dave bonner @rascalking@octodon.social
systems developer for necsys at the mit media lab. masshole.
@skquinn i'm lucky enough to live in fios-land. usually the gating factor for downloads for me is the remote server.
@skquinn 3.8gb. closest i've gotten is 3.2gb, but the others all died before they cracked 1gb.
lordy, dropbox is spectacularly bad at serving up large files via http. trying to download the indiegogo'd movie i mentioned last night. i'm on attempt #5. and since they uniquify the url you actually download from, chrome can't resume after the download breaks/times out.
@jalefkowit and they cut rome short, so the second half of s2 was all choppy and shitty...
@jalefkowit did you see anything on the site about prices? googling got me 2016's tickets page, and it was only 45 quid (can't be bothered to find the pounds character).
The Tor Project is looking for a Browser Developer! https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs-browserdeveloper.html.en
@jalefkowit that looks super fun. thanks for the heads up!
@chalcedony yeah, that's kind of the approach i took. rationally, i know that's a reasonable approach. but convincing myself i'm not being a dick or unreasonable, and getting over the oogy "must avoid anything that might potentially be a confrontation" feels is always a thing.
thanks for the support!
yay, he seems not to have decided i was an asshole! :)
he explained that most folks were happy with a streaming window, and that since they didn't have any way to protect downloaded copies, they were offering that first instead of just downloads.
Also, I want to clear something up about silencing an instance. When instance A silences instance B, that doesn't stop all content from instance B from appearing on instance A, and it doesn't get rid of existing follow relationships or prevent new ones. Here's what it does do:
Users on instance B may not send communication to users on instance A without those users' active consent.
That's it. Users on B aren't cut off from users on A; they just need consent to communicate. That's all.
pledged for a digital download of a movie on indiegogo, just realized i never got the download link. pinged the creator via ig, and they responded immediately, which was awesome. but they sent a link to a streaming service with no ability to download. trying to figure out a non-asshole way to say, no, i want the download i pledged for.
this stuff drives me crazy...i don't want to be a pushover, but even as minor a confrontation as this makes me super uncomfortable.
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"Let's play a game, to help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same."
#locksport
#heiststories
#hockey
#fencing
#skiing/#snowboarding
#sumo
#romanhistory
#bostonhistory
oh, in case folks haven't seen the toaster project...it's amazing.
settling into work, excited to keep going on the shiny-new rewrite of our 15-year-old central login system. finishing off some functionality and going back to get tests done.
checks email.
oh. dear. our sync-groups-to-the-global-mailing-list script seems to have cut 180 people loose overnight. and i have no idea how it works. time for code archaeology!
@chosafine i always want to take those folks aside and have them watch the video of the guy whose project was making a toaster completely from scratch.
You: “I use ubuntu for security purposes”
ME: a refined neckbeard eating the finest of locally grown foods https://boys.computer/media/fPpLklvLKqL63sfM3u8
damn...not bad. already up to 70% restored. count me as a happy qnap customer so far, y'all.
have purchased shiny new 8tb drives to replace the 4tb drives in my qnap nas (I need ~3tb to store my rips). it really does seem to have been as simple as finding the "imma replace this drive" button in the web ui, then swapping out one of the drives. it's at 0.7% rebuilt now...we'll see what it looks like in the morning.
hooray for the library of congress continuing to do useful stuff.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/webcomics-web-archive/about-this-collection/
wondering where the best flames about their selections can be found.
