@0xabad1dea OMG THIS IS SO WHOLESOME ! (Imho)

me: "I'm sending you a link to something I translated."

my husband: "is it more Confucius?"

me: "it is not Confucius. It is the antithesis of Confucius. It would strike Confucius dead if he saw it"

@0xabad1dea the punchline is brilliant thanks <3

@0xabad1dea Nice.
Until the last panel, I thought it might have been the Ken Liu story *Good Hunting*. (recommended)

@0xabad1dea This is ao adorable~

@0xabad1dea ace

@0xabad1dea ROTFL

@0xabad1dea what’s the original comic called?

@0xabad1dea is there a page 7 for another day?

@simontatham to me 404 means only "either you messed up the url or we messed up the website", for everything else there's 410.

If i'm not allowed to know whether the URL exists or not, that's clearly a 403. 403 implies it's not final and can turn into something else with the right credentials. Sometimes the something else is a 404 and/or the right credentials don't exist, and I don't need to know that, I just need to know mine aren't it.

So yeah, fake 404 is the most annoying thing and should never be done. And Github of all places should have known better. (I wouldn't expect today's Github to make the right call on anything, but it's been like that forever)

Edit: meant 410 not 405

… actually, today's case of this turned out to be neither.

I was inspired to post the poll by what I thought was a 403 annoyingly misrepresented as 404. But it turns out it was some kind of 5xx transient failure misrepresented as 404. OK, _that_ is worse!

@simontatham I can neither confirm nor deny that fake 404s shouldn't not be unexisting.

@simontatham
There's an even worse 404 error: where the httpd responds OK, but the framework that's supposed to display content decides to put the message "404 Error" in the page instead of a useful message.

End user: "I'm getting a 404 Error!"

Sysadmin: quickly checks server logs, sees a 200 result.

@simontatham So, the sane story, IMHO:
* If the resource type requires authentication, and you're not authenticated (no/invalid token) you get blanket 403.
* If you're authenticated, your view is functionally scoped to your authorization: listings include only things you can see, trying to access any other URL gives 404.
* If you're trying unallowed things on resources you can see, that's a 403 (may be 405, if split by method). Doing an allowed operation referencing unallowed data is 400.

@simontatham 403 username or password incorrect. This problem is older than it sounds.

@simontatham Also, please return 401 if the authentication is correct.

If you return 403, I’ll assume it’s a permission problem, not a token problem.

401: I don’t know who you are, and anonymous access is disallowed here.
403: I know enough to identify you; you can’t access this URL
404: I know enough to identify you; this URL doesn’t exist
405: You’re using the API very wrong

@simontatham I can understand presenting forbidden things as non-existent, to prevent an unauthorised user determining the existence of private resources.

But presenting non-existent things as forbidden seems completely wrong. Implies a correctly-authorised user is being given authentication errors, and presumably then going to try debugging their authentication.

@falseknees I use this cartoon (with credit!) when I teach astrobiology! Love it.

@falseknees The beak is the pinnacle of evolution. The ancestors of birds, the dinosaurs, had mouths, but only those with beaks survived.

@falseknees as a US citizen I would absolutely vote for a corvid!

@falseknees

https://phys.org/news/2022-09-bird-neurons-glucose-mammalian.html

1. bird brains (no pun intended) use 1/3 the glucose mammalian brains do

2. the neurons are packed tighter, are smaller

"the neurons consume less glucose—this could have been expected by differences in the size of their neurons," says Kaya von Eugen of Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. "But the magnitude of difference is so large that the size difference cannot be the only contributing factor"

birds are our cognitive superiors

they have more advanced CPUs

@falseknees wanted to introduce my little niece to the geniality of False Knees, but to my great horror your website falseknees dot com shows up as "temporarily disabled"

Any other link apart from the mastodon bot that is not a social danger to an early teen?

@falseknees What happens when you try...

@falseknees ping @guenterhack

@falseknees

Less intelligent…

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Buffalo_wings-01.jpg/500px-Buffalo_wings-01.jpg

@falseknees @stephanie

@falseknees I saw a post on FB recently from a "science" page that shared about how whales aren't just singing, they are utilizing vibrations in their voices to forecast ocean currents 6 months in advance telling [us humans] that maybe they know more than "we" thought. I was offended at the notion that only humans understand seasons and that the post suggests whales can only predict up to 6 months from now.

@falseknees This reminds me of a fiction story I am writing about corvids that form communities and villages 😅

@falseknees I have always adored the skills of my brain, which does my thinking, when it concluded it is the most important organ of my organism.

@gamingonlinux I'm torn, initially I wanted to but at a leaked $99 it's a tad more than I'd want to.

