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by spiffyk 11mo ago
I mean, if they've been regularly hitting said bug, does it matter how obscure it is? If I were using a tool that was broken for me personally, I'd be ditching it, too; with absolutely zero regard to whether the tool works for ot
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by spiffyk 11mo ago
Now if you make one for isup.me, you could call it isisupup.me
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by spiffyk 11mo ago
> All fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License, Version1.1. > This license is also available with a FAQ at: https://scripts.sil.org/OFL You get this by clicking the "LINE Seed LICENSE" link at the
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by spiffyk 11mo ago
This is introducing a friendlier profile management GUI for non-power-users, I believe.
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by spiffyk 1y ago
Good.
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by spiffyk 1y ago
> url "$my_url" parses a URL into its parts. I use this about once a month to pull data out of a URL, often because I don’t want to click a nasty tracking link. This sounds pretty useful! Coincidentally, I have recently learned
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by spiffyk 1y ago
Honestly, I like the motto in English: "Protect the user, the data, the truth." Programming—as opposed to medicine—has very little in terms of a relation to Latin (which shows clearly when TFA had to use ChatGPT to translate the m
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by spiffyk 1y ago
This post shows how versatile Zig's comptime is not only in terms of expressing what to pre-compute before the program ever runs, but also for doing arbitrary compile time bug-checks like these. At least to me, the former is a really
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by spiffyk 1y ago
This absolutely IS a reason to distrust a website claiming to be owned by a bank (or any other institution working with such sensitive assets). To be precise, such a website absolutely needs to have a certificate granted not only on the b
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by spiffyk 1y ago
Isn't this article conflating PWM flicker with cheap AC rectifiers causing LEDs to flicker because they periodically, at 50 Hz, get under the voltage they need to emit any light? I can't see why light fixtures in buildings—except
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by spiffyk 1y ago
> someone needs to write a DNS resolver from scratch That part is done. Knot Resolver [1] is being developed in Czechia and it is the resolver implementation powering DNS4EU [2]. [1]: https://www.knot-resolver.cz/ [2]:
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by spiffyk 1y ago
That's just the 443 port – the middlebox can't see anything else anyway. Were that an actual concern, we could standardize running DoT on 443 instead of the status quo 853, and negotiating the protocol via ALPN. The "dot&qu
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by spiffyk 1y ago
Alright so the article's tl;dr says to not use DoH as it merely reduces the number of peepers to one (which firstly is a good thing and secondly also offers protection against UDP spoofing attacks)... then goes on to recommending DoT,
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by spiffyk 1y ago
Browser extensions play by very different rules than websites already. The proposal is for the latter and I doubt it is going to affect the former, other than MAYBE an extra permanent permission.
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by spiffyk 1y ago
Of course you can. You can attach gdbserver to a running process on the remote machine and connect to it via your local gdb. Edit: Plus, if there was a crash, you can generally get a coredump, so you can inspect the exact state the program
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by spiffyk 1y ago
You could also write the same piece about pretty much any language, by the way. "Is it C?" – there is a big difference between C on Linux, C on Windows, C on an embedded chip doing real-time shenanigans... "Is it Java?"
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by spiffyk 1y ago
> I'm a bit confused. Is anyone's website currently being DDOS'd by scrapers for LLMs or is this a hypothetical? It is very real and the reason why Anubis has been created in the first place. It is not plain hostility towa
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by spiffyk 1y ago
More importantly, this will invalidate everyone jumping between Wi-Fi and mobile data, so that might be unworkable for many.
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Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)(noelberry.ca)
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by spiffyk 1y ago
If the society is built upon the assumption of its own infinite growth in terms of population—an assumption which is very blatantly nonsensical—then maybe it deserves to break down.
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by spiffyk 1y ago
I have personally always been kind of against using StackOverflow as a sole source for things. It is very often a good pointer, but it's always a good idea to cross-check with primary sources. Otherwise you get all sorts of inter
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by spiffyk 1y ago
> I guess these guys don't bother to verify, they just blast out AI slop and hope one of them hits? Yes. Unfortunately, some companies seem to pay out the bug bounty without even verifying that the report is actually valid. This can
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by spiffyk 1y ago
Well, it is not, but the three "sources" you mention are not worth much either, much like ChatGPT.
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by spiffyk 1y ago
A folder of plain text files will be sadness for performance. It's a file with basically line-wise entries, merge conflicts in that will be dead easy to resolve with Git locally. It won't be single-click in GitHub, but not too m
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by spiffyk 1y ago
I have no experience with FFI between C and Go, could anyone shed some light on this? They are both natively compiled languages – why would calls between them be much slower than any old function call?
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by spiffyk 1y ago
Ah, I forgot about North America being 120 V, that would indeed explain it. IIRC that's also why electric kettles are not really a thing there while being ubiquitous where I live.
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by spiffyk 1y ago
The time the dishwasher takes to wash the dishes is time you yourself can use for literally anything else. Not to mention the savings on the water bill and the much higher quality of the wash. The only objection I can think of is if you d
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by spiffyk 1y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted. This sounds like absolutely crucial advice for people in countries where dishwashers don't heat the water on their own. I've never seen one like that in my life, but yeah, sounds important.
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by spiffyk 1y ago
I would expect the inheritance pattern to be quite rare in performance-aware software design overall, since such constructs tend to be rather cache-unfriendly. So I would attribute the low number of references to inheritance being rare, ra
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by spiffyk 1y ago
I mean yes, you can pass functions as parameters in Zig, you can even define them inline if you wrap them in anonymous structs, but my point is that — in a language where this is supported somewhat properly — you would do this to improve

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