IceWreck

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by IceWreck 5y ago
It was higher when I participated but still adjusted by country purchasing power. The duration was longer than last year and we had three evaluations instead of two.
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by IceWreck 5y ago
There are also optionally larger projects. > Rather than a mandatory 12-week program that runs from June – August with everyone required to finish their projects by the end of the 12th week, we are opening it up so mentors and their GSoC
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by IceWreck 5y ago
No, theyve been struggling with it ever since Apple switched from OpenGL to Metal.
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by IceWreck 5y ago
Hey, thats cool. Thank you.
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by IceWreck 5y ago
How hard is it to program while being blind ? What sort of development do you do ? i understand that frontend is impossible but what other difficulties do you face ? Are indent based langauges like python harder than bracket based languages
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by IceWreck 5y ago
I think its the opposite. Regular VPN protocols, if obfuscated properly can blend in with https traffic. Tor is almost always detectable. You can see someone is using Tor, but not what theyre doing with it.
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by IceWreck 5y ago
Most of these proctoring software easily detect Virtualbox, VMware, etc. But QEMU/KVM which is the de-facto hypervisor on Linux is harder to detect. Even the others which I mentioned before can be hardened to evade detection. And if yo
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by IceWreck 5y ago
NFTs are such a sham to claim fake "ownership" of an asset. All the images/files are public anyways. Nothing stops me from creating another blockchain and call it NFTv2. And then I can create an NFT which points to the origin
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by IceWreck 5y ago
Yes, the app runs in the background. It kills the battery, but you have to compromise on that if you do not want to have google services on your phone.
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by IceWreck 5y ago
The open source fdroid builds don't do that, instead they receive notifications another way, without google's push service.
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by IceWreck 5y ago
Telegram clients are open source. Whats preventing people from patching out ads out of their clients ?
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by IceWreck 5y ago
I agree. Telegram's UX is unparalleled. Coming to Matrix, the Element Web/Desktop app is ugly and has bad UI/UX. Its unintuitive to use. Fortunately, you have tons of choices with Matrix. Cinny on desktop has a very neat and
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by IceWreck 5y ago
Apple Silicon has a lower power draw than any comparable AMD or Intel chip. I'd like to use one of those Mac Minis as a homeserver/homelab and macOS is the only thing standing in the way. Similarly, I doubt there is a non Apple la
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by IceWreck 5y ago
Apple's great hardware is crippled by the piece of shit operating system called macOS. Man up Apple and release Apple Silicon drivers for Linux.
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by IceWreck 5y ago
Thats great news. I hope RISC-V catches on sooner rather than later because that would slow down ARM's dominance in the mobile space. Remember that ARM is proprietary and is in the process of being bought by Nvidia, which has historica
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by IceWreck 5y ago
The author says proxys are expensive and then proceeds to spend a shitton of money buying all that hardware.
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by IceWreck 5y ago
Telegram upload speed is limited to 3MB/s. Doesn't matter how high your connection speed is, it is capped from telegram's end.
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by IceWreck 5y ago
How does Wireguard over TCP even work. Its not designed that way. Some sort of UDP in TCP encapsulation ?
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by IceWreck 5y ago
> Unfortunately, the days of reliable non-JavaScript capable scraping are over. Not really. In a lot of cases websites use JavaScript to call some API along with some on the fly generated token to prevent abuse. As long as that token is
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by IceWreck 5y ago
Half of the short-links to cutt.ly aren't working. Why use short links in markdown ?
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by IceWreck 5y ago
You could use Alma Linux / Rocky Linux or any other RHEL likes which will get updates as long as RHEL does.
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by IceWreck 5y ago
You'd be better off using JDK builds from your distro's repos.
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by IceWreck 5y ago
> If "Meta" is the new ARPANET, I wonder what the new CERN and web will be. Lets not get ahead of ourselves. This so called "Metaverse" will be another proprietary project that may or may not gain traction unless they
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by IceWreck 5y ago
Looks like Zuckyboi is a big fan of Ready Player One.
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by IceWreck 5y ago
RPMs have delta updates
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by IceWreck 5y ago
If you want a fully static site, go with Hugo. Site generation is way way faster. Next offers using React as your templating language as well as adding in server side code if you want instead of static site generation.
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by IceWreck 5y ago
Django + Django rest framework ? A headless CMS ?
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by IceWreck 5y ago
> Since matrix is focused on privacy etc I assumed this is available as a container/VM I can run at home or on a VPS. All bridges, and the matrix homeserver itself have been open source and self-hostable for years. I host a homeserv
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by IceWreck 5y ago
> you pay a monthly fee for someone to man-in-the-middle all your communications. All Matrix homeservers and bridges are open source. I self host some of them myself. Have been doing that long before Element One was a thing.
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by IceWreck 5y ago
> Is there any application forced sandboxing feature yet? On Linux you can use flatpak where you can manually limit the permissions on a per application basis.

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