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by nerdix 2y ago
Thats a good one. Seems like a scenario that is even more likely to happen because it would be much harder to find it in a code review than printf("user: %s, password: %s", userName, password) especially in a very large codebase.
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by nerdix 2y ago
Sounds like they logged passwords in plaintext. I seriously doubt that was done intentionally. I think every developer has some idea how this could have happened. Someone is working on a bug. "I'll print this state out to console
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by nerdix 2y ago
He may not care about the average Twitter user who blocks him. But there are likely many influential people who have blocked him (but may also be tweeting about him) and he may want to see their posts. He may also want the ability to reply
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by nerdix 2y ago
GitHub won because Git won. It was obvious by the late 00s that some DVCS was going to upend subversion (and more niche VCS like TFS). It ended up a two horse race between Git and Mercurial. GitHub bet on Git. Bitbucket bet on Mercurial. Gi
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by nerdix 2y ago
This is misleading. They are using the yearly cost for each streaming service but the NFL season is only about 5 months long including the playoffs. So you don't need to be subscribed for the whole year And some of those streaming serv
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by nerdix 2y ago
Every online game with RPG elements devolves into this it seems. The community min-maxes the fun out of it. Destiny is like this now. There is a cottage industry of Destiny scientists who make YouTube videos that fill in the knowledge gap i
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by nerdix 2y ago
Exactly. They already killed the OG Chromecast with the "with Google TV" Chromecast. Now they are just killing the Chromecast branding for now. But they've been known to kill a brand only to resurrect it a few years later.
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by nerdix 2y ago
Not that similar at all other than both having a reputation for being pretty (Enlightenment is almost 30 years old so other WM/DEs have caught up to and surpassed it on that front IMO but it had a reputation for being one of the nicer
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by nerdix 2y ago
How do you explain the rise of Hitler with this theory? The Weimar government was a semi-presidential system with multiple parties that required coalitions for the legislature to function. The Nazi party won a plurality but never a majority
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by nerdix 2y ago
There was a period of time where employees of companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google were protesting in order to prevent their companies from taking military contracts. That seems to have mostly died down and all of those companies ha
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by nerdix 2y ago
And now all the soccer moms in illegal states are buying delta 9 gummies at CBD stores (and there isn't mass hysteria in the streets) so those states are reluctant to outright ban it. We'll see how long that lasts.
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by nerdix 2y ago
You can post binaries on Usenet. And a lot of the stuff is dupes (the same content being re-ripped in different formats and posted by different groups). Any particular piece of content might be uploaded 50 times or more with different resol
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by nerdix 2y ago
I only have a windows partition for games. I would occasionally use it for other stuff because it's sometimes inconvenient to switch back and forth. After recall, I'm only using it for gaming and nothing else.
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by nerdix 2y ago
nix flake update then nixos-rebuild switch --flake and encountering an error is nightmare fuel. There is always a moment right after the error occurs where it feels like you'll never figure it out. I've always manage to up to this
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by nerdix 2y ago
Was just going to ask that. All of this ARM transition stuff makes me nervous.
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by nerdix 2y ago
Machine Learning is a newer term than AI. AI has been used for decades.
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by nerdix 2y ago
That's pretty much already possible today with nvim distros like lazyvim.
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by nerdix 2y ago
There is a LEGAL.md with the following: "This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permissio
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by nerdix 2y ago
> Is it? Globally, iMessage is far from the most popular messaging application. If it's an attempt at EEE it's not a great one. IE was far more successful in degree and longevity of impact. I basically already said it was secon
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by nerdix 2y ago
It doesn't have to be "you can't replace SMS" because that would be stifling to innovation. It could simply be "messaging protocols should be open and/or interoperable". The web is what it is today becaus
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by nerdix 2y ago
Exactly. Apple has more influence over the cellular industry in America than any single company including the carriers themselves. They could completely design the spec by themselves with all the pro-consumer features that one could imagine
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by nerdix 2y ago
Is there an example of Microsoft ever actually "extinguishing" something? The extinguish bit is more about making the competing services non-viable. Microsoft's whole strategy was built around making it so a user on its plat
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by nerdix 2y ago
Or I don't think computing freedom has to be completely abandoned to protect someone's grandma. Put tight controls in place. You can make it extremely difficult to bypass. You could have a recovery mode like Android and bury the
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by nerdix 2y ago
You don't have to use their apps. I never understood this argument. Why would you even want to use the apps of companies that you don't trust?
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by nerdix 2y ago
I think a lot of people forget that the iPhone was not the first smart phone. I was downloading apps, checking email, and sending IMs over the AIM network with Verichat on my Treo 650 well before the iPhone was a thing.
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by nerdix 2y ago
I guess a lot of it just comes down to preference but I love the way it looks. I think HD Blu-ray was good and I didn't have any complaints but the 4K version looks much better to me. I also watched it on a projector with an 120 inch s
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by nerdix 2y ago
The AI upscaled 4K UHD version of Aliens is freakin' amazing. I know the main complaint with upscaling older movies is that it can remove most of the film grain and that can give people a waxy, mannequin like look. But they really foun
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by nerdix 3y ago
In fact, if I'm not mistaken, the early Plex codebase was a fork of XBMC.
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by nerdix 3y ago
Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star. Not Dark Star. It's the literal name of their first album and you even linked to the right wikipedia page.
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by nerdix 3y ago
If Google sells a part of its business to another company then the data required to operate that business must be included in the sale. That goes without saying. And a lot of companies "sell user data" by that metric. Also, there

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