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   by frankjr 3y ago

   GDPR has only exposed the absolute spying / tracking / collecting shitshow that's the current web. If a website [0] shows me a list of hundreds of data brokers to which they will sell my data, I will just close the tab. [0] T
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   Locked and Loaded with New Cosmic DE Updates(blog.system76.com)

   109 points by frankjr 3y ago|28 comments
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   by frankjr 3y ago

   Fun fact: There are so many proposals aimed to tackle error handling ergonomics that it has its own label in the bug tracker. https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=+is%3Aissue+label%3Aer...
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   by frankjr 3y ago

   For context, this is a quote from Musk during an interview.
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   by frankjr 3y ago

   Office key = Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Win if you don't have a dedicated key for it on your keyboard. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/using-the-office-k...
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   by frankjr 3y ago

   > Why in the world would I ever not want the software I install to read files in the Desktop and Documents folders? It doesn’t make sense! Every now and then I'm reminded that different people have vastly different expectations. Of
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   by frankjr 3y ago

   I wanted to try it out just now but hit a roadblock immediately - it cannot automatically obtain and maintain TLS certificates. You have to use an external client (e.g. acme.sh), set up a cron to check/renew them, and poke HAProxy to r
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   How Much Rust in Firefox?(4e6.github.io)

   3 points by frankjr 3y ago|0 comments
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   by frankjr 3y ago

   curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"foo":"bar","baz":42}' https://httpbin.org/post xh https://httpbin.org/post foo=bar baz:=42
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    Check out xh - much easier to use than curl and faster than HTTPie. https://github.com/ducaale/xh
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    Is there similar effort from Apple?
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    > ...according to third-party data provided to Reuters How would a third-party know their financials?
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    You're right, TIL. https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/the-deal-jeff-bezos-got-on...
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    > they've never taken VC funding They have taken investment from Jeff Bezos decades ago. https://archive.ph/3v3QS
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    > Note that if you use 1.1.1.1, you apparently can't visit archive.is links. I'm not sure why, but around a dozen people on HN have confirmed this. (At least as of a couple months ago.) https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    Have a look at Eyra (or more specifically c-ward). https://github.com/sunfishcode/eyra/ https://github.com/sunfishcode/c-ward
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    dig returns "..failed to verify DS com.". I guess a problem with DNSSEC.
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    I cannot even resolve cloudflarestatus.com at this point...
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    "...the worst security problem found in curl in a long time."
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    > Can I open a bug report somewhere? https://issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=status:open
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    > When CEOs Are Paid for Bad Performance That's good news for Mitchell Baker (Mozilla CEO) who receives millions while Firefox usage has been dropping for years and has recently hit a new low ( https://data.firefox.com&#x2
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    So that we can go back to the Steam monopoly?
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    Me neither (both Monterey and Ventura sit on 0%). Maybe it depends on the items you have in there? I don't think I've ever made any changes.
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    I gave my answer a few years ago. The summary is that its query and update operations over documents are miles ahead of what PostgreSQL has to offer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23271085
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    Should have put an AirTag on it. I'm kidding. Maybe.
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    Better to link directly to [0], which lists a few cases from a long time ago, but overall the situation in the US looks pretty good. In the rest of the world however... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    It does apparently. > The article has been used by pro-Church politicians and activists on numerous occasions, whenever they felt their religious feelings had been offended in any way.
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    Here's the full transcript for those interested in the whole context and not just this cherry picked quote: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_218172.htm
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    On Monterey you can go to System Preferences -> Battery -> Battery -> Optimised battery charging and disable it.
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    by frankjr 3y ago

    Incorrect memory management leads to memory safety issues. That's what those words mean. You manage the memory, you get it wrong, you have a potentially exploitable memory safety issue. It sounds like you're just playing with word