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by crimsontech 1y ago
> Was it worth it? Yes, it is terrible, shoddy, insecure code, but he proved out a viable business with just a few hundred dollars of investment. Was it worth it to put all his customers at risk like that? He is honestly lucky, the &quot
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by crimsontech 1y ago
I'm making a personal app to help me visualise time passing. I get "time blind" when I'm fixated on something like work, programming, reading, research, etc. While it can be a good thing, it also means I forget to eat, d
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by crimsontech 1y ago
These apps were recently found to be collectind a huge amount of personal browsing data from the device, regardless of whether private browser mode was used or permission settings. https://localmess.github.io/ This techniqu
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by crimsontech 1y ago
Unhook and Channel Block also make my youtube experience much better. I did pay for Premium at one point but they kept pushing "features" that couldn't be disabled, I provided feedback, but I imagine it goes nowhere, so I sto
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by crimsontech 1y ago
Can you recommend any good alternatives for someone looking to learn programming using windows APIs?
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Optimizing PPPoE Performance in PfSense Software(netgate.com)
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by crimsontech 2y ago
I really want to find a good solution for this. I used to use low powered devices like Intel NUCs but ended up with a bunch of them so my employer bought me a workstation, it makes so much noise in my office that I barely turn it on so I&#x
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by crimsontech 2y ago
I've mostly dropped it, I have a couple of windows machines for dev stuff but I really don't enjoy using the OS, each time I log in there is a new annoyance. If I got to a point where I couldn't use it without a Microsoft acc
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by crimsontech 2y ago
But from their internal position they fully compromised the system used for wiretapping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_telecommuni...
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by crimsontech 2y ago
I suspect a lot of that data is from job advertisements which go unfilled so they keep getting reposted.
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by crimsontech 2y ago
I always wonder, as it is known these software issues caused phantom losses for postmasters, was there also a number of phantom gains? I would find it difficult to believe that these wouldn't have been reported by at least most of the
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by crimsontech 2y ago
I got one but ended up returning it. My use case was for reading technical books, PDFs and taking notes. I went back to using an iPad when I realised the scribe was heavier. I read normal books on the kindle, PDFs on the iPad.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
> That's why there's no way to drag the taskbar around -- because Apple OSX doesn't allow this either. It does though. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp1119/mac
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by crimsontech 3y ago
> So that's Apple products for you. Makes you wonder why they are so popular if this is the average user experience right?
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by crimsontech 3y ago
Isn’t it used in MS Teams, Slack and other messaging and chat apps? I expected they had some kind of API and deal with these companies.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
I had my first daughter when I was 20 and grew up very quickly, I can distinctly remember it hitting me like a bus that I was now wholly responsible for a human. She is an adult now and I couldn’t be any prouder of all she has achieved in l
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by crimsontech 3y ago
Odd, I just tried it and it still works normally for me. I say “Siri” and the device says “uh huh?”
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by crimsontech 3y ago
Sorry I should have mentioned that in the post. I’m in the UK, so National Health Service.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
At the age of 45 I had never had an HbA1c test. I found out I had T2 diabetes from getting a CGM as part of a health study I applied for, and seeing my blood glucose was at 22mmol (it should be under 10). I ordered a finger prick test kit f
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by crimsontech 3y ago
I tried different tapes, Kinesiology tape didn’t stick for me but Hypafix did, I can’t get this stuff off without soaking it. If you ever want to give it another go, try Hypafix. I tore my skin the first time and quickly learned to soak it
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by crimsontech 3y ago
I did it for fun about a year ago and found out I had T2 diabetes. I was shocked but obviously glad I found out. I use them from time to time just to see how I’m doing and how different foods (and amounts of them) impact me. I found I can c
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by crimsontech 3y ago
Wow I had no idea this was on YouTube. This book is the one I always recommended for someone getting started in security.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
Here are few big ones from the past 12 months. https://www.wiz.io/blog/bingbang https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792371/security-breach-... https://www.wiz.io/bl
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by crimsontech 3y ago
How is it user-hostile to obfuscate your source code? It doesn’t change the user experience, just makes it more difficult to reverse engineer which would be against the EULA anyway.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
This is also built in to macOS and iOS now too. Such a handy feature that I find myself using a lot.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
If I’m on a call on my computer I can get up and make coffee without leaving the call. If my phone rings I don’t need to switch headphones, they switch devices automatically. I have high quality headphones and IEMs, the headphones I use if
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by crimsontech 3y ago
It causes fringing around letters and stops things looking as sharp, which sort of defeats the point of having a 5k display for a lot of people.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
I took it to mean people using it when they don’t have ADHD.
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by crimsontech 3y ago
On a parcel tracking web app there was a “GPT” button next to the courier service so I clicked it and saw a very GPT like description of the courier company. When I inspected the code for the site I saw it was just hard coded in to the web
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by crimsontech 3y ago
How is this silver spoon? I grew up in poverty and my mum taught me to real (and learned herself at the same time) before I started school. She did this so I wouldn’t suffer through school like she did. I taught my daughter to read and writ

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