Programmers need to respect other people’s hardware. A 4TB HDD currently costs more than it did a decade ago.

My data is stored on a mirrored RAID, and backed up on two alternating offsite drives. For every TB of space I use, I buy 4. I do not consider this negotiable.

I don’t back up game installs, but by point remains valid. 90% of hardware advances gets pissed away by bloated shitcode. I see it every day.

Optus is barely an internet connection at this point. I’m using about 10 fearures on Aussie Broadband that simply don’t exist on the Optus network.

This vibes like that scene in Dumb and Dumber where Harry is standing next to a fire complaining that his fingers are about to fall off, and Lloyd says “you should take these extra gloves. Mine are getting sweaty”.

This game currently consumes 30% of the hard drive on my main PC.

I’m impressed by the technical feat, but am also annoyed that they knew they were wasting this much space and simply did not care. I’m betting every 100GB game is like this.

Not for long. That’s about to get fixed with encrypted client hello.

He said that Nvidia only care about money these days.

I also only recognise Trey and Matt.

…and if you use DoH, they won’t even see DNS.

I would argue that you don’t need a VPN. It’s just another entity that can see your traffic, and there’s no reason to trust them over your ISP. They’re all for-profit companies.

Telstra (Australia’s largest telco) now provides IPv6-only to mobile handsets by default. They’ve deployed 464XLAT.

The main benenfit is not having to deal with NAT. You get your own address and your traffic is not conflated with other people’s.

You also get privacy extensions. Your device generates a temporary address for making outgoing connections. The address has no listening sockets. This means that you cannot get portscanned by every website you visit.

You don’t need to try and figure out your external IP address. There’s no differentiation between internal/external addresses. They’re all global, as the internet was intended.

You can throw as many IP addresses on an interface as you want. If you want to run two web servers from one machine, you can have multiple addresses with different services on port 443.

It needs timepieces. Or am I the only one who likes NTP, ISO-8601, sundials and Casio F-91Ws?

Enforcing TLS filters out a lot of spam connectikns too. Every legit provider has a cert these days.

Start a new life on a farm.

But seriously, it was mostly because my coworkers don’t realise when the linter underlines broken stuff in red. You upgrade it, and and your project has 180 errors and you have no idea which ones are new.

I love react. It’s so straightforward until it collapses onto a tangled mess of hooks, refs, callbacks and dependencies.

I just finished updating an app to 0.82.1 today and JFC it was a mess.

Firefox mobile too?

I’d blame the gecko, but literally NO other site breaks like this.

There’s so many dark patterns to it. You’ll notice that it’s impossible to bookmark your “friends” feed. At every opportunity you get directed back to your wall, which is 95% shit you’re not subscribed to.

And yes, uploads fail. You can’t upload webp. Uploads randomly orient 90° off.

When responding to posts, the page will jump on every keystroke. It will then close the keyboard unexpectedly and reveal a button that subscribes to 4 random groups in one misclick.

If you move away to another tab or app for 30 seconds, the whole page reloads and you lose your place.

You’d think that with a trillion dollars you could get a shitty PHP feed to work smoothly.

Zuck has us cucked.

I’ve got one, and it works well enough when offline.

If not, I could set up Home Assistant and self-host it.

It’s a shame, as Mozilla gave iRobot one of the better privacy ratings. That’s the only reason I allowed it in my house to begin with.

I denied play store network access too 😆.

Seriously, some apps just check if it’s installed or not. I use Aurora for actually downloading apps.

Google Keyboard has network access, so it can theoretically log every keystroke and send it somewhere.

Personally, I installed GrapheneOS which lets me deny network access to the keyboard.

It was annoying having to change that setting so I could shut down the phone and install GrapheneOS.

I just put a new clutch in the vehicle I’m teaching my kid to drive.