This is why "side loading" needs to be normalised as a completely regular form of app installation. Far more resistant to censorship than relying on profit driven corporations "fighting" on our behalf when it suits them.
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Google doesn't have control of Chromium though. The source is available and it is permissively licensed. If they did something truly onerous, Microsoft would fork it within hours and everyone would switch their upstream to Edgium.
The only reason Google calls the shots is because they pour billions of dollars into maintaining Chromium. The fact that they can do that (and even fund Firefox at the same time) is because of their ad monopoly. Same with search, Gmail, Translate, Maps. None of those things can exist without the ad monopoly funding it all.
Complaining about Chrome is barking up the wrong tree.
Except they do. One just has to look at the inability to keep JPEG-XL mainlined in Chromium. Sure, some forks still have JPEG-XL, but it's effectively gone at this point.
The Haast Eagle would be another interesting de-extinction... and preyed on Moa :)
It's kind of ridiculous that the US has held onto pennies for this long. New Zealand phased out our 5 cent coins back in 2006, approximately 3 US pennies worth at present.
I'm gutted; I absolutely love the Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard, especially with the optional slightly inverted slope, it's even more comfortable than previous ergonomic keyboard models. And I've been exclusively using Microsoft ergonomic keyboards for over 20 years, started in my late teens. Tempted to buy a second Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard as a backup for when this keyboard eventually dies, hopefully not for a long, long time!
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We wrote a blog post a couple of years ago about what goes into launching into new countries: https://frame.work/blog/scaling-up-infrastructure
I'm kind of surprised that New Zealand isn't available when Australia is. We tend to share a lot of regulatory standards and such.
A Python script that automatically suspends the server, when it is not used, and another script to wake the server up again, in case there is work to do. To my surprise I could not find any out-of-the-box solution, so I thought, it is a worthwhile effort to write about it.
Currently, the server is primarily used for two things: - Plex Media Streaming (remotely) - Time Machine Backups (locally)
To monitor Plex activities, we access the local Plex API and for Time Machine we simply monitor any file access at /mnt using "lsof." In case there has been no activity for 15 consecutive minutes, the server goes to sleep. (Nobody streams, pausing a video doesn't count as activity, and no backup is running.) A Web server on a Raspberry Pi hosts a website that obtains the current state of the home server provided via the Home Assistant REST API. In case the server sleeps, and I like to backup or stream something, I can wake the server using a simple button press that sends a magic packet using a wakeonlan Perl script.
I've also heard of a trick of integrating WoL with DNS, where if the server requests a lookup for a local IP, it'd send WoL packets to the destination. You'd probably just need to set the TTL for the server's IP very low so that it doesn't get cached.
jessikat commented on JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization jsonhero.io/... · Posted by u/fagnerbrack
Eric here (one of the creators of JSON Hero) and this is a really good point. We built JSON Hero earlier this year and partly wanted to use it to try out Cloudflare Workers and Remix, hence the decision to store in KV and use that kind of architecture. We're keen to update JSON Hero with better local-only support for this reason, and to make it easier to self-host or run locally.
If the vscode extension did it all locally, I'd 100% install in an instant!
jessikat commented on Ask HN: What is it like developing and deploying ASP.NET on Linux? · Posted by u/HeckFeck
I've had zero issues deploying .Net on Linux, whilst developing in Windows. The docker support is really good, if you want to go that way too, and didn't need any platform-specific shenanigans to get working.
JSON really is a terrible serialization format. Even JavaScript can't safely deserialize JSON without silent data corruption. I've had to stringify numbers because of JavaScript, and there were no errors. Perhaps that's the fault of JavaScript, but I find the lack of encoding the numerical storage type to be a bug rather than a feature.