xoddf2 @xoddf2@mastodon.xyz

Your annual reminder to beware the IDEs of March. Especially when a text editor will suffice.

I seem to be in the minority here but a web page should be able to load its content without needing JavaScript. If your page only loads an empty wireframe without JavaScript, you’ve failed at the web. Bare minimum, load the fucking content. If it’s being pulled dynamically, do that server side and then generate a damn page.

Dear web developers and admins,
please stop embedding Google's hideous #ReCaptcha into your websites. Its algorithm is faulty, forcing regular users to click dozens or even hundreds of fire hydrants, bicycles, or traffic lights each day. It puts a 'suspicious activity' flag on users who won't obey to Google's business model - such as people who don't sign into Chrome, use anonymity VPNs, or use browser extensions to suppress common tracking mechanisms. Enough is enough. Stop it.

I am curious. What do you do with your Laptop at the end of the day?

If you do something else, please reply. Boosts appreciated.

#OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #Linux #Windows #macOS

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An ed(1) cheat sheet by @0066cc

https://0066cc.com/blog/edCheatSheet/

Wow. I am used to all sorts of nastyness when it comes to infosec - but this is a rare jewel. TP-Link reintroduces the heartbleed vuln: https://research.nccgroup.com/2020/07/21/technical-advisory-heartbleed-chained-with-a-pass-the-hash-attack-leads-to-device-compromise-on-tp-link-c200-ip-camera/

It. happened. six. years. ago.

Github has an outage for 3+ hours (https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/j597fw8kv04c). This might be a good option to consider self-hosting a Git repo.

That doesn't take away the chance that outages might happen, but at the very least the impact will be less... huge.

Dear websites,

These aren't login buttons or registration buttons.

Thanks,
me

A guy on IRC said that it's a fact that antifa are terrorists then said that antifa is trying to stop fascism with fascism. I then responded by calling him a bootlicker cuck. Was what I said out of line? I'm autistic so I don't often understand whether what I'm saying is appropriate.

Had to verify. And yes. Kernighan and Ritchie really did this. TIL :)

how do we cancel 2020?

Can we get a do-over of 2019 and 2020?