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@alefnull Alright, I got nerdsniped. Any palindrome with an even number of digits is divisible by 11. There's a technique using alternating sums of the digits to prove divisibility by 11 that all even-digit palindromes (prime or otherwise) satisfy.

@alefnull I know I'm late to the party but your original design is the lemniscate of Gerono and you're probably looking for the lemniscate of Bernoulli.

@MysJif It starts by training the predictive text on something other than gibberish, Jif.

how do people do that "type this in and let auto complete finish it" without getting complete gibberish

@lieutenantbam If you stare long enough into the potato's eyes, eventually the potato's eyes stare back into you. Embrace the void.

@LieutenantBam set your TTLs shorter you goofball

@thinkaliker Blocking subnets leaves you a permanently moving target to try and hit. Whitelisting your own IPs/subnets is at least a knowably finite set. 😊 Though as long as you're keeping sshd up to date (and using a strong password!), rate-limiting is probably good enough.

1mo later: 4576 I should probably look into blocking subnets soon...

I didn't set up fail2ban on my DigitalOcean instance until now - I actually like watching the fail2ban logs ban IPs live although it's definitely concerning how many there are

Some of these descriptions are like a beautiful time capsule though. Imagine putting your address and phone number on your digital release singles today!

In .mod files, it was pretty common to replace the sample descriptions once you were done with a little message to your listeners. But some of this data is downright bizarre: What am I supposed to do with an ASCII string that's 20 NULL bytes followed by a space?!

So I started on a new project tonight that requires me to parse some fairly old binary files (like late '80s, early '90s old). I thought handling the Amiga's big-endianness would be the hard part but it's turning out to be the human input fields that are breaking my brain.

@Coestar You can almost always interpret this to mean "we're doing something with your password we probably shouldn't be!"

What are people running for secondary monitors these days anyways? Is it weird to have a 4K sidekick monitor that's bigger than your primary? 😅

Welp, my very first LCD monitor finally died this morning. I bought it with my E6600 build back in '06. 14 years ain't bad. That'll do, pig. That'll do.

@0xdade Yep, I did this once. Even got as far as putting the email on my resume, at which point I realized that I had instantly turned my fun side project into a critical piece of infra for me. I promptly migrated the domain email to a hosted service and never looked back.

Free idea because I don't know if I'll get around to actually testing it to do a proper writeup about it. Self hosting email at home without dynamic dns. Editor's note: Running your own mail server can be annoying. Proceed with an abundance of caution.

@Spartan @Monstercat Technically their documentation says that they'll only claim your content and not strike you, but I wouldn't risk it. Their license is $5/mo here: monstercat.com/licensing/cont…

We can listen to @Monstercat on stream correct?

@jane_l_orme There is, yeah. If you follow me I can shoot you a DM.

How is it 2020 and Bluetooth headsets are still unable to do high quality audio and microphone at the same time? They make wireless VR headsets and I'm over here wishing for 3 channels of high quality audio... 🙄

@Twisol Learning k8s is only really useful if you're building or operating an app that consists of multiple containers. Probably worth knowing the basics but not worth the deep dive unless you're going to use it.

Once upon a time, I would dig straight into a subject after this kind of “critical mass radar” point. But there are so many other subjects I’m either actively studying or have higher on my list. Where should k8s fall?

I’m seeing Kubernetes come up a *lot* recently. As someone who doesn’t really work on web services and knows enough about Docker to get by, is k8s something I should invest my time into learning right now?