ティージェーグレェ「teajaygrey」 / is on Nostr

The 道「dào」of this teajay.

Whom most seem to refer to as grey.

Existin in this incarnation in the Area of Yay.

What others might refer to as "The Bay".

Prefers music to games when it comes to play.

Prefers rhyme to time when it comes to talkin bout my day.

Was once part of ThudRumble's 33.3 Club, yay!

Probably omittin a lot here, feel free to ask me more with a "yo", "wazzup" or "hey"!

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2024-05-26 17:56:05

I've been warning people against CloudFlare for years. One of their employees even made public death threats to me. Someone in their HR got in contact with me about that and it escalated. The person had deleted their post, but I had kept screenshots.
That person is no longer with CloudFlare, but I've had nothing but negative interactions from others there as well.
Seems as if I am not the only one.
Avoid them.
There are many other CDNs.

2023-11-03 02:26:54

I did somehow find time today to note that not only does @npub1wea…cz8k not have native Apple Silicon builds.
But before diving into their build instructions here (supposedly) https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/blob/unstable/CONTRIBUTING.md I couldn't help but notice that maybe this was, at some point, forked from Signal?
JFC.
The last thing the world needs is another protocol derived from double ratchet/Axolotl Ratchet and Moxie's malarky. ;-/
It's been over 20 years since SILC set the high water mark in realtime end-to-end encrypted comms, and to date, no one seems to have raised it that I have seen, despite many "reinventing the flat tire" attempts that are becoming increasingly vexing.
I even released an OTR over SILC proof of concept in 2014 just to give an example of how someone could, theoretically raise the bar a little higher if necessary.
To crickets. ;(

2023-08-19 03:31:38

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@npub1y0e…mm9n Sweet!
I went down a rabbit hole thanks to some of your sites last week I think it was?
I am not a car person (despite having been in the Monterey area yesterday where they are currently celebrating "car week"), so learning more about the Mazda/Ford collaboration that was the Probe was eye opening for me too! :)

2023-08-19 03:19:17

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@npub1y0e…mm9n I think there is a LOT to be said for that approach.
Alas, I fear we may be outliers, but I am OK with that.

2023-08-19 03:10:29

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@npub1y0e…mm9n As an aside, I always had some HP calculator envy. ;)
I think I still have one of my dad's 12C models in storage, but a friend in high school had a 48GX I think it was? A real marvel! Well beyond my budget then, and probably now too. ;)

2023-08-19 03:09:30

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@npub1y0e…mm9n I often think I may have been more productive as a coder without all of the online distractions?
Still, I don't think I want to go backwards. ;)
I don't just "touch grass" with some frequency: I endeavor to be places where there are no ways for me to be online and am grateful for being disconnected.
Which makes it all the more annoying when I find myself on an uplink that is so heavily filtered I find myself using other tools to tunnel through their busted filters. I have suspicions of how we ended up here, but it certainly isn't due to good network engineering practices.

2023-08-19 02:25:14

/me sees "____ is a Senior Network Gameplay Engineer. He has over 10 years of experience"
Buddy, I had over 10 years of coding experience before I was even given a 1200 baud modem.
You clearly misunderstand what "Senior" means and I am guessing like too many others, you misuse the term "Engineer" as well. ;(

2023-08-07 03:01:26

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@npub1y0e…mm9n yeah, the Samsung Sidekick 4G was the last pocket device I didn't utterly despise.
But apparently "the market has spoken" and such users are relegated to nearly bespoke options now that are overpriced and perpetually delayed?

2023-08-07 02:46:22

Yet again I hate touch screen typing and so called auto "correct".
I think it has been over a year since I ordered a pocket device with a physical keyboard and no update in over a month on how it is delayed by the British scheisters who sold it to me.

2023-08-06 16:57:37

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@npub1p77…0jxq I submitted a PR to update MacPorts' snac to 2.39 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/19779
Build bot/CI checks passed!
I don't have commit access, so it's up to someone else to merge it.
Thank you for your continued contributions and improvements!
#snac #MacPorts #ActivityPub #FediVerse #Mastodon #OpenSource #NoDatabaseNeeded #TotallyJavaScriptFree #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullshit

2023-08-05 03:41:17

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@npub14d7…dm4s I've run MySQL way too much and would avoid it if at all possible.
I've even slept on the couch of one of the former MySQL creators, Brian Aker. No beef with him, though I think once Sun was sold to Oracle, most of the original people who contributed to it kind of left the building?
I've had employers pay for Percona's extra mojo for MySQL and found it too, lacking in many ways that would really make this weary burnt out sysadmin's life easier.
Postgres and SQLite don't seem to get enough love IMHO, but sometimes (at least for me) such decisions were made long ago and migration to another SQL implementation is not in the cards.
Absolutely avoid at all costs: MS-SQL. Every place where MSDE is used, IMHO would be better served by SQLite too. Albeit, MS has done worse, everything with JET (which includes Exchange) is fundamentally horrific.
Sybase I thankfully haven't touched in prod in decades, but it was IMHO way too popular for way too long, perhaps because NeXT bundled it once upon a time or something inane like that?
For those who can forgo SQL, LMDB isn't exactly the "new hawtness" anymore, but is certainly way better than venerable BDB, and even cooler: LumoSQL is basically breathing new life into the SQLightning project (which was SQLite with LMDB) so I am keen to see how that shapes up over time, but when I last looked at it, it was very much a work in progress and not yet copasetic on any BSDs.