Evert Pot

Software Engineer / HATEOAS nerd / CTO / Toronto resident! | he/him

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

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Gina Intheburg πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ 🌻 πŸ₯₯🌴ginaintheburg@mastodon.world
2025-07-11

#Israel does it again - kills 15, incl 10 children & 2 women, in a queue to receive food aid in #Gaza.

"It's under review."

Yeah. That's what they say every time they murder peaceful, innocent, starving people desperately seeking food at designated aid distribution pts.

Liars and murders.

Netanyahu & Yoav Gallant specifically released IDF from any international law or rules of war in Gaza & then pretend to investigate rules & laws they don't respect?

Riiight...

bbc.com/news/articles/c4gd01g1

2025-07-10

Just gave ngrok a try again after a few years of not needing it. Found 3 bugs in 5 minutes, and they assume you have Gmail and on linux only support .deb packages. I thought this was so user friendly back in the day!

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2025-07-09

This is exactly what the internet is for.

three posts telling a story of a Berlin woman who regrets not having bought a certain sweater in Iceland and gets it from a New York man who bought it for his wife, who did not like it.
2025-07-07

This screenshot is from the CRA (Canadian Tax). I feel the "Secure' label teaches users to blindly trust that image when it appears elsewhere. What's the point of it?

Pop-oiver with a speech bubble and a label that says "Chat with the CRA". Under that label it says "Secure" in a yellow banner, with a shield icon containing a checkmark.
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David Zaslavskydiazona@techhub.social
2025-07-07

Podcast intro

(edit: also check out the captioned version techhub.social/@diazona/114809)

#Monsterdon

2025-07-06

@vga256 also want this

2025-07-04

@jay you can also link to a data: uri

2025-07-03

@ramsey I think that might be a justification after the fact. I don't think that much thought went into it, as per: mastodon.functional.computer/@

2025-07-03

@samir seems on-brand!

2025-07-03

@samir very unsatisfying explanation in this thread, but answers the core question i guess:

> Because I wanted to avoid overloading HREF -- doesn't really make
sense in this context, I don't think.

😭

2025-07-03

I wonder why <img> uses 'src' and '<a>' and '<link>' use 'href' as the attribute name. Is there are semantic meaningful difference or is it just different people doing different things and not sharing enough notes.

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jwzjwz
2025-07-03

You MUST listen to RFC 2119.

Eric Bailey: It turns out you can just pay people to do things. I found a voice actor and hired them with the task of "Reading this very dry technical document in the most over-the-top sarcastic, passive-aggressive,...
jwz.org/b/ykqi

Screenshot
2025-07-01

@steeph @nina_kali_nina back when Facebook was fun, status updates had to start with "[name] is ..."

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2025-07-01

Today I was reminded that old online chats offered context awareness for the people online: you knew you won't be a bother to a friend who has a smiley flower as a status; and you knew you might not be getting a quick reply from someone who's Away.

Today I don't even know if my friends are online or not. The messenger apps make the assumption that everyone is online, and if not, they will receive a push notification, and will reply to you as soon as possible. But this assumption is barely true. I bet it makes lives harder, especially for ND people

(Edited for a pixel-perfect screenshot)

A screenshot of ICQ application showing multiple online statuses:

Online
Free for chat
Away
Extended away
Occupied 
Do not disturb 
Invisible 
Offline
2025-07-01

@hukl one take on this (not an endorsement but came across it) youtu.be/iX3JT6q3AxA?si=NWpLCv

2025-06-30

@plbrault brutal!

2025-06-21

I think if USB-C standards mandated color coding for ports and wires, it would have mostly eliminated people's issues with it

2025-06-21

@vga256 πŸ’”

2025-06-18

So this is actually a Cisco 2610, and from googling it seems that the 4 console ports are actually some kind of module that it didn't ship with. You can get different modules with different ports.

2025-06-18

I see references to X.3 and X.28. Maybe this device let users connect to non-IP networks? But 2002 for this device seems late.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.28

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