I've added an hourly chime to my work computer's clock, similar to a Casio wristwatch. It's a subtle reminder of the passing time, prompting me to pause, reflect, and reassess my actions to stay on track and avoid procrastination.
I like this constant on screen reminder though and might give it a try myself :)
The gods confound the man who first found out
how to distinguish hours! Confound him, too,
who in this place set up a sundial,
to cut and hack my days so wretchedly
into small portions! When I was a boy,
my belly was my sundial — one surer,
truer, and more exact than any of them.
This dial told me when ’twas proper time
to go to dinner, when I had aught to eat;
But nowadays, why even when I have,
I can’t fall-to unless the sun gives leave.
The town’s so full of these confounded dials
the greatest part of the inhabitants,
shrunk up with hunger, crawl along the street.
I did something similar with a Telegram bot in order to remind myself to look away from the screen, get up and stretch for a bit. However I started to ignore it in favor of "more pressing" tasks and now the chime has become just a faint signal somewhere on the outer edge of my awareness, too easily forgotten about.
You need to condition yourself to not ignore it or it will lose its effectiveness.
I have a similar thing in my WFH office where Home Assistant will play a chime during at canonical hour[0], plus it plays the Westminster Quarters[1] at 5pm to remind me when the normal work day is ending. I find the chunks of time match up well to work/eat periods[2] versus the granularity of each hour.
[2] I originally stole the idea from the game Pentiment, which uses the canonical hours as it's in game time system since you're working in a 16th monastery. A web app version of the clock is at https://pentiment-clock.vercel.app/
I suspect that Firefox is relying on modern-ish GPU features to make things "fast", but Mesa is straining the CPU to emulate those features, which are missing from your older GPU. (Software going "I'll use the GPU, that must make things faster!" is what finally pushed me away from using an x60 as my daily driver).
Yeah, it is security through obscurity, I do it anyway on my Internet facing systems because then I don't have to bother with most automated SSH Scanners.
I agree. I already offload SSL in HAProxy. I'm sure we'll see HTTP2 for frontend/backend communication eventually down the line, but this is a huge and big first step.
AFAIK, this is true of nginx also and from what I've heard in the past, they see no reason to change it.
I can't find it now, but I'm sure they had pretty compelling benchmarks that showed that with keepalive & low-latency networks, performance wise, there's little, if any, performance difference.
Based on your comments, I assume you're involved with HAProxy?
Is HTTP/1.0 (vs 1.1) actually used anywhere? Both versions are also compatible so what's the issue? Also seems rather disingenuous to say "even" when Envoy has plenty of other advanced features.
I like this constant on screen reminder though and might give it a try myself :)