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krinkle

@krinkle@fosstodon.org

Dutch geek from Enschede living in London.

Principal Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation, https://fosstodon.org/@qunit project lead, jQuery Infra (OpenJSF) https://social.lfx.dev/@jquery, W3C Web Performance, ♥️ FLOSS.

Creative interests: linguistics, music, photography. Work interests: performance, web standards, UI design, digital privacy and security.

Avatar photo by Niek Hidding.

#webperf #PHP #mediawiki #wikipedia #qunit #nederlands #music #muziek #fedi22

Formerly at mastodon.technology (2019-2022).

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krinkle, to random
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Interesting theory by Eric Portis @eeeps:

Why do LLMs receive high investments despite the current high-interest rates that usually restrict hypes? The companies doing the investing are essentially feeding themselves money independent of LLM profitability. Read the article to learn why/how.

Also, if you were wondering what all the shrimp news was about, read on as well 😅

https://ericportis.com/posts/2024/endless-shrimp-jesus/

#EndlessShrimp #ShrimpJesus

eslint, to random
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@eslint/compat v1.0.3 has been released!

https://github.com/eslint/rewrite/releases/tag/vcompat-v1.0.3

krinkle,
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@eslint

Looks like the bot doesn't understand monorepo tags yet. Yesterday's three releases have broken links due to an extra V at the start it seems.

tdp_org, to infosec
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On/around 27th May 2024, the traffic from Azerbaijan to www.bbc.com & www.bbc.co.uk reduced by over 80%.
Looking at our data, I can see that the vast majority of traffic in Azerbaijan comes from AS29049 (Delta Telecom) which is their majority ISP according to Wikipedia.
OONI says tests were passing as recently as 28th May from AS29049 but there's definitely something going on...Unsure exactly what.
(the gap in AS29049 is a GeoIP data migration)

Graph showing the daily total requests by Network AS. This shows a corresponsing drop, mainly on AS29049, Delta Telecom
OONI (ooni.org) data showing passing tests from AS29049 to www.bbc.com over the last month, all tests are passing but there are none since the 28th May

krinkle,
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@tdp_org

There's quite a bit of "wikipedia.org" usage in the same vein.

For what it's worth, I do see a drop off but not a huge one yet, in non-bot UA webrequests to AZ Wikipedia.

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/az.wikipedia.org/reading/total-page-views/normal%7Cbar%7C1-month%7Cagent~user%7Cdaily

There's a country split as well but AZ hasn't shown up there even for the AZ language wiki since June 2023.

May 2023: 31M of which 13M from AZ.
June 2023: 27M of which none from AZ? Might be a GeoIP issue. Or censor with most working around?

leaverou, to random
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Doing some research on design systems / design tokens, especially around color.

What are some good open source color palettes?
So far I have: Open color, Open props, Tailwind, Material, Adobe Spectrum, GitHub Primer, Ant Design, IBM Design Language, Radix UI, Bootstrap.

Req: Need to have a page that lists all their colors (see examples).

Looking at color palettes primarily for UIs, not those designed exclusively for dataviz.

The Material color palette
Open Props

krinkle,
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@leaverou

Here's ours:
https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide/visual-style_colors.html

And a slight revision of it at:
https://doc.wikimedia.org/codex/latest/style-guide/colors.html

Usage in practice:
https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/demos/demos.php?page=widgets&theme=wikimediaui&direction=ltr&platform=desktop

vic, to Wikipedia
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Woke up, had coffee & Italian sweets, kicked impostor syndrome in the 🎱 🎱
#Wikipedia #Editing wasn't ever on my bingo card, but here we are!
Any tips for rookie editors (that aren't in the official guidance)?

krinkle,
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@vic

Stay humble.
Ask questions.
Keep at it, slowly.
Expect to never stop learning.

If something seems difficult or strange, remember you're not alone and plenty of people are eager to help as we share a common purpose/mission of improving Wikipedia, you can reach out on talk pages, village pumps, wiki project pages, and off-wiki on fedi to explain what you want to do, and ask for help.

And most of all... keep going, at your own pace!

bagder, to random
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The thing about me being a BDFL for is that it has the D in there. I have the means and ability to push for just about anything I like. I say that I truly try to be a benevolent dictator, but then I presume quite a few dictators would say so.

