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31.
by mikl 2y ago
Also, artillery has gotten bigger and boomier since then. If it was bad then, it’s likely worse now.
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by mikl 2y ago
Problem was they also massively increased the spacing between menu items, so the amount of menu bar items you can fit before it is a problem has dropped massively from before.
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by mikl 2y ago
Not the most earth-shattering revelation. Given how they’ve always needed to be dragged kicking and screaming to adopt more secure protocols, that should be obvious. For example, it’s been known that NTLM is easily cracked for over a decade
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by mikl 2y ago
The introduction of set-theoretic types has truly been a technical tour-de-force. A huge improvement of the language, but in a backwards-compatible fashion.
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by mikl 2y ago
If you use foreign keys in PostgreSQL, it is actually possible to update natural keys with little trouble via the “ON UPDATE CASCADE” mechanism on such keys.
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by mikl 2y ago
It’ll be nice when the AI hype settles down a bit, so many of these “re-invent the wheel, with more AI sprinkles” projects popping up. So many existing DBs can already do vector search, do we really need one dedicated to just that?
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by mikl 2y ago
Yes, but Migadu is subject to Swiss privacy law, since they’re located here. They can’t (legally) do what Google does.
38.
by mikl 2y ago
As a (paying) Migadu customer, I’d happily recommend them. No fuss, no muss. Just e-mail.
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by mikl 2y ago
https://www.discourse.org is great, best forum software I ever saw. You have probably used it already somewhere. They have a paid hosting offer, but you can also self-host it for free. And it’s open source.
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by mikl 2y ago
More like [a-z][0-9a-z]* if you really want to be sure, nothing like inconsistent case sensitivity to ruin your day.
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by mikl 2y ago
Sure, but what happens in the U.S. part of the Internet tends to set the tone for the rest. A U.S. mandate would do a lot to swing things in the right direction, and many other countries would likely follow along and pass similar mandates.
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by mikl 2y ago
Yeah, problem is that we’re competing with ~99.99% for IPv4. So until IPv6 gets in that ballpark, most Internet servers (HTTP and friends) will still need to IPv4 addresses. And as long as that is true, many companies won’t bother and their
43.
by mikl 2y ago
The absurd lengths this industry goes to, only to avoid the switch to IPv6. Wish the FCC would step in with a mandate or something, it’s just long overdue.
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by mikl 2y ago
Ah yes, the good old “the jargon for X is confusing, let’s add more jargon”.
45.
by mikl 2y ago
“If you don’t want to maintain your own terminal app, don’t criticize” The “love it or leave it” of the open source world. Sorry, I don’t buy that framing. No one should be immune from criticism.
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by mikl 2y ago
AI is a concept, but OpenAI is a business. And their bread and butter is acquiring more data to train their models.
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by mikl 2y ago
> At what point do we call behaviour like this bigotry? When big tech stops being creepy. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, etc. have taught us to be constantly vigilant, if we want to have any sort of privacy. They’re always f
48.
by mikl 2y ago
Features you don’t use still add complexity, bugs and potential security and privacy issues.
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by mikl 2y ago
Cringed when I read the changelog for the new version and saw that they added AI features. That’s like the last thing I want in my terminal.
50.
by mikl 2y ago
It doesn’t just look like Elixir’s docs, Erlang has adopted ExDoc, Elixir’s documentation system.
51.
by mikl 2y ago
It’s a nice example of cross-polination, they essentially adapted Elixir’s documentation system for Erlang.
52.
by mikl 2y ago
…a choice that’s carefully hidden deep in the ToS and requires a special person to send a special e-mail instead of just adding an option to the org admin interface.
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by mikl 2y ago
Just completely disingenuous that they still pretend to care about customer privacy after rolling this out with silent-opt-in and without adding an easy opt-out option in the Slack admin panel.
54.
by mikl 2y ago
Whether his changes are good or not, it’s still pretty crazy to essentially fork an open source project, but publish your very different version under the same name.
55.
by mikl 2y ago
Sure, but https://fossil-scm.org/ already does the “without requiring a server” part, without all the extra crypto-nonsense.
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by mikl 2y ago
> because you need to keep track of your accounts across different self-hosted forges Ah, that’s not that much of a problem these days, where password managers (and failing that, SSO with Facebook/Google/etc.) has become wide-s
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by mikl 2y ago
They keep advertising this thing on here, but they never explain what the big benefit is. Everyone can already self-host Gitea or Gitlab, and Git repos are super easy to clone, so what’s the point of all the peer to peer stuff? ie. what rea
58.
by mikl 2y ago
Hello, I’m no-one.
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by mikl 2y ago
Ad? Unless you’re seeing something other than what I’m seeing, that’s just a search result from the app store. Apple is not charging the app owner for that. And if you don’t want the search (aka Spotlight) to suggest apps from the App Store
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by mikl 3y ago
The amount of effort that goes into blocking ads and tracking really says a lot about how messed up the web is these days.

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