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Programming the Windows Firewall(tailscale.com)
3 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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Random Red Team(book.hashbang.sh)
3 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
I have 353 repos and 2146 contributions in the past year and haven't been accepted (yet!). It does seem to be random.
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The Weaponization of Copyright by Police Officers, the Need to Automate Fair Use(lumendatabase-org.medium.com)
3 points by smitop 5y ago|1 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
You actually can use SQLite on some browsers with WebSQL today. Unfortunately, WebSQL has been deprecated and is already removed from some browsers ( https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2202... ).
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“I just got a copyright claim for *TYPING ON MY KEYBOARD*”(twitter.com)
454 points by smitop 5y ago|173 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
There are phones that actually can give you software freedom. The Pinephone and Librem 5 can both run mainline Linux with very few blobs.
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by smitop 5y ago
Presumably most employment contracts/usage policies explicitly give consent to the employer to access any private data that is stored on their systems? That would seem like a reasonable thing for an employer to mandate.
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Justice Department Sought Reporter Records from Security Firm Proofpoint(zetter.substack.com)
2 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
You can use some Twitter search filters to see all of them: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A0xabad1dea%20%40github%2...
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by smitop 5y ago
It's possible to change that hardcoded limit. By default it is 256, but you can bring it all the way up to 2^64 with #![recursion_limit = "18446744073709551615"].
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Quantifying Copyright Reversion(pluralistic.net)
2 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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AI Explorables: big ideas in machine learning, simply explained(pair.withgoogle.com)
165 points by smitop 5y ago|72 comments
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Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about the Texas snowstorm(dailydot.com)
19 points by smitop 5y ago|1 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
That is the exact idea behind Abstract Wikipedia ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia ), the idea of which is to automatically generate prose from structured data in Wikidata ( https://www.wikid
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Sending Files with Taildrop(tailscale.com)
2 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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One Week of Libera Chat(libera.chat)
3 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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What is the use of “magic arguments” in Linux reboot system call?(unix.stackexchange.com)
2 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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Changes to YouTube’s Terms of Service(support.google.com)
3 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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Welcome to Libera Chat(libera.chat)
1425 points by smitop 5y ago|529 comments
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Avoiding the Frigid Hellscape of Online Marketing(soatok.blog)
4 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
The Rust graph is inaccurate since Rust uses FIXME instead of TODO. Almost all of the usage of "TODO" in rustc relates to the todo!() macro, usually to stub out parts of tests.
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by smitop 5y ago
This might be a way to make Google Doc's feature that allows copy/paste to be disabled ( https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2015/07/disable-down... ) to be more secure.
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by smitop 5y ago
Using SO data for purposes like that is allowed under the CC licence used. You don't even need to do any scraping, since you can download an offical data dump of all SO answers at https://archive.org/details/stacke
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by smitop 5y ago
There is work on integrating Cranelift into rustc ( https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift ) so that rustc can compile to bytecode for the Cranelift JIT.
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The Sisyphean Task of DNS Client Config on Linux(tailscale.com)
167 points by smitop 5y ago|85 comments
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by smitop 6y ago
> CNBC has learned This isn't new information. Google has already been saying this on a (very obscure) blog months ago: https://support.google.com/corporate-suppliers/announcements... They are changing over on
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by smitop 6y ago
Just got another email from them, apparently "the issue appears to have been resolved with Microsoft Azure". Looks like the problem is resolved
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by smitop 6y ago
Looks like this took down the national emergency alert system in Canada. I'm registered as an alert LMD (last mile distributor), and Pelmorex (corporation running the system) just emailed me to say "Please note that currently ther
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by smitop 6y ago
CloudFlare has a "Auto" TTL option, which is the default, and required to be used when reverse proxying through CloudFlare. There is nothing magical about "Auto" TTL, though: it appears to literally always be 299 seconds

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