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by pmontra 8mo ago
You are correct but only in part. Claude did tell me where to fiddle with CSS, but its suggestions where not always on spot. It cut the time I spent on it and maybe it made it possible, because I wouldn't have dissected the source code
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by pmontra 8mo ago
ProxyJump is a newer functionality. There used to be only ProxyCommand. ProxyJump is a shortcut for the usual way to use ProxyCommand to connect through a bastion host but ProxyCommand is more flexible. For example with ProxyCommand you can
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by pmontra 8mo ago
Thank you. I finally looked into project.el and I started using C-x p f, C-x p b. It was already configured by default. Lazy me.
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by pmontra 8mo ago
About the UI I become "they" but installing the GNOME extensions that I need to make my desktop look like 99% of what I would it to look and behave. It takes a few minutes to get to 80%, a few hours to get to 95% and days (a few m
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by pmontra 8mo ago
WordPress is from 2003 and has been very successful since the beginning. FaceBook is from 2004. Both were PHP apps because the late 90s and early 2000s were the years of PHP CMSes and ecommerce platforms. Even if FaceBook did not happen PHP
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by pmontra 8mo ago
I think that WordPress is still big enough to keep PHP alive. Furthermore, the sheer number of developer that started coding web apps with PHP in year 2000 plus minus 5 years is large enough to give PHP a critical mass for the next 20 years
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by pmontra 8mo ago
I'm not sure that I'd want the OS to kill my browser while I'm working within it. Of course the browser is the largest process in my system, so when I notice that memory is running low I restart it and I gain some 15 GB. Basi
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by pmontra 8mo ago
In Italy it's extremely usual to refer to the greatests of the great people of those ages by their given name: Leonardo, Galileo, Dante, Michelangelo. It's testament to their greatness. There is only one Dante that matters, so the
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by pmontra 8mo ago
I provide a data point * You don't do anything involving realtime image, video, or sound processing? I don't * You don't want ML-powered denoising and other enhancements for your webcam, Maybe, but I don't care. The webc
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by pmontra 8mo ago
That was a really long menu. I do use "Save Link As…” when the link is obviously a file to download and I don't want it in the default folder. I think that I never used “Set Image as Desktop Background…” in all my life. That'
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by pmontra 8mo ago
When fixing bugs, yes. When designing an app not so much because you realize many unexpected things while writing the code and seeing how it behaves. Often the original test code would test something that is never built. It's obvious f
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by pmontra 8mo ago
Yes, in theory that's correct but show me a kid that never did something against the will of their parents. If something is forbidden it's something worth investigating. Furthermore there will always be another kid with a phone to
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by pmontra 8mo ago
Is that the direction of causality or it's the other way around? Maybe people buy larger screens because they want to watch Netflix or TikTok on their phone more comfortably than on smaller screens. I do love small and light phones (an
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by pmontra 8mo ago
Emails with verification codes do not get delivered. > Have a verification code instead? > Enter the code generated from the link sent to [...] > We are experiencing delivery issues with some email providers and are working to reso
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by pmontra 8mo ago
My first dystopic thought was immigration counters at airports /s
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by pmontra 8mo ago
Some developers started asking a custumer of mine for a MCP server. They don't have one. They have an API on Postman (docs and examples) so they are exporting it as JSON and sending it to those developers. It might work but it's n
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by pmontra 8mo ago
I think that I open files in very few cases in my job. I read and write PDF, xlsx, csv, yaml and I write docx. Those have their own formats and we use them to communicate with other apps or with users. Everything else goes in a PostgreSQL d
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A Dish of Neurons Playing Doom Is the Wildest Thing I've Seen in Ages(gizmodo.com)
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by pmontra 8mo ago
We had some buildings like that in the center of Milan. I think that the last one has been restored in the late 90s.
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by pmontra 8mo ago
> Reaction 3: how would this ever be enforced? Would they outlaw downloading distributions They can outlaw you from using those distributions and/or scare the maintainers so there won't be distributions anymore. And if you want
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by pmontra 8mo ago
This is what I have to do for online payments. Credit cards, which are US companies, use 3D secure. It's a 6 digits PIN plus a code sent to me by SMS. Amazon stores the card data and very seldom asks me for those PINs. One bank gave me
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by pmontra 8mo ago
Because passkey managers have no idea what a service is using its passkey for. They could warn that deleting a passkey could make all sort of bad things happen, but for most services it will be only the loss of access. What the alternative
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by pmontra 8mo ago
This https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_customer_authentication
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by pmontra 8mo ago
This is asked again and again. Apparently you guys in the USA or in other parts of the world are still lucky, but in Europe banks must be compliant with regulation that more or less force them to do 2FA through their app with the biometric
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by pmontra 8mo ago
If you have a Mac you can follow the steps at the end of the post and reproduce the results https://paultendo.github.io/posts/confusable-vision-visual-s... I don't have a Mac.
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by pmontra 8mo ago
Step 2 is scan your face, step 3 is upload a photo of yourself. They seem to be the same thing.
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by pmontra 8mo ago
Why this service and not one of the several incumbents in this space? By the way, the Why link in the footer links to https://gitbusiness.com/#howitworks
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by pmontra 8mo ago
In the case of most of those business it's only because they must mark checkboxes on a regulation compliance sheet and/or deflect blame on someone else. The problem is that this is a never ending spiral of regulation after regulat
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by pmontra 8mo ago
Or make sideloading available only after 24 hours since enabling it. I would enable it on my new devices and wait 24 hours before installing F-Droid and other apps. Not a problem. Scammers might wait one day too but it decreases the chances
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by pmontra 8mo ago
The problem is to know what to write. I spent a whole day yesterday to understand what the problem was with a PDF file we were failing to process. Once I understood the cause it took one line of code to fix it and another dozen of lines for

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