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631.
GitHub's Copilot lies about its documentation. Why would I trust it with my code(shkspr.mobi)
36 points by edent 2y ago|77 comments
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New release for rTorrent after 5 years(github.com)
1 points by edent 2y ago|0 comments
633.
by edent 2y ago
Really enjoyable. Only after my 1024 piece got captured did I see the undo button. Managed a score of 6,000 ish. What a nifty twist on a couple of old games.
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by edent 2y ago
I tried doing this when I worked in the UK government. It is a surprisingly hard problem. Firstly, lots of OSS doesn't have a well defined owner. So who gets the money? Do they actually want to take money from the "big bad state&q
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by edent 2y ago
Good points! Pull requests very welcome.
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by edent 2y ago
As an alternative, I run SuperTinyIcons. They're all full colour and each icon is guaranteed to be under 1KB. https://github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons
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Using YouTube to steal your files(lyra.horse)
3 points by edent 2y ago|0 comments
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HTTP: , FTP:, and Dict:?(shkspr.mobi)
425 points by edent 2y ago|124 comments
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Plant mimics leaves of an artificial plastic host plant(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by edent 2y ago|0 comments
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Neither Elon Musk nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars(defector.com)
15 points by edent 2y ago|2 comments
641.
by edent 2y ago
There's lots of good ones at https://css-pattern.com/
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Trunk and Tidbits(blog.joinmastodon.org)
2 points by edent 2y ago|0 comments
643.
by edent 2y ago
Which ones specifically?
644.
by edent 2y ago
Thanks! I'll stick your cheque in the post.
645.
by edent 2y ago
This isn't a modern problem. Shakespeare was paid handsomely by the Crown - hence his somewhat hagiographic biographies. You will never find writing which is free from bias and influence. You can either make peace with that and find wa
646.
by edent 2y ago
I can exclusively reveal that I have received several t-shirts from Hacktoberfest. Indeed, I'm wearing one right now. My laptop also has many of their stickers. They didn't pay me to write this blog though. Of course, you have no
647.
Please stop inventing new software licences (2020)(shkspr.mobi)
133 points by edent 2y ago|172 comments
648.
by edent 2y ago
Obama was calling for 2FA back in 2016. https://www.wsj.com/articles/protecting-u-s-innovation-from-... > we’re launching a new national awareness campaign to raise awareness of cyberthreats and encourage more Ameri
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by edent 2y ago
Or they're like the 3D TV screen. Something revolutionary and awesome which eventually fades into irrelevance.
650.
by edent 2y ago
One thing I found fascinating about Vula was how the lack of usability of the system was its downfall. You had highly committed activists, fighting for freedom, up against a murderous regime - and yet they still failed to use the system pro
651.
Five Geek Social Fallacies (2003)(plausiblydeniable.com)
38 points by edent 2y ago|13 comments
652.
Elite Anaglyph 3D(universeodon.com)
1 points by edent 2y ago|0 comments
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Some Thoughts on the Yubikey Eucleak Vulnerability(shkspr.mobi)
1 points by edent 2y ago|0 comments
654.
by edent 2y ago
Because lots of AI firms literally pirated books to train their model. See https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/fruit-of-the-poisonous-llam... Neither the authors nor publishers received any compensation for hav
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by edent 2y ago
As per https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/yubikeys-are-vulner... An attacker not only needs your username and password, they also need physical access to your key. They then have to disassemble the devi
656.
by edent 2y ago
Because they are convicted criminals. This isn't a case of showing photographs of suspects. They've all pled guilty. Showing their faces accomplishes three main things. 1. It disambiguates them from people who share their names. Y
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by edent 2y ago
There is. The problem is that automatically attached alt-text isn't particularly useful. You don't know what the intention is of an image. Is it of a banana? A specific banana? The sticker on the banana? https://shksp
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by edent 2y ago
I use FF on Android and Linux. I've restricted cookies and use an ad-blocker. I browse many popular (and unpopular) websites. I can't remember the last one which refused to work because I was on Firefox.
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by edent 2y ago
Thanks!
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What programming language is in this <code> block?(shkspr.mobi)
7 points by edent 2y ago|2 comments

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