dan @ dan @upvote.au

Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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"trunk" is what it was called in SVN, too. Well, kind of. SVN didn't have a real concept of branching like Git does, but the main development would almost always happen in a root directory called "trunk".

I'm not sure why Bitkeeper used "master", but that's why Git called it that (Git was originally built as a replacement for Bitkeeper).

Get "live DVDs" for a distro that offers both GNOME and KDE (Fedora is a great one), and see which one you like best. "live" means it's usable without installing anything, so it's easy to try out. Get a spare USB stick, install Ventoy on it, copy both ISOs across (a KDE one and a GNOME one), and boot your computer from it to try them out.

This post violates rule 3.

I've been using JS for a long time, and have worked on some date and time libraries, and only got 12/28. Wow there's a lot of edge cases.

They're likely not intentionally crawling Lemmy. They're probably just crawling all sites they can find.

Won't the bots just switch to using that instead of the heavier JS challenge?

tbh I kinda understand their viewpoint. Not saying I agree with it.

The Anubis JavaScript program's calculations are the same kind of calculations done by crypto-currency mining programs. A program which does calculations that a user does not want done is a form of malware.

The Anubis site thinks my phone is a bot :/

tbh I would have just configured a reasonable rate limit in Nginx and left it at that.

Won't the bots just hammer the API instead now?

Some jurisdictions don't allow people to mess with bird nests if there's birds using it, so check that first.

I'm surprised they allow power cables so close to a downspout. That wouldn't be allowed where I live.

Great article! This helped me understand a lot more about D-Bus.

List it on a Buy Nothing group in your area? I give away a lot of stuff that way.

As a buyer, I do this to annoy scalpers. Keep sending them offers far below what they're asking. The more time they spend dealing with me, the less time they can spend scamming people.

Does Thread support pairing two or more devices so they can control each other directly without going through the coordinator? I do that a bit with my Zigbee network.

You can flash the SLZB-06 to use Matter over Thread too. I like those because they use Ethernet and can be powered via PoE, so you can put them practically anywhere you can reach using an Ethernet cable.

Do you mean Matter vs Zigbee? Matter and MQTT are totally separate things.

Working ones are getting harder to find (and thus more expensive) and are impractical for a lot of people.

At least CRT shaders have come a long way (in particular, RetroCrisis has some fantastic ones for RetroArch: https://github.com/RetroCrisis/Retro-Crisis-GDV-NTSC) so we can at least make retro games look more CRT-like.

We had AOL in Australia for some reason, but my family could never use the trials because they required a credit or debit card. In the 90s and early 2000s, a lot of Aussie families had "bank cards" which worked at ATMs and in shops but not online. They used an Australian payment network (EFTPOS) rather than Visa or Mastercard.

In Australia today, debit cards are dual network - EFTPOS for local usage, and Visa or Mastercard for online and international usage.

Depends on region. In Australia, local calls (within the same state) were a flat $0.20 or $0.25, while interstate and mobile calls were billed by the minute.

I've heard that some Americans were billed for incoming calls too?? Crazy.

The mentioned products have had major releases recently. Has anything major happened with Proxmox recently?

Some apps have weird names and I forget what they're called. Showing a "new" badge, even if it's just for the first few times I open the app, makes it more likely that I'll remember the app's name.