I've actually started to use my Dualsense a tad more now too as finding more and more games support the haptic triggers which I do like.

@gamingonlinux with the caveat that I bought the last one and still have it somewhere and might have to justify the purchase in that knowledge

@gamingonlinux I know this an unpopular opinion™ but I got 2 of the originals, and they were and still are a big let-down

@gamingonlinux Without question. I love playing my Steam Deck docked on my living room TV, but always sad to lose the touchpads. I’ve got the OG Steam Controller, but it doesn’t have enough buttons, and the shape is funky (tho more comfortable than you’d think). This feels like the perfect evolution.

@gamingonlinux I thought I would but at $99... I think I'll save the money for the Frame which is what I'm most excited for.

@gamingonlinux nah, I'm still good with the old one 🙈

@gamingonlinux Only no because I'm a keyboard and mouse player. 😜

@gamingonlinux Secret fourth option:

Maybe when my DS4s crap out because I'm very happy with those otherwise

Kinda waiting on reviews tho, I guess. I have a pair of the old Steam Controller and it was a pretty mixed experience with them. The new one seems to address some of my gripes but a big one was that the build quality on the old controller was not great. It just doesn't feel super good to hold etc...

Optimistic, still, really want these to be great

@gamingonlinux not on its own, but with a Steam Machine if/when they appear.

@gamingonlinux Got two Steam Links, an OG Steam Controller and a Steam Deck. Gotta keep the family together 🤣

@gamingonlinux No, I'm not buying anything from Steam/Valve anymore. I could consider GOG-controller if they make one. 😉

@gamingonlinux

My "good" controller seems to have gone missing in the last month, so it's a well-timed replacement.

In the long run, I expect to have two, as the Steam Machine is also supposed to come with one - which is ok, I like some two-player games. But if I can get one now and they offer the Steam machine without, I'll likely go without.

@gamingonlinux I answered yes, but it's more of a "very likely." I'm in no rush, but my kid adores the original Steam Controller, and theirs isn't always reliable after ten years of being dropped on the floor and handled with sticky kid fingers. I think we'll get at least one of the new ones to replace the old.

@gamingonlinux

My PC gaming is 99.99% RetroArch, and at the moment, my old PS3 controller works fine. I know it won't last forever though, so when I need a new one I'll likely be mulling it over between a Steam controller or something from 8bitdo.

Edit: forgot to say "reviews will play into that decision" 📊

@gamingonlinux either when my current controller dies (which may be soon sadly) or whenever it gets on sale. Whatever comes first.

@gamingonlinux It definitely costs more than I would like, but it really looks to be the ultimate controller for the steam deck, especially with the dual touch pads.

I usually use an Xbox controller but occasionally have to swap to a PS4 controller due to it having a touchpad.

I really think the steam controller will take the place of them both.

@mjg59 I remember what a chore it used to be to get it to work properly.

@mjg59 PHP lost a whole major version release over it.

@mjg59 at least around here, people still do not seem to fully understand it which then ends up in, hey try not to use any Umlauts in the masterdata which makes me go gnarrr all the time.

@mjg59
The opposition in Poland was crazy, especially given that we suffered 3 competing codepages not that long before unicode arrived. The fights on the newsgroups were massive!

@mjg59 i know backwards-compatability but it's always striking that perl still needs you to do a whole dance for it not to break everything that is utf8 which is basically everything.

@mjg59 would you say that was mostly inertia and migration pain?

@mjg59 More features means more things that can break. Things are mostly fixed now, not perfect, but most of this renders correctly for me: https://antofthy.gitlab.io/info/data/utf8_demo.txt

@mjg59 It was still standardised faster on Linux than on MS Windows... Which is a pretty low bar.

@mjg59 Ah, I remember running webservers on 4 different ports with different Cyrillic encodings. Why would anyone want to stop doing that...
And I can still "read" the 7bit version of koi8-r, which obviously made it the best encoding.

@warandpeas

Alt text and panel order don’t match in the separate four panel strip

@warandpeas im old and on a phone and i prefer all panels in one so it loads and i can pinch zoom

@eniko Once, with a some friends on a server we had running for a few months. Most of my Minecraft time over the years has been spent just building and exploring though.

Also, maybe this is unusual, but I rarely bother with mods. The vanilla game has been plenty entertaining and most mods or (worse) big 'ol mod packs seem to just pile on needless complexity.

Which is weird because apart from the portal storms I've enjoyed Vintage Story which appears to be forged from weapons-grade complexium.

@eniko a few times, a lot more in multiplayer

@eniko I've never even made a portal

why would I?

@eniko I have... but with many many mods so it wasn't really a legitimate victory