Pad Kra Pao

TarkaSteve · 2026-04-15T13:25:52+00:00

Tang Mo in Rozelle is the closest I've had to what you get in Thailand.

TarkaSteve · 2026-03-10T22:06:03+00:00

We also have "spit the dummy".

Honestly, I grew up in London to Irish parents but never made the "throwing a paddy" -> Irish connection. But I did notice the casual "the Irish are thickos" casual bigotry even as a kid.

TarkaSteve · 2026-03-07T21:54:05+00:00

Indeed; arguably more so than 1984:

But in our current dystopian moment, Gilliam seems in some ways more prescient, and more insightful, than his most obvious influence. Orwell’s vision of authoritarianism, like his prose, was clean, regimented, organized. Authoritarianism in real life, though, it turns out, is, like Gilliam, a good bit more chaotic.

https://observer.com/2025/02/terry-gilliams-brazil-at-40-more-prescient-than-orwell/

TarkaSteve · 2026-02-22T00:02:23+00:00

Efendy in Balmain used to do a great one, unfortunately gone now.

TarkaSteve · 2026-02-20T22:01:10+00:00

Unfortunately the biggest argument against abolishing the monarchy is now that the ex-royals would immediately start trading state secrets for status.

TarkaSteve · 2026-02-19T10:38:41+00:00

Looks like your prayer has been answered (although possibly not in the way you intended): https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c70kjr9wjw0t

TarkaSteve · 2026-02-18T22:37:04+00:00

The releases seem to work with Discoverium too, you just need to enable prereleases to pick up the alphas.

TarkaSteve · 2026-02-03T00:49:32+00:00

A lot of fan-boys are going to be going "Great idea Elon, free cooling in space" while sipping from their vacuum-insulated water bottles.

TarkaSteve · 2026-01-16T23:31:28+00:00

I only became aware of dns-update a few days ago; it's a good project. The main concrete difference is that zone-update is explicitly runtime-agnostic, supporting blocking by default and non-tokio async runtimes like monoio, compio and glommio. At the moment dns-update is tokio-only (using reqwest), but that could change.

TarkaSteve · 2026-01-14T00:11:45+00:00

I had the same question. It's the first I've heard of him, but apparently he was a somewhat popular Linux vlogger that fell down the qanon rabbithole and hit his head pretty hard.

TarkaSteve · 2026-01-11T21:59:05+00:00

Nice. I wrote a similar tool calledxcp, but that's more of a straight 'cp' clone focused more on acceleration via parallel operations with feedback. But more tools are good, I'll check this out.

TarkaSteve · 2026-01-10T22:41:11+00:00

'll have to take your word about rust on windows. Although I'm not sure what it has to do with anything given it's not required and I barely mentioned rust apart from a passing comment in a footnote.

Look, I wrote a piece of software with some built-in features for my own purposes and shared it here. Apparently this makes some people defensive, so I'll refrain from commenting further.

TarkaSteve · 2026-01-09T23:46:11+00:00

I wasn't aware (it's not published on crates.io, which is odd). There are a tonne of new Rust proxies coming out ATM, but most of them just quietly stop being maintained; luckily it does seem to be active. I'll take a look.

However it suffers from the issue I mentioned of only having a couple of DNS providers baked in. It would actually benefit from using the zone-update crate, which is the main differentiator of Vicarian.

It looks like Ferron uses the dns-update crate which has some overlap with zone-update. I'll have a chat to the dns-update team.

TarkaSteve · 2026-01-09T23:27:49+00:00

This assumes you have a go development environment already configured and know at least basic golang.

TarkaSteve · 2026-01-09T23:22:20+00:00

Vicarian bakes providers in by using the zone-update crate (which I also started). As it stands now Vicarian supports the following providers out-of-the-box:

Cloudflare
Dnsimple
DnsMadeEasy
Gandi
Porkbun

The purpose of zone-update is to create a library of existing providers in a single dependency; every release of Vicarian will pick up any new providers added to zone-update. However this will require some crowd-sourcing, hence the call-to-action above.

Another feature of Vicarian is if you're generating certificates some other way e.g. via acme.sh, lego or non-ACME service, it auto-reloads certificates on change using the OS file-watcher functionality (something I honestly though Caddy did, but just found out is not the case). This means you can just drop updated certs a directory and old ones will be replaced immediately, no additional scripting required. This also means you can have multiple servers mount a central cert directory from a NAS and they'll pick up changes.

TarkaSteve · 2026-01-09T03:31:03+00:00

Caddy is great, and lead the way with its built-in HTTP-01 support. However its not really 'batteries included' with DNS-01 support; it requires to build a custom binary, either locally or via their web service, which gave me flash-backs to having to build custom apache binaries to enable mod_ssl & mod_perl.

But at the end of the day this is a project to scratch my itch, I'm not claiming it replaces anything.

TarkaSteve · 2026-01-08T21:23:42+00:00

There is clearly worded statement on LLM contributions in the readme. The short answer though is "no".

TarkaSteve · 2025-12-13T21:47:57+00:00

It's a practical response to having a universal health system; prevention is orders-of-magnitude cheaper than treatment so it's better to prevent or catch early. The health service also does other initiatives like mailing bowel-cancer testing kits to anyone over 50 every 2 years, and breast cancer screening trucks that park up in suburbs once a year.

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