Zack Weinberg

zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET.Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking.New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

Posts

Post #4333362
Anyone happen to know who originally wrote the checklist response to poorly thought out antispam measures, easiest found today at https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt ? I remember seeing it circulating on USENET back in the nineties, but today I cannot find any version with attribution.
Post #3902782
Dear Wikimedia Foundation, I will not be giving you any money until you quit it with the union-busting, kthxbye
Post #3818919
Does anyone make a mousing device that's in two separate pieces, one piece either a trackpad or a trackball, and the other piece has a set of mouse buttons? So you can hold buttons with one hand while dragging with the other.
Post #3788839
CPU architecture in which all instructions that access data in memory *require* you to specify the byte order of the value in memory
Post #3765694
CPU architecture in which there are no asynchronous interrupts, only hardware tasks that can be suspended waiting for an external event
Post #3765611
CPU architecture in which each register is extended with the standard set of arithmetic-result flags (zero, negative, carry, etc), which are set by anything that writes that register; conditional instructions can read these flags from any register; thus splitting the difference between "one flags register" and "predicate bits" architectures
Post #3636871
What building practices of today will our descendants curse us for 90 years from now?
Post #3636870
WD-40: machine lubricant or prophylactic?
Post #2508254
Does anyone need a 3.5&quot; to 2.5&quot; drive bay adaptor bracket? For incomprehensible supply chain reasons a two-pack was cheaper than just one. 8x mounting screws included. Free to anyone who will use it. Will hand off at a mutually convenient public location in the Pittsburgh metro area, or mail to any address in the USA (overseas postage would cost me more than twice what I paid for the brackets in the first place).
Post #2359983
For quite some time I&#39;ve thought eventually I was going to have to learn how to use the `sftp` command line tool because `scp` was deprecated. Today I needed to look at the `scp` manpage for the first time in ages and there&#39;s a note now explaining that only the SCP _protocol_ is deprecated, and the `scp` _tool_ has been changed to use the SFTP protocol when the server supports it. So thank you #openssh folks for the clarification and for doing the work to keep `scp` working as...
Post #2266318
Let&#39;s Encrypt was down for three hours and apparently Caddy doesn&#39;t implement exponential backoff when it starts getting 503s from its ACME server, nor does it have the sense to remember the failure across vhosts so I have received 102 copies of the same error message from my log scanner
Post #2239951
This is the ideal pickup truck. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
Post #1984137
RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116506136231413013 this is an interesting list of suggestions and I wonder if something like it might help with my long-term goal of getting everyone to quit pinning all their dang dependencies
Post #1984135
AKICIF: This is a photo of the ultrasound transducer in a desktop humidifier. It still works fine, but the gray ring looks to be eroding, and in the past, I&#39;ve had that lead to water leaking into the electronics, and then the whole machine is ruined. I&#39;m not sure it shows up in the photos but if I look really carefully there&#39;s a plastic seal underneath that ring that is also eroding and that&#39;s especially worrisome. Anyone have suggestions for how to repair or at...