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by black3r 3y ago
Since this is a post about security, this is your daily reminder to update your browser to stay safe on the internet. Up-to-date versions of Safari support AVIF images, and there have been multiple RCE vulnerabilities with known exploits fi
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by black3r 3y ago
In Slovakia one of the biggest networks used to use "almost static" public IPs for home clients, they were assigned by DHCP and cached for 24 hours, so in the few years we've used them our IP changed twice... but since then t
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by black3r 3y ago
Microchips in cables are already a semi-optional part of the USB-C standard, mandatory for charging with more than 3A... The backlash was against rumors that Apple was planning an additional paid certification program which would mean only
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by black3r 3y ago
not all, for example apple's macbook power supplies have removable USB-C cables
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by black3r 3y ago
I can talk for hours with anyone about anything, but I have some kind of social anxiety about starting the conversation, and that sadly goes not just for strangers but also for people I'm familiar with but not super familiar... I'
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by black3r 3y ago
Doing a reproducible build with Vagrant and Docker is possible but very far from straight forward as you have to make extra sure that you use the exact same source box/image and install every software in the exact same version and deal
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by black3r 3y ago
it was an either/or statement.., if you don't have a remote devbox your choice is either having to deal with the fact that your home work environment is different from your work environment at the office and you have to set up lot
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by black3r 3y ago
If you work from the same computer in the same place everyday there are no advantages to having a remote box... If you work 50:50 from office & home you start getting annoyed by either having a different environment at home & work o
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by black3r 3y ago
Docker Compose with .env overrides is very close to an ideal local dev environment, the only downside is if you don't use Linux you can hit some I/O bottlenecks (it got better with VirtioFS in Docker Desktop but still not native-s
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by black3r 3y ago
Using Expo and React Native for web is not really practical. But simply having your mobile and web applications both in TypeScript you can share bits and parts of code, most notably the types & data models, application logic code, and a
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by black3r 3y ago
In my opinion 2FA is one of the best use cases for a smart watch, and at least Authy supports that use case, it's so much better than to look where I put my phone...
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by black3r 3y ago
the worst user hostility is that you can't browse it while not logged in (which was also introduced to twitter recently)
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by black3r 3y ago
> If you write an app in JS+HTML+CSS and use Electron to deploy it, the UI could literally be anything, as can the controls, etc. Nothing matches the OS UI neither This may be seen by some people as an advantage though. For example my wo
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by black3r 3y ago
Yes, definitely. And while we're at it also force them to support eSIM smartwatch profiles. In Slovakia 0 carriers support them, not even Telekom, which supports them in 4/5 neighboring countries..
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by black3r 3y ago
On most pre-iPhone cellphones you could install any .jar file, but there were 2 challenges: Finding a .jar file that works on your phone was the biggest. Games often only supported a single screen resolution and so there were multiple .jar
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by black3r 3y ago
Not everywhere in Europe..., In Slovakia 3/4 operators have single-use QR codes (and for the 4th you have to first remove your eSIM from your old phone before transferring to new, which wouldn't help in case of broken/stolen
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by black3r 3y ago
I get what you mean, but my original thought was about complexity as in how much effort (work & time & money) would it take to re-create the thing and start a competing business, given you already have all the necessary knowledge. C
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by black3r 3y ago
Technology 40 years ago was so simple, that anyone with basic education in electronics could understand how this or other basic utilities work and when opened up could identify which component does what and if you identified a faulty compon
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by black3r 4y ago
Determining which API key is supposed to be a secret isn't usually an issue, cause typically site providing you with the secret key clearly states the fact that it's supposed to be a secret. For example this is what OpenAI says ab
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by black3r 4y ago
Google Maps's "API key" is not really a secret. It's used only to identify your application and to generate an iframe that's only allowed to be used on your website. It's bulletproof enough not to be considered
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by black3r 4y ago
There is a difference between an app ID and a secret. A secret is something that can be used to impersonate you or your app towards a 3rd party service if leaked. 3rd party log-in SDKs using OpenID connect can work entirely without client-s
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by black3r 4y ago
You should never store ANY secret information (API keys, passwords, tokens, secret keys of any kind) in your application binary. It can always be extracted one way or another.. If your application needs to call a 3rd party service like open
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by black3r 4y ago
Startup stage companies work on smaller codebases and primarily need to go as fast as possible from nothing to a working prototype without the need to use many advanced features.... Java is a good language, but the community around it, whet
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by black3r 4y ago
Django doesn't use SQLALchemy, they have their own ORM system. And it's true that Django used to have 0 real dependencies (now it has 2), but even now many of its "optional builtins" do require some additional external p
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by black3r 4y ago
For a little more than a year I worked in an AI startup doing basically everything other than AI (APIs, webapps, devops...), but from what I've seen there the "secret sauce" to AI success is the training process (dataset, par
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by black3r 4y ago
You don't need to take a bus to the grocery store if said grocery store is itself in 5 minute walking distance from your doorstep (or have said groceries delivered)... I buy 90% of my own groceries from one of the 3 stores on my street
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by black3r 4y ago
When 95% people live in flats, the density is high enough for public transport and walking to be more efficient than cars for most usages... I'm also from Slovakia, and I can clearly see here that gas cars being cheap led to public tra
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by black3r 4y ago
> Poland had called the law unrealistic and said it risked increasing car prices. 12 years is enough time to heavily invest in public transport so that most people won't need a car at all, then increased car prices won't matter
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by black3r 4y ago
You can self-host the open-source version, it's dockerized and pretty easy to set up...
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by black3r 4y ago
If you're actually coding without external screen and keyboard then your complaints may be valid. But lots of people only buy laptops so that they can transport their work between home and office, both equipped with external screens an

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