0xFluegel

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by 0xFluegel 5y ago
Hamburg, Germany: the public transport services released a new app a few months ago which assumes that the request failed when the app has not finished receiving an answer to a route query after a given time span. The problem: It is normal
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by 0xFluegel 5y ago
> I live in Japan which people usually mock for still using fax machines Greetings from Germany as well...
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by 0xFluegel 5y ago
> I heard it talked about on a podcast […] Do you remember which one? I'd like to get some more detail on this...
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
> … the vast majority of right leaning sources (aside from fox) are effectively blacklisted. This reminds me of a past blog post, a few weeks ago or so, from a journalist who spoke about how strongly right leaning "journalists"
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
Since it's a student project to learn about VHDL and synthesis the pong clone had a few additions like simple math-expression based textures and we ignored trying to get close to the exact movement behaviour. But you actually get to co
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
I still have a VHDL version lying around from my old student project. :)
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
> Looking now at the demos at https://www.qt.io/qt-examples-for-webassembly , a lot of the same problems are jumping out at me. A complete lack of accessibility features, poor handling of scroll events, large load times,
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
Germany has that, too. Any USB-Stick, CD, etc. that a normal user can write any data onto.
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
The sensor needs a lot more energy. This produces two types of IR cams: actively and passively cooled. The passive cooling is easy to take around with you but only possible with a smaller sensor. As for the price per pixel: I don't kno
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
Can you give me a reference? I am somewhat interested and my current information is that they are generally trying to work around the disadvantage of giving up scale compared to traditional farms.
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
> And an unhandled exception crashes the program, which is often worse than an invalid value. Please elaborate. Why is working with garbage better than not working at all? Would it not also rather make it easier to find these out-of-rang
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
I want to like that idea. Unfortunately, I can counter with: When you (as an outsider) see two very similar projects, one claiming to be from 2018 the other from 2020, what will you look into/try out first?
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
Is it though? It surely is authenticated but is it authorized ? By whom? Certainly not by the user.
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
I would call that system secure. It does not just rely on an obscure password but is actually restricted by a list of whitelisted networks. The failure in that case is only that the admin didn't consider that normal work might be done
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
I can only half agree with you on that. Yes, I also dislike APIs that make wrong or unsafe use easy and correct use more bothersome but seemingly no different in behaviour (until it goes BOOM), but I also find that soooo many people simply
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
I can see how that happens immediatly... var domain = addr.split(['@','.']).take_last(2) var tld = domain[1] // check TLD against wacky rules... See, boss, it's easy. What's next?
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
GDPR has a section that defines a way for an EU institution to "grab" cases, but that's timely and not used much (or at all, I don't know about the numbers).
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying. You convinced me.
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
> Anyone doing secure comms at this level, and is talking about families of mathematics always gives me the impression they don't really know what they're doing. Why is that? Do you assume that making competent choices for encr
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
Could also simply mean that they are chaining different encryption algos from libraries (à la TrueCrypt) which would indeed add to the security level or even at worst not harm it. (This assumes that each step is not broken...)
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
Can you elaborate on why Catch would be impossible or unergonomic? It's a test framework, right? Why would one even use it instead of the normal rust test framework? Also, how is it ergonomic? I'd agree if you say that it's
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by 0xFluegel 6y ago
Is it less effective, though? From what I remember about successes e.g. against organized crime or other groups that operated partially or totally over the internet in the news over the last years, it was mostly the simple and dull ~~physic
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by 0xFluegel 7y ago
My german bank Haspa has a limit of 12. My guess for the reason -- apart from "we didn't have any problems, yet" -- is that part of the relevant infrastructure is ancient and uses a hardcoded max length...
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by 0xFluegel 7y ago
> While 32 chars is plenty long for a password, [...]. It might be plenty long for completely random characters, but when one uses a word sequence, the 32 characters are easily reached.
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by 0xFluegel 7y ago
In current VR technology that's going to be hard and annoying: > Text is tough in VR. It’s hard to read, given the resolution of today’s HMDs and it’s hard to write, since you’re typically blind in a headset and it’s annoying to be
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by 0xFluegel 7y ago
Any finite sampling of any distribution (biased or not) can show bias. A feasible process that doesn't introduce or exagerate bias is the biggest problem when trying to get representative statistics. And bias can certainly be of differ
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by 0xFluegel 7y ago
It'll be even worse when the search engine later magically ranks their's higher even when searching for the original.