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by robotmay 5y ago
Hadn't heard of Eternal Terminal before, but I use mosh quite regularly - for portability I remote into my home network via Wireguard on an iPad Pro, using mosh inside Blink shell ( https://blink.sh ) to connect to my machine
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by robotmay 5y ago
Is that possible to do using CSS with our existing markup? Currently we prepend the � using ::before. I imagine we could probably hide the existing character and shuffle the � over where it should be, but it might need some testing across d
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by robotmay 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Our primary use-case when deciding on it was to flag these up in a code-review situation, to prevent malicious content being submitted in merge requests to unsuspecting projects. We found this made it stand out enou
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by robotmay 5y ago
So far we're just detecting individual bidi characters, but looking at characters in their greater context could be quite interesting. This would seem like quite a good use-case for machine-learning too, if you wanted to get super into
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by robotmay 5y ago
Ah yes you're right - looks like that can be handled with CSS: https://www.w3.org/International/articles/vertical-text/ . Although from what I've seen most Japanese websites tend to be left-to-right
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by robotmay 5y ago
Yeah I'm not opposed to adding highlighting to them, and we are investigating how to do it, but it was less clear-cut than the bidi characters (which are totally invisible when rendered). I think we'll want to make it a bit more c
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by robotmay 5y ago
This was a pretty interesting thing to mitigate - we added some support around it to GitLab after it was reported to us, which shipped in the latest security release: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/com
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by robotmay 5y ago
I've been wanting to delete Facebook for years but my partner convinced me to keep it - but now I haven't even logged in in a year and nobody noticed, so I feel like I can get away with it now! Reddit and Twitter I already nuked l
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by robotmay 5y ago
In the UK at least, as long as you meet the requirements for road safety (which are remarkably little, for custom cars), you can register custom vehicles on the road. We have a wonderful history of insane people building cars in their sheds
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by robotmay 5y ago
It's tempting fate to say it, but I've not fallen for a scam, or a phishing attempt, and I've been subjected to many. Natural distrust and cynicism perhaps. I don't answer the phone to unknown numbers, I don't click
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by robotmay 5y ago
I think the British and Americans have a lot in common which likely makes us equally susceptible, but perhaps some of the reasons are slightly different. To overly generalise two entire countries: British: tend to defer to authority, tend t
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by robotmay 5y ago
Yeah NatWest are majorly guilty of this. They used to phone me with a script that was like: NW: "Hello, am I speaking to <robotmay>?" Me: "Who's asking?" NW: "I'm calling from the NatWest fraud team,
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by robotmay 5y ago
Yeah spam calls are a nuisance in this country. Oddly I've gotten far fewer recently. My technique for answering unknown numbers seems to get me removed from a lot of lists: Pick up the phone, but stay silent. If it's an auto-dial
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by robotmay 5y ago
Hah yes I was trying to think of a way of describing that - our inability to be rude to people, or speak up about something that seems wrong. That should certainly be added to the list.
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by robotmay 5y ago
I imagine this is weirdly easy to socially engineer your way around, as a scammer. "Oh you can ignore that, we're a subsidiary department of the bank so it shows up differently" etc
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by robotmay 5y ago
Ooh we're still the capital of something. Personally I think this comes down to ineffective education in many cases. Yes, some of these scams are getting quite impressively advanced, and they tend to target older people who are declini
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by robotmay 5y ago
The Honda E is pretty cool and a good step forward for them, but it's pretty weird in a few places (the camera mirrors are pretty crap, range is dire etc). They could probably turn their fortunes around overnight by redesigning the res
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by robotmay 5y ago
I still love writing Ruby. I suspect I probably always will, in fact, and I use it as my system scripting language over Python and the like. It has always made sense to me and I enjoy it being a part of my day-job too. If I need to write so
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by robotmay 5y ago
I really like the bits of nostalgia in Lower Decks. Riker is hilarious in it and Frakes seems to have had fun with it.
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by robotmay 5y ago
I think I could have forgiven Enterprise most things, but not the intro music. It still winds me up even today because it aged so badly compared to the orchestral arrangements of the 90s shows. I do agree though - it could have been a very
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by robotmay 5y ago
I think if Seth had been allowed to run a "proper" Star Trek, it'd have helped temper his humour a little and he'd have had a really positive impact on the universe. Recent Star Treks have taken themselves far too seriou
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by robotmay 5y ago
Honestly the only Star Trek I've enjoyed since Voyager is Lower Decks, which is the first one that actually captures some of the fun again. The Orville feels more like Star Trek than any of the recent films or Discovery. Maybe it'
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by robotmay 5y ago
Most mead I’ve had is similar percentage-wise to wine, yeah. I’m sure it’s possible to fluctuate it up and down, much like sake, depending on the recipe.
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by robotmay 5y ago
The difference between a spiced and non-spiced mead is pretty obvious, but I must admit I haven’t paid enough attention to the recipes of different spiced meads to tell them apart based on spice content.
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by robotmay 5y ago
$1k is basically nothing to a business compared to the cost of paying some muppet to write 50 SD cards at short notice. Especially as it’s a one-off cost. At my previous job we’d have recouped the cost within a couple of months at the most,
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by robotmay 5y ago
I actually had a need for this at my last job - I first heard about this 2-3 years ago and we would have loved to have it. At the time I worked for a company building music studios, and we had at least one IOT device in every room. Commissi
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by robotmay 5y ago
Great application. There’s a lot of good open-source tools for gaming PC devices on Linux (such as OpenRGB) that put the official tools on Windows to shame. And they universally have boring, practical GUIs that aren’t branded for rad gamerz
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by robotmay 5y ago
I came across a racing pigeon in Sidmouth once, presumably it had stopped for a rest/food, but I was amazed by how easy it was to handle - I held out my hand once I saw it had a ring and it just hopped right up. Either that or I'm
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by robotmay 5y ago
Sadly I don't think PETA can be used as a reliable reference for anything any more, due to the extremist nature of their communication/actions. Not everything is as black and white as they like to claim. However I do agree that, i
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by robotmay 5y ago
The reference to helping thousands of lives will likely be in relation to their use as carrier-pigeons during war time - we certainly used them a lot in WW1, as far as I know, so wouldn't surprise me if it was a reference to that.

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