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by ptx 8mo ago
Well... Right here on the the very first website Tim Berners-Lee talks about how to build interactive web applications (here called "gateways"), albeit server-side rather than client-side: https://info.cern.ch/hype
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by ptx 8mo ago
Couldn't they simply switch to zip files? Those have an index and allow opening individual files within the archive without reading the whole thing. Also, I don't understand how using XML makes for a brittle schema and how SQL wou
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by ptx 8mo ago
> My cursory (lol, get it?) understanding may be incorrect. I don't get it. Is this a reference to database cursors? Or is it implying that the blog post was AI generated?
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FreeBSD Status Report Fourth Quarter 2025(freebsd.org)
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by ptx 8mo ago
Apparently "AI is speeding up the onboarding process", they say. But isn't that because the onboarding process is about learning, and by having an AI regurgitate the answers you can complete the process without learning anyth
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by ptx 8mo ago
> this new method is possible to work because FreeBSD switched from Heimdal Kerberos implementation to MIT Kerberos in FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE … and I am really glad that FreeBSD finally did it. What was the problem with Heimdal? The Free
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by ptx 8mo ago
Is that safe? Microsoft's policy [1] seems to say that anyone can publish an update to a package as long as it passes "an automated process" which checks that it's "not known to be malicious". [1] https:/
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by ptx 8mo ago
Is this the same compiler that famously spurred Richard Stallman to create GCC [1] when its author "responded derisively, stating that the university was free but the compiler was not"? It seems to be free now anyway, since 2005 a
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by ptx 8mo ago
To avoid confusion, since you say the process is reversible, you might want to use the term pseudonymization rather than anonymization .
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by ptx 8mo ago
Ah, yes, I misread it as the newer versions shipping an older notepad.
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by ptx 8mo ago
They bought the permission to make changes to customer machines that had been granted to the seller by the customer. If it's just a sale of the source code, there's no problem. But what is bought is usually the pre-existing update
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by ptx 8mo ago
If a stranger walks up to the chef in a restaurant and offers to pay them to put some mystery stuff in the food, or someone walks up in during a surgery and asks if they can make some incisions and inject some mystery stuff, would you (as a
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by ptx 8mo ago
What? Did they accidentally revert the improvements they already made to previously shipped versions of the old notepad program?
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by ptx 8mo ago
Windows had APIs for this sort of thing added in Vista, but they're now deprecating it "due to its complexity and various nuances which developers need to consider": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wind
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by ptx 8mo ago
So they have "made a choice" to keep Claude ad-free, they say. "Today [...] Claude’s only incentive is to give a helpful answer", they say. But there's nothing that suggests that they can't make a different cho
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by ptx 8mo ago
How does the API know that it's a secret, though? That's what's not clear to me from the blog post. Can I e.g. create a customer named PLACEHOLDER and get a customer actually named SECRET ?
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by ptx 8mo ago
Yes... but... Presumably the proxy replaces any occurrence of the placeholder with the real key, without knowing anything about the context in which the key is used, right? Because if it knew that the key was to be used for e.g. HTTP basic
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by ptx 8mo ago
> the thing you were running was generally expected to do the double-fork hack itself and otherwise do 'well behaved daemon' things FreeBSD has a general utility that does this for you, daemon(8): https://man.freeb
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by ptx 8mo ago
Kay Sievers' Wikipedia page cites a blog post by Lennart Poettering [1] which says that systemd was designed in "close cooperation" with Kay Sievers and that Harald Hoyer was also involved, so it seems pretty clear that he&#x
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by ptx 8mo ago
Who made it up, then? The official-looking website at https://varlink.org doesn't give any information about who the authors are, as far as I can tell, but the screenshots show the username "kay". There's a g
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by ptx 8mo ago
> the strict BeyondCorp definition The NetBird docs [1] talk about "Zero Trust" being defined by NIST SP 800-207 and NIST SP 1800-35. This is also one of the definitions Wikipedia describes, with only one (uncited) mention of
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by ptx 8mo ago
> One of my personal highlights of FOSDEM 2026 was a wonderfully simple yet brilliant idea by the Mozilla Foundation: giving away free cookies. They had an opportunity there to restore the "Cookies are delicious delicacies" m
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by ptx 8mo ago
Python has an elected steering council and core team. The governance process explicitly tries to avoid conflict of interest by disallowing more than two steering council members working for the same employer. See PEP 13 [1]. By contrast, .N
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by ptx 8mo ago
Lua's variables being global by default seems somewhat error-prone.
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by ptx 9mo ago
> Win32 with no dark theme Couldn't this "dark theme" stuff be mapped onto the user-configurable Win32 color schemes that have been there since the beginning? Did Microsoft break it in Windows 11?
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by ptx 9mo ago
The latest version of OpenOffice (4.1.x) is over a decode old, aside from security releases with "bug fixes and little enhancements", so it's not surprising that it hasn't improved in the last decade. LibreOffice is the
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by ptx 9mo ago
That first sentence starts with "In 2022,", so presumably the numbers are different now, but I couldn't find anything in the article about how things have changed in the last four years.
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by ptx 9mo ago
It's also both a larger download and slower to start than Java, which is not known for being light and nimble. In fact, PowerShell is so slow that you can both compile and run the equivalent C# program before PowerShell finishes launch
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by ptx 9mo ago
This is like trying to fix SQL injection by limiting the permissions of the database user instead of using parameterized queries (for which there is no equivalent with LLMs). It doesn't solve the problem.
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by ptx 9mo ago
> "draft" clearly implies a human will will double-check. The wording does imply this, but since the whole point was to free the human from reading all the details and relevant context about the case, how would this double-ch

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