Next week I will tell you all about how I view this dictatorship and how it is not quite like a dictatorship of a country since in our case, everyone could just leave if I misbehave.

krinkle,
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@bagder

ein Man, ein Computer, ein Curl.

Together they champion the cause of the innocent, in a world of criminals who operate above dial-up speed?

https://youtu.be/Dk4Ja8gtIWM?t=10s

#curl #KnightRider

dustinrue, to random
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TIL you can absolutely use an external fan on a M1 MacBook Air to cool it and keep thermal throttling to a minimum. Janky? Yes but 99% of the time I am not working with video or anything so CPU intensive that it causes issues.

krinkle,
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@dustinrue

I could do with an external fan that occasionally cools the PEBKAC operating this machine, whenever they and their Mac are working hard.

(Person existing between keyboard and chair.)

Greg, to random
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Holy cow, the person sitting behind me at the coffee shop is on work calls (fine, I do it too) but they sound JUST LIKE those "here's what corporate speak sounds like when spoken by a millennial" videos.

krinkle,
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@brooke @Greg @TheDJ

> Flesh that out and run it up the flagpole, ping the boss and circle back. Prioritize to align on lunch orders criticality. Land the plane. Five-year plan to pivot and productize the deliverables.

http://officeipsum.com/ via https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Import-stickytable

#OfficeIpsum #LoremIpsum

mattedgar, to random
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Visiting a house...

krinkle,
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@mattedgar

🎶 Our house, a
🎶 very very very fine house, [..]

https://youtu.be/aunVlekXjkE?t=1m21s

chris, to random
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    krinkle,
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    @chris

    Calmly close your laptop, then toss it out of an open window. (GIF)

    lapcatsoftware, to random
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    WWDC 2004: Redmond, start your photocopiers.

    WWDC 2024: Redmond, we’ve started copying your Copilot.

    krinkle,
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    @lapcatsoftware

    I immediately hear the Bertrand's voice, and vice versa, the way I know to recognise his voice is because I remember how he said this very sentence.

    He did an educational video on LLMs recently on his truly empty 20yo YT account:

    https://youtu.be/QwtyIDmhxh4?feature=shared

    krinkle, to apple
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    The Great Flattening by Ben Thompson.

    Ben makes the case that the Internet and various Apple products, aren't reductive, but rather empowering and positive. Decentralisation is at the core.

    I believe this wasn't just Jobs-era marketing but a reality, one I and my family grew up benefiting from. GarageBand!

    But, does Apple still believe that today? It seems with every release, my devices can do less with things I own, music, files, etc

    https://stratechery.com/2024/the-great-flattening/

    #stratechery #BenThompson #apple

    krinkle, to random
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    Who wants a Berliner (jam-filled hole-less donut), when you could be having a Murdered Donut!

    https://xoxo.zone/@neilk/111324872890527721

    krinkle, to Wikipedia
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    Best sentence of the Wikipedia article about temperance activist Carrie Nation:

    “Her methods escalated from simple protests to serenading saloon patrons with hymns accompanied by a hand organ, to greeting bartenders with pointed remarks such as, ‘Good morning, destroyer of men’s souls'.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation

    via https://juliawise.net/how-bad-is-alcohol/

    #prohibition #temperance #Wikipedia #JuliaWise

    krinkle, (edited ) to random
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    "When the pyramids were being built, there were still woolly mammoths."

    Ah, another great mystery revealed about the pyramids. It was the mammoths all along! 🦣

    via @jkottke

    https://kottke.org/14/02/unlikely-simultaneous-historical-events

    Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth#Extinction

    krinkle, (edited )
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    Speaking of the Seven Wonders.

    The wonders co-existed less than 60 years!

    When this list formed around 100-200 BC, the pyramids were as old to them, as the list itself is to us now. Some 2000 years in both directions!

    The newest wonder, Colossus of Rhodes, had only been built a few decades before the list started to circulate, and by the time the list reached its current format of seven wonders, the statue was already in ruins for several decades more.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World #wikipedia #TIL

    krinkle, to random
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    Charged thousands of dollars for an empty Amazon S3 buckets?

