jamespwilliams

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by jamespwilliams 3y ago
> I can be confident that a Perl script I write today will run unaltered 10 years from now, modulo external collaborators. Yeah, because the ecosystem is dead. The flipside is that the bulk of Perl modules available are stale and don&#x2
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by jamespwilliams 3y ago
https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status is 502ing and 504ing for me
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Phishing attacks already using the .zip TLD(news.netcraft.com)
2 points by jamespwilliams 3y ago|0 comments
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by jamespwilliams 3y ago
Translations are derivative works ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work , https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf ) and in most countries the copyright holder of the original work must
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Using a private 5G network to support coverage of the King's Coronation(bbc.co.uk)
17 points by jamespwilliams 3y ago|1 comments
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by jamespwilliams 3y ago
It’d be pretty trivial to do this yourself though, shell history files are very simple
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Playing devil's advocate on claims made in VPN adverts(jameswillia.ms)
2 points by jamespwilliams 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Nde: a Neovim IDE layer you can instantiate in one Nix command(github.com)
1 points by jamespwilliams 3y ago|0 comments
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A Research-Oriented Top Sites Ranking Hardened Against Manipulation(tranco-list.eu)
5 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|0 comments
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Anatomy of the Eicar Antivirus Test File(blog.nintechnet.com)
3 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|1 comments
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
We don’t actually know what “thinking” is, though, so I’m not sure it’s possible to say “this model can’t think”.
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
This is probably a tokenisation problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33915287 (which is an artefact of the way the model was trained)
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LinusTechTips YouTube channels hacked to promote cryptoscams(news.netcraft.com)
5 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|0 comments
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Cybercriminals capitalize on Silicon Valley Bank's demise(news.netcraft.com)
1 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|0 comments
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TreeTalk London – Tree Map(treetalk.co.uk)
143 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|40 comments
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
https://github.com/jamespwilliams/nde Project description: If you like (neo)vim and Nix, you might find this interesting: it’s a Nix-based Neovim development shell supporting a bunch of languages (with more to come!).
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
Email falls at the very first hurdle presented in the article (“No privacy whatsoever” applies just as well to email as it does to SMS).
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Kinect: The Dark Age of Xbox(youtube.com)
3 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|0 comments
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
One reason among many: less keyboard<->mouse hand movements -> less strain on your hands and wrists. Vscode has decent vim bindings btw.
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
https://signalsandthreads.com/programmable-hardware/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1cgRXhpQLY are worth a listen if you’re interested in hardcaml (they’re both with the author of this article) -
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
Yes they are and they explicitly say as much: > we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter Your quote is referring to c
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
Reminds me of https://twitter.com/xgphilosophy/status/1604202292139491328 that I saw this morning
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
Perhaps pushing the definition of a *nix command slightly, but I’d be interested in the performance of https://sgrep.sourceforge.net/
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
Go Time is good (if you like Go, obviously) (I’d also recommend Security Cryptography Whatever and Signals & Threads, but they’ve already been mentioned)
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
* Built in locking (so you don't need to worry about two instances of your cron running at the same time) * Built in functionality for telling when the cron last ran, and whether it was successful or not (so you can do alerting) * Abil
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ChatGPT, Rot13, and Daniel Kahneman(jameswillia.ms)
320 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|204 comments
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
My mistake, I misread “Removal/distrust” in the timeline of https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Symantec_Issues as meaning removal from the trust store. I can’t edit my comment now, but hopefully your correction here gets
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33877290
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
Even when Mozilla does fully remove stuff from their root store, in some cases it has taken distros a year+ to ship the updated version Not to mention stuff like this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ca-c
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
I agree, and say roughly this in the article: > I guess cryptic crosswords fall into the (surprisingly small) category of things that ChatGPT just isn’t very good at!

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