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by rietta 8d ago
I’m still terrified how normal people are going to navigate being locked out of their email account because their device that was their passkey is no longer accessible and there’s no backup solution to restore access. I’ve similar issues ev
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by rietta 8d ago
I remember when open source software, and Linux in particular, was the threat to the world according to Microsoft execs.
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by rietta 11d ago
That does seem strange. So he has been experimenting seeking something. I have kept the same LTS installations sometimes until the bitter end of the support cycle.
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by rietta 11d ago
What should we call them then? I certainly used the term code gate to refer to a code review process prior to the mainstream use of LLMs.
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Flock Cameras and "What Do You Have to Hide"(rietta.com)
2 points by rietta 11d ago|0 comments
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by rietta 11d ago
Neat! I had switched some projects to SeaweedFS's Docker image. It worked well. This is good to know there is a successor open source project that would require no code changes to use. Will evaluate.
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by rietta 12d ago
The site is safe. It has been a trademark of Aaron Patterson a core Ruby on Rails contributor for decades.
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by rietta 12d ago
Unrelated to the content of this post, I fixed the website header to be much smaller and unobtrusive while reading. Tested on my iPhone and in the Firefox responsive simulator as promised in the comments there.
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by rietta 12d ago
I had not even seen Aaron's post. Thank you for sharing that link.
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RubyGems Open Source Supply Chain Security and OpenAI(rietta.com)
45 points by rietta 12d ago|6 comments
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by rietta 16d ago
Isn't that the truth! I remember it very, very well. Vividly even.
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by rietta 16d ago
The promise of React Native was easing development burden from the web app to the native app. It makes sense if they are just using coding agents to cut out the framework and just go native. That was my thought when I saw the headline and t
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by rietta 16d ago
I didn't go with the scroll up but did drastically shrink the header and make a hamburger menu. I still like having it sticky because many a time I have been on a page and forgot who I was reading. Hopefully what is up now is a good tr
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by rietta 16d ago
HN has moved on, but I wanted to come back again and say thank you to you and those who replied below. I just pushed an update to the website that makes the header much more mobile device friendly.
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by rietta 16d ago
I love the understated "some time ago" linking to a 2004 blog post. Raymond has been at this a long time :-)
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by rietta 17d ago
Fascinating! I wonder if cloth artifacts, such as the Shroud of Turin, would also exhibit similar signatures. Though I have read some extremely compelling multi-disciplinary evidence exist to its authenticity to 1st century Judea, not a for
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by rietta 18d ago
I have other disks, including personal files, that are not mass market. Including some very fun early "Rietta Solutions" programs by my learning days. I was very early mimicking the look and feel of commercial shareware at the tim
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by rietta 18d ago
The disk appears visually in good shape. It has been stored all these years in the original box in an air conditioned basement. I am not seeing any white material or other obvious corrosion. However, I can confirm that my first attempt to r
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by rietta 18d ago
I wanted to say I really, really appreciate your comment here John. libvips is a very useful tool set and maintaining it is certainly a bigger public challenge than I ever took on. I just wish the Ruby on Rails community had hardened their
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by rietta 18d ago
Normalize into flat xml that I could then parse in Nokogiri. Edit for clarity: I am a Rubyist at heart so I reach for Ruby for almost all of my automation, ML, and even now AI stuff. Fro a very long time, I have been able to use CLI LibreOf
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by rietta 18d ago
This is awesome! I have used LibreOffice (and Open Office) extensively for decades now. It is my real office suite I use for real work and real business accounting tasks. Yes, I am very well aware that Calc is different than Excel but it ca
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by rietta 19d ago
Neat! Thank you for the info on that one. Bookmarked! Before I spend well over $100 importing that device, I previously was thinking of brining up a 2001 era motherboard with a USB stack and can natively host the drives, but the 486 that ha
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Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
34 points by rietta 19d ago|44 comments
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by rietta 20d ago
I am working an a fictional world set 1800 years in the future. A whole subplot is the digital resurrection of 1990s Microsoft Encarta encylopedia which was the first time in a millennia they had a glimpse into this time beyond fragmentary
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by rietta 21d ago
Another type confusion vulnerability! Interesting.
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by rietta 21d ago
Thank you. I will work on that.
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by rietta 22d ago
Thanks for the heads up. The navigation header does not collapse as I never liked hamburger menus but it should be more than two lines. Works more than that on my iPhone 16. What size is yours? I will pull it up in the Firefox simulator nex
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by rietta 22d ago
I agree. And unstated in this write up is the direct upload route. Even if your Cloudflare was perfect, once the attacker got the preflight they send the binary file up to S3 directly and then hit the variant route directly. The first code
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by rietta 22d ago
Correct, which is how the ActiveStorage gem was patched. After this, Rails raises a Vips::Error: VipsForeignLoad exception on an attempted variant render of a malicious file. I plan on writing a technical detail post soon with some more cod
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by rietta 22d ago
I am not sure, but my read on the original disclosure is no. libvips itself has a variant processor for matlab v5 files, which the exploit took advantage of.

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