creatonez

41 ms·

631.
by creatonez 3y ago
A good solution: for each language option, include both the exonym (name of the language in the user's currently selected language) and the endonym (name of the language in that particular language). Make sure the search feature can fu
632.
by creatonez 3y ago
> I frankly don't understand how it's good. UUID originally was intended as something you use very sparingly, to name, say, a product SKU maybe, an organization, something like that. Not literally content that collides commonl
633.
by creatonez 3y ago
Pretty much all ships have some form of auto pilot suitable for the open ocean, but navigating the Suez Canal is an incredibly tedious process due to how narrow it is. During the original Suez blockage news cycle, some maritime experts poin
634.
by creatonez 3y ago
This isn't just making up rules on the spot. Certificate expiration are always known in advance, and the cross-signing was never a guarantee -- especially when that cross-sign extends the lifespan of the root.
635.
by creatonez 3y ago
> but useless by design because root certificates expire Should be noted that the new design (Android 14) is to allow certificate updates to be separate from operating system updates. Not sure if this is done via a standardized API or so
636.
by creatonez 3y ago
This idea is taken from the Esolangs wiki - https://esolangs.org/wiki/English
637.
by creatonez 3y ago
Basically, two researchers at the University of Minnesota decided to submit buggy patches of the Linux Kernel and see what happens. And then they published a study insulting the Linux kernel's process, instead of just raising the conce
638.
by creatonez 3y ago
> At best it would be a general purpose mobile device, but even that is rather contrived. How many users do you imagine are using a steam deck as a substitute for a desktop or a different mobile device? Is it contrived? They've show
639.
by creatonez 3y ago
I would. It's designed to be used as a desktop by plugging in a DisplayPort cable, hooking up a keyboard and mouse, and switching it to KDE desktop mode or installing Windows. This is a documented and officially supported feature, and
640.
by creatonez 3y ago
The last time someone tried to experiment on open source infrastructure to prove a useless point - https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22410164/linux-kernel-uni...
641.
by creatonez 3y ago
The point is to get to these functionality from a limited set of shell commands, not to get to this functionality from an arbitrary executable. > The author is making a security theater out of nothing for posing. Again, the author is not
642.
by creatonez 3y ago
I quite enjoy: Xenolinguist, Mindex, Voljum, TheBusiness, Maxfield, ToneVizion, Omnist, Josh Teed, Nyquist, EOS, Tripp St, Aleph, Lemondoza, kLL sMTH Most of these names are on Soundcloud and/or Bandcamp. It's Americanized electro
643.
by creatonez 3y ago
> It is important to note that this is not a list of exploits, and the programs listed here are not vulnerable per se, rather, GTFOBins is a compendium about how to live off the land when you only have certain binaries available.
644.
by creatonez 3y ago
I'm fairly certain this either just a joke egged on by the fact that there were suspicious comments right before the shutdown, or it's the more typical variety of ChatGPT spam account, where you grow an account with low-quality ac
645.
by creatonez 3y ago
> But even when I was still on Reddit I wouldn't touch this sub, it was nothing but people spamming links to their own blogs. I have bad news about Hacker News...
646.
by creatonez 3y ago
Wow, not the kinda thing you'd want to be so precarious. Really surprising that more thought wasn't put into this.
647.
by creatonez 3y ago
> Twitter is all about politics, current events, thought influencers, and work networking. This is a rather narrow view of what the site is used for. It's also about media, art, and live music -- things that overlap heavily with Ins
648.
The Mass Extinction Debates: A Science Communication Odyssey [2:11:42] [video](youtube.com)
1 points by creatonez 3y ago|0 comments
649.
by creatonez 3y ago
> It's actually not all that wrong. ChatGPT is a bit like the Snowden leaks - making the public aware of capabilities that have existed (and which have gone through generations of development) outside of the public eye for a long t
650.
by creatonez 3y ago
One alternative folks should consider for very basic hosting is the fly.io free tier. It's not a VPS, but a container platform. The reason it seems like a more stable option is that they interact with the community on their forums, inc
651.
by creatonez 3y ago
Strange -- they still advertise the 24 / 4 free offer on this page: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ I know folks who have done it quite recently. IIRC it's possible for the slider to have a lower ma
652.
by creatonez 3y ago
The limit is 8 GiB of RAM / 0.125x vCPU only for the x86-64 VPSes. The ARM VPSes are still overpowered. But you may have to wait a few weeks to get one, depending on the region. They get snatched up as soon as they become available.
653.
by creatonez 3y ago
The reason they are gaining traction among hobbyists is their enormously generous free tier, where you get a 4x vCPU / 24 GiB ARM Ampere VPS and get to keep it as long as there is traffic and CPU usage.
654.
by creatonez 3y ago
Note that while CentOS Stream is continuously integrated (in a way that may not be suitable for production), each patch is still thoroughly tested, using roughly the same testing procedure as RHEL. So it's a mischaracterization to call
655.
by creatonez 3y ago
> It also enables people to fix attribution mistakes within a reasonable time See also: https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-...
656.
by creatonez 3y ago
Do we just have to read their mind? It's not DMCAable in the first place, this is yet another bogus DMCA request.
657.
by creatonez 3y ago
If you ever end up in the distant future, go to Svalbard and look for the Arctic World Archive. They have microfilm copies of a huge amount of data. They have Wikipedia pages in microfilm format, so all you need is a magnifying glass to get
658.
I Bought the Most Comprehensive Atlas [video](youtube.com)
2 points by creatonez 3y ago|0 comments
659.
by creatonez 3y ago
Recently posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36486109
660.
by creatonez 3y ago
> RHEL is in there somewhere, even if a user has to pick specific commits for it. This is not true. There are Red Hat package versions that do not correspond to any commits in that repository. For example, if a package gets updated from

More ›