BoppreH

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by BoppreH 10mo ago
That's a very good technical solution, but socially it can be foiled by an official-looking alert saying "failed to scan card, please do X instead". And that's assuming the technical solution is deployed everywhere. I&#x
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by BoppreH 11mo ago
You might be on a slow rollout group, I got the December patch on my Pixel 7.
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by BoppreH 11mo ago
The most impressive "fuck off contact page" I've seen was from Trade Republic, an investment app. The support page has a QR code to the in-app FAQ and nothing else. Turns out that a handful of FAQ answers have a chat widget (
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by BoppreH 11mo ago
The problem of data changing shape can happen regardless, but with text you have the added danger of escaping characters and ambiguities. Not to mention there are ad-hoc text formats for each and every tool, which can change from one versio
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by BoppreH 11mo ago
Cool project, I wish we had more GUIs for these OS functions. How was your experience with GTK4 and Rust? And it's a bit sad that in the year of our lord 2025, the best way to get such fundamental information is by using regexes to par
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by BoppreH 11mo ago
Awesome project, but I'm not a fan of alphanumeric strings used as raw key bytes for AES: https://pocketbase.io/docs/going-to-production/#enable-setti... https://github.com/pocketbase/poc
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by BoppreH 11mo ago
I've always found Retinal Waves[1] interesting. During development of the visual system, there are spontaneous bursts of activity without external stimuli, helping the synapses to organize properly. In my layman's view, it's
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by BoppreH 11mo ago
Wow, you were not kidding: https://zorin.com/os/pro/
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by BoppreH 11mo ago
Very sleek marketing, but why did they rebrand (the fantastic) KDE Connect to "Zorin Connect"[1]? From the mere <30 commits, I see no reason for the fork, only confused users. If it was tightly integrated into the OS I could so
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by BoppreH 11mo ago
I like the cookie law as a sort of 4D chess move. Step 1: force websites to add an opt-out flow for privacy-minded users. Step 2: websites don't complain too much because they can implement it in obnoxious and dark-pattern-laden ways,
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by BoppreH 11mo ago
Very nice and satisfying, but I would suggest ramping up the difficulty a little faster. I got until lvl 15 by just flipping the obvious areas, taking no more than 2 seconds. It's otherwise very cool and minimalist. Edit: limiting it t
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by BoppreH 11mo ago
We also it at my work, where it's used both for mass scans of internal hosts, and scanning the same host many times during incidents/configuration changes. And the 20s is extra annoying because it's completely unnecessary. Th
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by BoppreH 11mo ago
So they're pressuring a DNS resolver to block a specific website? That seems like an incredibly slippery slope. What stops them from forcing Chrome to block the website, or LetsEncrypt to not issue any more certificates for the domain,
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by BoppreH 11mo ago
I needed to perform scans internally, and testssl.sh was too slow (minimum 20 seconds with parallelization and all optional scans disabled). So I made my own scanner, for a 60-100x speedup: https://github.com/boppreh/he
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by BoppreH 1y ago
I think this eternal discussion persists because we conflate two different aspects of software engineering: the technical and the social. Technically, we're a mature discipline. The author laments our lack of tools as advanced as archi
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by BoppreH 1y ago
For scale, that's twice as large (energy-wise) as AWS's us-east-1, which itself is a group of ~170 data centers.
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by BoppreH 1y ago
That's fine, it's a very subjective choice. Here a few reasons why I preferred Dolphin: - Tree view on main panel (can expand folders without navigating into them). - Checksum validation under "properties". - Filter func
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by BoppreH 1y ago
It's still limited by the features the OS supports. For example, on Windows you can't mount the phone's filesystem wirelessly.
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by BoppreH 1y ago
Between these issues, the end of support for Windows 10, and the total lack of respect for customers ("yes/maybe later" is unacceptable ), I'm happy for my recent switch to Linux. Fedora Kinoite (atomic + KDE) has been
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by BoppreH 1y ago
Yes, with the caveat that I'm assuming generics here. I'm working on a language where you can have: def add(a, b): return a + b add(1, 2) # Works add('a', 'b') # Works add(1, 'b') # Typ
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by BoppreH 1y ago
I hear that OCaml without interface files can cause spooky-action-at-a-distance type errors[1]. Have you had experience with that? > But in practice it's quite handy to annotate module interfaces and even individual functions. Yes,
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by BoppreH 1y ago
I agree, but I also thing that static analysis is a requirement for high quality. The obvious solution is (global) type inference, but I have yet to see a language that embraces it.
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by BoppreH 1y ago
> more competitive because of government regulation That's the same as "not legal". But I agree that it's still a useful technology, because the moral argument sometimes trumps the legal one. If a north korean defecto
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by BoppreH 1y ago
The fees come from fulfilling legal requirements like detection of money laundering and terrorism financing, and also customer security features like fraud detection and multi-factor authentication. There are fintechs for customers who want
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by BoppreH 1y ago
Ah, my apologies. You're right, financial speculation is also a prime use case for cryptocurrencies. Personally I'm also against it, but you're correct that it's a legal use case.
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by BoppreH 1y ago
Of course it can be legal, but if someone is using cryotocurrencies for this purpose then they're probably skipping some necessary steps. They could also just really like cryptocurrencies, but that's not a point in favor of the te
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by BoppreH 1y ago
Sometimes that's the right thing to do, but none of those examples sound legal .
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by BoppreH 1y ago
Well, USD has many other (legal) uses. I have yet to see a legal use for Bitcoin that was not better served by cash or traditional banking.
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by BoppreH 1y ago
> If anything goes wrong it’s a Microsoft Azure machine somewhere that’s burning CPU and the worst that can happen is code you checked out into the environment might be exfiltrated by an attacker, or bad code might be pushed to the attac
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by BoppreH 1y ago
Worked just fine on version 143.

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