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by acatton 2y ago
The secret with sqlite is to use "-tags sqlite_omit_load_extension", if you don't use any extension. (which is 99% of the users) This is explained in https://www.arp242.net/static-go.html
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by acatton 2y ago
Force of habit. No particular reason, "4kiB feels like a nice number", cargo culting. Choose one :) . It doesn't matter if you have more than 256 bits, as your key file gets hashed with SHA256 at the end[1]. It could be 5GiB
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by acatton 2y ago
* The tool is not obscure, it's packaged in most distributions.[1][2][3] It was written and maintained by Colin Percival, aka "the tarnsnap guy" or "the guy who invented scrypt". He is the security officer for FreeB
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by acatton 2y ago
Yearly reminder to run your ssh server behind spiped.[1] [2] [3] [1] https://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29483092 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by acatton 2y ago
Funnily enough, years ago, I migrated from Debian as my daily driver to (at the time) "Fedora Core" on my desktop. My first question was "what's the replacement for aptitude", and people pointed me to "yum shel
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by acatton 2y ago
Most search engine popping up are just a rebranding of bing and yandex. There is a good article about it: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-... Regarding your question of cost,
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by acatton 2y ago
I don't know how Kagi manages it. I suspect like duckduckgo, they index a little bit on their own, and use a GBY [1] as a back up. According to Seirdy[1], they use Brave in the background. Brave just burn their cryptomoney to build a s
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by acatton 2y ago
I wish you luck and I hope you succeed, but you make it sound much much easier than what it would be. First of all, you're going to drown in hardware costs, if you run your own hardware. If you run on AWS, you will be the largest AWS c
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by acatton 2y ago
There is a review process, but "yes, your comments are relevant, but they're just nit picking, can you just approve it so that we can start working on this project?"
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by acatton 2y ago
I do not share the same experience as the author, as someone working for the mentioned company. There is a wide range of types of design docs, and none of them are useful. I've rarely seen any useful design doc at Google. I feel that d
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by acatton 3y ago
Random numbers are used to generate your TLS certificate key or your SSH key. If one can predict how a TLS or SSH key was generated they could impersonate the key holder. Here is an explanation of what was possible when a Debian packager mi
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by acatton 3y ago
https://www.deceptive.design/types/preselection
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by acatton 3y ago
> ProtonMail is the best choice if you want an end-to-end encrypted email platform Is this native advertisement? There are many other choices, some of them being as good if not better. A few of them are small mom-and-pop businesses which
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by acatton 3y ago
https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/05/error-404-not-foun...
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by acatton 3y ago
TLS prevents a different kind of attack, the MitM one which you describe. GPG signing covers this threat model but much more, the threats include: * The server runs vulnerable software and is compromised by script-kiddies. They, then, uploa
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by acatton 3y ago
Just a security reminder from the last time this got posted[1] This tool downloads random files from the internet, and check their checksum against other random files from the internet. [2] This is not the best security practice. (The right
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by acatton 3y ago
VHS was a superior format to Betamax. I mean... their sales numbers proved it, right?
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by acatton 3y ago
Yes, but they are doing another layer of quality control on whatever comes out of Bosch. Because at the end of the day, they can't blame Bosch for the bad quality of cars sold under their brand.
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by acatton 3y ago
Exactly, it worked for the Boeing 737 Max... for a while...
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by acatton 3y ago
There are more "Alert blocks" available https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/get... This is github specific, not part of commonmark AFAIK
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by acatton 3y ago
The modernc one is the one I was refering to. https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite
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by acatton 3y ago
I get excited when hackers like Justine (in the most positive sense of the word) start working with LLMs. But every time, I am let down. I still dream of some hacker making LLMs run on low-end computers like a 4GB rasbperry pi. My main issu
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by acatton 3y ago
In my personal opinion and usage, the performance doesn't matter. Only one driver is written in pure go, and can be easily statically compiled and/or cross-compiled. > modernc, modernc.org/sqlite, a pure Go solution. This
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by acatton 3y ago
You're lucky that it's "FSD" which has like 4 possible meaning. Sometimes it's acronyms with 12 different possible meaning, where 4 of them could apply to the given context...
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by acatton 3y ago
Not only if you're a consumer. There are multiple cases in Germany of Oberlandesgerichten (~= "Circuit courts") voiding arbitration clauses in B2B contracts as well. Subway (the sandwich chain) is a good example of that. They
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by acatton 3y ago
Firefox on iPhone uses Webkit. It's basically a Safari skin. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Firefox&oldid=118... > It is the first Firefox-branded browser not to use the Gecko layout engine as
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by acatton 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archive.today&old...
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by acatton 3y ago
Because Google's index is much larger. According to estimates[1], Google indexes ~60 billions pages and Bing is only ~4 billions. If these numbers are close to reality, Bing index is 7% of Google's. IMHO, this leads to all the pro
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by acatton 3y ago
Its search index, in my personal opinion. A quarter of the websites on the internet are behind Cloudlfare/Akamai with anti-scraping enabled. Of course they want to end up on Google, so Google/Bing get a green light from Cloudflare
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by acatton 3y ago
raspi-firmware is semi-officially maintained. But Raspberry Pi OS also has scripts to set flags on the eeprom like "vcgencmd" and "rpi-eeprom-update" What I was saying these could be maintained in Debian.

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