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Ndymium commented on You know more Finnish than you think   dannybate.com/2025/08/03/... · Posted by u/infinate
stickfigure · 20 days ago
Maybe a little side-track, but I recently discovered this brilliant little Finnish folk song called "Ievan Polkka". There are dozens of versions on youtube; I can't understand a word of any of them, but I can't stop listening:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ievan+polkka

If you can only do three:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqthspSKZV8 - Acapella from Finland, circa 1990s

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX5OARoNFpg - Modern Russia, I sincerely hope none of these folks get drafted

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAyWN9ba9J8 - One of my favorite things on the internet, a South African guy remixing an blind Turkish street performer playing a Finnish song.

Delightful stuff.

Ndymium · 20 days ago
Here's a modern take I like with banjo and accordion by Slack Bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMvpeYBnwTg

Turns out you can play it with an angry face.

Ndymium commented on You know more Finnish than you think   dannybate.com/2025/08/03/... · Posted by u/infinate
matsemann · 20 days ago
I think Scandinavians my age know "ei sa peittaa". Basically "do not cover". When bored on the toilet before phones, reading whatever labels was the norm, and they often had a Finnish version. This was the label on the radiator.
Ndymium · 20 days ago
*Ei saa peittää. :)
Ndymium commented on Software Development at 800 Words per Minute   neurrone.com/posts/softwa... · Posted by u/ClawsOnPaws
mtlynch · a month ago
Yes, that's the one. Thanks! And thanks for writing it, assuming you're the author.
Ndymium · a month ago
I'm not, the author was my colleague at the time. I can only hope to be half as brilliant as him.
Ndymium commented on Software Development at 800 Words per Minute   neurrone.com/posts/softwa... · Posted by u/ClawsOnPaws
mtlynch · a month ago
I'm getting intense deja vu reading this. I remember a very similar article from 3-5 years ago. Even the title feels like I've seen it before. I thought this was a repost from that one but I remember the previous post had a photo of the author's desk with a keyboard, desktop, and no monitor.

I tried searching algolia, but I can't find it.

Ndymium · a month ago
It was quite likely this one: https://www.vincit.com/blog/software-development-450-words-p...

Sadly the audio samples are gone. I'll need to pester someone to fix that.

Ndymium commented on Slightly better named character reference tokenization than Chrome, Safari, FF   ryanliptak.com/blog/bette... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Ndymium · 2 months ago
Thanks to your article I just realised my HTML entity codec library doesn't support decoding those named entities that can omit the semicolon at the end. More work for me, good thing my summer vacation just started! :)
Ndymium commented on You Don't Own the Word "Freedom"   fireborn.mataroa.blog/blo... · Posted by u/DHowett
AstralStorm · 2 months ago
Yeah, right. Do not confuse accessibility with simplicity.

So much accessibility that:

You need to use gestures to access critical functions.

Half of screen readers cannot be connected to their hardware.

You cannot easily get someone to write a driver for exotic input hardware.

There's no zoom feature in the OS.

Recently many UIs just break with big scale factors.

Keyboard support is lacking altogether in some bits of the UI.

Information is hidden and alpears at random.

Not to say Windows or Linux is free of it or better. The platforms are bad in different ways.

Ndymium · 2 months ago
> There's no zoom feature in the OS.

macOS absolutely has a zoom feature. I use it regularly, it's bound to ctrl + mouse scroll for me.

More: https://support.apple.com/en-il/guide/mac-help/mchl779716b8/...

Ndymium commented on Web-scraping AI bots cause disruption for scientific databases and journals   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/tchalla
OutOfHere · 2 months ago
Maybe stop using an inefficient PHP/Javascript/Typescript server, and start using a more efficient Go/Rust/Nim/Zig server.
Ndymium · 2 months ago
Personally I'm specifically talking about Forgejo which is Go, but calls git for some operations. And the effect that was worse than pegging all the CPUs to 100% was filling of the disk with generated zip archives of all of the commits of all public repositories.

Sure, we can say that Forgejo should have had better defaults for this (the default was to clear archives after 24 hours). And that your site should be fast, run on an efficient server, and not have any even slightly expensive public endpoints. But in the end that is all victim blaming.

One of the nice parts of the web for me is that as long as I have a public IP address, I can use any dinky cheapo server I have and run my own infra on it. I don't need to rely on big players to do this for me. Sure, sometimes there's griefers/trolls out there, but generally they don't bother you. No one was ever interested in my little server, and search engines played fair (and to my knowledge still do) while still allowing my site to be discoverable.

Dealing with these bots is the first time my server has been consistently attacked. I can deal with them for now, but it is an additional thing to deal with and suddenly this idea of easy self hosting on low powered hardware is no longer so feasible. That makes me sad. I know what I should do about it, but I wish I didn't have to.

Ndymium commented on Web-scraping AI bots cause disruption for scientific databases and journals   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/tchalla
atonse · 3 months ago
How was this not a problem before with search engine crawlers?

Is this more of an issue with having 500 crawlers rather than any single one behaving badly?

Ndymium · 3 months ago
Search engine crawlers generally respected robots.txt and limited themselves to a trickle of requests, likely based on the relative popularity of the website. These bots do neither, they will crawl anything they can access and send enough requests per second to drown your server, especially if you're a self hoster running your own little site on a dinky server.

Search engines never took my site down, these bots did.

Ndymium commented on A community-led fork of Organic Maps   comaps.app/news/2025-05-1... · Posted by u/maelito
HelloUsername · 3 months ago
Indeed no working download buttons on https://www.comaps.app/download/
Ndymium · 3 months ago
It's mentioned in their code forge[0] that they're working on getting the first release out. So there's not yet anything to download.

[0] https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps

Ndymium commented on Finland is painting deer antlers with reflective paint (2014)   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/andrewfromx
yieldcrv · 4 months ago
Is finland still doing this?
Ndymium · 4 months ago
No, it was a test for a year and deemed a failure.

u/Ndymium

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