I rarely use a docker container in production that I didn’t write the Dockerfile for. Once you understand how it works, you can write your own and install exactly what you want in the way you want it.

NOP ($EA) 😇

This is waaay too close to the bone.

Source: I’ve been writing software since the 6502.

It worked.

An offline version with ads and no ability to store data locally sounds like an online version to me.

From the article:

The feature, which lets you leave your phone plugged in without having to worry about it being overcharged, is an extension of Pixel’s battery optimization features. As its name suggests, it limits your device from being charged over 80 percent, preventing premature battery degradation in the long run.

Every single mobile phone manufacturer, Google included, is continually attempting to improve battery life for many reasons.

Batteries are components that have varying attributes over their lifespan because they’re essentially chemical reactions hopefully contained inside a sealed pouch.

Chemical reactions that vary with temperature, manufacturing tolerances, electricity supply and usage patterns.

Attempting to write software to deal with this is non-trivial and changing.

What looks to you like the same bug might be, or it might not be. It could be a fix for something else that has an unexpected negative impact somewhere else.

The whole ecosystem is continuously in flux, each individual device, each manufacturing batch, and each product revision.

That the same software runs on so many devices is a miracle of modern proportions.

Source: I have been writing software for over 40 years.

I was lead to believe that this bullshit was limited to the country where the Orange Fascist is in charge.

Not so.

This screenshot was just taken by me in Australia.

There are a few online regex testing tools that will analyse your efforts and give you the opportunity to provide sample data.

Moments away from becoming a hoop snake.

There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don’t.

If you build a static website, you can host it on AWS S3 and it will likely cost you cents to run. S3 on its own will handle a lot of traffic and you’re unlikely to hit that threshold, but if you do, you can add AWS Cloud Front and have a site that can handle more traffic than you can imagine.

This will not work. It sounds great, it sounds plausible, even realistic at some level, but this will not work.

Here’s why.

The bot operator has more money than you do. If the efficiency of one bot decreases on one website, they’ll throw another bot at it, rinse and repeat until your website stops responding because it’s ground to dust.

Meta bots are good at doing this, hitting your site with thousands of requests a second, over and over again.

Meta is not alone in this, but in my experience it’s the most destructive.

Source: One of my clients runs a retail website and I’ve been dealing with this.

At the moment the “best” - least worse is probably more accurate - “solution” is to block them as if they’re malicious traffic - which essentially is what they are.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Same user, more than one computer?

This is now what spammers are doing. I’ve got about 50 different “companies” offering their services complete with follow up, meeting bookings, reminders and encouragement to sign up now, then come the threats or request for acknowledgement, then they change their email address and start from the top.

Come to think about it, it’s probably more like 100 different attempts, each with their own repeating thread.

99% automatically land in my spam folder, but it’s just ludicrous. It also makes actual commerce via email pretty much impossible.

I’ve had offers for lead generation, appointment setting, transcript services, SEO, website redesigns, app development, social media marketing and management, investment opportunities, offers for speaking engagements, conference sponsorships, purchasing and product offers, the list is endless.

Right here is where the rubber meets the road. If the GDPR isn’t enforced, the outcome is worse for everyone because the companies in breach will point out that nobody has successfully won a judgement against them, so in other words, they’ve done nothing wrong, whilst all the while they’ll sell your private information out the side door to the highest bidder.

For me the icing on the cake on that image is the “Translate” link which makes me wonder how you might translate this into say Klingon or CEO talk or ELI 5.

Other than that, it’s a sad state of affairs that we’ve allowed this to happen unchecked and wholesale across the planet.

I’ve been writing software for a very long time. Users are essentially stupid and lazy. They don’t read what’s on a screen, even if it’s the only thing on the screen, even if you don’t give them any other options than clicking “Ok”.

When I say stupid, it’s not that they’re dumb, it’s that their mental model of the world doesn’t match the computer one, saying things like: “well, that’s stupid, it should be like this”, followed by a completely illogical and unimplementable world view of the problem they think is being solved.

For the majority of humanity, computers are magic and no amount of arguing here is going to change this in our lifetime. It’s why AI is welcomed with open arms and no thought to its reality.

That’s not at all true. We no longer expect drivers to change sparkplugs (or batteries), even checking oil levels is beyond most, let alone using a manual gearbox or disabling airbags.

You have to understand that the fact that you’re here in this community participating in this discussion already puts you in a very small subset of humanity with technology skills not in evidence in the general public.

He did. He made it into a movie. You can watch it. It’s called “Love Actually”