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by billpg 5y ago
One thing I've noticed with podcasts, is that my reader will download the full RSS every day, listing hundreds of episodes, just to see if there's a new one. I get why they do this as a new listener will want to start off with a f
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by billpg 5y ago
I've deleted a comment that, on reflection, I felt was a little mean-spirited. Sorry.
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by billpg 5y ago
I may start doing that for my own projects.
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by billpg 5y ago
Glibc contains COBOL code?
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by billpg 5y ago
Your "is this password valid" cache would need to be indexed by the clear-text password. That's a separate security issue.
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by billpg 5y ago
The server will have a clear-text (leaving the base64 to one side) password in the HTTP request and a PBKDF2 (or similar) token loaded from the user database. Unless you store the user's password in the clear inside your user database,
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by billpg 5y ago
Wouldn't you need to the substantial workload of PBKDF2 (et al) for each and every HTTP request? Maybe have the images, JS, CCS etc handled by a separate server, but there's still going to be many requests that need to be authenti
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by billpg 5y ago
"We want to make use of the open-source exception, but we don't want to actually release our source code." "I'll have some Beware-of-the-Leopard signs printed up."
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by billpg 5y ago
I don't need that. I can just set up an SFTP server and rsync my files to it.
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by billpg 5y ago
This would be a great option for find/xargs. -print0/-0 do the job for each other but then there's a disconnect with a user being able to view the list of files.
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by billpg 5y ago
Bitcoin has gone sky-high or fallen off a cliff? That's normal.
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by billpg 5y ago
I wonder how this handles TLS. I have tried using dot-net's HttpListener object but was a little disappointed in how it handled TLS. (In the end, I used HttpListener in localhost-only mode and had an off-the-shelf proxy service to deal
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by billpg 5y ago
What's an LMS? (I do understand that my asking this question almost certainly means I can't answer your question.)
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by billpg 5y ago
One of the big mistakes with the design of IMAP was that there wasn't a standard Out-Box where a client could rely on the IMAP server for sending the email. I'd have loved to see a world where mail clients only had to implement IM
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by billpg 5y ago
"You need to add --print0 to your find call and -0 to your xargs."
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by billpg 5y ago
Indeed. The original article was about the circumcision of a child, so I wanted to underline the particular point that yours was as an adult.
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by billpg 5y ago
You were an adult, making a choice for your own body.
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by billpg 5y ago
What exactly would constitute a non-botched circumcision of an infant?
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by billpg 5y ago
You could ask first. The site's robots.txt file might have some information. Put your email address in your User-Agent string so they can get in touch if needed.
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by billpg 5y ago
Hay there. (I'll get my coat.)
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by billpg 5y ago
"Email is open" In practice, no. Your server would need to be on many pre-approved lists if you want to avoid all of your messages being saved to most user's spam folders. Only the big operators with full-time staff monitorin
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by billpg 5y ago
I remember writing scripts with $(which something) in the past. I cannot remember why I needed that.
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by billpg 5y ago
If whoever-it-is actually demands their peppercorn, yes.
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by billpg 5y ago
My favorite use of goto is with C#'s "yield return". The compiler converts a function with a yield command into a label. To resume a function from where it left off, the compiler adds code to test an added resumption-point va
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by billpg 5y ago
"We need you to prove your identity." "Here's something indistinguishable from something I could have knocked together using Microsoft Word an hour ago."
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by billpg 5y ago
The board is too large for my tablet screen and I can't zoom out.
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by billpg 5y ago
WordPress already has its own htaccess file for rewriting URLs into query string parameters. I wonder why it doesn't include a cache command as normal. The number of times I've gone to a page only to be faced with a MySQL error fo
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by billpg 5y ago
I'm a little surprised there isn't a general purpose option inside Apache. I'd like to go into my .htaccess and say "Any GET request that matches this regex, please cache and serve future requests from the cache for x se
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by billpg 5y ago
I was thinking of building my own LISP-like language, but seeing so many pop up on here I don't think I'll bother.
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by billpg 5y ago
That was a real operator? I can grimly imagine someone calling the phone company to locate her so she can agree to appear on the published record. "No, we made a call an hour or so ago. I'd like to speak to the same operator who

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