    """
    I opened my bucket for public writes and collected over 10GB of data within less than 30 seconds.
    """

    It's like registering a domain previous used by malware. I forget where I read it, but it was something like $huge amounts of Internet web and email traffic are former malware and viruses still diligently trying to seek instructions or deposit data.

    via @jonty via @WPalant

    https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1

    krinkle, to random
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    @zachleat

    I wonder if there's a better way to show page weight on leaderboards.

    One thing could be to sync their Y-axis so that they're lines on the same base chart (instead of relative to own history only).

    Another might be to then invert that axis with bottom the current largest and top the current-smallest. Or... maybe a singlestat number with current size of each and some kind of shared color range (no line/history until click).

    Thoughts?

    https://www.speedlify.dev/test-runners/

    lapcatsoftware, to random
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    I really dislike how Mastodon handles direct messages, as if there were just any other post with replies.

    Twitter does this much better. Direct messages are grouped by person, as they should be. On Mastodon, though, it’s difficult to see your message history with a person, and it’s always unclear whether you should reply to an old, possibly unrelated direct message or start a new “thread”, which is more difficult than it should be.

    krinkle,
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    @lapcatsoftware @grumpygamer

    All that is true, but difficult does not mean impossible.

    Mastodon has shipped E2E encryption in its API for ~4 years now (based on Matrix, very similar to libsignal, it claims).

    https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/13820

    Future work at

    https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19565

    krinkle,
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    @mp @lapcatsoftware

    Some other Fedi software pretend to do the above but within any server handling, like ELK, that seems worse as that makes it seem more safe than it actually is. Any wrong mention...

    For Mastodon specifically, I believe they don't want to create a separate UI until E2E is also finished.

    https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/13820

    https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19565

    krinkle, to blogging
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    """
    That accident of history ended up more meaningful to me: while I am most well-known for Stratechery, I am equally proud of the paid newsletter model — services like Substack were based on Stratechery [...]
    """

    I had no idea the link was that explicit. Indeed, the linked interview with Substack founder explicitly says they were inspired by Ben Thompson's Stretchery blog.

    https://stratechery.com/2024/mkbhds-for-everything/

    #stratechery #MKBHD #substack #blogging #RSS

    krinkle, (edited ) to random
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    The year is 1984, A-ha records it's now-famous song and music video. At its 25th anniversary, the band released a 3-part documentary.

    Bunty Bailey, the star actrice, reunites with Morten Harket, at the diner where they filmed the original music video. It's called Savoy Diner, and it's in London!

    Looks like it finally closed during the pandemic, just months after the documentary...

    https://youtu.be/CcxLyGKw48s?t=6m45s

    https://www.fantrippers.com/en/fanspots/savoy-cafe/

    #pipewrenchfight #LiteralVersion #TakeOnMe

    krinkle, to random
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    Fastly uses the H2O reverse proxy for fast and secure TLS termination over QUIC, HTTP/3, HTTP/2, and 1.1.

    The project site compares its benchmarks only to Nginx. I'd love to see a more recent comparison that includes ATS (Apache Traffic Server), HAProxy, and Varnish/Hitch as fellow reverse proxies for TLS termination.

    https://www.fastly.com/blog/tls-more-secure-always-fast

    via @devs and https://ieji.de/@SolSoCoG/109392993726218659

    #webperf #nginx #varnish #apachetrafficserver #H2O #fastly #HAProxy

    simevidas, to random
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    In German and Croatian, vote = voice. It’s the same word.

    🇩🇪 Meine Stimme an der Wahl.
    🇭🇷 Moj glas na izborima.

    In these languages, my vote in the election = my voice in the election.

    krinkle, (edited )
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    @simevidas

    From Wiktionary:
    > voice, from [..] Old French (voiz). Displaced native [..] Old English (stefn) [..]

    "stefn" came from Proto-Germanic stebnō, and would eventuelly become German "Stimme".

    The same root entered English as "steven", and is still used in the idiom "even steven" (to have an equal voice/vote).

    vote/voice share no root, but English does have "say" which can mean vote (I have no say in this, I have an equal say on the matter).

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice

    #linguistics

    neilk, to random
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    A bedtime story for web developers. With lots of twists and a happy ending

    https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters

    krinkle,
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    @neilk

    Classic! This article influenced me a lot in caring about webperf during my first years working on Wikipedia performance.

    https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Architecture

    https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Performance_Team#Milestones

    #webperf #mediawiki

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