@pete-s said in Light vs Dark Theme:

@tonyshowoff said in Light vs Dark Theme:

In my personal experience dark themes are good on your eyes when you use dark themes and switch to light, if you only have light it's not an issue. I have light sensitive eyes, on a sunny day I am legally blind, and yet if I look at Winamp or XMMS for too long and then look at a light window, that's when it hurts my eyes. If it's all light, it's all good.

It's because the pupils will adjust their opening to the amount of ambient light and when you look at something bright it will be too bright.

That's good to know, I thought my eyes were simply dilated all the time.

In my personal experience dark themes are good on your eyes when you use dark themes and switch to light, if you only have light it's not an issue. I have light sensitive eyes, on a sunny day I am legally blind, and yet if I look at Winamp or XMMS for too long and then look at a light window, that's when it hurts my eyes. If it's all light, it's all good.

I find your post confusing and stupid and wish I could delete it from my mind forever. I thought you should know that, maybe you can google how to write good forum posts, any 5 year old can -- at least you say so. It may be an old thread but these kinds of people come along a lot so this one is for the scholars... the future forum archaeologists.

@jaredbusch said in what language used in Mangolassi:

@scottalanmiller said in what language used in Mangolassi:

@it-admin said in what language used in Mangolassi:

@scottalanmiller but PHP still has the lion share in the web market, isn't it??

PHP is making a big come back now. It never went away, but since the PHP 7 series released it has greatly improved in performance and features and is way more viable today than it was at the time of this thread. Its ecosystem has blossomed again and there are more and more powerful frameworks than before.

It is still only one of many great options, but way better than it used to be.

WTF with the necro posting yesterday and today...

This ain't some phpBB forum with vidya games, son, everything is always worth talking about

That is supposed to sort of sound like Hank Hill

@scottalanmiller said in what language used in Mangolassi:

@it-admin said in what language used in Mangolassi:

@scottalanmiller but PHP still has the lion share in the web market, isn't it??

PHP is making a big come back now. It never went away, but since the PHP 7 series released it has greatly improved in performance and features and is way more viable today than it was at the time of this thread. Its ecosystem has blossomed again and there are more and more powerful frameworks than before.

It is still only one of many great options, but way better than it used to be.

Indeed, PHP was sort of deadlocked for a long time during the early 5.x era, but a lot of needed things like type hinting and so forth really helped turn things around. A lot of people hate on PHP, but it runs a ton of the web just fine and it's getting better.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Have to leave the office to hang out with my kids who are pretty scared of the storm given the intensity.

In Moscow it's 53ish F and partly cloudy. It's October. The weather is switched or at least something else is wrong here.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Updating NextCloud to 14.0.3.

I'd rather not update anything to show potential crackers that I am an open and inviting person, I don't want them to think I'm mean or anything

When it comes to web vs legacy applications, especially with modern JS libraries, webassembly, etc aside from a few niche cases which you have to basically struggle to defend, asking whether or not to start with web or ancient technology is like saying:

"Look, I know that cars are fast and everything, but they have a lot of up keep and there's so much going on with them and they're scary, so wouldn't you say that a horse and buggy are still a viable solution to travel with because I'm confused and/or intimidated by cars."

Or to put it more obvious: "Yes, web is easy to update, easy to secure, easy to keep it from being pirated, but I'd much rather have an application anyone can easily reverse engineer, lock out my updates, have to worry about a billion platforms or one single one where I still have to struggle with antiviruses, permissions, to the point where I act like Eaglesoft and just demand local admin rights for all users no matter what... sounds like web is great but, I heard serious applications are written with mud bricks, whoops, I mean old approaches because I don't know about jQuery and handling multiple browsers sounds impossible!"

Or in the case of the OP: web is about design and old applications are about whatever... let me hip you to something, all good web designers are terrible, terrible programmers. This is why these are typically two jobs. Yes, plenty of them defend how awesome they are at coding, how they care about standards, etc but if they actually let you see their code you'll find that either it's crappy code or a crappy design. That goes for both web and old style applications, it doesn't matter. Straight forward vs pretty.

This is basically my day to day:

@scottalanmiller All these photos remind me of how slow my connection is. Thanks a lot, jerk!

Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in early 1990 before the war; unfortunately my time machine has gone missing.

@pete-s I think it was essentially a Z80 clone of sorts. It was also a kit computer, and I know that it was compatible with the same tape drives/players and BASIC.

Glad they finally got wildcard. For years every time SSL cert cost came up on slashdot I argued that it was basically a scam and was even more irritated when everyone seemingly at the same time went to require signed certificates. It was like Verisign bribed everyone. LetsEncrypt made life better and I was disappointed they didn't support wildcards for a while but glad to see it finally.

So much for all those counter arguments on slashdot that the cost is for the insurance in case the certificate doesn't properly work or something else unclear, as if any of the potential problems wouldn't also be a problem for the entire Internet infrastructure when it came to security. Really people are just paying thousands of dollars in some cases for 640 bytes, or whatever, to be stored at a server somewhere and some requests for verification from time to time. It's a racket. If you want a CA though still gotta pay through the nose unless you push your CA cert to all the work stations in your business or whatever.

LetsEncrypt is the best thing to happen to the Internet, but especially the web, since IPSec and SSL itself.

Robotron Z1013 If I recall correctly, my grandfather got it for me one Christmas season/New Year/Something. It was a bitch to get working. I also had a monitor that was not monochrome but basically was because it was a modified, broken colour TV set that only displayed green.

Sometimes customers just want them for whatever reason, in addition to any sort of legal requirements... based on laws written by people who don't understand technology. Ironically these same laws typically don't require cages if it's in your business or house, even though it's far less secure than in a data centre. Yet plenty of businesses think their crappy glass door and alarm, from a company which isn't likely to respond, is just as good as a secure data centre, if not more secure, and if they're forced into the position they want a cage at the data centre, sometimes they want to try to keep any keys away from anyone who works there making their lives a living hell.

Fire these customers.

I made an ill conceived float of vanilla ice cream, flat pepsi, and diet pepsi

I think I posted this to SW or here a long time ago, or one from the series, but here you go:

It's so bright it burned through my monitor and into my forehead.

@mlnews said in I’d rather be....:

Kosovo

++++111 as I fire a pistol into the air

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://www.sciencealert.com/brain-to-brain-mind-connection-lets-three-people-share-thoughts

I never would have imagined, you should have beamed it to me