In-Floor Heating Thermostat with Home Assistant and Shelly
Bisecting the Linux Kernel with NixOS
Recently my kernel started to panic every time I awoke my monitors from sleep. This seemed to be a regression; it worked one day, then I received a kernel upgrade from upstream, and the next time I was operating my machine it would crash when I came back to it.
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ABTraceTogether Android Background Capability Analysis
The ABTraceTogether COVID contact tracing app also doesn’t work well on Android devices. Let’s dig in and see.
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ABTraceTogether iPhone Background Capability Analysis
The Government of Alberta advertises that ABTraceTogether, their COVID contact tracing app, works on iPhones when run in the background. They are incorrect.
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Is "404 Not Found" really a client error?
A time-traveler is passing by 2013 and she opens a browser bookmark to http://mars.gov/blog/**2056**/11/21/news.html. What HTTP status code does she get back from her response? Well, it’s not going to be 200 OK, because it wasn’t OK with the server. The server couldn’t find the article that the client requested, because it won’t be published for another 43 years. “Couldn’t find the article” sounds like a 404 Not Found status code. OK, very reasonable choice. But, “The server couldn’t find the article” raises a bit of a doubt. A 404 is part of the 4xx-series status codes, which are all...
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