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by girst 7y ago
Are these results surprising? Probably not. But does that mean we shouldn't talk about them? Because that's what (a portion of) this comment section seems to think.
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by girst 7y ago
> Since my adblocker is blocking the guce.advertising.com domain, I guess I don't get to visit TechCrunch. Same here. I usually 'proxy' through the Internet Archive in these situations: https://web.archive.org&#
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by girst 7y ago
Yes, the phrasing "secure/insecure" is an abbreviation that loses a lot of meaning, but to dismiss TLS based on that seems dishonest. Even if you don't care about your user's privacy, don't you at least want th
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by girst 7y ago
thanks. ~~i retract the part about srpms, then.~~ to my defense: the repository i looked at (and that is linked to in the documentation, afair) is ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors and there, issue #4 is still unresolved. EDIT: on second look,
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by girst 7y ago
I had a short look at compiling their Desktop Editors. Not only do they not provide any build instructions, but a ticket for it has been unanswered for years. Since they provide binary rpms but no srpms/spec files (which would not only
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by girst 7y ago
I am btw still maintaining VimFx[1], and you can run it in current versions of Firefox with a shim[2]. [1]: https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/vimfx/releases [2]: https://github.com/girst/legacy
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by girst 7y ago
and yet another (fedora's): of 3414 packages total: - 3122 Python 3 only - 88 Dual support - 8 Py2 leaf (standalone packages; may be dropped) - 77 Not ported (will be dropped unless ported) - 100 Blocked (require 1 or more "not po
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by girst 7y ago
the cynic in me says: why risk legal issues, however small they may or may not be, when doing literally nothing sidesteps that issue? if only 1 user thinks of suing you, legal gets involved, maybe even external attorneys. also, who will pay
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by girst 7y ago
looks like the Archive Team is on it: https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups
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by girst 7y ago
https://lobste.rs has downvote explanations[1]: when you want to vote a post/comment down, you're required to state why (pick from a list). Since the user can see why they're downvoted, misuse hardly an issue. I t
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by girst 7y ago
# Observed spamming large amounts of https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=NNNNNN # and ignoring 429 ratelimit responses, claims to respect robots: # http://mj12bot.com/ User-agent: MJ12bot Dis
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by girst 7y ago
My distribution packages regular Firefox, but not the Developer Edition (or ESR). This is a showstopper for me.
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by girst 7y ago
You may want to keep an eye on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1514451 -- mozilla wants to remove general.config.sandbox_enabled (again) in the future.
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by girst 7y ago
Does anyone know if the original (pre-2015) source code of the wiki software is available anywhere? It once was at [1], but that link has long gone. [2] still links to it. [1]: http://c2.com/cgi/hp?WikiInHyperPerl [2]:
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by girst 7y ago
half a year isn't /that/ long. I do wish for you to succeed, so I'll keep my fingers crossed! ;-)
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by girst 7y ago
This looks really neat! Seems perfect for those set-and-forget, single purpose type websites. Maybe I'll move https://xkcd.wtf over to you! The only question is: how long will you be able to run this? There have been so man
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by girst 8y ago
Then you probably bought your SIM before 2019-01-01. Old SIM cards will have to be registered until September or they must be deactivated.
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by girst 8y ago
It's not just about "raw" speed, but also about how much mental time you spend thinking about your setup. even if you didn't know about zgrep already, that's at most minutes of thinking ahead vs. potential hours or
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by girst 8y ago
You can actually get a lot just from grep (well, zgrep, which searches compressed files) zgrep -A '@\[^.]\+\.ch' /path/to/collections/**/*.gz will spit out (almost) all swiss email addresses. spri
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by girst 8y ago
the thread about this in the kernel mailing list: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190305145717.GD8256@zn.tnic/
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by girst 8y ago
well, they're protecting their revenue stream.
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by girst 8y ago
If you leave your keys in your front door and get robbed, your insurance will laugh you out the window when you try to file a claim. Surprised I had to explain this, though.
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by girst 8y ago
To me, this looks like a solution looking for a problem, especially when the author talks about all the workarounds that become necessary just to get back to square one. It also switches up the pyriamid of reliability[1]. [1]: &#x
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by girst 8y ago
well, the NN knows the cat is there, a simple `if` then 'knows' what the cat wants. nonetheless, nice hack!
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by girst 8y ago
Only half? I'd expected them to nearly all use ssl by now. C'mon, phishers, it's free! ;-)
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by girst 8y ago
well, the three proposals are from the same group of people. they probably are reactions to feedback from the unicode technical commitee[0]. I've looked into the utc meeting notes, but those don't really contain much info[1]. [0]:
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by girst 8y ago
There is a proposal to add them to Unicode, but the process takes a while (and its the third proposal since 2017): https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18275r-terminals-prop-no-at...
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by girst 8y ago
Also from Tom Scott: "I know what you did five minutes ago" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYVBshcN7wU
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by girst 9y ago
Thanks!
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by girst 9y ago
Hi, author here. Feel free to ask questions!

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