Python, CX_Freeze, Tolerance, snap, UDX, Peppol, SMR, Tor

1. Updated CX_Freeze (Python program "binary" deployment tool), interestingly during "build" it misplaces some files into directories that shouldn't even exist. This is not a first time when the project has similar annoying problems. Let's see if this gets fixed in near future. Strangest part is that the misplaced file isn't even necessary. When it's in wrong path, nothing breaks. So why it's even placed there. Nobody seems to know. I assume future updates will remedy this problem.

2. Paradox of Tolerance (@ Wikipedia). As much as I hate moderation and users, this is still a good point and nice guideline. There's always some limits, if there aren't limits, limits will be pushed, until there will be some limits. Yet on some forums, it's really hard to deal with this. What's allowed and why. There will be long discussions.

3. One program version was really old in the official distribution repository. They recommended using snap package. But after snap too minutes to install, ahem ~5 Mibyte binary, I snapped. WTF. Then I installed it from alt binary repository and took literally seconds. Thank you for creating this bloat. Anyway, I'm running matrix-commander in docker on some servers. I'm wondering if the over head percentage is 99% or more? Same seems to apply that snap-crap.

4. Smart homes, awesome. Whole building was without hot water and heating. Just because the management computer software had crashed. It shouldn't be really that hard, duh! These things have been working for a long long time, why we're having these silly problems now? Classic example how not to do things.

5. UDX (@ GitHub) - an interesting protocol for creating congestion-controlled streams over UDP.

6. Finland & Sweden starting to change laws, to allow new Nuclear Power Plants and Small Modular Reactors (SMR). It seems that the energy price hike annoyed pretty much everyone.

7. So tired, developers develop bad programs and then someone should give support. No, if the program is bad and broken. You really shouldn't use it. Using bad software is just masochism. You're asking for it, and you'll deserve all the problems.

8. Light Python snippet for using scrypt with data: hashlib.scrypt(password, n=4096, p=4, r=32, salt=salt).

9. How to get date and unix timestamp using pure bash, without utilizing external date command. $ printf '%(%c)T\n' -> Thu 12 Jan 2023 08:49:50 EET -> $ printf '%(%s)T\n' 1673506192

10. MixCloud (@ Wikipedia) play queue still sucks. You can't manage it properly. Remove played items from queue automatically. And easily see and manage stuff in the queue. Current implementation is just ridiculously bad. Btw. It has been so bad over a decade and they haven't managed to fix it. It's bit strange because they have everything necessary, ie. UI components, for making the play queue awesome, but probably there's some strange reason why they don't want to do that. - Current design makes it clear, that they don't want users to keep longer than five items in the play queue. After that the queue becomes basically unmanageable.

11. The FBI Identified a Tor User (@ schneier.com) -. Not surprising at all. There are so many things which can go wrong when using Tor. Actual data, client metadata, bad clients that leak data. Traffic patterns, and so on. It's really dangerous to assume that Tor provides anonymity, unless you've taken great care to clean up and make the stack as secure as possible.

12. Most interesting and annoying. Something has happened, and now FIDO2 USB login doesn't work anymore. But I don't know what. Behavior has also changed. Login fails and and leads an browser behaves differently. But the key is still detected. This is highly confusing. Gotta check using Windows system, if the behavior is same or different. Something is seriously off.

13. Reminded my self about Pan-European Public Procurement Online (PEPPOL) (@ Wikipedia) / - Official PEPPOL.eu site (@ peppol.eu). kw: SML, SMP

14. Something different? Panther KF51 (@ Wikipedia) and Intermittent fasting (@ Wikipedia).

2024-01-21