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by csande17 2y ago
Isn't the point of the "masked load" instruction discussed in the article to avoid that? https://stackoverflow.com/a/54530225
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by csande17 2y ago
From the article: > Some ISPs provide a combined router/modem. It can be beneficial for security to purchase a separate router and set your ISP router/modem into modem-only mode. This way, even when your ISP-provided router is
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by csande17 2y ago
Apple has a very short list of allowed browsers that does not include any Android browser, any Linux browser, or Firefox on any platform: https://support.apple.com/120585 If you try to access Apple Maps on an unsupported br
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by csande17 2y ago
IMO one of the biggest issues with the Passkey spec is that it doesn't provide a way to automatically rotate credentials. The entire security model relies on Apple/Google/[insert name of nonprofit they end up allowing through
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by csande17 2y ago
Don't worry, the passkey defenders have a perfectly good explanation for this. They'll tell you all about it just as soon as you email them privately to set up a phone call.
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by csande17 2y ago
The site includes "maximum-scale=1.0" in its viewport meta tag, which prevents zooming. Funnily enough, the website doesn't actually recommend doing that anywhere in its text.
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by csande17 2y ago
If you do want to ensure the file is interpreted as UTF-8 regardless of HTTP headers, the most efficient way is to place a U+FEFF "byte order mark" character (EF BB BF when encoded as UTF-8) at the start of the file. It's sho
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by csande17 2y ago
According to the article, Valve is in fact currently maintaining all those features with a team of ~80 people. So this is a good opportunity to improve your understanding of the number of people it takes to maintain software. One thing Valv
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by csande17 2y ago
For what it's worth, Girls Who Code -- an organization more directly focused on improving the "pipeline" through training programs aimed at K-12 and college students -- seems to be thriving, with over $20M in donations from
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by csande17 2y ago
The New York Times never used Svelte for their main website code AFAIK. Instead, it's used for one-off interactive graphics within individual articles. (The article touches on this when they discuss how React 18 hydration changes broke
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by csande17 2y ago
O'Reilly has had a subscription platform for technical books for a long time now. Used to be called "Safari Books Online", now it's "O'Reilly Online Learning". It's become a pretty standard benefit fo
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by csande17 2y ago
Mozilla's all-in on AI too, so it's only a matter of time until Firefox gets this: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/ai...
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by csande17 2y ago
For a while, bookmarks were demoted in favor of Collections, a jankier version of bookmarks that didn't sync properly to desktop and included a button to open all of them at once in multiple tabs. Collections are still there, but they&
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by csande17 2y ago
Try "=((0.1+0.2)-0.3)*1e80" -- your test can be fooled by pretty standard rounding for display.
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by csande17 2y ago
You can use some gambling products as insurance, but insurance products are designed so you cannot use them as gambling. At least in terms of products sold broadly to the general public, which is the main situation where people worry about
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by csande17 2y ago
Not a lawyer, but I believe the relevant Canadian law is https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-42/page-12.html#h... . In practice, though, the real source of this stuff is the WIPO Copyright Treaty, whe
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by csande17 2y ago
The GitHub repo linked from the page is owned by an individual (not any kind of structured NGO that would be eligible for this), and they set the location field on their GitHub profile to "NanJing,China" (suggesting that they are
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by csande17 2y ago
Couldn't this particular issue have been discovered just as easily by visiting a bunch of websites in a lab, rather than collecting website performance data from end users?
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by csande17 2y ago
Don't you have to be a Non-Government Organization, outside China[1], to be eligible for a .ong domain name? [1] According to https://www.godaddy.com/help/about-ong-domains-41384
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by csande17 2y ago
I like to think they just aren't installing any RAM in the servers and running all the databases out of L3 cache
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by csande17 2y ago
According to https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-postgresql the instances they're using for this tier have zero bytes of RAM, so presumably that's where they're getting most of their cost savings f
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by csande17 2y ago
I'm really hoping this string of "open source project goes proprietary" news stories are helping people see the value of licenses like the GPL, which do prevent you from releasing future contributions under a different lice
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by csande17 2y ago
> it is 100% about not having to call it "redpanda x" It sounds frivolous, but these kinds of trademark shenanigans are a pretty big deal IMO. Mozilla's trademark policies already push the boundaries of what's accepta
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by csande17 2y ago
This only really works if the contributions were made under a copyleft license like GPL. With MIT, it's perfectly allowed to rugpull like this so long as you bury the original copyright line/disclaimer/etc somewhere in your a
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by csande17 2y ago
> that's almost the perfect task where AI can do both ends. [..] Which is pretty much a sign that assessments such as this have low educational impact. This seems like a bit too far of a leap. When teaching math, we want students to
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by csande17 2y ago
The author also ships software on the Mac App Store that includes an option to sync settings via iCloud. Presumably they test it on their main user account to catch all the weird iCloud bugs that only occur if you use it frequently.
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by csande17 2y ago
This sounds a lot like IPFS's strategy regarding anonymity, and AFAIK it resulted in basically no one being able to use IPFS anonymously. When anonymity requires building your own separate sub-community and maintaining your own custom
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by csande17 2y ago
And besides, it's not a fair comparison, because AWS will give you a secret cheaper price if you commit to renting at least ten thousand IP addresses for the next decade.
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by csande17 2y ago
It's funny that Google cites a Hacker News comment about ChatGPT falsely claiming no African country starts with the letter K: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37145312 It seems we've constructed an AI ourob
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by csande17 2y ago
"Rot economists" appears to be a pejorative invented by this newsletter to describe an ecosystem of graphs-go-up growth-at-all-costs venture capital firms, management consultants, and corporate leaders who are pushing companies aw

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