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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
What is it about Python that makes developers love fragmentation so much? Sending HTTP requests is a basic capability in the modern world, the standard library should include a friendly, fully-featured, battle-tested, async-ready client. Bu
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
This appears to be a MJML wrapper with a Markdown→HTML converter attached to it. I think generating HTML from code is easier than generating Markdown, since there are many templating tools that understand HTML escaping. And writing HTML is
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
A flag of the country? Each US state has its own company register. A flag of the US state? Who is going to remember which company is incorporated where? Can you tell US state flags apart when they’re scaled down to a height of ~20 px?
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
Also, legal names of companies can sometimes not match the well-known brand, making it harder to decide if the EV cert was issued for the correct company.
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
Is there any evidence of EV certs actually helping prevent phishing back when browsers showed them much more prominently? Or did users just not care/understand the difference?
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
At least WPF is seeing some development, and it is officially and fully supported in the modern .NET. WCF is a wasteland.
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
Turns out ”bank-grade security” is not something to strive towards. In the case of TLS certificates, most banks still believe they need EV certs, even though browsers stopped making any visual distinctions for EV certificates around 2018-20
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
Microsoft promises things included with Windows will be supported ~forever. Adding modern .NET into the mix would break this promise and add more churn. Automatically uninstalling .NET runtimes would break apps, and Microsoft will be to bla
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
Avalonia is free and open-source. Avalonia MAUI currently appears to be MIT as well [0]. The pricing you’ve linked to is pricing for their paid offering, which wraps Avalonia and a WPF-style API for easy migration of legacy apps. [0] https
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
> However, for no reason I can understand, Microsoft has decided that even the latest versions of Windows 11 only get .NET 4.8.1 preinstalled. .NET has new releases every year, supported for 2 or 3 years. That’s not really compatible wit
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
Nah, the narrowest points are below 24 nautical miles, so all ships need to pass through Iran and/or Oman's territorial waters (12 nmi each).
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
Quad9 is based in Switzerland, but the three founders-sponsors are US-based [0], so I’m not sure if it can be considered 100% safe from US government intervention. [0] https://quad9.net/about/sponsors/
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
1.1.1.2 is their malware-blocking DNS, and 1.1.1.3 is their parental-controls DNS. If you want an unfiltered DNS, use 1.1.1.1 - which resolves archive.today just fine, although archive.today itself refuses to work on Cloudlfare DNS.
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
Is there anyone seriously involved in packaging who is neither working at Astral nor a PyPA member?
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
Scammers can coerce people into ignoring warnings if they convince them their entire life savings are on the line. It's hard to do if you need to wait 24 hours before the setting unlocks.
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
That's what you get with toy languages.
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
The core-adjacent people have completely failed to produce reasonable packaging tools for decades, why would you want another new tool from them?
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
What is this if not an Electron app with the Electron parts written in Python?
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
Every time SharePoint/Teams decides to open a document in the browser, I cry a little. Misalignments in Word, broken basic keyboard movements in Excel, terrible performance across the board.
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
Do you really need that Python script? I think you could end up with a nicer user experience if you rewrote those 264 lines to JS with Electron.
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
XML is beloved by tax authorities. The Polish tax authorities really love their e-documents and online filing. Except their XML documents are completely human-unreadable, since the schemas are based on field numbers in paper forms. Even in
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
XMLHttpRequest got its name due to Microsoft internal politics [0]: > Meanwhile the IE project was just weeks away from beta 2 which was their last beta before the release. This was the good-old-days when critical features were crammed i
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
You can use the Sound Connect app to disable auto pause and auto power off.
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
If this happens so often, perhaps Algolia should improve their stuff to prevent this? For example, by implementing a dedicated search endpoint that doesn't accept normal API keys, but only dedicated read-only keys.
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
> Windows 11 VM requires a minimum of 4GB of RAM to function You can give it less. It may refuse to install, but even without using any workarounds, you can change the assigned RAM after installing and it will not refuse to boot. The min
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
Comments should be allowed from day one, but submissions should require some experience and karma.
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
It's new and revolutionary, because it's the first sub-$1000 laptop from Apple.
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
Microsoft Office used Wingdings, but forums (based on e.g. phpBB) or IMs would replace :) with an image.
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
What do you suggest then? Not flying? The TSA had refused her request for a pat-down.
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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
There were rumours about those things, and some western countries issued travel advisories a few days before. Either way, Dubai is not a good place to go, no matter what bribed influencers tell you.

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