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Seirdy
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About Seirdy
I've reduced my use of HN. I mostly interact with HN to collect and respond to feedback, correct misinfo, and ask questions.
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Comment #39973413
Said people are trusting the intel from the AI. Those who provide that intel possible should shoulder responsibility for its effects, or at least its efficacy.
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Comment #38417156
Shortly after you posted this, it looks like their TLS certs expired. Checking my TLS-RPT bundles reveals 5 failures in the last couple days from Google.
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Comment #37544009
Correction: this was not a case of accidental misgendering. The post refers to someone abusing mod privileges to edit someone's pronouns to "who/cares".
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Comment #37218173
It's a very common Markdown extension supported by PHP-Markdown-Extra, Goldmark, Pandoc, Kramdown, and dozens of others. Several of these have supported it for almost ten years now…
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Comment #37203160
Goldmark (Hugo) and many Markdown extensions do support description lists. Hugo also supports render hooks which make adding support for attributes, picture elements, etc trivial. …
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Comment #36594895
https://seirdy.one/ I'm trying to adopt as much IndieWeb as I can while still remaining a static JS-free site (except for the crappy search results page). Comments are Webmentions.…
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Comment #34293011
Gleason is an influential member of the fediverse because of Soapbox. Soapbox adoption generally makes him more relevant and more popular. This clout amplifies his transmisiac mess…
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Comment #34107210
The devs are especially interested in a distribution of musl with hardened_malloc integrated for easy static linking. Until then, LD_PRELOAD is your friend (assuming you build with…
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Comment #33477237
QUIC does not require a CA. Self-signed or DANE-backed TLS certificates work fine. Try using cURL built with HTTP/3 support to see for yourself. Requiring CAs and not implementing …
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Comment #33473295
Many worried about what Twitter's changes would mean for under-represented groups. Given this news and Twitter also cutting its accessibility department, I think we can see their n…
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Comment #33311983
How's the accessibility of these interfaces? I believe you mentioned an intent to target the Web some time ago, implying that Web interfaces could expose semantics to assistive tec…
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Comment #33210395
Nor can I. That's why progressive enhancement is common sense: it's way less effort, less complexity, and easier to make accessible.
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Comment #33210350
I concur on using an adblocker to block modals, cookie notices, dickbars, related articles, author profile pictures, etc. In fact, I never dismiss modals because doing so may imply…
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Comment #32796059
First off, some of your comments have referred to ad-blocking being wrong due to conflict with existing business models. Businesses are not entitled to the success of their busines…
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Comment #32786737
I recommend users who link against OpenSSL to enable padding to multiples of at least 1024 bytes if they want to impede traffic analysis. The Nginx devs aren't interested in implem…
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Comment #32784861
I generally recommend Caddy over Nginx, but Nginx does still have certain advantages: - Nginx supports OpenSSL commands that enable features like TLS record padding. - Performance:…
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Comment #32622271
In the experimental Document-Policy HTTP header, "bpp" does seem to signify bytes per pixel. Document-Policy explainer: https://github.com/wicg/document-policy/blob/main/document-p…
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Comment #31825531
Yes, I listed several. Scroll down a bit.
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Comment #31825512
Thanks, added. Diff: https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/seirdy.one/commit/ae3e26e5928a9f0f...
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Comment #31793857
Xe is phasing out that name in favor of "Xe". Xer domain name change was a part of that shift.
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Comment #31717768
Thank you for the kind words. You made my day.