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[GET] "/api/user/robotblake/stories?hitsPerPage=30&page=0": 500 Failed to fetch user stories

Reposting from another thread earlier.

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I still have a few accounts I glance at from time to time. Hockey, Game Devs, Artists, etc. who haven't migrated away despite everything, so this is kinda obnoxious. I created some Redirector (https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/) rules to redirect Tweet and Twitter Profile URLs to their HTML embed equivalents.

Should be able to just import the rules and it seems to work alright with some caveats.

  * I have no idea if this will continue to function.
  * I've only tested some random links from my Discord and Slack groups.
  * Profile links only show the most recent 20 tweets.
  * Tweets will show quote-tweets, but no replies (though maybe that's a good thing).
  * Obviously won't work for mobile.
Rules are at https://gist.github.com/robotblake/a0f020381c1a919cf9720f9ae...

Edit: And just realized /u/justnotworthit posted the link earlier too.

I still have a few accounts I glance at from time to time. Hockey, Game Devs, Artists, etc. who haven't migrated away despite everything, so this is kinda obnoxious.

I created some Redirector (https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/) rules to redirect Tweet and Twitter Profile URLs to their HTML embed equivalents.

Should be able to just import the rules and it seems to work alright with some caveats.

  * I have no idea if this will continue to function.
  * I've only tested some random links from my Discord and Slack groups.
  * Profile links only show the most recent 20 tweets.
  * Tweets will show quote-tweets, but no replies (though maybe that's a good thing).
  * Obviously won't work for mobile.
https://gist.github.com/robotblake/a0f020381c1a919cf9720f9ae...

Oh come on, this comes up every single time Seattle gets mentioned. Yes, some of the more "center" candidates won during the last election over "left" candidates but those same "center" candidates would also be considered "far left communist shills" by a large portion of the country at this point.

I'm probably in the "far left communist" camp in a lot of folks mind but it's important to be clear that this type of thing (when talking about the politics of a City, Region, or State) are extremely extremely relative.

Edit: I don't think we're disagreeing to be clear, I'm just tired of this whole "SEATTLE ISN'T PROGRESSIVE ANYMORE" rhetoric. Far right media groups use it as a rallying cry for their movements and I think it's important to recognize that despite things being slightly less progressive than they could be, doesn't mean the city as a whole is suddenly embracing nazi-ism or outright authoritarianism. We've got our issues but becoming a welcoming bastion of hate is not one of them.

Edit 2: Fuck Howard Schultz. His fragile ego and god complex are why we don't have an NBA team too. I view all of this union busting the same way I viewed him after that whole debacle, a megalomaniac who wants people to "believe" he's a savior when in reality he's just another rich dude who wants regular folk to worship him and throws a tantrum if he doesn't get what he wants.

Firefox 82 6 years ago

Just to clarify here, the Mozilla VPN is $4.99/mo, whereas Mullvad (the partner it currently uses) is €5(~$5.91)/mo.

There is no markup, it's actually about 15% cheaper.

Disclaimer: Work for Mozilla but not on the browser core, thoughts are my own, grain of salt, etc.

My understanding is that on Desktop it's much more difficult than it ideally should be.

With that said we've got a pretty solid story being worked on for mobile via GeckoView [1] and Android Components [2], there's a post on the Mozilla Hacks blog about our use of them in Focus [3] and they're also what is being used for building the "next generation" version of Firefox for Android currently code-named Fenix [4][5].

I wouldn't be surprised if there was an effort to get some of the GeckoView work back onto our desktop platforms.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/geckoview

[2] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components

[3] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/09/focus-with-geckoview/

[4] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix

[5] https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.mozilla.fenix

I'm really excited to see where WebAssembly can go. I know many of these projects will peter out, but it's exciting nonetheless.

Absolutely. On the Lua front someone made a PoC to add Lua as a language for Iodide [1] using Fengari [2] which (while I haven't used it yet) definitely looks interesting. Hadn't heard of Nebulet before but will definitely be following it now. Cheers!

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/iodide-dev/ahc4fg8_JLg/llkHS... [2] https://fengari.io/

You're comparing two completely different technologies though, that'd be like me complaining about how we're "so not-winning" with the size and price of SSDs.

Side Note: A 23" monitor purchase is not necessarily a "careless" one, for example the NEC model I use has one of the nicest feature sets for the price (fully adjustable base, IPS panel) but is only available in a 23.1" 1920x1080 version.

Unless of course it's a custom kernel or another ridiculously large package in which case you may have to wait the 10s of minutes for it to finish compiling. :P

In Ubuntu, libraries are actually included in either the main binary package or a lib* variant. The -dev package is usually just a pile of .h include files (text files), that aren't linked against anything. When the package maintainer builds the mysql package, it actually builds all the different sub-packages (mysql-client, mysql-server libmysqlclient, libmysqlclient-dev) at the same time and as such would have all of the updates pushed out simultaneously.

What you are suggesting would be near impossible to have happen without the user manually downloading deb packages, force installing using dpkg, and even then apt would shit itself over conflicting packages and broken dependencies. If someone manages to actually do that... well, they're going to have bigger problems than just "PHP isn't working right."

Rarely do packages need a particular kernel version, just ask anyone using xen or openvz where the kernel is often quite old (2.6.18) and not quite as easily upgradeable. The only time I've known of conflicts arising are when you need to use 3rd party binary drivers, or when an application is using bleeding edge kernel calls which is usually a bug upstream.

You may have a small point with glibc, but I imagine they'll just pin it to a major update every 3 to 6 months and give themselves time to test the heck out of it.

This isn't entirely true, Arch still has custom patches for certain packages and some undergo a decent bit of customization before getting pushed out.

The biggest difference with Ubuntu (and Debian) is that they vet the packages for a much longer period of time and have a whole lot of politicking and red tape involved in getting the packages even pushed into the unstable / proposed repository.

Consider a complete change of career, if that is at all an option.

While this may be a huge change to think about, don't underestimate it as a real viable option.

I actually was having the same problem as OP and have been in the process of switching careers to screen printing of all things. I've noticed myself having more energy both in and outside of work and a feeling of accomplishment that I'm actually getting shit done in a measurable way. When I actually do sit down to write some code in my off-time, I've felt much more inspired and have actually had the drive to finish the things I start.

Obviously this is all heavily YMMV, but certainly something to consider.

But how does that affect accessibility?

Also, if you do that you need to remember to keep track that the email variable is actually a honey-pot and whatever name you choose is the actual e-mail address.