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by l0b0 4y ago
I protested this exact thing at $workplace last year, but they said that the NIST recommendation was "only a draft", and that the NZ government security services hasn't yet updated their recommendation. So here we are, incr
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by l0b0 4y ago
I've done this a few times, and it's amazing how much better (according to myself, that is) the content is than a comment. Proper length, formatting, images, inline links, and things like ‹abbr› and ‹key› elements just make for a
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Broken Patreon Bot Protection(webapps.stackexchange.com)
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by l0b0 4y ago
Just some anecdotes around VCS use… At uni back in ~2000 was the first time I ever heard of version control. It was a bit of a curiosity, nobody seemed to be using it. In 2004, engineering at the place I worked (you've heard of it) wer
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by l0b0 4y ago
Yep. Scrolled into the 2100s and back into the 1800s in a few seconds, then decided to figure out which day of the week I was born, which took about three seconds. In most date pickers this would've taken O(year difference * month diff
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by l0b0 4y ago
How do you actually read this on mobile? I don't see a paywall or some way to unfold the content.
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by l0b0 4y ago
No, in my point of view this sort of thing should be too obvious to mention. Once they start making it explit, people will immediately start questioning it.
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by l0b0 4y ago
Of course. It's based only on similar observations from other companies. We'll see in a year or three.
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by l0b0 4y ago
The fact that they're even spelling this out means it's going to be reversed soonish. Fortunately Firefox (or at least the original iisdea of a lightweight free-as-in-freedom browser) is ready for another fork.
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by l0b0 4y ago
As a senior, I consider "keeping us honest" one of my primary tasks: - It's not done until at least it's in front of the customer. - Estimates are useful, but not for any of the obvious reasons.[1] - Understand lints bef
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by l0b0 4y ago
Nice, TIL. I wonder if there's a name for these ephemeral sand formations, as hoodoos seem to be more permanent.
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by l0b0 4y ago
Reminded me of this[1]: leaves (and a stick in the background) creating a "rain shadow" on a river beach, resulting in sand pedestals. [1] https://secure.flickr.com/photos/l0b0/50830815242/
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by l0b0 4y ago
Does my .bash_history[1] qualify? [1] https://gitlab.com/victor-engmark/tilde/-/blob/master/.bash_...
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A vCard parser and validator. The original Python code was clunky, and I've tried to reboot it in both Java and Rust. In the end I've always fallen back to Python, spent a few days bringing things back up to a half-decent state, a
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Making a New Microservices Cluster a Success – Xe(xeiaso.net)
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Are there any popular game mods implementing hex tiling in originally square-tiled games? A lot of classics, like Skyrim, should look a lot better when viewing tiled surfaces at a distance.
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by l0b0 4y ago
Bash* I got a book published with a bunch of community and personal findings as an "I wish I had known this earlier" kind of collection. * Giant disclaimer: Bash is insanely complex, mostly for historical reasons. There are infini
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by l0b0 4y ago
Programming consulting is no better. The crowning moment was being told during a 1-on-1 with my consulting company manager that I was being "too efficient" by automating and documenting everything I was doing.
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Steven Pinker and I debate AI scaling(scottaaronson.blog)
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Microsoft begins “Extinguish” phase of dealing with Open Source(lunduke.substack.com)
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More Kittens Game automation! Just discovered this extremely hackable clicker a couple weeks ago, and now I'm 50+ commits into the JS (Plain JS? Didn't I stop using that a decade ago?), figuring out whether I should build/tra
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by l0b0 4y ago
Ubuntu is certainly for the average user. I just installed 22.04 on my mum's ancient laptop after she's been complaining for years about it being too slow to use. No tech support so far, and she says it's blazing fast compare
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by l0b0 4y ago
What I'm saying is that installing an alternative OS should be as simple as plug in the USB stick, reboot, select "bloody well install this", enter your username and password, done. OEMs, with pressure from Microsoft, are mak
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by l0b0 4y ago
I believe that you believe that, but I cannot believe that's true. Microsoft is far too big to care about any trends, including open source. They are simply doing what makes the most money within the time scales they operate. If that m
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by l0b0 4y ago
Tell that to anyone who can barely get past the Ubuntu installer. Every step making installing alternative OSes harder is newsworthy, for the simple reason that every bit more difficult installation means literally fewer users capable of
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by l0b0 4y ago
Surprising to see that many (49?) SSH implementations. I'd've expected there to be maybe four libraries everyone was using, OpenSSH and a handful of NIH orgs. Why do Erlang, PuTTY, and SSH.NET not use existing libraries? Are there
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by l0b0 4y ago
Automation. Everything must be automated these days, or it'll cost >$0 per ban, meaning >$0 less money in the bank.
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by l0b0 4y ago
Thank you for all the details! A couple questions: - Do you get audio when using it as a webcam? That's been the problem for me, and I remember forum posts saying there's no audio signal in the HDMI output. - I tried using DNG, bu
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by l0b0 4y ago
Nice, that's exactly the sort of detail I was hoping for! I mostly take landscape and nature detail photos (including macros with extension tubes), some pets, wild animals, very few people shots. And few indoor photos because of the lo
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DSLR to mirrorless migration – what to buy?
7 points by l0b0 4y ago|7 comments

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