@kat Do you want to stand it up on your own or use it as a service? 🤔🤔

@kat sounds intriguing 🤔

EdgeGuard Update:

I am now in a position where I'm no longer having any ports open on my firewall at the Mills DC. 🥳 All services (Gopher, SMTP, IRC, SSH, HTTP) are being proxied through my edge network 💪

@eldersnake Pretty much. 😂 It’s all the stuff tagged as “DesktopEnv” here: https://www.uninformativ.de/git/ The WM was written from scratch as a learning project, although it feels very similar to dwm, yes.

(Those 440 bytes include the BIOS Parameter Block, which can’t be used for code. The available space for the code is just 378 bytes. There’s really not a lot going on here other than loading the kernel into memory, or some second stage of a bootloader, and then executing that.)

@lyse

Maybe with the very simplest of the easy ones it might be still reasonably straight forward

I did that and the compiled bootloader is now 439 bytes in size – the available space is 440 bytes. So, phew, it just fits now. 😂

@xuu Speaking of TV Shows, can anyone recommend anything good of late? Hmm 🤔

@lyse Oof, I know that feeling. 😂 (It was much worse when I still had my 1280x1024 screen. 🥴)

Corporate IT environments are just a nightmare. Bah. No. We don’t talk about that now. It’s the weekend! 🥳🥳🥳

Friendly, regular reminder to always check if a TV show has already been cancelled before you start watching it.

@andros Nope, unfortunately not. I took a look at Lisp last year (I think I used sbcl), but I haven't done anything really useful with it. I still want to give it a proper go some time in the future. I do like how flexible it can be. Rather simple, but powerful basic concepts.

What's your favorite dialect?

@kat I approve! That's how I learned HTML (version 4 at the time and XHTML shortly after) and making websites, too. Some of them are still made like this to this day. Hand-written HTML. Hardly any <div> and class nonsense. I can't remember with which editor I started out with, but I upgraded to Webweaver (later renamed to Webcraft) quickly. Yeah, this were the times when there was just a single computer for the whole family.

Free hosting on Arcor, Freenet and I don't know anymore how they were all called. Like this author, I uploaded everything via FTP. Oh dear, when was the last time I used that? And I had registered plenty of free .de.vu domains.

Being on Windows at the time, everything was ISO-8859-1 for me. No UTF-8, I don't think I've heard about it back then.

Later, I wrote my own CMSes in PHP. Man, were they bad in retrospect. :-D Of course, MySQL databases were used as backends. I still exactly know the moment I read the first time about SQL injections. I tried it on my own CMS login and was shocked when I could just break in. The very next thing I did was to lock down everything with an .htaccess until I actually fixed my broken PHP code. Hahaha, good memories.

I swear by Atom or RSS feeds. Many of my sites offer them. I daily consume feeds, they're just great.

damn it i got so excited because bleeding cool ran an article with a title like 'all of DC april solicits so far' and i did not read the 'so far' part and clicked it excitedly hoping to see all the april solicits but they're out next week or something T__T

this is epic https://lmnt.me/blog/how-to-make-a-damn-website.html

@kat True! :-D

@movq Yes, exactly that. It's awful! And it's getting worse from my perspective. Nobody in charge is ever gonna learn anything. I figure we just fully deserve this M$ crap, every single bit. :-(

Luckily, the most important development platform still worked for me, so I could actually do something, review code, pull and push, etc. But the calls with the screenshares were nightmares. Can't see shit on such a tiny display with today's extreme monitor sizes people use. Looking at logs, hahahahahahaaa…

@movq Neat, that sounds like a clever design with a table implementation. :-)

Oh, for sure! Complexity will definitely go through the roof and beyond with optimizations, no doubt. Maybe with the very simplest of the easy ones it might be still reasonably straight forward, but I also imagine that this has the potential to escalate very quickly. :-D

@movq hahahah i hope you can get one someday if you want one! it's standard lubuntu, so far no issues despite no official support for this weird little ubuntu flavor lol

@lyse OMGGGG I'M BRINGING AKB TO YARN LET'S GOOOOO!!!! SO glad you like them they make bangers!!!!! super catchy and fun <333

@movq we had a TON of fun omg my friends took a bit to learn the game then when they got it we got VICIOUS with each other it was so much fun lol

@lyse i'm a horrible gamer but i do best when playing kart racing games like this and mario kart haha!