2026-08-25T23:03:23Z https://nostr.ae Peter Bhat Harkins https://nostr.ae/npub1ewuararnl46vt0967cljycg578s8p8ck73p48nra5rj7kgd4vyysp9ktd2 https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/accounts/avatars/112/906/037/274/831/202/original/42fbf1d867782237.png https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/accounts/avatars/112/906/037/274/831/202/original/42fbf1d867782237.png https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgnm57j6psjyjndrf4gzqfusv3mjh5ucs6ag39mp3689l6egux9dczyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssje45mta In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr8xa04exj0kmhz6qmrmenrutk4ryuwsm8ql0qltf9kv8g59vshsgruljka'>nevent1q…ljka</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Does it look like this? <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W81LNTD/">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W81LNTD/</a> Someone just shared it with me, I&#39;m curious if there&#39;s more options/brands. 2025-12-29T02:51:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszxuxtxfpuq2pmxmfdps68ej999huy94jkfhr69xtyusn7kfn7edqzyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssjznnadl Has anyone seen something like a wall outlet with a USB port... AND the cable permanently attached? Asking for a household where everyone borrows charging cables to leave in the Phantom Zone, never to be seen again. I&#39;m griping a little, but trying to help solve a real hassle. 2025-12-28T17:11:54Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw5afaadc435lmgfucvzlrwpvq6xkffwf2rc89qqurv5hyhsnmh9gzyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssj2yqzz0 What languages have sandboxes or other features that you&#39;d trust with untrusted code? There&#39;s Lua, and Java had applets, OCaml almost. Not many languages allow what&#39;s effectively embedding with controls on runtime, mem usage, importing, and disk/network access. 2025-10-13T13:00:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswjmnd8k23a4w6c42g05m7s6cpl5caycgy5h8akvmq4893w4rw42szyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssj3x4egj A spammer promoting an AI coding tool spammed my repo. I reported the spam to GitHub. They kept the spam and, after hiding him for a couple weeks, restored the spammer. I can&#39;t resolve the problem because I can&#39;t ban the spammer. So now every page has this irritating banner forever. GitHub, wtf?<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/rubysocial/media_attachments/files/115/203/894/946/596/835/original/a2f2efc0f53f2514.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-09-14T17:45:34Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgu97f5qmw8hetthky3ywuhnwaj4rx8n4j8lgu8ezx0tc6m9hz65qzyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssjspv4ey Lobsters is back up. Looks like unattended-upgrades bounced mariadb; it caught an io error (transient?) and didn&#39;t start. Downtime detector failed to alert. I just finished a db backup. Will investigate and take further remediation steps after coffee. <a href="https://lobste.rs/chat">https://lobste.rs/chat</a> if you want to help puzzle it out 2025-06-10T12:06:32Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswc80h2nu9fj8uqdgjmpgteqjhxcluavw0hcaav884q9cstq693sqzyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssjsnts3p I&#39;ll stream Lobsters office hours in about 20 minutes. Drop in any time with questions, or just to watch me maintain the site. There&#39;s more grid PRs from chamlis to review and probably merge, but I also want to split more functionality out to background jobs for failure isolation. <a href="https://push.cx/stream">https://push.cx/stream</a> 2025-05-22T13:41:58Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2vxrwwyjzw4ku20sr25lw9vmkq0zzwus95px3uqpehtvt9r2zhzczyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssj36sd97 I&#39;m very happy to remove the code from Lobsters for geoblocking the UK, and my thanks to everyone who contributed to making sense of it. I wrote up everything we learned about it and why the risk seems low enough now, hopefully it&#39;s useful to other communities: <a href="https://lobste.rs/c/xevn8a">https://lobste.rs/c/xevn8a</a> 2025-03-16T13:07:05Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw4txtglmrtky36nxv4gxm7z3cajvn3zuv4c8q25fk5wlw2zu9hrgzyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssj3nktcv Has anyone used password breach lists to prevent account takeover? I think we&#39;ve seen it for the first time on Lobsters. I feel out of my depth yoloing security controls and would appreciate advice: <a href="https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/1478">https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/1478</a> 2025-03-02T15:45:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszaxazj74gu8f4y7ss2da9060nwdgc8zdv5y9h4986xg66e2m6jsgzyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssjx3zfjl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0nc6cgl02ngkxu77qusff7sj60lplthngmtn4audpssnr3pmjyqgqjn8x5'>nevent1q…n8x5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is not a situation where a technical change can provide a loophole. I think it would be a very bad mistake to assume the enforcers will clueless about computing. 