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by bjoli 3y ago
I just bought an old dell server and started self-hosting. It saved me some money on a VPS and Dropbox (although this thing GOBBLES electricity, so the savings argument is pretty moot). Docker (or podman in my case) makes this extremely eas
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by bjoli 3y ago
I had a lovely accidental talk with Felice Jacka who I later figured out was one of the top guys out there in the field of nutritional psychology. I might not be the right guy to summarize what she said, but iirc it boiled down to eating mi
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by bjoli 3y ago
What's the fun in that?
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by bjoli 3y ago
It is smaller and supports less features. Dropbear does password auth and x11 agent forwarding iirc.
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by bjoli 3y ago
Gerrymandering is used to subvert democracy in the US. By both sides. The republicans have been trying to dissuade a lot of voters which to me, as a rather left (European left) leaning European seems very undemocratic.
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by bjoli 3y ago
Because they are amazing in so many ways, and most western countries work with blacklists for chemicals. We ban them when there is enough evidence that show how bad they are. Sometimes not even then.
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by bjoli 3y ago
As long as it is not confuseable it is not trademark infringement. You are free to start a Pharmacy named McDonalds, but not Walmart's Pharma.
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by bjoli 3y ago
Not to say that I agree with the transparent, but: Trademarks only apply where there might be confusion. If I made a very large radioactive ape called Gozilla, it would most certainly infringe on a (hypothetical?) Godzilla trademark. But as
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by bjoli 3y ago
Don't forget bzip3.
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by bjoli 3y ago
Related: i was under the impression that AES was safe (even aes-128). If it is so, why did Apple go for full pqc and not just the key exchange? Would it be a good idea for signal to double the key size?
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by bjoli 3y ago
You have already done it for me, and I cant edit the comment. Thanks.
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I have a set of standard macros. I rarely write more.
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by bjoli 3y ago
You can't write any music accurately. Ask her if she can write a later Miles Davis solo accurately so that anybody can perform it just as he plays it :) I work in a much more notation-bound genre (I am an orchestra bassoon player) and
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by bjoli 3y ago
They use it for key exchange. That removes the part that quantum computing will break easily. AES is still safe. It is a replacement for public key crypto schemes, like Ed25519.
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by bjoli 3y ago
there is quite a heated argument in the NIST comments regarding kyber. DJB is not impressed with how they calculated some kind of security bound. The kyber folks (and maybe some others) seem to think DJB is a prick. This is so far above my
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by bjoli 3y ago
Something happened recently (or maybe not so recently. I am an old fart) with the cooling situation. Previously a beefy air cooler could give you good performance at a low noise level. Now they all sound like jet planes when they try to dis
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by bjoli 3y ago
I am not sure if I understand things correctly, but what apple did seems like a lot of work for little benefit. Symmetric encryption is not threatened nearly as much by quantum computers. Using a PQ key exchange should make adequately safe
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by bjoli 3y ago
I was reading the NIST comments and djb is not very happy with how they present things, and the other commenters seem to think he is a prick.
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by bjoli 3y ago
I tested matrix in 2021 and found the experience pretty darn awful outside the main client. And by a cursory glance the ecosystem is still pretty much controlled by the matrix.org folks. When I was using it there was a lot of accusations th
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by bjoli 3y ago
I don't think any sane person would use mutable strings considering the benefits you get by having an immutable string type by default. I have always said that if I were to make my own scheme (my language of choice) I the mutability of
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by bjoli 3y ago
I bought an old used server with 24 CPU cores way too much RAM. I use it to self host a number of things (torrent box, NAS, unifi controller, DNS server). I recently added freshrss. I love it. It halved my social media use, and it my news p
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by bjoli 3y ago
I remember spending some time writing some kind of wrapper for converters from dtd and w3c XML schema to relax Ng compact. Then nxml handles the rest. If I recall correctly it probably just litters my nxml schema dir with whatever I happen
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by bjoli 3y ago
Sometimes I feel I am the only person in the world who likes XML. It just followed the trajectory of all formats, where it is used in places it shouldn't have been used. It is moderately readable and writable, and the tooling is great.
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by bjoli 3y ago
Wow. I just had a conversation about this with my son. He wanted to play a super hero run around the world 3 times in a second. Being a no-fun-dad I tried to explain why this is a bad idea. "The atmosphere will be like a stone wall. Wh
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by bjoli 3y ago
Mal - while nice - has very little to do with common lisp.
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by bjoli 3y ago
Chick-fil-a was the company donating to anti-gay-marriage causes and the COO made some pretty nasty comments. And people don't mainly criticise gun owners. They criticize the laws making it possible for crazy people to have access to g
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by bjoli 3y ago
It is surprisingly well timed just after the ICJ ruling, as if meant to hide the actual news. I don't like being conspiratorial, but most of the people employed by UNRWA are Palestinian refugees. Just by looking at the numbers it shoul
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by bjoli 3y ago
It is mentioned prominently enough in the readme, I would say. 2²⁶ is plenty enough for many applications. I currently use a persistent intmap to label continuations in a toy CPS compiler, and with my current approach there is no chance wha
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by bjoli 3y ago
But: imagine having a company selling workstations and tuning your memory a bit too much on the fast side. Having you computer behave incorrectly is much worse than it just being a little slower that a similarly specced computer.
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by bjoli 3y ago
While I don't contest the story about software bugs, the Gripen airplane had pretty bad PR for quite some time due to 2 (3 depending on how you count) high-profile crashes. It is fun to see it mentioned in other contexts.

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