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by ancarda 6y ago
Why don't we have a version of Windows without as much legacy support? Like a security hardened (or really just modern-only) version of Windows? I suspect most people would be fine using that version of Windows, and it would have less
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by ancarda 6y ago
This is basically just a repost of the actual post Durov made: https://telegra.ph/What-Was-TON-And-Why-It-Is-Over-05-12 which has many more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23156224
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by ancarda 6y ago
For 2 weeks now, it's been impossible to login to Keybase on Firefox or Chrome. Only works in Safari: https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/24019 The entire web sucks. It's not just Firefox and i
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by ancarda 6y ago
Why did this happen? Was "%" significant in some way? i.e. maybe it was passing the path to sprintf?
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by ancarda 6y ago
How is stunnel a workaround? Honestly that would seem like an ideal solution to me - "do one thing, do it well". Stunnel can focus on having a rock solid TLS implementation and Redis can focus on being a great DB. Am I missing som
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by ancarda 6y ago
From using Linux on my MacBook, I remember poor palm rejection being one frustration. Also, I think multi-touch - such as scrolling with two fingers - didn't work. Just all round it wasn't very pleasant to work with. Perhaps if yo
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by ancarda 6y ago
>C complicated? It is a very small, simple language That's a bit misleading though. Yes, C is very small - but that doesn't mean it's magically easy to understand. It's size has a huge consequence; the language doesn&
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by ancarda 7y ago
Is there a list of languages Cloudflare Workers supports? From what I can tell, it's JS, Rust, C, C++, and now COBOL. So... no PHP then? Seems like it would be a good fit, no?
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by ancarda 7y ago
As a C newbie, will there ever be "safe" C, i.e. no undefined behavior and help with writing code that has less memory related crashes/bugs? For comparison, Rust has the `unsafe { }' block which lets you mark regions of
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by ancarda 7y ago
I pulled my YouTube Premium subscription once I was furloughed, along with Spotify and Netflix. I imagine many have done similar things to cut down on expenses.
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by ancarda 7y ago
I'd be interested in such a list - I suspect it may be small, independent companies. Which is probably a good thing to support anyway. Also may help lower carbon footprint a little?
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by ancarda 7y ago
Oh I'm so glad to see progress is being made in this area. Inkscape was just unusable for me on macOS. Now it's a bit more bearable. Keep up the good work!
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by ancarda 7y ago
One reason I switched to Fastmail is it's just folders, not labels. I HATED labels in Gmail. It never works right with external clients, even if you use plugins in Thunderbird or try to use labels like they are folders. I gave up and
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by ancarda 7y ago
Why isn't AGPL listed? I believe it doesn't have protection specifically against commercialization, but it's very difficult to link proprietary software with AGPL code. Wouldn't that effectively do the same? I might have
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by ancarda 7y ago
Not yet, though I am working on replacing proprietary software I use with free software that's Linux/BSD compatible. It's a long journey - started using Windows. macOS is a nice gap-stop, but the long term destination is prob
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by ancarda 7y ago
I completely disagree. Can you give me an example? Perhaps you can change my mind.
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by ancarda 7y ago
We shouldn't ever trade security for performance. Doing that is how Microsoft ended up putting shit like font rendering into the kernel. Made Windows very fast, but made it so much worse when a bug was found.
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by ancarda 7y ago
>Security - Disabled ME Does this mean I can (eventually?) run libreboot (coreboot with no binary blobs)?
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by ancarda 7y ago
Possibly GNU Taler? https://taler.net/en/features.html However, I don't know enough about this system to know if this is what you're looking for.
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by ancarda 7y ago
The current top comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665562 ) has a translation that mentions the email containing the virus was about COVID-19 Do not defend the pieces of shit that launch attacks during a pandemi
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by ancarda 7y ago
I don't write C++ though I have written some C. I imagine it's easier to shoot yourself in the foot with C++ compared to Rust; it's specifically designed to be a safe language, whereas C++ had things like auto_ptr added Why h
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by ancarda 7y ago
That URL opened up a scam site for me claiming I was going to win something, I think a phone. I closed the tab too quickly to see How did that happen? I have JavaScript disabled and an adblocker installed... Edit: My browser's history:
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by ancarda 7y ago
How about this - every time a problem like this is found, the affected component is rewritten in Rust. Kinda like how a bug should ideally be fixed by reproducing the issue with a unit test first - the test ensures that particular problem w
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by ancarda 7y ago
For many years now, I have - 5 times a week - left a building with a computer and Internet access to travel for an hour or more to a building with a computer and Internet access to talk to my colleagues - almost exclusively over Slack and G
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by ancarda 7y ago
You can also get the dimmer switches / remotes, I thought about getting some next to my bed because Google Home doesn't seem to work with my (Philips Hue) lights anymore. I don't think this is related - it just stopped workin
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by ancarda 7y ago
>it wasn't widely adopted after relatively short time Why is that a problem, by the way? Wouldn't we expect something like Persona to be implemented in new software projects first, then gradually get adopted in existing softwar
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by ancarda 7y ago
Nobody is forcing you to do that. Your browser is very likely going to have a "Don't remember" option. You're free to keep your credit card details in your password manager or type it out every time.
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by ancarda 7y ago
Why not switch to a different browser then, such as Firefox? Worth saying today Chrome already supports storing credit card details for auto-fill.
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by ancarda 7y ago
Just signed up - it's pretty nice. Any plans to add SSHFP or other record types?
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by ancarda 7y ago
transparency in promotions?

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