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by kijin 8mo ago
Finally, we can create splash screen animations in pure CSS!
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by kijin 8mo ago
That's not enough. As the article explains, SVGs can reference external resources. So you also need to prefetch those external resources, recursively, if you want to be thorough.
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by kijin 8mo ago
Regardless of your use case, EXPLAIN ANALYZE can show you whether there's any room for improvement.
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by kijin 8mo ago
Judging from GP's description of how extension IDs work in Firefox, I wouldn't be surprised if LinkedIn were trying to brute-force those UUIDs!
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by kijin 8mo ago
MySQL actually has a BLACKHOLE storage engine designed specifically for universe-scale data storage for those who don't care about persistence.
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by kijin 8mo ago
In a typical CRUD web app, any query that takes milliseconds instead of microseconds should be viewed with suspicion. In a more charitable interpretation, maybe the parent is talking about sub-100ms total round trip time for an API call ove
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by kijin 8mo ago
It's a testing box, sure, but a lot of people have the same setting, usually because of some legacy app that requires it. It does contradict your insistence that Windows would never allow such things. An exploit doesn't need to do
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by kijin 8mo ago
Many of the software that people install on Windows are quite expensive. So if any package manager were worth calling a "store", one for Windows definitely would be. It doesn't make sense to have one package manager for paid
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by kijin 8mo ago
The supply chain for Notepad++ updates was a PHP script on a shared hosting account pointing to the URL of an executable file. Surely someone with more resources and more sets of eyes could do better than that? AFAIK nobody has compromised
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by kijin 8mo ago
Well, try again. I just managed to copy a random .exe to C:\Windows\System32 using an administrator account. I got a typical UAC dialog that most people would blindly click "Continue" on, and the copy succeeded. :)
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by kijin 8mo ago
Malware can't modify files in System32, but it can drop extra files in there no problem. The only way to find and clean them up is a clean install. In Linux, one could write a script that reinstalls all packages, cleans up anything tha
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by kijin 8mo ago
I'm sure updating can be done with OS APIs, though MS doesn't look like they're in any hurry to integrate even their own store with the Windows Update mechanism. The problem is finding and installing new software. Without a w
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by kijin 8mo ago
The only way to clean up an infected Windows system is to wipe your disk and reinstall the OS. There are so many nooks and crannies where malware can hide, and Windows doesn't enforce any boundaries that can't be crossed with a tr
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by kijin 8mo ago
The lack of a well-known, well-designed package manager for Windows has always been a problem. Too many programs, including FOSS programs, are downloaded from suspicious-looking websites with tons of ads, and every app updates itself in a d
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by kijin 8mo ago
Download the latest version and install that, instead of using the auto update feature of an old version that might not properly check signatures. As for whether anything else has been compromised, it depends on whether you were targeted. A
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by kijin 9mo ago
South Korean here, it's all over the news but it sounds rather pointless. Faulty batteries can catch fire even when not in use. And the airlines still allow each passenger to carry up to 5 power banks, 100Wh each. That's enough po
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by kijin 9mo ago
The U.S. also has only two parties that really matter, with overlapping establishment interests. What makes the difference?
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by kijin 9mo ago
That one doesn't reflect well on the airline IMO. There should be systems in place to help employees cope with mental health issues so that they don't end up hijacking their own plane.
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by kijin 9mo ago
Find me a consumer IPv4 router sold in the last ~10 years that does that by default. Security comparisons should be between proposed new tech vs. existing tech, not vs. hypothetical straw-man tech.
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by kijin 9mo ago
Agreed, it just means "linear" for most people. I think the obsession with a linear master/main is a leftover from the time when everyone used a centralized system like svn. Git wasn't designed like that; the Linux kerne
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by kijin 9mo ago
Akamai doesn't have to, because they don't go attracting the kind of clientele who would host pirated soccer videos.
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by kijin 9mo ago
Fun fact: tatami mats are slightly smaller in Tokyo than in other parts of Japan.
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by kijin 9mo ago
I don't think anybody loses sleep over the kilogram issue because, well, it's metric after all. A kilogram is exactly 1000 grams, so the gram is just as perfectly well defined. Nothing would really change if they were to promote t
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by kijin 9mo ago
> This will make blocking websites very difficult if they use shared services like cloudflare or cloud VPS hosting. Until some clueless judge orders all of cloudflare to be blocked.
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by kijin 9mo ago
Cave-dwelling animals don't just crash into walls all the time, so by "visible" I mean large enough and dense enough to be recognized as an obstacle in whatever navigation system they use.
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by kijin 9mo ago
Also, this web is so dense it looks like a solid sheet of silk, studded with the remains of its past victims. Wouldn't that be a little too conspicuous? I thought spider webs were supposed to be nearly invisible to the prey.
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by kijin 9mo ago
Japan has been using their unique system for over 1000 years. It's not a recent change. They never really cared for the Confucian standards of Chinese emperors. (If they did, they wouldn't have called their own monarch an emperor!
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by kijin 9mo ago
A driver's license needs to be legible by foreigners when you travel abroad. The cops aren't going to bother looking up Kanji to figure out whether your license is valid, so the dates had better be printed in Gregorian.
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by kijin 9mo ago
Equating a person with the government or the nation is a common trait among autocrats. L'État, c'est moi.
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by kijin 9mo ago
Well, there's no reason we couldn't have clacks-over-HTTP(-over-DNS)?(-over-avian-carrier)?, is there?

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