Ed Davies @edavies@octodon.social
Programmer who likes gliding/flying/astronomy, etc, but is focusing for the time being on the construction of an off-grid house.
@meredith_matthews @HerraBRE @bob I admit I haven't had the patience to put up with more than the minimum of actually using Git. I keep reading articles about it hoping for enlightenment but still haven't seen anything compelling it has that Mercurial doesn't.
@HerraBRE @bob @meredith_matthews Not knowing any better, I'm willing to concede that Git's probably better for large codebases like the kernel but for most projects Mercurial would be way less confusing for the same practical functionality.
It'd be interesting to understand the reasons Git took off the way it did and Mercurial is so much in the shadows. Is it just Github? Seems to me Git popularity came first. Just fashion? I don't know.
@marijn How do you know it's incompetence? After all, as a browser supplier they can probably manage compatibility if they try.
@deshipu My first thought was artillery shell electronics but sensitivity to mantis shrimps seems more like it. ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(acceleration)
@micahflee Every society has a few fringe nutters. Meanwhile the BNP has been wiped out in the local council elections and UKIP has lost most of its seats.
@upshotknothole @espectalll @micahflee Yes, of course the signing needs to be done on the user's machine. It needs to be part of the web protocols and browser functionality.
(Which brings us back to Qubes - the VM you toot from needs access to at least a low-grade signing key so probably ought to be separate from the one you do most of your browsing on.)
Moon rising over the Beatrice Bravo platform.
@upshotknothole @espectalll @micahflee Exactly, the hosting provider could fiddle with the documents easily.
Toots ought to be signed, too.
@espectalll @micahflee Hmm, yes, I suppose it's possible some Qubes users will actually do that.
But, more generally, it does show a rather gaping hole in standard web infrastructure in that there's no general mechanism to convey and check the original author's signature on web pages.
@espectalll @micahflee Hmm, yes, I suppose it's possible some Qubes users will actually do that.
But, more generally, it does show a rather gaping hole in standard web infrastructure in that there's no general mechanism to convey and check the original author's signature on web pages.
Done the floor for the east end of the house slowed down by easterly winds: https://edavies.me.uk/2018/04/bedroom-sarking/
So, now I'm doing the floor at the west end, can you guess which direction the wind's gone round to?
@technomancy The Atom feed on your website is a bit broken; it has doctype declarations in the HTML which makes it not-well-formed XML. E.g.
<title>185</title>
<content type="html">',
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
Actually, all the HTML tags, etc, should be escaped: RFC4287 3.1.1.2.
@deshipu It's not simple, though; 200 years or more ago the spellings of those two words were generally the other way round - though spelling was less homogeneous then anyway.
It's understandable that people think “it's” is possessive given the use of apostrophe “s” on nouns for that though “his” and “hers” ought to be a clue.
“One's” is just evil.
