@bagder, a clear and informative write-up, as always! One nitpick:

> There simply were no users asking for it and there were barely no developers interested or knowledgeable enough to work on it.

That “barely no” part should probably be “barely any” or, perhaps, “no”?

discuss: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42478911

This is still what we strive for.

@bagder I've been told by some people to give it another try. But I feel like I'd just end up spending more time reviewing and/or rewriting generated code..

The other day I watched a friend generate some code with it, then they proceeded to remove 4 out of the 5 lines it generated, and finally replace the last remaining line entirely :neocat_laugh_sweat:

another hobby project by some Finish guy is ranked number one

@bagder thanks for a good job, Daniel!

@bagder this made me hear the song 😂

@bagder "/rick"? never! :D

@bagder aaaand now I don’t have just a phone with me 😾

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cc @sotolf

@bagder i wonder hope that curl can really get a metal music by this command line but it couldn't !

Deception, but i really appreciate this part of great smile in my morning ...

I enjoy it and it give britght my day.

@bagder \m/ not only is this fun music, but greatly adds to my curl appreciation levels

@bagder your best year is (number of year's lines of code remaining X years later)/(number of lines written in that year)

@bagder that is exactly what I was hoping to see.

@bagder I think this one turned out to be the most informative one, or at least it piques my curiosity the most.

I think I'll try following along this graph with curl's version history at hand. For example, I now wonder what kind of refactoring happened around late 2011 - the older code amount drops rather sharply there :)

@bagder oh I wanted follow Andreas on Mastodon but it turns out he doesn't have an account here 😢

@bagder you did the filtering of the cesspit for us, this is fine

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@bagder ah, I got one of those. It seemed to be of low enough priority to safely ignore for the moment, but I now know to ignore it forever. Thanks.

@bagder I saw one of those yesterday within a minute of someone opening an issue on one of my repos.

@bagder mediafire dot com? that's a name I haven't heard in a long long time

In my honest opinion it is actually more like this:

@bagder Amen

@bagder PHK said if he was the NSA and wanted to undermine encryption on the Internet, an easy way would be to contribute patches with misleading docs, obfuscated code, and deceptive/insecure defaults to create the OpenSSL's API.

https://youtu.be/fwcl17Q0bpk?t=1690

I could not resist either :)

@bagder very challenging situation ... distributed system design is hard.

@bagder And your evil tool curl that downloads malware 😂 ...(if someone is stupid enough to CURL whatever URL)

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saving that one for posterity !

@bagder always thought that when apps demanded access to the microphone to work, or demanded location, there should be a "yes but send fake data" option. The OS/browser/whatever should be on my side there. If the webpage coordinates so heavily with third party ad networks that the page won't load without ad metrics, then be on my fucking side here and send fake data. Spam the spammers. Is that so wrong?

@bagder Said it before; a lot of the time pages I like ask me to disable my adblocker.

I do so, but then the page still don't recognize that the adblocker is off as long as you still block trackers.

So then I enable my adblocker again, because fuck them.

steam normally stores the serial/cd key in the settings for that particular game
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@bagder also, my printer is not working. please fix asap

@bagder "the state of things we are in"

Is this overcomplicated things? Or even complex things? Or just shite with some platform for games?

@bagder Is that design a Swedish folk motif?

bonus graph: fixed/introduced vulnerabilities in #curl over time:

@bagder curl ❤️

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First up, thanks for your hard work on curl.

Second, I’m going lean into PUT being at least as appropriate as POST on that ad.

😉

@bagder PUT is WevDAV specific no? Generally we use POST for this sort of thing.

@bagder Despite working in IT and cybersecurity for nearly 40 years is there still hope left for me that my first thought was "That's an odd way to apply for a Masters in Fine Art" a couple milliseconds BEFORE I thought "Multifactor Authentication"?

@bagder@mastodon.social @traecer@techhub.social Nobody in San Francisco enjoys anything. They’re not happy unless they have something to complain about.

@bagder I am no stranger to weird techy ads in Silicon Valley but that's a new one lol

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uh, congrats? :)

this does bring to mind the internal Sun april fools memo detailing the formation of a new Sun division to support options to "ls"...

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Finally!

Now I have my closure ❤️

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Bravo.
Elmer Fudd level.

I posted this image on LinkedIn as well, and the stats there tells me that Cisco is in fact now the third most common employing company among the viewers... (only beaten by AWS and Microsoft)

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielstenberg_curl-activity-7185597818894512130-kHFS

@bagder takes a real hacker to bypass that one :p