mhogomchungu

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by mhogomchungu 2y ago
Raymond Cheng faced a similar situation here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240927-00/?p=11... The problem boils down to usage of stack memory after the memory is given to somebody else.
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by mhogomchungu 3y ago
If you are on Linux and prefer a Qt based GUI, then check out zuluCrypt[1]. It can create PLAIN dm-crypt, LUKS, TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt volumes. It can unlock PLAIN dm-crypt, LUKS, TrueCrypt, VeraCrypt and Bitlocker volumes. [1] https:&#x2
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Show HN: A Qt based GUI for many CLI based online media downloaders(github.com)
2 points by mhogomchungu 4y ago|0 comments
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by mhogomchungu 4y ago
A passport will allow you to go from anywhere in the world to anywhere else in the world and its usually hard to get. "An emergency travelling document" will allow you to go from anywhere in the world to ONLY your home country and
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by mhogomchungu 5y ago
Typically, its from "8:00 AM" to "4:00 PM". In swahili time, i would say "its from hour 2 in the morning to hour 10 in the everning.
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by mhogomchungu 5y ago
Each african here and in Swahili time, the day starts at 7:00 AM and ends at 6:59PM and night starts at 7:00 PM and ends at 6:59AM. So, I would read "12:00 AM" as "six hours into the night" since its been 6 hours since t
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by mhogomchungu 5y ago
Problems with std::function:- 1. It can not hold move only callable objects. 2. It heap allocate stored callable object if the object is large enough.
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Show HN: Media Downloader for YouTube, Instagram, oreilly books, etc.(github.com)
2 points by mhogomchungu 5y ago|0 comments
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by mhogomchungu 5y ago
Don't use "NULL" in C++[1]. [1] https://cpp4arduino.com/2018/10/26/why-cpp-programmers-dont-...
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by mhogomchungu 6y ago
There a couple of solutions that are fuse based and dealing with folder based encryption and gocryptfs has a page that compares them here[1]. It will be interesting to see how this project does against its competition. SiriKali[2] is a fron
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by mhogomchungu 7y ago
If you loose your phone here in Tanzania, the phone company will require a police report and a copy of a photo ID(passport, drivers licence or national ID card) that matches the lost line and some will additionally ask you to remember the l
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by mhogomchungu 7y ago
Native Swahili speaker here and the language cares only if its a being or not a being and for beings, it simply doesn't care if its a man, a woman, a horse, a pig or an alien with ten sexes. Its possible to speak naturally in Swahili w
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by mhogomchungu 8y ago
These etilqs files consumed 60GB of this[1] person's hard drive space. I think it was a good decision to change the name of these files because they give sqlite a bad name while the problem is not of their doing. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by mhogomchungu 8y ago
There is a windows program named sshfs-win[1] that allows mounting of remote SSH location as local folders and SiriKali[2] is currently its only GUI frontend. SiriKali also supports sshfs on Linux. [1] https://github.com/bil
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Show HN: Secure management of files in Windows,Linux,MAC using SiriKali+securefs
2 points by mhogomchungu 9y ago|0 comments
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by mhogomchungu 9y ago
How effect is this if its possible to be elected into office at a very late age.
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by mhogomchungu 9y ago
This discussion[1] maybe useful in solving the problem. "things()" member function should be qualified with a reference to prevent it from being called from an rvalue object. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions
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by mhogomchungu 9y ago
All my projects are C++14 so it wasnt an issue for me but i liked being c++11 for other people and i am glad there is a way to get it back to c++11. Already committed your suggestion. Thank you very much.
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by mhogomchungu 9y ago
Your code failed to compile but this one[1] succeeds. Side effect of your way is that it now makes the project requiring C++14 but i can live with that. [1] https://github.com/mhogomchungu/tasks/blob/4210a8fad
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by mhogomchungu 9y ago
sometimes,declaring lambdas with auto is not not sufficient as i discovered in my "tasks"[1] project. An example place where auto breaks is here[2]. [1] https://github.com/mhogomchungu/tasks [2] https:/
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by mhogomchungu 9y ago
There could be an efficiency bug here. 1. "item->id()" is designed to return a pointer. 2. Consumer of the API writes their code to take a copy of the pointer and passes it along to "processSomeItem". It is cheap to m
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by mhogomchungu 9y ago
project page: https://mhogomchungu.github.io/zuluCrypt/ >> why did you start it I bought an external hard drive and i wanted to encrypt it just because i could,i already knew about TrueCrypt but it felt like a wi
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by mhogomchungu 9y ago
How do you measure battery life? 1. Do you charge it to 100% and live it alone until charge goes to 0%? 2. Do you unplug it in the morning and use it "normally" and see what charge will be left when you put it again on a charger w
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by mhogomchungu 9y ago
I am a christian Tanzanian in Tanzania and i though this was a Muslim thing and not something specific to india as this article and wikipedia[1] suggests. My understand as it was explained in detail by a muslim here in Tanzania is that if a
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by mhogomchungu 9y ago
Tanzanian here and i am surprised find my country in the front page of hacker news. Summary of what is going on. 17 years ago, Tanzania signed a "bad" contract with acacia mining company[1]. The person who signed the contract on T
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by mhogomchungu 9y ago
He has backups of his data. I personally use linux and my github repo is here[1] where i have a bunch of encryption related projects(zuluCrypt,SiriKali and lxqt_wallet). The last windows computer i used was windows xp. I dont want to move h
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by mhogomchungu 9y ago
I am in Tanzania(East Africa) and my father's computer is infected. All he did to get infected was plugging his laptop on the network at work(University of Dar Es Salaam). The laptop is next to me and my task this night is to try to re
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by mhogomchungu 9y ago
I think this[1] API among others should be renamed and "future" be used instead of "promise" to better reflect C++ naming conventions. [1] https://github.com/sandstorm-io/capnproto/blob/247
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by mhogomchungu 9y ago
Its a lot easier to do events based programming in Qt/C++. Here is a Qt/C++ tasks[1] that greatly simplified async programming using Qt's event system. [1] https://github.com/mhogomchungu/tasks
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by mhogomchungu 10y ago
It seems to be,look at documentation for option "-S" here: https://linux.die.net/man/1/encfs

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