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by kevincox 5mo ago
That sounds like way less of a problem than science. If you take bad sources you hurt yourself financially. For science (especially anything medicine related) you can hurt many others physically.
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by kevincox 5mo ago
Yes, these are the most clearly corrupt laws that exist. It is like outlawing hammers because you may hit someone with it. It is just giving up freedom for the benefit of a few fortune 500 companies.
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by kevincox 5mo ago
If any security relevant file from the host is mounted into the container this could be exploited quite easily. It is definitely a viable tool for escaping containers but it would require a bit of an attack chain and some containers may not
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by kevincox 5mo ago
I find models of this size (not tested this one specifically) at being very good at simple data extraction from user input. Think about things like parsing date and time of an event from a description or parsing a human-typed description of
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by kevincox 5mo ago
I'm using LineageOS (which I assume is basically just ASOP) and the automatic brightness is great. I almost never touch it after about a week with the phone. I think it does some sort of basic learning. IDK if Samgsung did something wo
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by kevincox 5mo ago
Kind of. It is now really just a caching proxy making it mostly useless. Although I have found it occasionally useful for sites that have over-active bot-blocking on their feeds because Feedburner is often whitelisted.
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by kevincox 5mo ago
That's a good point. Podcasts are still (almost?) exclusively RSS 2.0. IDK if this is just momentum or Apple rules but I don't think I've ever seen an Atom podcast. But many podcast clients actually still support Atom (probab
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by kevincox 5mo ago
The channel pages still have auto-discovery links. So if you paste a channel URL into your feed reader it should find the feed easily.
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by kevincox 5mo ago
Nah, they are both unacceptable spam. Don't put words in my mouth and don't hijack my communication for marketing.
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by kevincox 5mo ago
Thanks for the link. Good to know that they are at least signed by a key. But I really like my software not changing on me at all. I'd rather have all of the modules I need locally and static. Also creates fun situations like getting o
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by kevincox 5mo ago
It seems that DuckDB by default downloads and runs extensions at runtime when you use certain features? This seems unnecessarily risky. https://duckdb.org/docs/current/extensions/overview#autoload... I would
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by kevincox 5mo ago
It can't be legal that they randomly charge extra usage with no user consent.
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by kevincox 6mo ago
Yeah, it would have been a great job for an LLM. Although if you find something in the history you then need to make the annoying choice of history rewriting or just leaving it in.
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by kevincox 6mo ago
As someone who released the source of an app that was always expected to be public I appreciate that it would be interesting but I'm not surprised. If the code isn't being regularly published there is just less incentive to be sur
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by kevincox 6mo ago
The author seems to believe that dereferencing a null pointer is safe. DoS attacks aside dereferencing a null pointer in C++ is undefined behavior so you never know what could happen. It could easily result in bypassing seemingly unrelated
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by kevincox 6mo ago
This happens all of the time. It usually comes back in a few hours. But it has been very unreliable for the last week or two.
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by kevincox 6mo ago
Not only on by default, it also isn't possible to disable it seems. It's forced on (other than enterprise it seems)
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by kevincox 6mo ago
It is an interesting comparison that JavaScript always ensures that different evaluations of a closure expression results in unique instances. So in general the closures will require allocations for each (unless the allocation is otherwise
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by kevincox 6mo ago
That's ridiculous. I use Git for tons of personal projects.
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by kevincox 6mo ago
Why? They were promised web access. They should be able to use web access. Does the marketing say "web access for restores until 1TB" or similar?
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by kevincox 6mo ago
It's possible but this seems to be quite rare. In my experience it is always just that they think a div with an onclick handler is the same thing as a link.
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by kevincox 6mo ago
That is a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. There are infinite places to put command and control data.
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by kevincox 6mo ago
This is why you need both. Icons are faster to recognize, but words tell you what the icons need. So you need the words at first to discover the icons, then the icons serve as valuable tools for scanning and quickly locating the click targe
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by kevincox 6mo ago
> and have not read their own enormously detailed (and excellent) Human Interface Guidelines tomes This seems to also apply to all new UIs produced by apple in the last 5 years.
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by kevincox 6mo ago
I've also been like this. But if as the article suggests trivial options like HTML entities or elements with display:none will keep my email out of >90% of harvesters I'm reconsidering as they seem to have no downside other tha
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Google Cloud: Investing in the Future of PostgreSQL(opensource.googleblog.com)
34 points by kevincox 6mo ago|8 comments
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by kevincox 6mo ago
No browsers support streaming parsing of XHTML so you are slowing down pageloads. Especially for longer pages. Also the ecosystem is really not there for XHTML, it never really took off. In practice it is close enough to HTML that it probab
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by kevincox 6mo ago
> To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. > - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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by kevincox 7mo ago
Certificate pinning can be useful, especially in particularly sensitive areas. But I wouldn't expect it as a standard security practice. If anything I appreciate that it isn't done so that reverse engineers can thoroughly study th
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by kevincox 7mo ago
That's a good point. They are very similar. I guess the sentinel design in theory doesn't need to synchronize at all as long as there is a decent buffer between them. But the cached design synchronizes less commonly the more space

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