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by pilif 9y ago
HFS+ was the only file system I know of that was doing Unicode normalisation and is certainly was the only one choosing NFD which encodes characters in a way that's impossible for someone to easily type in the UI. Short-term this will
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by pilif 9y ago
Similar problem in reverse is the explosive growth of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallopia_japonica all over Europe's forests and gardens. The plant is nearly unkillable and thus extremely expensive to get rid o
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by pilif 9y ago
While everybody is going to be rightfully excited about the logical replication, for me personally, CREATE STATISTICS and the new ROW syntax for UPDATE amount to the additions that have the probably biggest effect on me ever since I moved t
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by pilif 9y ago
At least for Series 2 this isn't that much of an issue any more: despite tracking a 2 hour workout every day, the battery easily lasts through the day and the night. And it recharges fully while I'm showering on the next day. I co
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by pilif 10y ago
> Did they perceive the Docker brand as tainted in some way? quite to the contrary I'd say. Docker will be their commercial enterprise offering and moby will be the open source project.
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by pilif 10y ago
Google is going to do just that in Chrome. Of course doing this change means that some existing domains will now stop working correctly which may or may not be ok with their owners. The other option would be to do this based on the browser&
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by pilif 10y ago
> How would you even type in something like борщ.рф by clicking on the link on my search engine. Though of course, either that page is in a language I can easily type (so why then use that URL?), or otherwise, I would not have searched
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by pilif 10y ago
> Do unicode URLs actually provide any real value? yes. Not everybody speaks english. >Every web user must be already used to typing Latin characters because so many major websites use them. s/web user/existing web user&
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by pilif 10y ago
also I noticed that at least in Switzerland, the imagery is significantly older than the one of the "Earth" layer in google maps. If I had to guess, I would say the images on Google Earth are from 2011, whereas the ones in Google
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by pilif 10y ago
users. it's terribly hard to secure.
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by pilif 10y ago
actually, do you know why they changed this? I thought that a partition was always superior to a file (aside of the usability issues).
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by pilif 10y ago
> […] and COM port) DMA channel number more likely ;-)
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by pilif 10y ago
Thankfully, you're still allowed to not have any CAA record for a domain. While I agree that in general it's a good thing, for my setup, the additional security it provides is not worth the hassle of upgrading PowerDNS past what c
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by pilif 10y ago
> It's quite possible that if I spent <x amount of time> drinking lots and lots of UHT milk eventually my preference might change. I'm not planning on trying, though. here in Switzerland, we have the choice between the
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by pilif 10y ago
I'm not so sure, but I would love to be proven wrong. The issue I'm seeing is that there are many orders or magnitude more potential content providers out there than people are willing to manually validate and white-list. This mig
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by pilif 10y ago
> The screen rubbing on the keyboard when closed and causing bright spots back in the days (before 2006 when I moved to apple), this was a common issue with IBM Thinkpads. Fun to see this still happening in the PC world.
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by pilif 10y ago
From the article: > This gives the drives much greater endurance than NAND of a comparable density, with Intel saying that Optane SSDs can safely be written 30 times per day, compared to a typical 0.5-10 whole drive writes per day. I u
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by pilif 10y ago
Yes. Yes it does. Reminds me of a Sunday evening in the late 90ies when I stopped working as root all the time: cp backup.tar.bz /dev/sda Nowadays I would know enough to at least get the contents of the backup.tar.bz bac
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by pilif 10y ago
As an aside: I love to see projects named after food in my mother tongue (guetzli is Swiss German for cookie). I guess this is a project somewhat based on the Zürich office of Googles. Before this one we got brötli (small bread) and zöpfli
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by pilif 10y ago
cookies have one advantage over localStorage and custom headers though: They can be set by the server in a way that client-side JS code doesn't get to see or change them. This makes abusing XSS vulnerabilities to get to the token sligh
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by pilif 10y ago
-Wall sure (also, it should really enable all warnings, just as the name implies. Currently it doesn't) -Werror, I'm not sure. During development and on CI systems it makes sense. But if you intend to ship source code, it's p
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by pilif 10y ago
Technically yes, because like every other domain name, it can have an A record pointing to an address. From a technical perspective, there's no difference between `www.example.com`, `example.com` and `com` having an A record. From a be
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by pilif 10y ago
To be fair though: Dropbox is using that Extension API too for all the features it provides which basically is: Overlay icons and context menus. They patch the Finder for all the additional features like their overlay toolbar and other litt
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by pilif 10y ago
That's not good enough though if you need to work with repositories that were made with previous releases. Just converting them is one thing, but what if you need to stay compatible indefinitely. And what about old releases that encoun
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by pilif 10y ago
While there's the potential of spying, there's also the much more common use-case of AV scanning the whole stream but otherwise not looking at it and not archiving it anywhere. Now we can all debate the value of AV scanning in gen
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by pilif 10y ago
> But this is more a problem with the knee jerk HTTPS everywhere movement and a quick and dirty response than anything else not really HTTPS interception by AV programs and corporate proxies is common since the mid 90ies. What did happ
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by pilif 10y ago
No need. Just keep installing the regular updates to your OS. These minor releases are just new installer images so that new users don't immediately have to download a huge chunk of data.
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by pilif 10y ago
They have done very pleasing and playful UI in the past. I remember back when I moved my virtual console data from a Wii go a WiiU. Or when I moved from a 3DS to a New 3DS. While the process took way too long and was very annoying in genera
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by pilif 10y ago
> It has nothing to do with cumulative updates. well. Let's say you have 10 security flaws to patch. 9 patches are fine, but in 1 you have detected a show-stopping issue. If all you can deploy is one cumulative update, then that o
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by pilif 10y ago
The README file doesn't reference iMessage and Facetime. Traditionally, these are very picky about the machine they are running on and normally refuse to sign in on Hackintoshes. Has anybody tried the steps here and tried using iMessag

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