clar fon @clarfonthey@toot.cat

decided that, because I know and trust the folks who run toot.cat, I'm going to try and start moving my alt account here too. however, before I make an actual alt account, I decided to move some of the light-hearted stuff that I used to post there into an unlocked account, @ltht.

most of the stuff there will be out-of-context quotes from stuff I've been watching or reading, and it will be boostable for folks who are as amused as I usually am.

billionaire: unions are expensive. I'm taking all your money and that's not negotiable, but then the unions take more so, yeah, I guess they're the problem

no: guaranteed checkmate
yes: crossed the event horizon

first the user clicks a link, then their browser makes a request to the server, then the load balancer redirects to a cluster proxy, then the cluster proxy redirects to a pod proxy, then a pod proxy redirects to a container proxy, then the container proxy redirects to some random bad http server someone wrote when they were drunk in college, which serves up a pristine new modern app which has 2 GiB of dependencies which are mostly readmes and comments explaining that you should read the docs on their website which--

in case you're wondering:

apache: makes every request require 20 billion file lookups and also just sucks in general, plus it's a web server and not a proxy
nginx: supports most use cases but paywalls some of them, and makes adding variables to your config files have a runtime penalty
lighttpd: doesn't support modern http protocols and compression but has most everything
haproxy: basically a subset of nginx and nginx isn't good enough so
traefik/caddy: designed for kubernetes and notes passed around the office
sozu: "join our gitter channel and ask if we've finished it yet, and why you should use it anyway"
coding your own solution: no thanks

option 1: nice and simple program which terminates tls but also doesn't support specific options for doing so in an actual reasonable manner
option 2: modern behemoth which terminates tls between computers, containers, and notes passed around the office, installable in 14 easy steps

plus like normally I'd search to see if there's any relevant discussion first but that is basically impossible on an email archive which doesn't even provide plain text search

like what the fucking year is it

btw email lists are actually one of the most useless ways to actually have a conversation. like, there's a reason why back in the day we had web forums, and now we have github

in email I have to rely on my email client to group threads together and even that might fail, whereas with a managed system I can actually just easily click on a list of discussion threads and choose what to discuss

would it be nice if there were a decentralised, standardised way to do this? hell yeah

there isn't

and email isn't sufficient

actually tried to send a thought-out email to the openssh-unix-dev mailing list explaining a thing I found and talking about a potential code change

after carefully spending way more time than I should have to reading the web 0.5 pages openbsd has, understanding that I need to be a member of the mailing list before submitting, so, I subscribed to it

including the usual hostile garbage on the page that says shit like "RTFM before asking questions"

and apparently you need to be approved by an admin to submit any email to the mailing list with no actual confirmation sent from anyone, just

submit email to void, maybe void will let you respond back

like when people complain about how bad it is to submit code to foss bros over plain-text email, this is what they're complaining about.

the fact that it's plain-text is not the issue. honestly, even the email part isn't that big of an issue. it's the fact that I have to jump through 80 hoops and get invited to the secret email list club to even talk to someone about maybe potentially doing something

when I literally am trying my best to provide the most constructive help I can, even though I don't have a full code change. like, literally saying "hey, this function needs to be modified"

sigh.

like they're trying to avoid emails like "wut is an ssh" and here I am writing up paragraphs patiently and even then it's an enormous load of horseshit.

Ben Eater has been working on an ongoing series about building a very rudimentary computer by scratch, and recently he's been talking about how USB keyboards work and basic stuff from the USB spec

today's video he talked about some cool stuff about how newer keyboards solve problems with "ghost" keys, and break the standard USB restriction of only tracking 6 keypresses at the same time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lPzTU-3ONI