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The problem with history is that you need to know when to look. If you're looking for some old code that you know existed but you don't know exactly what it was, you can't just browse to go and find it.

Sure, but beyond a certain point the code that's there isn't just drop in compatible.

There is no reason you can return that "no items matched your selection" with a 404 HTTP response code instead of a 200.

You can return whatever HTTP response code you want, but if you care about knowing whether your site is working being about to look at the logs and see "That user requested a page that doesn't exist" being different to "That user requested a page that exists but had no results" is quite useful. In coding terms it's the difference between a null and an empty array.

You can do that with filtering, which should be a feature of every single logging tools.

Anyway, I agree that when you filter via queries, an empty list is more valid response than 404. That HTTP status should be returned IMHO when the requested (for example by id) item is not found (and of course with wrong paths, etc).


In this case I don't think the status should depend on the number of results. Here are you results, [] is a valid response body when there are no result. Returning 404 if there are no result (GET /books?title=a for instance) is misleading, the caller may think that /books is a non existent route and may conclude that books are reachable via another URI. To me, the querystring has no influence on the response status.

/books/1 could return 200 or 404 depending on the existence of the book#1, here it make sense because if /books/1 does not exist the API must tell it explicitly. However 404 belongs to the 4XX family which means "client error", is it an error to ask for a non existing book ? If you enter in a bookshop and ask for a book they don't have you did not "make a mistake". It's not like if you asked for a chainsaw. But in an API, especially with hypermedia, you are not supposed to request a resource that does not exist (unless the API provides a link to an existing resource that is was deleted before the caller try to reach it).


If you enter a bookshop and you ask for a book that does not exist then it's definitely your mistake.

If you ask for a book they don't have it's a different matter.

In any case, when you ask for a book in a library you are using their "search" endpoint. The equivalent to opening a books/1 url would be asking for a specific instance of a book by serial number or so. Then it's clear that you made a mistake uf you do that for an unexistent serial number...


A response code of 204 seems more appropriate but the problem is you're not allowed to send further information, which would make that descriptive response... not descriptive enough.

Code 204 is just code 200 with the "yes the body really is zero bytes this is not an error it's supposed to be like this" bit set.

I think of it like this:

/users/ returns a 404 in an API means that this resource does not exist. As in, this is not a part of the API.

/users/123 returns a 404 means this user record does not exist.

Yes this means that a 404 is context dependent but in a way that makes it easier for a human to think of and reason about.


Yes, and this is obvious if /users/ exists and returns a 400 if the ID is required. That way you can tell the difference between /users/ being there and expecting and ID, and it not being there.

Of course it is technically possible, but doing so would violate the spec.

> The 404 (Not Found) status code indicates that the origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists.

In the above case, the server _is_ returning a representation.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9110#name-404-not-f...


Another reason not to return a 404 in that case is that chances there will be monitor tooling in place that will treat a 404 as an "error" that will show up in your alerting, but would not be ideal; it will just be noise.

145XXX and I am on the other side of the world, no connection to SV at all


I can't globally disable that "autofill" also hits "submit". I want to review what it autofills before I submit. I consider this a security risk. I can disable submit only on a login-by-login basis, and my coworkers are able to reenable it again. I can't globally disable it for myself.


This setting does exist for "Universal Autofill" [1] which is what I use instead of any browser extensions because I don't want to get phished when I'm not at my best. [2] [3]

On the Mac app, the setting is at the bottom of the General settings screen.

The downside to forgoing the browser extensions is that creating new logins is painfully manual. The risks of using the extensions just freak me out too much.

[1]: https://support.1password.com/mac-universal-autofill/

[2]: https://hudlow.org/2026/practical-antiforgery#two-steps-forw...

[3]: https://hudlow.org/2026/practical-antiforgery/demo/1password


Painfully manual. Every time I have to delete the word "Login" when creating new login, I wonder how hard could it be to vibecode myself what I want. I fantasize about getting a job there to fix the UX issues and then quit.


I'm just using Bitwarden instead. My work still uses 1password for now, but we're in the process of moving to Bitwarden.


I have been telling people for years that biometrics (face, fingerprint, voice) is your username, not your password. But people are easily swayed by convenience.


If your user name is tattooed on your forehead, yes.


For all intents an purposes it is, especially face ID. Also, courts in most countries can compel you to provide biometrics. But many cannot compel you to reveal passwords.


Same. Sometimes I will play a givewayway game on EGS and like it enough to e.g. buy the DLC. In that case I'll buy the game on Steam, just to buy the DLC there too.


> It's like buy a $2000 TV and discovering ads on the homescreen, ContentID to sell your viewing habits, etc.

Have you bought a TV recently? This is exactly what is happening already. I had to pi-hole my entire network to get rid of the ads in my "switch source" menu on my Samsung TV that did not have ads when I bought it and for the first 3 years after that.


I only hooked up my Samsung TV to the internet to install one update when I first acquired it, then kept it disconnected. Thanks for the tip--I'll make sure to keep it offline forever now!

Can you roll back to an older firmware?


I second Debian. All the good bits of Ubuntu have long since been ported back to Debian, and it has much more timely releases now.


Me too. Switching my home system from Ubuntu back to Debian was influenced a lot by snap. I don't get how they could fumble that one so hard. It goes against everything they used to stand for. If I want a bloated, slow, closed-source, proprietary app store with unclear security ramifications, I'll install MacOS or Windows. It also feels like app developers at least care a little bit about those stores. Mozilla for example still officially recommends installing their Debian package rather than through snap on Linux, despite shipping via snap by default on Ubuntu now.


Yes, Debian is great.

But there is also Arch by the way :)


Sure, I like Arch. Did not consider it for completely non-technical users, though.


CachyOS gets close, including for gamers, but it is not as stable as Ubuntu.


What's the software stack? Did you write an app for it? Jailbreak it?


No jailbreak necessary - the tablet runs https://www.fully-kiosk.com/, and displays a web dashboard.

The dashboard itself is a react app talking to my Home Assitant instance over a websocket. The heavy lifting of bringing various data sources together is done by HA, I just wrote a react app because it seemed easier than learning to customize HA dashboards to the degree I wanted to.


The difference is that with financing you're stuck with it (and your credit rating drops, at least in the EU here). You're not stuck with a subscription. If your income changes and you can't afford it anymore then you can cancel your subscription.


In the US if you don't have any debt, that is bad for your credit rating. Perversely, the more debt you have, the easier it is to get more credit, at least up to a point.


Oh sure, my original comment’s point was just to allude to the point that costs are going up for all methods of compute, so that fact alone shouldn’t influence your buy versus rent versus finance decision too much.

This idea that there’s a conspiracy to take personal computing away from the masses seems far fetched to me.


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