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by pilif 7y ago
Same for Switzerland. And even better: We're privileged to have the Alps in the middle of our country making hydroelectricity a very viable and renewable option.
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by pilif 7y ago
Seeing that WhatsApp is using the signal protocol and encrypts all communications by default, I contest the notion that Telegram with its home-grown protocol and clear text by default is a step up.
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by pilif 7y ago
Also it gets worse because it also undermines the credibility of factually correct news. Once a fake isn’t easily distinguishable from reality any more, even media literate people will start to question or even dismiss any piece of informat
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by pilif 7y ago
Reporting on harm is not the same as inciting harm
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by pilif 7y ago
I feel that an easy rule to apply is that speech about hurting or even killing others is unambiguously bad speech Everything else is up for debate. But this single exception I hope every human being can agree on.
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by pilif 7y ago
No. This isn't about Google unlocking paywalls. This is about Google fixing a bug where the presence of Icognito Mode could be detected with JS which is totally against the premise of Incognito Mode whose purpose it is to be undetected
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by pilif 7y ago
The Swiss national train company has their own share of issues with trains built by Bombardier. After years of delays, what was finally delivered is horribly unreliable and passengers also don't like the shaking feeling when they do ru
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by pilif 7y ago
on the other hand, its SQL backend modules insist on fetching a password and comparing them using their own functionality and there's no way to get to the the user's typed password into a custom query. That means that there's
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by pilif 7y ago
OpenSSH is very much tied to system users, but sometimes you might want to give access to external users that don’t need to exist as actual unix users. because SSH and SFTP are so closely tied together, a configuration via PAM is pretty h
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by pilif 7y ago
Since office 2007 they use word to render HTML mail. Probably mostly because of security reasons because at the time their other option was IE which lead to many previous security flaws. Word isn't much safer but at least it is under t
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by pilif 7y ago
the `src` folder seems to contain the reverse-engineered C code. Most of the assembly-only files left look to me like they are just describing data.
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by pilif 7y ago
> I mean, by default, it wants to send every keystroke back to Microsoft servers do you have any proof to substantiate this statement? I don’t believe for a second that Microsoft is getting away with an OS-wide keylogger
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by pilif 7y ago
That’s not just on github. That’s totally a feature of git itself. You can set the email address to whatever you want.
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by pilif 7y ago
I was tongue in cheek. Of course I didn’t cause this. I imagine I must have been the millionst and one person to try this. It’s just a funny coincidence and I enjoyed toying with the thought
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by pilif 7y ago
After reading the ZIP bomb article also linked on HN, I have copied the largest file to my iCloud drive for fun. And an hour later, I'm reading that most of iCloud is down. I really hope this is a funny coincidence. And if not, then I&
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by pilif 7y ago
>They lead with the point that most-seemed to get lost in translation, even on technical sites like HN. >>No, Chrome isn’t killing ad blockers They’re just neutering them with a ridiculously low limit of rules. One of the benefit
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by pilif 7y ago
Something is wrong with your configuration. For me, both the release version and the tech preview share settings just fine. Making changes to the one will cause them to be applied in the other.
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by pilif 7y ago
The feature set of the browsing engine isn’t though. It’s on a roughly 6 monthly schedule where changes for the technology previews are released to the wider public. The last big release was 12.1 last March, far removed from the next WWDC i
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by pilif 7y ago
The article says that one of the advantages of gRPC is streaming and that JSON wouldn’t support streaming. That’s however just an implementation detail. JSON can easily be written and read as a stream. Switching your whole architecture, dea
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by pilif 7y ago
>I think the citext extension[1] already made much of this straightforward? sort of. It was doing case-folding based on LC_CTYPE set at initdb time, so if you have data of different locales to deal with, it would only work for one loca
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by pilif 7y ago
there's an extension called `pg_repack` ( https://github.com/reorg/pg_repack ) that already did this as a third-party solution. It even goes a bit farther in that it doesn't just rebuild indexes but can also re
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by pilif 7y ago
> a media player doesn't (or shouldn't at least) modify any of my essential data Ask the Android team about the stagefright exploit. Media players provide a huge attack surface. They are constantly exposed to untrusted files
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by pilif 7y ago
> interface with other languages… Many languages that compile to native code allow you to export functions in a way that they can be called from other C code. This means you'd write your actual code in whatever language you want (po
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by pilif 7y ago
> But here, we’re in C, so there is nothing there's your problem. I mean, I'm sure your `vlc_vector` you've spent so much time optimizing and securing is as good as or even better than `other_project_vector` and `some_l
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by pilif 7y ago
> You have some syntax to opt into a later release (e.g. doing `<?php(version=8)` at the start of a script. imagine the exponential complexity as old behaviours need to be kept around for various levels of opting in.
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by pilif 7y ago
yes. Or even better, there should be a new abstract control with a semantic "chose one in a list" meaning that renders as an UIPickerView on iOS and an NSPopUpButton on the mac.
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by pilif 7y ago
The home app currently shipping with Mojave did this[1] much to everybody's amusement. Of all the iOS controls, this is the one that handles the worst on the mac. [1]: https://i.imgur.com/B8TWtTg.png
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by pilif 7y ago
Applets were supposed to be embedded into webpages like images. Given the JRE was already started, you'd expect the load time to be a few seconds at most. For sure not 5 minutes before a page becomes interactive.
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by pilif 7y ago
But it's Medium's content. You gave it away when you posted it here. In exchange, you got exposure[1] [1]: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure
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by pilif 8y ago
9, 10 and 11 are following a new release schedule of timed releases (every 6 months), whereas 8 was still a traditional feature release. I would say that aside of the module system that came with a huge list of now inaccessible internal met

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