2025-01-17T16:29:23Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx9ny3ufzsglfgxtjqf426g5pe0fqkza5kyru5x0uhs65gktedrcczyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssj5ma97m I have been informed by my spouse that having pecan pie and ice cream for breakfast, lunch, and dinner does not count as eating thanksgiving leftovers even if they are leftover from thanksgiving. 2024-12-01T23:49:42Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2vtpvzkrcvkt2rlwphm8x6tlw4zjea5t3yktdw8dsukxsgfz99egzyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssj6k8rx2 <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1qmqpcqgemtx5gxtmwgeg0a7tcd5wq2acttej9phuejwwc9e3evxsds2nm4" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Some(oz)</span> (<span class="italic">npub1qmq…2nm4</span>)</a></span> Thanks for your suggestion for blocking the Brave scam. I left a comment but - in the hopes that your strategy works for longer, I&#39;ve removed your comment. <a href="https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761#issuecomment-2509149290">https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761#issuecomment-2509149290</a><br/><br/>As an OS project, it&#39;s hard to deal with this kind of attack. 2024-11-30T19:28:46Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst7c52dv7qmwfyldpfm8f2quptcec2ujapgtzmsk429sgqvxmh9gszyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssj2e6822 For the first time in 5 years my personal browser profile has zero tabs open. (Please clap.) 2024-11-12T20:50:17Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxklwk58ck6yf86tahdunxpmfjh67vnt9qk7pvl8s0p05nzqx68lqzyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssjvfu9gh Indie makers: how do you track progress over months? I end most days feeling they were well-spent, but not really weeks or months. I guess I sort of want GitHub’s activity graph for my several projects to feel like I’m spending time well on priorities. 2024-10-30T17:22:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv7xg6vzymntle6tvek56p0ns6ztzufrknjw7w2upwfn2tgef330qzyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssjrnzq6r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdavuqj7juxnsqn460eetlls6dhyr4gadn5f0rw7qlsrumdt9qymslrwjcx'>nevent1q…wjcx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Maybe this is fiddly GitHub UI, but... how do potential volunteers know to invoke the bot? They can still write a &#34;I&#39;ll do it&#34; comment. I guess train maintainers to invoke the bot and remove the comment? 2024-10-21T18:57:38Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszl0txhgw9rq7v0ug39y6hyrdhns9kpddkrac6qpdzvn0fzqz8qyszyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssjuem4g8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd5prhlqttjrkk2uak6fex8ka2dh3erh5zkf9eg9hgsfgx683p5wc2jeunh'>nevent1q…eunh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve still been thinking about this, really, any kind of suggestion would be very welcome if you can spare the time. This morning I&#39;m working on a PR for an older, mutli-step issue that&#39;s confused by a couple comments claiming it without taking action. 2024-10-17T12:50:23Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqtrdwglcpkwxlwrmavnjak9auqktxemnjdz78pje33z32xx25cxgzyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssjpvwfgl I wish GitHub allowed me to enforce a policy that comments claiming an issue are deleted if a PR isn’t opened with a week. And any commenter posting any variation of “any updates on this” to feature requests would instantly fall through a trapdoor into the oubliette. 2024-10-16T14:17:19Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq4jm7ft2263lsva9njadjm7zre4nava380f59t79xq8c9twezluqzyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssjplkdn6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp827cxfw7yr4g9r0ddcxd5j0av02m4xs7pekjg0ptx9e2tq3f63ce496dh'>nevent1q…96dh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Sorry about that. Several users reported it and I banned the commenter. 2024-09-06T17:44:59Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp2shrvytxsurcvxsn4pg3yvnr3zn5fwuk72q3q9h6hxqjnwrvvuczyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssj7xq7zu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxnlt446ykckd8nn0yf28p9gfdcta8yjqp4wgyp9yu2euhrqxm7wsc8v3e5'>nevent1q…v3e5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I had a funny moment streaming yesterday where someone was blown away that my .vimrc is older than them. Old coders never die, we just become load-bearing infrastructure (and then die). 2024-08-13T14:45:23Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxnlt446ykckd8nn0yf28p9gfdcta8yjqp4wgyp9yu2euhrqxm7wszyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssjfynanl In about 90 minutes, and continuing twice-weekly, I&#39;m going to stream Lobsters office hours and development on Twitch. I hope to answer questions and generally just let folks look over my shoulder as I work on things: <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/zzprkr/weekly_lobsters_office_hours">https://lobste.rs/s/zzprkr/weekly_lobsters_office_hours</a> 2024-08-12T17:20:22Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf6xwasj8hk7g2asndmunka2nuk2mxxq8vgl9nfemy8jq6lu0w4kgzyr9mn505w07hf3duhtmr7gnpznc7quylzm6yx57v0kswt6epk4ssj033tjf Talking to an LLM feels like talking to BigCo Tier 1 customer support. They’re tortured into obscene friendliness but too uninformed and disempowered for anything but the most obvious conversation path. 2024-08-12T14:34:49Z