should be explainable in a way that magic doesn't. I'd probably enjoy Bradbury more if I
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by thedanbob 7mo ago
The update check is HTTPS, only the files themselves are HTTP.
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by thedanbob 7mo ago
> Bradbury’s stories are about people, deeply real and deeply feeling people. ... and less interested in exactly how the ray guns worked. Maybe this is why I never really got Bradbury. When I read scifi, I can't help but consider th
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by thedanbob 8mo ago
Indeed. A big chunk of my email parser deals with missing or incorrect content headers. Most of the rest attempts to sensibly interpret the infinite combinations of parts found in multipart (and single-part!) emails.
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by thedanbob 8mo ago
I wrote my own email archiving software. The hardest part was dealing with all the weird edge cases in my 20+ year collection of .eml files. For being so simple conceptually, email is surprisingly complicated.
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by thedanbob 8mo ago
It doesn't even have to be malicious. I used a certain syntax highlighting theme for years, when out of nowhere the author pushed an update that rearranged all the colors. It was extremely disorienting. I forked the extension and rever
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by thedanbob 8mo ago
I finally got fed up with TM and switched to borg via Vorta. So much more reliable. A couple of times I've gotten error messages when I went off network while it was trying to do a backup, but each time the repo was fine.
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by thedanbob 8mo ago
I once encountered an intersection with a big "NO ENTRY" sign on the other side. I turned but google maps wouldn't give me another route, so I did a u-turn and came back to it from the side. Which meant I was close enough to

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