Ed Davies @edavies@octodon.social

@julm @micahflee Why don't we see essays titled “What is the best programming language to learn twentieth?”?

@evilscientistca Diffraction spikes?

If so, I see two: one bright [¹] one just above centre in the bottom right quadrant and a still bright but somewhat fainter one about the same place in the top left quadrant.

[¹] Yeah, probably unimaginably faint by normal standards.

@CobaltVelvet The mess is allowing anything but a single specific version (e.g., 0.0.16 rather than 0.0) for any 0.y.z dependency. With x=0 “[a]nything may change at any time.” https://semver.org/#spec-item-4 I take that as meaning that non-backward-compatible changes are allowed on update increments.

(Yeah, people use 0. version numbers way too long.)

@HerraBRE It's not just sleep patterns, is it?

People are different but for me this sort of over reaction comes mostly from even a slight shortage of sleep.

@deshipu CDs are great, they don't rust the way dead hard disks do when you use them as coasters.

@rhiaro First job: make https links to opendataservices.coop work.

@kurtm @feld OK, the first few results I saw looked pretty sketchy but, you're right, looking closer finds later ones which are a bit more definitive. That's news to me, thanks.

@kurtm @feld Are you sure? AFAIK RS-232D is simply the “Dth” edition of the RS-232 standard (actually an EIA standard by that point) and recommends just the DB-25 connector. I have a copy somewhere but haven't looked at it in years.

(Also, and very pedantically, it's an FCC 8P8C connector. “RJ45” refers to a particular telephone wiring using it so if it's being used for serial it's not RJ45, as such.)

@ln4711 This one https://octodon.social/@edavies/100063684572065444 to his first take on the subject?

@natecull 2.1 which came in /286 and /386 flavours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.1x Say “above the line” and “below the line” to programmers of that era and watch them break out in a cold sweat.

Apparently there was also a 2.11 version but I don't remember that. And, why's 11 the next number after 1?

@ln4711 @yaelwrites Remind me why it's a good idea for Signal to identify users by phone number.

@ocdtrekkie @ninjafoss @HerraBRE Yes, need to pick your host carefully, which can indeed be difficult.

Had my domain registered with my current hosting provider while my hosting was elsewhere until previous hosting provider became untenable at which point current one was really the only acceptable option - annoying as I'd prefer to keep the domain and hosting separate.

But the point: SSL hosting isn't intrinsically difficult or expensive, just a matter of what the market provides.

@ocdtrekkie @ninjafoss @HerraBRE Shared hosting doesn't preclude SSL.

http://edavies.me.uk/2016/04/https/

@HerraBRE @ocdtrekkie Also, people on such ISPs (including many national mobile providers, I understand) maybe won't be sophisticated enough to distinguish between what's actually on your site and what the ISP has injected. They'll just see that your site has silly ads or whatever.

Maybe this is totally flawed but it looks like a good idea to me:

https://blog.plover.com/Unix/stdio-buffering.html

@HerraBRE Doesn't his “Ecosystem concerns” section cover your point 2 or are you thinking of something else?

Wonders why light-level readings from CO₂, etc, sensor in bedroom are about ¼ normal level.

Ah, yes, odd pair of socks set aside to be joined with their compatriots from next wash resting across the top might have something to do with it.

@technomancy Your Atom feed is broken in a new and exciting way: missing the close content and entry tags for the first entry element.

Also, I notice the published and updated elements have one digit day-in-month values. The Atom spec references xsd:dateTime https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime for this which says two digits.