beermonster

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by beermonster 4y ago
‘Something to hide’ in English often has a negative connotation meaning deliberately trying to deceive or something bad they did and don’t want you to know about. Better would be to not use that phrase as most people have something they wis
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by beermonster 4y ago
> I find the value of having the actual surrounding context in which the code was developed more valuable But only if those commits are real atomic changes of code which compiles and not a series of 'oops', 'tests pass onc
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by beermonster 4y ago
A search for Solar Warden on DuckDuckGO [1] finds results for me, if you're referring to top results on Yandex about 'The Secret Space Program & Black Budget'? I stopped using Google years ago as I find their search resul
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by beermonster 4y ago
Is it Nix or NixOS?
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by beermonster 4y ago
No one. Sadly!
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by beermonster 4y ago
I assumed it to mean, what with GH being owned by Microsoft, it’s now in the extinguish phase of EEE (embrace, extend, extinguish). Though if anything I think it’s in the extend phase.
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by beermonster 4y ago
What did it say? I know Starling mailed customers.
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by beermonster 4y ago
Try long pressing to see history.
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by beermonster 4y ago
What ads ?
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by beermonster 4y ago
The HN title is misleading as it was actually upgraded from Debian 8 "Jessie" to Bullseye. Debian 8 "jessie" support reached its end-of-life on June 30, 2020, five years after its initial release on April 26, 2015. Howev
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by beermonster 4y ago
See https://tekin.co.uk/2020/10/better-git-diff-output-for-ruby-...
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by beermonster 4y ago
Also see https://objective-see.org/ and their LuLu tool if you're on MacOS.
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by beermonster 4y ago
I read this after it coming to my attention via the hit TV show 'Person of Interest'. Really liked it (and the TV show).
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by beermonster 4y ago
Forge is the general term for Git service providers such as gitlab, GitHub, sourcehut, bitbucket et al
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by beermonster 4y ago
From the blog post: "By specification, its default 512 block size has had to remain unchanged for decades. Today, this tiny size makes it CPU bound by default. A script that doesn’t specify a block size is very inefficient, and any scr
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by beermonster 4y ago
Is there a reason why GitHub don’t make it easy in 2022 to write nice commit messages? Larger boxes, visual cues for character length, non default commit messages such as ‘Updated doc blah’ which are useless. Lots at our place solely use th
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by beermonster 4y ago
Mobile applications require various permissions which can be enforced via SELinux. SELinux policy can also be written to mitigate many vulnerabilities and vulnerability classes/vectors. Over 40% [1] of Android users may no longer be re
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by beermonster 4y ago
Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a security architecture for Linux systems that allows administrators to have more control over who can access the system. It was originally developed by the NSA. Secure Boot and SIP are about boot integr
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by beermonster 5y ago
I use objective-see’s app Oversight [1] for MacOS. OverSight monitors a mac's mic and webcam, alerting the user when the internal mic is activated, or whenever a process accesses the webcam. Have found it very useful whilst using video
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by beermonster 5y ago
You can run it using something like psexec sysinternals tool or Process Hacker. But it’s not something someone would likely do by accident and it’s a bit orchestrated/non-obvious.
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Apple patched critical flaws in macOS Monterey but not in Big Sur nor Catalina(theregister.com)
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by beermonster 5y ago
Is there anything that must be done to take advantage of these new AEAD ciphers on an existing repo/archive ? Or is it all under the hood and transparent to the end user?
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by beermonster 5y ago
Firefox for iOS apparently. [UPDATE] although reading the replies, it looks like that appears to work. Can’t confirm as don’t use Firefox on iOS.
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by beermonster 5y ago
I guess because you have to extract it to local file system in order to use it and that makes it exposed.
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by beermonster 5y ago
Is there a Little Snitch/open snitch/Lulu type tool for Clipboard access?
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by beermonster 5y ago
Was news to me!
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by beermonster 5y ago
Or is an Oracle DBA
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by beermonster 5y ago
Well done you for not letting that bad experience put you off. Did you re-install and continue with Slackware after that?
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by beermonster 5y ago
This might be a better link http://www.slackware.com/announce/15.0.php Kudos to Patrick!
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by beermonster 5y ago
You can passively share albums on a number of platforms. Why would you email them actively? As you say, that’s a bit weird.

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