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Huh? Software can’t better determine which to connect to automatically?

I’ve had a dual-band setup for more than 10 years now and have never manually selected 2G or 5G, but I’ve stayed in places that have this setup and it causes much more chaos when you’re walking around. Instead of switching to the strong band devices will try to hang on to the shitty connection that you told it to. You could set a minimum RSSI to get around it, but with both bands on the same network band steering will maximize performance pretty damn well.

It’s really beyond me why anyone would want entirely separate networks for each band.

As a developer, users doing dumb shit like this really makes me question why I’m trying to help make life easier for them in the first place.

I have a shipping web application with fields that every shipment should have, for example “tracking number.” These people will prefix the value with “PRO#” or “#” as if the field isn’t already labeled correctly. I’ve fought for years with validation, sanitizing, etc. because having this junk data causes issues further down the line.

The same goes for other similar fields (reference numbers for example); they’ll also do everything they can to fuck up the address as much as possible so that it can’t be validated (unit number first, completely mismatched city and postal code, putting the street in a field that doesn’t belong to the address, etc).

I always try to give them the benefit of the doubt—they’re not developers. But is this something like, hard to understand for normal people? I’ve talked to them several times yet they can’t be fucked with to change their ways.

And block all their domains/IP ranges too. People really need to understand how third party tracking works.

Looks like all the trolls came out today 🤡

I always wonder why they continue to embed tweets. Even news outlets constantly decrying X continue to do this… like, you’re not only driving traffic there but you’re also loading up their tracking shit? Where do they think the money comes from?

Wasn’t that the point of the show? I remember it was renowned for being one of the first (if not the first) sitcoms where the characters were meant to be disliked.

Once when I was jobless and staying with a friend, I put an old Linksys router on a 20 ft Ethernet cable and put it into client mode in the middle of the backyard to hop onto a neighbor’s network.

They only had dial-up (this was around the time cable internet just started becoming popular) so it truly sucked, but internet is internet.

Please run them on the same SSID with the same password and encryption scheme. I don’t want to manage switching between the two and would rather have my devices choose the band intelligently.

“Ice” lol. It’s an acronym, ICE.

A lot of the macOS networking stack (at a lower level) comes from FreeBSD. People have argued that the BSD network stack is superior to Linux whereas Linux runs applications faster. At a low level, I think this is still accurate.

I’m a Ruby developer but I tried to port a Linux application written in C to macOS before and it was mostly rearranging positional arguments to system API calls; however there’s probably a lot more going on that I’m not aware of too.

I mean what did you expect? It’s a corporate-owned platform so they’re in control, not you.

At least with Lemmy and other federated platforms you can have direct ownership over your data if you so wish. You can even spin up an entire instance and become your own boss.

As far as Discord goes, I’ve only rarely used it and can agree that the UI is trash but that’s about it.

Huel