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by ktpsns 10mo ago
What's wrong with a big end of day commit? Sure, a well crafted git history can be very valuable. But then comes somebody and decides to just flush your well curated history down the toilet (=delete it and start somewhere else from scr
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by ktpsns 10mo ago
And User Mode Linux was the basic technology for dirt cheap (not so) virtual machines at some VPS providers 15yrs ago. This had some disadvantages, for instance you could not load custom kernel modules in the VM (such as for VPN), actually
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by ktpsns 10mo ago
When I used Gentoo, where you typically configure&compile the kernel yourself, I never used initramfs. This was 20yrs ago. Gentoo was really a great teacher.
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by ktpsns 10mo ago
I am not sure about your use case. There exist many JS libraries which will generate client side QR codes. How many of them do you handle that you optimize for file size? Or is it just an academic interest? SVGs are XML so technically, yes,
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by ktpsns 10mo ago
Yes. I know at least one big cloud provider (actually the biggest) in Germany who uses Talos for their managed k8s.
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by ktpsns 10mo ago
Talos Linux [1], "the Kubernetes Operating System", is written in Go. That means it exactly works as the little demo here, where the Kernel hands over to a statically compiled Go code as init script. Talos is really an interesti
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by ktpsns 10mo ago
I remember that not having the right VB DLL was a frequent issue when trying to run EXE files produced by people with visual basic. For me, this Windows "nocode" environment was a big gatekeeper which hindered me in learning progr
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by ktpsns 10mo ago
Haven't used Qt for a few years, but back then QML, QtQuick, etc have been optional features. You absolutely could write all your Qt logic in C++ only, in a somewhat similar way like the code shown in the iced READMEs. It is the same i
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by ktpsns 10mo ago
The power of the language came from the concise syntax (I liked it more then classical LISPs) with the huge library of Mathematica. When Python is "batteries included", Mathematica is "spaceship included". If this was op
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by ktpsns 10mo ago
Just curious, what is your tech stack to life inspect all TLS traffic?
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by ktpsns 10mo ago
No, let's do a punycode attack: It "looks" like it was https://mysite.example but is not. And yet it has the green padlock.
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by ktpsns 10mo ago
The older ones among us remember when XML took over the world and everyone was supposed to use strict XHTML. It turned out that the strength of the HTML ecosystem was its fault tolerance. HTML4 was the "sloppy" answer to XHTML. It
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The high cost of free testing(engineering.block.xyz)
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by ktpsns 10mo ago
I think this is rooted in the common law. That means: literally every single one of the "stupid" security measures is most likely caused by some court case. This seems ridiculous, in particular when contrasted with the German TÜV
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by ktpsns 11mo ago
I think the title deserves a (2018), which I estimated by explainxkcd history https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1987:_Pytho... Recently, people report that uv ( https://docs.astral.sh/uv&#
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by ktpsns 11mo ago
Eternal September. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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by ktpsns 11mo ago
You won't be excluded, just being forced to buy and operate a shitty second device with their OS just to do online banking, etc. I have hope in open OS such as Linux and the BSDs that they also survive the upcoming hardware lockdowns.
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by ktpsns 11mo ago
I was introduced to XKCD by a friend 20yrs ago. Dann, time.
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by ktpsns 11mo ago
Unattended upgrades for server installations are very common. For instance, for Ubuntu/Debian this updates by default daily (source: https://documentation.ubuntu.com/server/how-to/software/auto... ). No c
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by ktpsns 11mo ago
Modern software deployment methods can fill the gap between your selfhosted need and the work to be done. I won't name technologies here, because existing have its flaws (docker, helm, etc). Mastodon is federated and thus basically ful
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by ktpsns 11mo ago
Are they? On client side, technically it is easier not to execute scripts then to do so (despite the UX of https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ might let you think the opposite). Tech
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by ktpsns 11mo ago
I wonder why they did not extend the existing websocket API. Now if you want to be HTTP/1 or HTTP/2 backward compatible, you have to add another abstraction ontop of these two because WebTransports is HTTP/3 only.
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by ktpsns 11mo ago
Thermodynamic computing is not invented by these guys. See here for another paper with interesting links to applications and background: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05660
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by ktpsns 11mo ago
This was a weird mixture of biophysics with a lot of pseudoscience. How is this a "startup"? My feeling is that with similar spirit, you could argue "Could gravity be the reason [of anything]"
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by ktpsns 11mo ago
This is actually a clever way to distinguish if the browser supports XSLT or not. Actual content is XHTML in https://xslt.rip/index.xsl The author is frontend designer and has a nice website, too: https://dbushel
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by ktpsns 11mo ago
I think Indiweb is more a cultural way of building tech and not only an opposition to current trends. As a dev I see indiweb in similar veins as "selfhosted vs cloud" or "Microservices vs Monolith"
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by ktpsns 11mo ago
The amount of energy put into reversing games is incredible. This is real passion combined with expertise. Similarly skilled people unlocked Photoshop or MSO decades ago (and certainly still do where possible). Given that I have shifted my
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by ktpsns 11mo ago
I think lightweight wasm OS runtimes can have real use cases for instance in "cloud terminals" (such as in Rancher or at hyperscalers) which currently just connect a web terminal to some k8s pod. Or in more snappy Jupyter scientif
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by ktpsns 11mo ago
An audacity fork. Reason for forking described at https://tenacityaudio.org/docs/_content/Introduction_and_Mot... . Their own summary: > at the primary reasons were attempts at adding telemetry and a new deskto
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by ktpsns 1y ago
Amazing to see this still maintained. Qt creator was my go-to IDE about 20 years ago. At this time, Visual Code, Eclipse, NetBeans and friends had been incredibly resource demanding where Qt creator felt pretty lightweight yet powerful.

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