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by pilif 5y ago
the only snag about this plan is that the old `scp` tool works with any server, whereas the new tool will require additional configuration on the server to enable SFTP. It's not enabled by default in some distributions and many "h
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by pilif 5y ago
I looked at one of the files: `~/Library/Trial/Treatments/SIRI_DIALOG_ASSETS/factorPacks/6242008c0f185b3e2ef6bf8e/assets/com.apple.siri.dialog.socialconversationfl#d5b431b/dialog/SocialConve
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by pilif 5y ago
This is about calling into any native operating system APIs, as long as they are callable via C or C++ (which these days means "all" operating system APIs). Think native UI controls, native hardware driver access, native access to
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by pilif 5y ago
there is pcntl_exec for that. Unfortunately it can be (and often is) disabled and thus not widely used.
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by pilif 5y ago
Sanitisation is relying on parsing (tricky as we see here) and on removing "special" characters (meaning that some otherwise valid values can't be represented) What you should be using is quoting and escaping for the specific
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by pilif 5y ago
Rosetta is fast unless any kind of JITed code is involved. A lot of Java development is happening with tools written in Java for the JVM which is relying a lot on JIT compilation. The JetBrains IDEs were bordering unusable under Rosetta. Th
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by pilif 5y ago
I love ssh certificates for access and indeed we're using this for accessing our production network using a few small pieces of home-grown infrastructure. However, there's one big issue nobody is talking about: There is zero suppo
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by pilif 5y ago
Reminds me of back in 2004 when I wanted to hook a 30” Cinema Display (the only display I knew at that size and resolution back then) up to a PC. The same boy way to power a display of that resolution was over a dual link DVI connection whi
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by pilif 5y ago
according to the wikipedia article, the ship had 13 metric tons of gold loaded. One kg is currently worth about USD 62K, so the whole load of the ship must have been worth way more than 4m (~USD 800M in todays USD, so about half back when t
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by pilif 5y ago
Here in Switzerland it's even worse because it depends on where in Switzerland you're formatting the number (French parts have different rules from German parts) and whether you're formatting a number as a plain number or a m
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by pilif 5y ago
I am familiar with the looks of this device as it’s in use at two locations I‘m providing in-family support for. At least in those two cases (different ISPs), it’s possible to turn the device into bridging mode
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by pilif 5y ago
I'm relying on search history in my Google Workspace account every single day. It's very convenient and I have a feeling most people would agree with that. What is a double-edged sword is how this history is being used. If it&#x27
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by pilif 5y ago
my guess is that this adds stuff to the global object which has backwards compatibility concerns. And with every public API: Once you add it, you can't really hope to ever change it and even bug-fixes could be breaking some user's
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by pilif 5y ago
If I was in the position of having to review that PR, I would probably flat-out reject it and ask for just the minimal changes required. I don't see how adding an additional capture framework backend would require meaningful changes to
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by pilif 5y ago
It might help the reviewer to not flat-out reject the PR because it gives them a fame of mind as to what the intention of the change is.
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by pilif 5y ago
This commit in the PR https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5875/commits/8... provides an excellent example of why commit messages matter. This is more than 1000 lines diff to the build syst
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by pilif 5y ago
highly usable but also EOLed and thus without security updates for more than a year now. Aside of the security issues, I think it's asking a lot of a third party releasing a new product to ship with support for OSes not supported by th
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by pilif 5y ago
your grocer does not have the ability to retroactively change the food you've bought from them. A VPN provider can "accidentally" enable logging prior to the sale
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by pilif 5y ago
>Wouldn't the ownership of the server be easy to trace back to you? yes. Which is why I said that this helps to shield your traffic from other people in your current local network (think: coffee-shop) which is one use-case of a VP
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by pilif 5y ago
which is true until one or more of their owners decide to sell their shares.
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by pilif 5y ago
if only there was any proof of this actually being the case and there not being some "accidental" debug log enabled, or some other network level component having "accidental" access to the keys. There's just no good
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by pilif 5y ago
Good old Nedit. I used that for two or three years over ssh with an X11 server running in Windows to do most of my development. Nedit was very fast, had a familiar user interface (to a person raised on dos/windows) and still had a ton
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by pilif 5y ago
their latest updates to their project management features[1] launched as part of the "new" issues are totally going in that direction though. I'm unsure as to whether that's a good thing or not. 1) https://git
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by pilif 5y ago
Or as a vehicle to play doom. https://twitter.com/gegy1000/status/1469714451716882434
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by pilif 5y ago
Based on my experience I disagree. If there is a native data type that represents your data, you should really use it. It will make sure that incorrect data is detected at the time of storage rather than at some indeterminate time in the fu
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by pilif 5y ago
I heard the same arguments back in 2006 with Vista, in 2009 with 7 and later with 8 and 8.1. And I’m still hearing every year that next year is the year of the Linux Desktop
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by pilif 5y ago
also, logical replication has some issues that make it not necessarily perfect for cross version migration: schema changes and sequence usages are not synced. While schema changes are probably not much of a problem because that's somet
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by pilif 5y ago
If this is using the macOS native virtualization, then, yes, networking will be broken while a vpn is active. This is a known issue that also was present in the Docker for Apple Silicon public preview where they eventually fixed it by dropp
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by pilif 5y ago
A /128 is a single address and given the state of v6 NAT that means it can’t be shared with other machines in your network which means only your router will be able to access the v6 internet without the router being a proxy and you usi
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by pilif 5y ago
You need a /48 (or /56) if you want to do your own subnetting and keep using SLAAC (which is the default way for assigning v6 addresses and detecting address conflicts). A /64 is not enough for that. You can still create your

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