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by kevincox 3y ago
Yeah, usually it is just your user account: https://xkcd.com/1200/
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by kevincox 3y ago
Tools like wget or curl often do not. And the shell doesn't when doing something like `curl ... >myscript.sh`.
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by kevincox 3y ago
99% of the time you are downloading from a domain that you do trust. This check is to detect corruption, not malice. But yes, if you were downloading from an untrusted mirror you would want to check the signature or trusted hash before runn
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by kevincox 3y ago
This doesn't work for something like `curl ... | sh`
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by kevincox 3y ago
Yeah, I was going to say an alternate title: "Google returning low quality results for many searches."
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by kevincox 3y ago
One minor tip is that you can define .PHONY multiple times. I find this much easier to manage because the .PHONY definition is right next to the target itself. .PHONY: foo foo: echo foo bar: barin cp barin bar
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by kevincox 3y ago
They do. https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/setup/#1111-for-fa... https://nextdns.io/
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by kevincox 3y ago
The problem is that the browser knows that myups.com is not ups.com. But it doesn't know that you don't have an account at myups.com and think you are logging into ups.com. The best solution to this is using your browsers built-in
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by kevincox 3y ago
I wonder if it would have helped to sort URLs in order of importance. For example com.microsoft.login/reset-password. Then the rule is "does it start with `com.microsoft.`" It would still require people reading URLs and only
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by kevincox 3y ago
https://f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_Builds/ I think Signal also does this for their Android app. I'm not sure of much else in this space.
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by kevincox 3y ago
Although IIUC you must use their nameservers if you use their registrar.
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by kevincox 3y ago
Looking at the logs from my reader service I see mostly 404s from YouTube from 2024-04-27 21:35 to 2024-04-28 07:00 UTC. There was also a 2h period in the middle with mostly 200s and a few 500s. This is only based on a few-hundred requests
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by kevincox 3y ago
This is exactly the problem. I think there is very dangerous gap between cruise control (just controlling the speed) and full self driving (the real thing, not the Tesla marketing). I don't know what the exact line is (automatically ke
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by kevincox 3y ago
Or they force you to stow it with the checked luggage and you now need to wait at the luggage carrousel after the flight rather than just waking out.
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by kevincox 3y ago
It is surprisingly rare. I remember working at Google even on documents targeted towards engineers many people were confused by a mailto.
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by kevincox 3y ago
I agree. I have lots of projects that work very well but definitely need some UX work. Often times even features that are implemented but not exposed because I don't know how to make the UX work. Designs or a frontend developer would b
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by kevincox 3y ago
PINs and passwords on HSM keys like this are typically very secure as they will wipe themselves or at least lock themselves after a small number of failed attempts. For example if you only allow 5 failed attempts a 4 digit random PIN has a
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by kevincox 3y ago
I've long wondered if there was a place for a httpv mode. Where traffic is signed but not encrypted. This would allow local caching or torrent-like distributed fetching but not modification. The obvious downside is that the page conten
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by kevincox 3y ago
I also wrote something like this and came up with something similar to yours: https://kevincox.ca/2023/03/21/lying-to-typescript/#summary However I just inlined the "tag". Also like yours but u
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by kevincox 3y ago
> finality which is 6 blocks There isn't such thing as "finality" in bitcoin right? The probability of another chain growing longer just dramatically shrinks each extra block mined (as most of the mining power will quickly
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by kevincox 3y ago
And that isn't even getting to XMLHttpRequest.
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by kevincox 3y ago
> Ghost self-hosted is an example of this I don't know how configurable Ghost is but I suspect you will still have some problems if they introduce features that you don't like. You may be able to lag for a few versions but even
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by kevincox 3y ago
The best part of idlerpg was that if you disconnected or heaven's forbid accidentally typed something into the channel you would be punished. So it became a game of bouncer stability and remembering not to leave that channel focused.
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by kevincox 3y ago
I think it is now configurable by the moderators of each subreddit.
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by kevincox 3y ago
Or is your average email client? Many of these support modern HTML with scripting and remote content disabled.
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by kevincox 3y ago
It's fine, just run ./configure before compiling.
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by kevincox 3y ago
Also whatever you do don't break the receiver pathway! Otherwise you will need to send a technician on-site.
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by kevincox 3y ago
Can you run any secure browser on it?
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by kevincox 3y ago
Actually I can zoom in little, but not out. Maybe there is no zoom out?
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by kevincox 3y ago
Firefox on desktop Linux 2k monitor with 22px font size.

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