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by billpg 3y ago
Suppose I have a feed with a million items already on it which I've already handled. I'm about to poll the feed and there's a small number of new items on the feed I don't know about yet. Am I going to have to download a
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by billpg 3y ago
Also, do we mean ATOM in the same way that people insist on referring to TLS as "SSL", or do we actually mean RSS as in actual RSS? If we could agree that ATOM is RSS 2 (or whatever MAX(version)+1 is) that'd be great.
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by billpg 3y ago
LISP has entered the chat.
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by billpg 3y ago
Am I the only one who checks the EV cert when logging into the bank?
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by billpg 3y ago
In case you're still reading this, I've updated this document to version 2, answering your comment directly and adding an alternative immediate response instead of keeping the connection open. As this is still a public draft and n
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by billpg 3y ago
Thank you, I think that's worth addressing in the questions section and I might have an idea on resolving the issue.
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by billpg 3y ago
Wasn't Raspberry Pi a charitable foundation or did I completely imagine that?
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by billpg 3y ago
Thank you. I'll have a read of that and see if there's any lessons I can learn for it that would apply to my proposal.
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by billpg 3y ago
Thank you just for reading it! I've opened an issue on the project at https://github.com/billpg/CrossRequestTokenExchange/issues/6 If I may rewrite your scenario to check I understand it... An attacker s
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by billpg 3y ago
(Shameless plug.) I had some thoughts in this area. https://github.com/billpg/CrossRequestTokenExchange
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by billpg 3y ago
I've heard of enough cases where the ransomware gang have not followed through after payment of the ransom, that I think that time ("if they don't actually provide the files when paid") has already passed.
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by billpg 3y ago
"I have your lottery winnings. Send (amount) to me to process sending you the money." That's a scam, right? "I have encrypted your files. Send (amount) and I'll decrypt them for you." Not a scam?
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by billpg 3y ago
"Call Bob. He is the only person who knows how to maintain this system." "Bob died. Ten years ago."
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by billpg 3y ago
https://github.com/billpg/POP3Listener/ This was going to be part of a larger project implementing libraries for all the email protocols, but I lost enthusiasm for it when I realised how broken email itself is in
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What's a kWh? (And other money-saving tips)(billpg.com)
1 points by billpg 3y ago|0 comments
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by billpg 3y ago
"Total power (watt-hours)" Nitpick, but Watt-Hours is energy, not power. Why yes, I am very clever. Thank you for noticing.
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Cross Request Token Exchange(github.com)
1 points by billpg 3y ago|0 comments
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by billpg 3y ago
There's a parallel universe where the French chose to base their new system around twelve instead of ten. Divide the day into twelve twelfths and each twelfth into twelve parts again. (They'd have to coin prefixes for each.)
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by billpg 3y ago
Bell Labs Colombia?
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by billpg 3y ago
I posted in a political thread once... "Re-joining the EU would give the UK all the benefits of EU membership as well as all the benefits of Brexit too."
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by billpg 3y ago
"Hiiiiii it's your favorite user Carp! We're currently on Login Required mode for one of a few reasons:" Oh dear.
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by billpg 3y ago
Is the formal group creation process still going on? You filed an "request for discussion" and if approved, there would be a discussion for a month or so. Then you'd file a "call for votes" and people would email th
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What’s a kWh? (And other money-saving tips)(billpg.com)
2 points by billpg 3y ago|0 comments
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by billpg 3y ago
While I appreciate this approach, what I really want is when I click on an RSS link, the browser detects its an RSS and shows me a dialog telling me its an RSS page and shows a "Copy URL" button. If I click the button (or close th
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by billpg 3y ago
"You can use any characters in filenames, except NUL and slash." "Including LF?" "Yes." "So what does find do when it encounters a file with an LF in its name?" "It outputs the name including the
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by billpg 3y ago
I remember fruitlessly trying to open a .zip file with gunzip back in the mid 90s. That was my first experience of the GNU project.
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by billpg 3y ago
"Suppose I'm trying to allow multiple threads access to a Dictionary object." "You should use a ConcurrentDictionary." "Okay, but I'm actually asking about ways the compiler could help out with code duplic
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by billpg 3y ago
But not as high as maybe dirigibles or zeppelins or lightbulbs. And maybe clouds. I'm sorry. I'm not sure what happened to me there.
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by billpg 3y ago
I was an embarrassing distance down the article before I realised they weren't talking about email. "Wow. I had no idea that email reader I used thirty years ago had such depth!"
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by billpg 3y ago
The nobility get to travel. The serfs have to stay and work for their lord.

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