Which runs on what computer in 1995?

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Here it is in C, so you can run it on you computer in 1995? Because servers could make decisions in 1995.

int main() { int s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); setsockopt(s, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &(int){1}, sizeof(int));

    struct sockaddr_in addr = { AF_INET, htons(8080), .sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY };
    bind(s, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, sizeof(addr));
    listen(s, 10);
    printf("Listening on :8080\n");

    while (1) {
        int c = accept(s, NULL, NULL);

        char req[1024] = {0};
        read(c, req, sizeof(req) - 1);

        time_t now = time(NULL);
        int tuesday = localtime(&now)->tm_wday == 2;

        const char *status = tuesday ? "404 Not Found" : "200 OK";
        const char *body   = tuesday ? "Not Found (it's Tuesday)" : "Hello from 1995!";

        char resp[256];
        snprintf(resp, sizeof(resp),
            "HTTP/1.1 %s\r\n"
            "Content-Length: %zu\r\n"
            "Connection: close\r\n\r\n%s",
            status, strlen(body), body);

        write(c, resp, strlen(resp));
        close(c);
    }
}

A post claimed CGI led to bad standards around query parameter formatting and parsing. I was merely pointing out that, prior to the advent of CGI, if you wanted to actually do anything with those parameters on the server, you had to extend whatever primitive HTTP server you were running, write some custom code and invent your own “standard”. There were no server side frameworks or standards.

This is exactly my gripe unfortunately, it feels like needless fragility. IIRC the author has said they believe it wouldn't be too difficult to patch QBE to work as a library, but from what I've seen the code is somewhat terse and eccentric.

There is a library conversion fork: https://github.com/sgraham/sqbe.

IMO when the intended usage is AOT with an external assembler, which is another subprocess, text-based IO is actually the more natural approach.

Most social media has been has been utterly untenable forever, but Twitter and Discord are the most troublesome in my experience. It's so hard to create and use a new account on those sites without the rigmarole of captcha (due to suspicious activity) -> banned (due to suspicious activity) -> captcha (due to suspicious activity) -> verify email (due to suspicious activity) -> banned (due to suspicious activity) -> verify phone number (due to suspicious activity). Then, want to follow someone, or join a guild? Hmm.. your account reputation is too low. Try again in a week?

I don't know how people do it. I can only figure it's my fault for running Linux or Firefox or not Signing in with Google™, upsetting the data harvesting overlords.

Back when they still had staffed support, and were called twitter, I'd have to spend a week or more back and forth with them when I inevitably hit the demand for a phone number. Most of the time the account got unlocked.

This was usually a few weeks/months after they were in the news for selling people's phone numbers.

Discord annoys me with this. I tried to ask a question about GrapheneOS on reddit and they auto deleted it and said we use discord now. I don't have discord so I signed up and can't post until I verify my email. So I verified a burner and don't have permission to post in that channel. A couple of days later I did, but the motivation had passed.

It's so strange to put your interactions behind a walled garden that demands verification, especially for something like GOS. But even then, making people wait a day or so without telling them is such an antipattern

I needed to create a Facebook account to verify some Facebook posting functionality worked as we wanted it to. Ok, easy. Tried using my work email. No, not allowed. Hmm, try creating a new email. Nope. Tried to create an account on my personal device with a personal email. Nuh-uh.

I've never seen a service so opposed to me using it. There's no option for dev accounts either.

His hands aren't just cold — they're dead.

> simply that espousing a pro-LGBT viewpoint may upset people.

Y'know, I'm pretty much fine with upsetting bigots. I'd assume that people inclined to be upset by a scary pride flag are also upset by my _existence_, so, y'know, I don't see a strong reason to moderate my stickers to protect the delicate feelings of idiots. If they're a homophobe they'll have a problem with me _anyway_.

I think that normalising LGBT and its symbols was a necessary step towards acceptance. If it's still a controversial idea to some, it's on them.

Sincere or not, the obvious should be stated here that distain for extremely politicized gender movements has little to do with outstanding opinions for said actual sexualities. I've personally voted for (several!) gay political candidates and attended a gay wedding, among other similar things.

The current day form of the lgbt(...) movement has done more damage to their representation than the natural, mostly not strong but dismissive opinions of the common folk could ever have. The screaming intentional ignorance of criticism of its increasingly radical extensions and effects sometimes makes me think we're not just living in the world of Idiocracy, but in the version of the world that comes after it ...

People can become upset for a great variety of reasons. I think it's better to accept to some extent that it happens than to design your life around not upsetting anyone.

In the same breath/sentence as “death threats”? You think that’s remotely the same?

The author doesn't like HN.

This is sort of thing is why I have a “they don't want me there, and I'm fine with that” list in my PiHole config.

Given the list of non-university .edu domains is static (or even decreasing assuming some expire), couldn't you keep a list of those instead?

The first thing I checked was how hashing is implemented and two things stand out to me:

1. Input must be valid UTF-8. 2. stdin is read to EOF instead of being read incrementally

Neither are ideal and can make ut unfit for a fair few use cases.

Did you vibe code this by any chance? It's clearly insecure.

Oh, yes, you did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44656840

I found a pretty cool 80kb docker image that is just a copy of busybox httpd, which makes creating a docker image out of static files very simple.[0]

[0] https://github.com/lipanski/docker-static-website

I've had this starred forever but never messed with it, looks great I need to try it. Also makes me want to try redbean in a docker container:

https://github.com/kissgyorgy/redbean-docker