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by progval 1y ago
> So, I tell the server to drop traffic from the IPs that were scraping. Problem solved! Then immediately I start seeing a large number of attempts from different IPs. Residential IPs in the US: they're buying residential proxies.
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Phasing out Bazaar code hosting(discourse.ubuntu.com)
2 points by progval 1y ago|0 comments
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by progval 1y ago
Might, of course. And in my experience it's what happens most times I ask a LLM to do something I can't trivially do myself.
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by progval 1y ago
The other side of the coin is that if you give it a precise input, it will fuzzily interpret it as something else that is easier to solve.
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by progval 1y ago
> written with a fair bit of feature flags I see you use Cargo feature for this. One thing to be aware of is Cargo's feature unification ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/features.html#feat... ), i
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by progval 1y ago
Researchers' blog post: https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/branch-privilege-i... Paper: https://comsec.ethz.ch/wp-content/files/bprc_sec25.pdf
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by progval 1y ago
Installable versions of Windows apps still bundle most of the libraries like portable apps do, because Windows does not have a package manager to install them.
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by progval 1y ago
Source?
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The EU is introducing an energy label and requirements for phones sold in the EU(tech.lgbt)
3 points by progval 1y ago|0 comments
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by progval 1y ago
Archived repository: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory... You can download it as a Git repository from https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/vault/git
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Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds data loss and performance issues(tomshardware.com)
123 points by progval 1y ago|87 comments
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by progval 2y ago
The toolchain (eg. compiler) reads the time from an environment variable if present, instead of the actual time. https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/
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by progval 2y ago
> There have been security vulnerabilities for example that only existed in the Debian-based package of software. Any examples more recent than CVE-2008-0166?
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by progval 2y ago
Debian didn't "divert engineering resources" to this project. People, some of whom happen to be Debian developers, decided to work on it for their own reasons. If the Reproducible Builds effort didn't exist, it doesn&#x2
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by progval 2y ago
2FA only protects login. If you're already logged in, someone with access to the computer can just copy the session token. Or instruct the email client that is already running to dump all your emails to a local file.
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by progval 2y ago
On SourceHut, git blame is available while logged out, but the link to blame pages is only showed to logged-in users. That may be a recent change to fight scrapers.
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by progval 2y ago
git blame is always expansive to compute; and precomputing (or caching) it for every revision of every file is going to consume a lot of storage.
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by progval 2y ago
That doesn't work if other teams want to apply their own cURL patches, or update as soon as upstream publishes new security fixes without waiting for you.
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by progval 2y ago
Google (probably) doesn't consider selling Chrome to be good for them or they would have done it on their own.
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by progval 2y ago
The French translation of the Terms of Use says they apply both to services and products: > Vous ne pouvez pas utiliser les services et produits de Mozilla dans les buts suivants :
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by progval 2y ago
But a personal account is not Workspace, as Google Workspace is a B2B product, right?
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by progval 2y ago
There is no evidence in the article that it does. "Google is providing Pentagon with access to TensorFlow" means nothing because TensorFlow is open source.
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by progval 2y ago
You don't. Assuming that by "mod points" you mean badges, no badge listed on https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges can be earned by closing questions.
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by progval 2y ago
The EU decided not to: > In September 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that "the sale of a computer equipped with pre-installed software does not in itself constitute an unfair commercial practice within the me
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by progval 2y ago
Atom push is actually implemented. SWORDv2 (but not v3) is based on Atom Push, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWORD_(protocol) lists a few implementations. My employer maintains a SWORDv2 server, and we have a handf
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by progval 2y ago
Why not fork from the latest version? It's provided as AGPL, and you don't need to sign the CLA as you are not going to contribute to the upstream anyway.
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by progval 2y ago
And even with JS enabled, it now needs more network round-trips, which is noticeably slower, even with a very low-latency connection to the server. For example, loading https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/ takes 1.2s to d
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by progval 2y ago
Zulip seems to rely too heavily on Javascript to be indexable by search engines. I copy-pasted some sentences from month-old posts on https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/ into Google and Bing, and neither could find the posts.
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by progval 2y ago
"One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account (if you choose to control a machine account as well, that's fine, but it can only be used for running a machine)." https://docs.github.com&#x2F
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by progval 2y ago
Legal documents of the class action: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69503243/wendover-produ...

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