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by joeyh 3y ago
A backdoored xz could also run payloads hidden inside other xz files, allowing targeted attacks.
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by joeyh 3y ago
Tea is from the same person who was using AI generated descriptions in their package manager the other day. Probably best to put your old grift to bed before starting your new one?
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by joeyh 3y ago
- debhelper: 1997-present - dh: 2008-present Building something on top of dh at this point, like dh was built on debhelper, does not seem to justify your rant. But what do I know?
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Meta in Myanmar, Part III. The Inside View(erinkissane.com)
212 points by joeyh 3y ago|106 comments
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by joeyh 3y ago
I've never used multiple monitors. I've also never talked about that fact, because why would I? Only people who use multiple monitors have reason to talk about them, so discussion is biased in favor of seeming like people use them
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by joeyh 3y ago
This is a pretty good post. The weak part of it to me is that I have never felt pushed to use any particular new fancy type stuff if I don't want to. Don't want servant's type-level http apis? Drop down a level and use warp.
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by joeyh 3y ago
https://chaos.social/@jaseg/110781307230828144
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by joeyh 3y ago
Set safe.bareRepository = explicit.
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The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down(guix.gnu.org)
13 points by joeyh 3y ago|1 comments
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by joeyh 4y ago
Mastodon is conveniently also AGPL...
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by joeyh 4y ago
To the extent of claiming that "GitHub Copilot is already writing 46% of code". It smacks of desperation to lie so baldly with statistics.
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by joeyh 4y ago
Again with the gratiuitous title changes eh HN?
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by joeyh 4y ago
They would hop on a p2p or federated social network in a heartbeat if it were the only option. The fact that the CDA and 230 have tilted the internet away from those, by propping up currently large businesses does not mean that's the o
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by joeyh 4y ago
Interesting discussion about this flag on mastodon: https://mastodon.cloud/@timbray/109414415306474691
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by joeyh 4y ago
Will need an update to IEC 80000-13 won't it? Or does the standard define a formula to derive the names from the metric prefixes?
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by joeyh 4y ago
I have never given paypal my phone number, and can still log in with password. (This August it would refuse to let me finish logging in without setting up a phone number. I discovered that getting a friend to send me a paypal requst for $1
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by joeyh 4y ago
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjk3wb/facebook-engineers-ad...
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by joeyh 4y ago
That explains why it was added to git/contrib. It seems to have moved out of contrib with essentially no discussion. The original commit adding it to contrib anticipated moving parts of it into git proper: For example, we previou
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by joeyh 4y ago
The performance of this might be useful for a few things. The correctness seems more generally useful. The first two things I looked at that currently use vfork both go on to do things that are unsafe (according to the information in this t
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by joeyh 4y ago
One thing that the library could do is store the cookies of their patrons, and restore those next time they use a library computer. This would avoid the most common case of the problem. I suspect this is the only feasible solution; Google i
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by joeyh 4y ago
The actual title is not the inspid word soup deposited atop this thread.
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by joeyh 4y ago
He did travel, to Poland and Hungary. The AP originally had an article claiming no travel, but later updated it. Vincent Racaniello covers this and other details, recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-5KGHzHTsI
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by joeyh 4y ago
You can approximately half the power consumption by eliminating starlink's wifi router and using a DC POE injector to power the square terminal. I have not done it yet but have seen others report ~30 watts.
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by joeyh 4y ago
Github has carefully nurtured this culture of centralization. It's a marvel of our times.
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by joeyh 5y ago
I have cookies blocked from nyt and it crashes on load when it fails to set a cookie, resulting in a white screen.
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by joeyh 5y ago
There were maybe 100 million years after the big bang with no star formation. Darkness. Here's a page about that era as it relates to Webb: https://webb.nasa.gov/content/science/firstLight.html
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by joeyh 5y ago
Nothing in the APL requires he transfer the git repos to them. If they own the license, he needs to update the license and copyright statements to match reality, maybe send them a courtesy copy in a tarball or whatever. That's all. Cop
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by joeyh 5y ago
I have an 19 year old one, and my mechanic offered to buy it yesterday (after fixing a suspension torn up by essentially offroading in it, third repair it's ever needed in 180k miles), because he needed a car with good gas mileage.
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by joeyh 5y ago
I have a simple rule for people who close my bug reports this way: No further bug reports.
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by joeyh 5y ago
I've done this at conferences for years†, hotel room track is great to catch a talk when you need to recharge your extraversion battery. †FLOSS conferences having been generally well ahead of mainstream on streaming.

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