made the HTML for one of my static handwritten sites semantic!
VPS troubles and the weekend
This weekend I went to the cottage with P on Friday. I hoped I would
have a nice weekend reading in front of the wood stove, but I had also
planned to spend at least a few hours trying to configure Maddy as the
new mail server for hack.org et al.
Then the web server I moved to the new VPS died. Again. I connected to
the VNC console and, like before, the Linux kernel couldn’t find its
root disk. A simple:
# mount /dev/vda2 /sysroot; exit
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Plain Vanilla Web
Article URL: https://plainvanillaweb.com/index.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954896
Points: 506
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You can now shop using ChatGPT, but is it worth the hype?
AI chatbots can now recommend products and link you to the purchase page. In the near future they’ll handle carts and checkout too. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Pilogy, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/10/pilogy-3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 05/05 to 05/09 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/09/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Timescape https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/08/timescape.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
From: Steve Jobs. “Great idea, thank you.”
Article URL: https://blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929724
Points: 504
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i started a little thing on my dreamwidth and called it a flash prompt box. basically it's a limited time thing where people can prompt me for stuff i'm offering, like short fanfiction, photoshop-edited user icons, music recs, and a bit more! i'm having sooo much fun with it so far it's been a blast just making stuff for friends :)
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@prologic@twtxt.net ah that’s alright! the banner is just for fun :] it might be easier to skip to the comments with this link if you want (it’s in the site view mode rather than my page’s theme) https://luckyzukky.dreamwidth.org/98451.html?style=site#comments
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i started a little thing on my dreamwidth and called it a flash prompt box. basically it's a limited time thing where people can prompt me for stuff i'm offering, like short fanfiction, photoshop-edited user icons, music recs, and a bit more! i'm having sooo much fun with it so far it's been a blast just making stuff for friends :)
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@prologic@twtxt.net yeah, the post is here! you can check the comments to see my friends and i talking and stuff it’s so fun https://luckyzukky.dreamwidth.org/98451.html
告別 JMeter！這款 Go 語言神器讓性能測試輕量 10 倍，還支持分佈式壓測
k6 簡介：爲何選擇它———–k6 由 Go 語言編寫，相較於傳統工具 JMeter，具有輕量高效、語法簡潔、擴展性強等優勢。其特點包括：開發者友好：基於 JavaScript/TypeScript 腳本，無縫銜接現代開發流程 雲原生支持：內置分佈式測試能力，輕鬆模擬萬級併發 豐富可視化：提供 HTML/JSON 格式報告，支持自定義儀表板 擴展生態：通過 npm ⌘ Read more
Rockstar Games share fresh trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI
Rockstar Games has shared a new trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, just days after delaying the game until May 2026. This latest video has been watched online 475 million times across platforms. ⌘ Read more
‘I don’t see how it doesn’t happen’: Apple eyes giant change to devices
Apple is “actively looking at” revamping the Safari web browser on its devices to focus on AI-powered search engines, a seismic shift for the industry hastened by the potential end of a longtime partnership with Google. ⌘ Read more
Mark Zuckerberg has a creepy new way to invade your privacy
The new Meta app promises to be a more “personalised” form of AI. It is really a more disturbing version of ChatGPT. ⌘ Read more
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And on a similar note, cross-post from Mastodon:
What I love about HTML and HTTP is that it can degrade rather gracefully on old browsers.
My website isn’t spectacular but I don’t think it looks horrible, either. And it’s still usable just fine all the way down to WfW 3.11:
It’s not perfect, but it’s usable. And that makes me happy. Almost 30 years of compatibilty.
The biggest sacrifice is probably that I don’t enforce TLS and that HTTP 1.0 has no Host: header, so no vhosts (or rather, everything must come from the default vhost). (Yes, some old browsers send Host:, even though they predate HTTP 1.1. Netscape does, but not IBM WebExplorer, for example.)
(On the other hand, it might completely suck on modern mobile devices. Dunno, I barely use those. 🤪)
foss-north 2025
I attended foss-north, a free / open source conference covering both
software and hardware from the technical perspective, at Chalmers
Conference Center in Gothenburg on April 14 & 15. A great conference.
Lots of interesting talks:
https://foss-north.se/2025/speakers-and-talks.html
My own presentation was “Forking QEMU to emulate and secure the
Tillitis TKey”. Recording is here:
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On my blog: Developer Diary, Day of the Midwife https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/05/midwives.html #programming #project #devjournal
Fuzzing with Grammars
Not sure if it’s good netiquette to mention them, but the book is apparently co-authored by @vrthra.
AI won’t steal your job, but you need to learn to work with it
You may be flummoxed by the bot you’re currently being asked to use, but soon your latest co-worker may be an AI agent. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: 0M — Remixed Classrooms https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/04/30m-free-education.html #3#0#million #books #diversity #education
AI won’t steal your job, but you need to learn to work with it
You may be flummoxed by the bot you’re currently being asked to use, but soon your latest co-worker may be an AI agent. ⌘ Read more
This electric ute is shaping as the anti-Tesla for EV buyers
The US start-up hopes its small and affordable ute it will become the Ford Model T of electric vehicles. ⌘ Read more