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Wednesday January 28th, 2026

Just a note of appreciation switching Dan Lyke / comment 0

Just a note of appreciation: switching from Firefox to Vivaldi has me using Startpage. It's not perfect, but Google has declined I find myself going back to it less and less.

I bounced off Kagi and a few others, but Startpage has stuck.

Argh Dan Lyke / comment 1

Argh. Same exact CGI::Fast->new() loop. From one form, I get the textarea contents entity encoded, in the other I get something that Perl is not interpreting as utf-8. I'm not seeing any difference in the HTML page meta statements, or the form. Driving me nuts.

Tuesday January 27th, 2026

de First bitch Dan Lyke / comment 0

De Speld (Netherlands): Wie is J.D. Vance, de First bitch achter president Trump?

Joey de Villa 🪗 @AccordionGuy@mastodon.cloud:

“First Bitch” is JD Vance’s correct title in both Dutch *and* English.

Ugh Two FastCGI Perl scripts One is Dan Lyke / comment 0

Ugh. Two FastCGI Perl scripts. One is inserting UTF-8 characters into the Postgres database correctly, one is biffing it. I cannot bloody well find the difference between the two.

Some days I regret not re-coding the entire thing in C.

Cloudflare publishing slop Dan Lyke / comment 0

Somebody take the LLM API keys away from marketing before they completely destroy the company! Jade @JadedBlueEyes@tech.lgbt

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

https://blog.cloudflare.com/se...rless-matrix-homeserver-workers/

Over on Bluesky the Minnesota Star Dan Lyke / comment 0

Over on Bluesky, the Minnesota Star Tribune has a handy guide to identify which munitions the US Federal government is deploying against its citizens.

https://bsky.app/profile/startribune.com/post/3mde2ejy6o22e


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