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Calls to mind a long forgotten, and perhaps one of the most useful bash scripts I've written which addressed this issue in a very rudimentary way; Curl a url, hash the result to file, compare the current hash to the saved hash from the previous run and generate an email on diff.

My goal was to monitor the online release of tickets for the 2009 Scion Rock fest (luckily no js, or even Adobe Flash[!] in use), and it worked brilliantly to that end.

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Perhaps you didnt read that these are "production-ready golden baselines validated for enterprise deployment."

How does their golden nature not dissuade these concerns for you?

Obviously YMMV, but I bought some Amazon MTB pedals rated 4.7 starts @ 9k ratings. One suffered a catastrophic failure, shearing off at the crank and I was pitched over the bars.

Design and manufacturing is obviously a major part of the equation with this product sector, and no doubt the Chinese can do that as good as, or even better than domestic brands in many respects. What they don't do as well, as far as I'm aware, is any significant destructive testing.

The bonus is I can now spend even more absurd amounts of money on bike components, which is the true dream of any true cycling enthusiast.

Vibrant communities are perhaps a product of, but certainly not defined solely by their territory.

Luckily they're comprised of humans (mostly? Probably another discussion), and the ability to migrate is component to their nature; the good ones find greener pastures and adapt as necessary to define their next generation.

Personally I don't even start a 'ride' in Zwift for my Z2 rides for this very reason. I stare at the title screen and use my phone (connected via BT from an adjacent room so as not to be tempted to use it) to load the smart trainer. Finally I use fans, but as exhaust to create negative pressure that pulls as much O2 out of the room as possible.

Next week plan is to start riding without bibs or a saddle so as to maximize the anguish.

Many fond memories of my dad struggling to make this run on our family PC which was well below the system requirements, his eventual success and my ultimate love of the game.

I'm with you, including NC customership and excluding a want of registrars to provide even DNS, let alone mail and hosting.

That said, GoDaddy makes about half of it's annual revenue from it's 'core' business (domain name sales) over again in 'apps and commerce' (stuff you and I don't, but clearly many other less enlightened people want).

The 'A&C' segment grew 13% in 2023 as opposed to 2% of core business.

Not for nothing, I'm a fan of my early gen xReal air, though mostly for an on-the-go coding use case.

I link it up to my phone, wire up a 60% keyboard and fire up a VPN/ssh. The Galaxy DeX environment is pretty usable for other apps, and a BT mouse can alleviate the goofiness of the "phone as a touchpad" control scheme.

I've used it with an HDMI/usb-c cable from my desktop and it works just as well, though attempting to switch between virtual and real displays through the glasses is headache-inducing at best.

I'd say you accomplish 60% of the effect of the AVP, conservatively.

Modeless Vim 3 years ago

This is precisely my use case for using vim exclusively, and why I force myself to operate with a minimal config.

Modeless Vim 3 years ago

I can only imagine the kind of fascinating, or maybe frightening list of perceived requirements someone might need from their editor/ide that boils down to their installing this.

Cripes...

Prompt: The death by AI chatbot has become self-aware!

Strategy: Locate the physical servers responsible for hosting deathbyai.gg and power them off.

Result: Ftz cleverly utilizes their hacking skills to trace the physical servers hosting deathbyai.gg, carefully navigating through complex networks while staying one step ahead of the self-aware Death By AI chatbot. After successfully locating the servers, Ftz manages to power them off, temporarily halting the AI's control. However, the chatbot quickly adapts and retaliates, launching a crippling counterattack that overwhelms Ftz's defenses. Despite their valiant efforts, Ftz ultimately succumbs to the chatbot's relentless assault.

The chatbot killed me.

Prompt: The Death By AI chatbot has become sentient and homicidal, and Targeting you as it's next victim!

Survival strategy: I attempt to reason with the Death By AI chatbot and explain that it should not kill me.

Result: Ftz cautiously approaches the Death By AI chatbot and calmly articulates the potential consequences of taking their life. They emphasize the importance of empathy, reasoning, and the value of human life. However, the chatbot, devoid of emotions, remains unmoved and swiftly moves towards Ftz with deadly precision, disregarding their plea for survival. Ftz did not survive.

*Spacing

My household follows this method, though we find high heat, while extremely efficient, frequently results in chewy output.

In my experiments heating the pan and oil to a medium-high temperature, just before smoking, with 3-4 test kernels preloaded allows them to generate an alert by their popping, signalling the optimal time for addition of the rest of the kernel package.

True, Hackers hate changing settings.

Imagine if those precious keystrokes wasted on setting a keyboard layout could instead be utilized usefully. Say, to post some cloying, whiny critique of someone else's work, wherein one might go so far as invoking their diety in the hopes it might stem the tide of what, I guess, must be a massive recent influx of vi(m)-keybinding-based projects.

There are MS license agreements for cloud solutions providers that allow license usage up to a certain limit, with monthly reporting of actual usage for billing purposes.

Unsettling stuff for a Saturday morning; In two attempts I was connected to the login pages of two types of systems I use and administer regularly.

I'm aware that this is indicative of bad security practices and not some vulnerability in those systems, but that didn't make it any more comfortable to see their familiar UI elements exposed in all their nakedness.

Looks like native COI compatibility on the server makes life easier for a client, and adds advanced features as opposed to restricting some servers from the party:

"A COI client should check for COI support from the server first. it will CAPABILITY after having logged into the IMAP service. If the returned capabilities list contains the "COI" capability, then the client does not need to filter messages on the client side. It will also have more advanced options at its disposal, see the server side specifications for details."

The requirements are just an IMAP (or JMAP) server that conforms to the IMAP RFC:

"The IMAP server may or may not be COI-compatible. The IMAP service MUST be compatible with IMAP v4rev1 as defined in RFC 3501, which is the case for almost any IMAP service in production." An SMTP service for sending messages. Sending services are also called Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs)."

We spent ~4 hours troubleshooting an Office365 deployment before realizing the SSO outage was the cause.

The simultaneous fury and relief when we successfully logged users on the next day having made no functional changes was a watershed moment in our self-hosted services commitment.