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bobdobberson

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Officially, I am Often High Pope Bob Dobberson, but Pope Bob rolls off the tongue so well.

I'm a "hacker" with years of experience with unix systems, and knowledge of more than a handful of programming languages.

My interests are building class consciousness, information security, and kink. I have a separate profile for the kink.

I am fallible. You will not like everything I say. Have patience while we learn together.

No gods, no masters, some irony.

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bobdobberson, to random
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Dumb question: Why are current web browsers larger than 10mb?

bobdobberson,
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@icedquinn I had no idea about any of that. I wonder what it would take to create something new that doesn't reinvent wheels.

bobdobberson,
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@icedquinn sounds good. What does the pre-rendered file look like, and what port do we wanna put it on?

bobdobberson,
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@icedquinn or, do we just want to us HTTP to convey the data?

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@icedquinn well, the 'flexibility' of yeehawing text does allow you to implement a protocol on top of the sending/receiving, perhaps?

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@icedquinn how would you improve it? Have the client and server send a bit count first, then the block of data?

bobdobberson,
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@icedquinn I'm wondering how that solves the problem; if you replace the text of an HttP packet when has a problem of needing to read unknown amounts of data, doesn't a blob need to be fully read in to know how long it is?

Isn't there still the same problem of the client or server has to wait for the complete blob before it can stop reading?

bobdobberson,
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@icedquinn is it limited in how large a size marker can be?

I mean it seems like you could place a reasonable limit, but I imagine that will cause problems at a future time, if for some reason we need size markers that are 10 million bits in size.

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@icedquinn I mean, not to be difficult about this, but that is only 2.3 exabytes.

The amount of data we generate and work with everyday, in part because of optimization for developer time, means we might be dealing with sending that kind of data in the next decade or so. (Mostly kidding, but...)

bobdobberson,
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@icedquinn so that sounds like the problem is solved, yeah?

At most, an HTTP server has to listen for 16kb to know what to do, right?

icedquinn, to random
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> if you don't like wayland then you're an antivaxxer flat earther

OH BLOB :ablobcatpopcorn:

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@icedquinn

> > if you don't like wayland then you're an antivaxxer flat earther

Yet weirdly, Pro-Biden, at the same time. Those goofy Wayland folks.

bobdobberson,
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@icedquinn I feel that. My only interest really is the alleged security of it, versus the X model, but I'm not entirely sure how the X model exposes my security.

icedquinn, to random
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make pinkertons fear unions again :blobcatpolice:

bobdobberson,
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@icedquinn repeal the 1947 Taft-Hartley act...

bobdobberson,
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@icedquinn fourth reich shit?

Not sure I follow.

The Taft-Hartley act destroyed unions.

bobdobberson,
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@icedquinn yes. That happened. The US employed many Nazi scientists during and after the war.

Not sure what that has to do with unions and pinkertons.

Unions had power at one time. They no longer have power because of Taft-Hartley and the "Red Scare".

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imagine if they weren't busy creating these vulnerabilities in the first place instead of just getting mad when china uses them :ablobcatgooglytenor:

RE: https://chaos.social/users/Natanox/statuses/112179216107613957

18+ bobdobberson,
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@icedquinn that guy is wild. To imagine that the Chinese or other foreign actors are behind the division within the US.

To imagine that it is not those in power hoping to keep the people divided, so they may retain their power, but instead some 'foreign' threat, some threat we are working to keep people safe from, and not a threat that we are already deeply in bed with.

bobdobberson, to random
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Went to update the packages on my OpenBSD 7.2 servers, and found the main CDN had dropped 7.2, so I spent about 30 minutes upgrading to 7.4.

Hooray being productive!

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