Damn good points.

Youngest is younger that. I’m just not letting him chat until he’s a teen

Eldest has had all the appropriate talks before he got on discord.

Not from a multi-race household I see.

If little Timmy’s parents start talking about “those kids” my kids isn’t playing with him. Too many racist fucks out there.

We have a 15 minute conversation to find out if they’re batshit crazy slur calling racist trumpeters because we dont need to subject our kids to that shit.

I find it insane that you wouldn’t take 15 minutes to get to know who your kids influencers are, but you do you.

EEPROM’s are fun. If you want more of that, check out Ben Eater on YouTube, he has a giant series on building an 8-bit computer from scratch. he actually goes through the whole design philosophy. There’s a lot of ‘new’ stuff in there that’s not entirely boring.

The younger kid’s chat is disabled. not allowed to friend anyone.

The older kid has chat enabled, but is only allowed to friend people we vet.

Computers are in an open area, chats have been keylogged, we check occasionally.

If friends show up unanounced, or they chat where they’re not supposed to, they lose internet access long enough to regret it

When they get old enough to have friends online, we contact the parents, make sure they’re compatible politically, theologogically, just generally not extremists and their kids have some base level of dicipline and are safety minded.

We also semi-regularly play with them and set rules about the appropriateness of the games in relation to the kids ages. The younger one’s don’t get to play the violent ones.

Ohh fuck yes, I support antivirus, but only on Windows, maybe, possibly OSX. If you give bare Windows to a kid, they’ll have viruses as soon as they learn to use Google.

TBF, Fam gets my guest network. It’s not allowed to touch anything in my house, they can only route through. DHCP sends their DNS to 4.2.2.2 and 8.8.8.8, They can’t even touch my DNS, they can’t see any of my home automation and they can’t see each other. They can push the connection as hard as they want, the QOS won’t let them take priority.

I read that as ministries, and i’d be down either way :)

Wait until corporate america figures this out, outrnext big blockbusters: cmd, taskmgr and devmgmt

Can’t crossfade, developers won’t add the features the server doesn’t support it. I get a random crashes at least once a session. Search sucks because I don’t feel like wiring up elastic. Doesn’t stream large lists, browse to P? With 5000 artists and 20K tracks? Forever.

The beta is a little smoother but doesn’t address any of my issues with it.

Symphonium is 100 times better, never crashes, solves lists/streaming by downloading the lists and handling them locally.

I just want my AHK stuff to work again. They’re dragging us kicking and screeming into un-avoidable security that breaks software that noone is up for fixing.

First off, thank you for all your work.

Why this hasn’t happened yet

You set the bar pretty high for improvement.

The vacuums are expensive. The work requires multiple top-tier skill sets, and the people with those skill sets don’t generally have enough time to contribute to something this heavy

Somebody could just fork you and clone everything you’re doing, but it’s not like any users would chase someone else versus you when you’re the only one getting actual work done.

It’s also kind of poking the bear for these vacuum companies skirting along by selling user data.

A billion years ago, I worked for a place that was using Cold Fusion.

There was this one project that had a loop with a break condition, but the devs kept accidentally putting errors in the break logic. The project was pretty processor intensive. I got calls 5-6 times a day to reset the CF server because stopping the HTML page wouldn’t do #$%^

Can you guys please just add a second break module so you can just load another page and cause the project to abort? hell make it dump a file in /tmp, whatever…

There have been 209 versions of that site

https://web.archive.org/web/20250331043558/https://www.isitdns.com/

it predated AI, but likely seems to have had some AI cleanup.

If it was truly just vibecoded, the comments would usually be on every element.

I just did the same f’ing thing and came here to write your comment!

well done.

Dev: My app’s getting a 400 hitting the server. Your firewall changes broke it.

Me: You’re getting to the server, it’s giving you back a malformed request error. Most likely it’s a problem in your client.

Dev: it worked fine until you made that change in QA.

Me: Your server is in production.

After that, I just get too busy to look at it for a while… They figure it out eventually.

I have it installed, but support for it is starting is wane. I’m dogfooding.

I dug into it a bit, we need the new api to allow a few things and they’re not budging. There’s enough traction to have X11 on the downslide but not enough force to get them to support the little needs. Too damn big/fast to fork for now.

Do I get my AutoHotKey back yet?

Honey, break out the arc net adapters. It’s going to be a long night.

Getting the machine running was cake, getting online through dialup after that was the real pain :)

Mobile device flashing is a fucking alien world. Samsung products are not good for it, especially in the US.

The alt OS’s are mainly built against ancient hardware, and the SKUs that work are so limited that they’re not particularly cheap on the used market.

The best thing you can do is go fairphone or pixel and specifically get one of the models that is directly claimed as supported.

If you can’t get it to work, find the OS forums and hop in, someone will bend over backward to help you out if you’re nice about it.