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by pstch 7y ago
I think you missed the point of my comment : as long as JavaScript is enabled, the website can bypass the "Video decoding API" and just show the media in a <canvas> tag. Of course, we might be able to find a middle ground be
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by pstch 7y ago
"Disabling autoplay" for silent videos is impossible whenever Javascript is enabled, and it usually is. What's the difference (to the user) between an animated <canvas> and a silent video ?
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by pstch 7y ago
This is often repeated, but I wonder if it's completely true. I'd completely understand if it was harder, and more expensive, to find such a control group, but it surprises me that it would be "impossible". I can think o
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by pstch 7y ago
The idea is to assume good faith. If it can't be done, I think not answering is the best course of action.
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by pstch 7y ago
They had to be shut off during heatwaves mainly to limit the raise in temperature of nearby rivers, due to the river heating, the limited flow of the rivers, and the raise in the reactor's egress water temperature. It is not clear if t
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by pstch 7y ago
> €50 notes, sure, but Europe is backwards - I saw a €200 note once when buying a ferry ticket To add to your anecdote, on the Europe part, in a few years in Europe I've seen a few 500€ and 200€ notes (the last one a few days ago, u
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by pstch 7y ago
Minor nitpick: I think you meant to write "<command> | sudo tee". And a question on the comment - In general (I don't have a lot of benchmarking experience, I did a few of them and used lower quartile to reduce the impa
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by pstch 7y ago
This doesn't only apply to minimalists. I don't consider myself a minimalist, but I do consider advertising as a psychic attack. This is how many justify disabling billboards and ad blocking : they are merely defending themselves.
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by pstch 7y ago
> So, as far as password spray is concerned – your password doesn’t matter – as long as it isn’t in the “most common passwords” top 50 list! That's a matter of point of view. Microsoft may not care that users have passwords in the t
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by pstch 7y ago
> How would this work with apps that create things that a user would expect to persist, like downloads (kept after uninstalling a browser) or office documents (kept after uninstalling the office suite), or media production apps, IDEs, et
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by pstch 7y ago
I stand corrected. There is something wrong in Wikipedia, as he's cited as working for Red Hat since 2011, while systemd was created in 2010. I suppose that nobody could find another source than him saying that he works for Red Hat in
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by pstch 7y ago
I feel bad for having inserted myself into this discussion. I think I'm actually agreeing with you here, in that there's nothing that shows that IBM couldn't preserve the culture of its acquisition. I just wanted to comment o
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by pstch 7y ago
The engineering culture is not solely determined by the innovations the company has come up with, so I don't really see the point of the question you ask, with regards to the statement you quoted. When you say that "most of the in
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by pstch 7y ago
I don't see how TOTP/2FA can avoid the problem of user password re-use. The password has still been reused, whether an extra layer of authentication is used or not. Maybe you can say that it mitigates it, but I don't think it
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by pstch 7y ago
> Straight up she was asked about her plans to start a family. They didn't want to hire someone who might cost them maternity pay down the line In France, you can lie to that question without legal repercussions, even when currently
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by pstch 7y ago
True, in the current situation, we can only "limit" fingerprinting. This is the result of the characteristics of the sandbox we use for the Web. Remove Javascript, and most of these problems go away. This is why I stay attached to
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by pstch 7y ago
Although they aren't a field as such (if I'm remembering well, because they don't form a division algebra), sedenions (16-tuples, and also further applications of the Cayley-Dickson construction) do have zero divisors (84 of
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by pstch 8y ago
I have even seen emails rejected when using a simple dash, or because it was not hosted by a well-known mail service provider, and even because "your email should be of the form <name>.<surname>@<website>" (yes,
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by pstch 8y ago
It allows me to boot my kernel and initramfs directly from the SPI flash chip that stores my laptop's BIOS (coreboot), which is very useful. My goal is to decrypt my disk from code stored on the motherboard (and physically write-protec
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by pstch 8y ago
> I think Linux distros could do this since they have packaging guidelines and huge software repositories. Many already do such things (most Desktop Environments provide a shell with some kind of software category menu).
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by pstch 8y ago
Encrypted ZFS with FreeBSD is not actually native ZFS encryption, it uses GELI to handle the encryption part (which may be why it's bad at handling power losses).
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by pstch 8y ago
The developers intend to merge it in the mainline kernel. There are multiple advantages for having a VPN module be in-kernel, such as closer access to network/crypto APIs and better performance.
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by pstch 8y ago
I'm curious, and I didn't see any other mention of it in the thread : why do you consider `lambda` to be flawed ? Is it because it has the same scoping rules as functions, and that you consider these scoping rules inappropriate fo
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by pstch 8y ago
> Passing a variable to a function means passing a particular namespace binding from the caller's namespace to the function's local namespace. I don't think that's true, as the function will never be able to change th
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by pstch 8y ago
I don't find it weird for a password manager webextension to use a native binary, as password managers may be used in other contexts than browsers, and as it allows to use well-established cryptographic tools. Of course, serializing to
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by pstch 8y ago
> Any future sales of weather data would be a long way away and would require me to prove out its usefulness, something that hasn't been done with 'virtual weather stations' yet (but has with the raw barometer data, darn)
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by pstch 8y ago
Yes, I was referring to "formation continue". It is true that if you register of your own, you always get to "formation initiale". However, most sources on Internet state that "formation initiale" is only for p
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by pstch 8y ago
The rules on this are a bit complicated, though : officially, this price does not apply to anyone who has worked more than two years since their last diploma. Persons in this situation may have to pay thousands of euros (1k/2k per year
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by pstch 9y ago
> (Why don't they talk this up for PR? Because the fact that this is "expired" food would have to come up, and the public will never bother to read and understand what I just wrote above.) The deals for grocery chains are
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by pstch 9y ago
But then, why should particular individuals capture such massive capital when their success has more to with circumstance than anything else ? It's also funny how we make heroes out of corporations themselves, not only their heads : te

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