Diane Bruce @Dianora@octodon.social

So totally true. https://octodon.social/media/1CtBW8NquMAhlUWpPzA

Don’t use Google AMP

“Google AMP is bad news for how the web is built, it’s bad news for publishers of credible online content, and it’s bad news for consumers of that content. Google AMP is only good for one party: Google.” – http://thelink.is/google-amp-bad

“If I had my way, Mobile Safari would refuse to render AMP pages. It’s a deliberate effort by Google to break the open web.” – https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/gilbertson-amp

#SurveillanceCapitalism

Via @ZiiX

not kidding, we fixed it with:

EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/varnish
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "/bin/echo ${DAEMON_OPTS} && /usr/sbin/varnishd ${DAEMON_OPTS}"

Because otherwise systemd would randomly eat parts of ${DAEMON_OPTS}. oh yes, we *also* had to make DAEMON_OPTS a single line, because *something* didn't like '\' continuation chars.

systemd is the worst software I've ever had to use, and I've used AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and 16-bit Windows Payroll software.

@jk Any engineer who tells you that well-written code is self-documenting has failed to understand the question: code can only tell you _what_ it is doing. It cannot tell you _why_. It cannot answer the fundamental question "what made this design the right choice, as opposed to any other implementation, based on the constraints that existed when we wrote it?" As such, even the best-written code cannot truly "self-document."

i don't suppose there's anyone here for whom this is relevant who hasn't already done so BUT

JUST IN CASE

pleeeeeeeease register to vote in the uk general election before midnight TONIGHT

it takes like 10 seconds

https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

@maiyannah If not systemd, consider switching to #FreeBSD

Getting the #RPI3 boards ready for #BSDCan.

https://mastodon.social/media/M1xruKo9xR0ADMpkdi8

#FreeBSD #HardenedBSD

"Yes, AMP pages load fast, but you don’t need AMP for fast-loading web pages. If you are a publisher and your web pages don’t load fast, the sane solution is to fix your fucking website so that pages load fast, not to throw your hands up in the air and implement AMP."

"We invented a protocol for generating web pages, and promptly expanded it to handle tasks entirely unrelated to the web. This explains everything you need to know about why computers work the way they do." #relaydmastery #footnote