Posts by DanAU 17 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jan 2024
Cloudflare's implementation is completely different. They pre-generate the content and store it in blob storage (R2) rather than generating it on demand, so that it doesn't affect runtime performance. They also ensure the content is factually accurate, whereas Nepenthes is just a Markov chain.
They said that comparing the two versions and merging the changes would have been too hard:
> As a result of significant changes (new topics and comments) made since the time of the restore, we are unable to integrate the topics and comments from yesterday and todays [sic] morning into the current version.
I'd believe it... They'd need to change every overlapping auto-increment ID, and it's easy to mess that up.
> All this will do is force EVERYONE to either use free, automatically issued certificates,
Note that there's nothing limiting ACME to free providers. Paid providers can implement it too.
I'm hoping this change pushes more vendors to support ACME. There's no reason certs should have to be manually renewed.
The issue is that polyfill .io serves different JS per browser, so it's incompatible with SRI hashes. The solution is to either self-host it, or bundle the polyfills yourself. It's usually sufficient to have two JS bundles: One for old browsers (with all the polyfills required for the oldest browsers your app supports) and one for modern browsers (only polyfills required by browsers released in the last year or so).
> ISA and parallel at least are very tricky to track down on "modern" hardware.
There are modern-ish industrial motherboards that still have ISA slots and parallel ports, since companies have older industrial automation equipment that they need to keep running and it'd be very expensive to modernize (the old equipment still works so there's not much of a business case for replacing it).
In fact, some motherboards have PCIe, PCI, and ISA all on the same board. For example, this board takes 7th gen Intel Core processors and has an ISA slot: https://elmark-automation.com/shop/msi-ipc/ms-98l9v20 . Unfortunately this one doesn't have a parallel port, but there's others that do.
No guarantee that all ISA devices will work though, since these boards usually use a PCI-to-ISA bridge rather than a true ISA bus.
My Bosch (around 10 years ago) has the same downward-facing light. It's a nice feature.
I have it plugged in to a smart plug, and have an automation configured to send me a notification if the power usage drops from above 10W to <10W for longer than 10 minutes, to tell me that it's done. Same for the washing machine. Works well enough.
> But why poll?
This is the thing I don't understand. If they really want to use AWS, it even has a nice service they can use: SNS (Simple Notification System). It supports both mobile notifications and app-to-app pub/sub.
In reality, it should just use MQTT locally.
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