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by pimterry 6mo ago
All the battery life stats use Windows for testing. How does the equivalent Linux performance compare?
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The Internet Bug Bounty paused indefinitely(hackerone.com)
2 points by pimterry 6mo ago|0 comments
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by pimterry 6mo ago
EV no longer skips smartscreen either nowadays. I understand that was abused, so it's treated as the same as OV. Having a certificate allows the cert itself to accumulate trust (rather than each binary independently doing so) and provi
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by pimterry 7mo ago
> no Gov agency would ever mandate secure firmware Interestingly, Europe is about to try this: the Cyber Resilience Act is going to become obligatory for all sold digital products (hardware & software) by the end of 2027, with a bunc
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by pimterry 7mo ago
Europe is less industrial than in the past, but by every measure I can find many countries (especially Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Italy) are significantly more industrialized than the US - around 1.5x to 3x as much industrial activity and e
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Migrating from Heroku to Magic Containers(bunny.net)
36 points by pimterry 7mo ago|12 comments
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A New Home for React Hosted by the Linux Foundation(react.dev)
2 points by pimterry 8mo ago|0 comments
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by pimterry 8mo ago
For now, but accepted and planned for future releases by both Safari ( https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/160 ) & Firefox ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882
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Confusables.txt and NFKC disagree on 31 characters(paultendo.github.io)
60 points by pimterry 8mo ago|40 comments
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Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good(httptoolkit.com)
39 points by pimterry 8mo ago|18 comments
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by pimterry 8mo ago
Done! I wrote up both my concerns about this and how it affects app/app-store market competition, and how limitations like Play Integrity encourage apps to block usage on non-Google approved devices as well, since that's anti-comp
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by pimterry 8mo ago
This exists, https://www.sonofatailor.com/ for example. You put in a full set of your measurements, pick a type of garment, and they make it to fit and ship it, takes a couple of weeks or so. It is more expensive, but not i
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by pimterry 8mo ago
There's a big difference between 'presence detection' and 'tracking individuals'. Both in terms of tech and privacy impact.
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by pimterry 8mo ago
> for the Android case, as you use it from your bank's app, it would typically require some Google security assurances - so no Huawei phones allowed, for example I don't know about Huawei, but actually most (all?) of the bankin
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by pimterry 8mo ago
> “Breakup” seems a bit exaggerated considering the % of payment volume which might switch to the new system. Brazil introduced Pix in 2019, it's now the most used payment method for all transactions nationwide, ahead of both cards
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by pimterry 8mo ago
I've been using their DNS (and CDN) for a good while. Only positive experiences - fast & rock solid. I would start a new project with them again in future. I've also tried some of their new more experimental stuff (magic conta
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by pimterry 8mo ago
> the company has the money It's not about money. It's not a tradeoff in cost vs quality - it's a tradeoff in development speed. Shipping N separate native versions requires more development time for any given change: you
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by pimterry 9mo ago
> Similar experience in Spain, fill out 2-3 forms and it's done. This isn't true in Spain - all company creation requires a notary, among other awkward steps (although as of relatively recently in some cases you can now do this
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by pimterry 10mo ago
In terms of waiting times to see a doctor or specialist (the only cases where stats for the US seem to be available), the US looks a touch better than average in waiting times for healthcare within comparable countries: https://w
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by pimterry 10mo ago
It's definitely annoying if you work in enterprise, but on the flip side: the fact that these enterprise requirements exist is the main reason that TLS certificate configurability is possible at all, without which it would be dramatica
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by pimterry 10mo ago
Totally agree. Chiming in as another React dev: I really regret the last few years of choices React has made. I don't want a React-integrated BFF layer, even on greenfield projects, hooks are awful and the whole thing just gets more aw
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NLnet announces funding for 45 more open-source digital infrastructure projects(nlnet.nl)
34 points by pimterry 11mo ago|0 comments
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by pimterry 11mo ago
From the article: > These non-free software components are not required - you can compile and run Pebble watch software without them. This will always be the case. This seems like a reasonable balance. They're shipping default distr
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by pimterry 11mo ago
In the end, wasn't EncroChat a larger problem for the criminals than the governments? Once it became a big enough target it got taken down, and then quietly run by the police who collected everybody's messages for months before tr
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by pimterry 11mo ago
As of 2024, Maven had 1.5 trillion requests annually vs npm's 4.5 trillion - regardless of package count, 3x more downloads in total does make it a very big target (numbers from https://www.sonatype.com/state-of-the-sof
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by pimterry 11mo ago
How does this compare to Ghostfolio? Seems like it's exactly the same space & Ghostfolio has an existing substantial user base. Why should I choose one or the other?
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by pimterry 11mo ago
I found GitHub's old "how many visits to this status page have there been recently" graph on their status page to be an absurdly neat solution to this. Requires zero insight into other infrastructure, absolutely minimal autom
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by pimterry 1y ago
Personally, my one annoyance here is that it requires you to install a GitHub App that gives it direct write permissions to all code in your repos (in addition to issues, PRs, etc). I'd much rather give it read permissions, have it wor
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by pimterry 1y ago
Yes and, at the same time practical support within programming language standard libraries & common tooling lags way behind: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/http3-quic-open-source-support-...
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by pimterry 1y ago
It feels like React generally has an ongoing trajectory towards increasing complexity and features. For something that's effectively become the standard for frontend that's unfortunate. It would be great to have a simple reliable

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