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by perlgeek 3y ago
It took me quite a while to actually understand how Debian packaging works; I haven't really found any good, approachable documentation that explains the concept behind it. Once I thought I understood it, I've tried to write it do
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by perlgeek 3y ago
This might work for domestic calls, but what about international ones? Do you really want to force telcos to block all calls from countries that you cannot collect fines from?
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by perlgeek 3y ago
The sentence before... > To ensure these systems are 100% secure, equipment in the Brazil data center was returned to the manufacturers. It doesn't say all equipment, and that would have been very helpful. But if it's just tw
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by perlgeek 3y ago
The lines between fantasy fiction, performance art and scam are getting really blurry with this one.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
> It's not up to individuals to fix it. On the one hand, that sounds true. On the other hand, everybody who acts is an individual. States and countries don't act on their own, they are driven by acts of individuals. So, what&#x
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by perlgeek 3y ago
But you have partial control. You can vote for candidates that take climate change seriously. You can decide to buy or lease an EV instead of an ICE one. You can raise the bar for when you book a flight. And so on...
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by perlgeek 3y ago
You never worried particularly, but enough to move to a different country? That sounds contradictory to me.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
But if Apple makes a car, is it more in the premium or in the luxury market? It seems to me that most of the bestselling Apple products are more premium than luxury, why would it be different with cars? And if not, why would they profit fro
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by perlgeek 3y ago
My sister self-taught unicycling as a teenager, and then used it for short trips to the supermarket (in an area where pedestrians and cyclists are pretty common). She got lots of attention, but only rarely talked about getting negative comm
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Even in jira you can filter your backlog by issue type. (Not saying it's the best approach, separate project and links might work better, because the workflow is different).
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by perlgeek 3y ago
With 400 lines, it's probably more of a shell / terminal emulator than a Linux emulator.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Well, as a foreigner, if you want to learn "the language", you have to start with something . Since the majority speak some dialect of bokmål, and most courses teach it, that's what you end up with. I watch some series in No
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by perlgeek 3y ago
My impression was that Google neglected Norway a bit, my wife (who is half-Norwegian) told me that Google results for Norwegian websites were pretty terrible just a few years ago. Also, Nynorsk really is a minority (spoken by only about hal
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Another famous example of l and r confusion is Japanese. One I'm struggling with: Norwegian (bokmal at least) has the "y", which is between i and the German ü. I can kinda hear the difference, if I pay close attention and the
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by perlgeek 3y ago
... and I hate it, it's so much stress (unless you're constantly on the right lane and driving 90km/h). When you cross from the Autobahn to Denmark, where there's a speed limit of at most 130km/h, traffic immediatel
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I used to have one or more side projects going on all the time. With work and family, I currently don't really have the energy to make consistent progress, so instead I do very small things, mostly not software. Like, baking a sourdoug
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Yes, passlib, sorry for the confusion. > What's your usecase? We need to store hashed passwords that are then used by third-party programs (like Apache or exim) to authenticate users, so we need to generate salts and hashes in forma
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by perlgeek 3y ago
The deprecation of "crypt" could have been handled a bit better, IMHO. It recommends to use "hashlib" instead, which isn't API compatible to crypt, and if you load it on a new enough python... triggers a deprecation
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Communication across interstellar space would be super slow, because the speed of light is so slow compared to the distances, like, at least several years for a single one-way message. This makes it likely that if we ever do settle multiple
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Note that what the author did could have been done in a purely passive way, just by capturing packages and seeing the DHCP responses others got. I don't think that qualifies as "hacking".
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Here in Germany at least, most chargers accept RFID cards for billing, and basically all through an app. My only problem with it is that the app that comes with my company's card is total crap (often won't start to charge, and the
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by perlgeek 3y ago
The description of preconditions seems a bit incomplete. To me it seems you need to avoid certain constructs, like UNIQUE constraints. Otherwise you might have a local insert plus a replicated one, both the same value in the unique column,
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by perlgeek 3y ago
> I have a hypothesis that you never ought to work in a department that is seen as a 'cost center' That's why I don't work in an IT department of a traditional business.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Currently when I go into my car, I can resume listening to the podcast, or I can listen to my music (different app), or whatever. I doubt any car manufacturer will be able to offer the same seamless experience when they build their own ente
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Does the FBI use these? The FBI is tasked with counter intelligence, and for a spy it could be highly relevant to learn if they are being targeted.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
It lasted 30 years in the sense it hasn't been publicly broken before. We don't know how many intelligence agencies have found some of these and are happily listening in on "secure" communication, concealing that fact su
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Only 55%? I guess this is US only (but doesn't say so...)
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I actually found that interview to be quite hard to listen to. Charlie often interrupted the question, answered one that could have been asked, and then later on the interviewer (Ben or David) came around to actually finishing the question,
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by perlgeek 3y ago
It's kinda wild that just a few years ago, NASA preferred to launch humans on brand-new rockets, rather than on ones that have flown multiple times and shown their capabilities. It'll be interesting to see how the bathtub curve wi
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I share your frustration. Nothing about charge cycles, and "safety at high temperatures" is less interesting than an actual operating range specification.

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