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by stblack 3y ago
Hey this is my repo! I'm happy to answer any questions arising. I must say: the lists we offer — 31 variants in all — result from fine work by all our curators. Some are extremely diligent and maintain their lists every day. It's
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by stblack 3y ago
Because hard-coding HTML in source code is supposedly better? What are you gonna do, recompile and ship new and different executables to all {1, 10, 100, 1000, …} of your customers or end users for each point release? WTF? That’s bananas. N
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by stblack 3y ago
Beyond Compare by Scooter Software. Beyond Compare is perfect software (in my not so humble opinion). I use it every day. https://www.scootersoftware.com/
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by stblack 4y ago
Definition of scalability: (Change in performance) over (the change in something else). As math: Scalability = δ Performance / δ x ... where x can be almost anything. Take note: performance == "throughput" in most ca
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by stblack 4y ago
I might be mistaken but this post is basically describing git-friendly which I've used for years, is 100% flawless, and you'd need to pry from my cold, dead hands. https://github.com/git-friendly/git-friendly
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by stblack 4y ago
Here's how this is playing out. * We need a way to serve image files. * I create an organization account, add an S3 bucket. * We serve images as our application grows. * Fast forward a few months, get an email saying, we're at 85%
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by stblack 4y ago
I envy you. I am using a simple S3 bucket to serve image files. We’re getting close to busting the free tier web traffic limit. I can’t figure out where, or how, to enter my boss’s credit card so we can start paying for the service. I’m not
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by stblack 4y ago
> Mathematica is ridiculously expensive This is something I used to believe. I am a hobbyist user. Mathematica was not required for my work or for any other interests outside personal curiosity and an ever growing love of math and scienc
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by stblack 4y ago
“ To be honest, their web client is probably less secure and trustworthy than other mail toolchains you could run locally. ” To be honest, you’re guessing amirite? Be honest. Bizarre statement, it’s like in-browser security doesn’t exist? T
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by stblack 4y ago
No. Proton mail is a paid service. It comes with the bridge. The bridge is not extra. Free-tier Proton Mail may charge for the bridge. I don’t know, I don’t use free-tier Proton Mail.
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by stblack 4y ago
Yes. Some people want to subscribe to a premium encrypted email provider so they can download that email locally so it can live perpetually in ever expanding sub folders on disk, in plaintext. These are the people who need Proton Bridge.
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by stblack 4y ago
Thank you for that. This goes without saying.
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by stblack 4y ago
To clarify because comments (so far) seem to ignore what Proton Bridge does. Proton Mail is web mail, like Gmail. That part is fine. You use Proton Bridge as a connector to mail client software. The thing that’s perhaps unclear is, Proton M
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by stblack 4y ago
Presently on iOS it appears this is an iPhone app that doesn't scale to iPad screen dimensions, even when expanded. It's using between a third and a half of the available viewport in landscape orientation. That said, it appears t
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by stblack 4y ago
Brevity? It's a 1,500+ word article.
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by stblack 4y ago
Downvotes for a comment like this is really the low-side of Hacker News. Me: web developer since 1996. I had to look it up. Came here to make the same comment, and see you being lambasted for it. Don't let these haterz get you down. I
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by stblack 4y ago
The article mentions the use of CyberChef in cracking the puzzle. CyberChef is an online Swiss knife that merits a lotta love. https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ Here is a GitHub repo of about 70 CyberChef recipes, and
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by stblack 4y ago
GitHub is owned by Microsoft. This sort of BS should surprise nobody. Never underestimate Microsoft’s ability and propensity to fuck things up. I remember when Skype was great, for example. We could easily cite 30 other such examples.
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by stblack 4y ago
Except... is it just me, or is TouchID on MacOS unreliable for mostly everyone? It seems like I have a 25% success rate with TouchID. I have the same fingerprint mapped to three "fingers" and still it's awful.
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by stblack 4y ago
This falls into the general category of brain wallets. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet I once generated a Bitcoin private key with a SHA-256 hash of a pop song lyric. Within 3-days the roughly $100 I sent to th
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by stblack 4y ago
Here is the readme: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts If that could be more clear, please tell me how?
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by stblack 4y ago
I'm Steven Black and they cite my repo as their source for adult content domains. Mullvad VPN seems unclear on the concept, at least in regard to my resource. Using my porn hosts variant directly, they are presently pulling-in 188,735
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by stblack 4y ago
It’s [time to live]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live ). Once a bad route is published and propagates, TTL determines how long it remains cached. The real issue is, it took Rogers engineers so long to diagnos
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by stblack 4y ago
Oh we're here. Just watching all this collegial self-agreement among people who don't fully understand the subject, because what they know, they learned from writers who don't understand the subject, like the author of the la
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by stblack 4y ago
Maintaining and extending legacy code is, in many ways, orthogonal to its underlying language. You can make a 2x2 matrix with "legacy code quality" on one axis, and "language percieved desireability" on the other axis. Y
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by stblack 4y ago
The Monet room on the fifth floor of MOMA in New York, with its two enormous Water Lilies’ works on opposing walls, is a deeply beautiful space. You should go there. Here’s what’s remarkable about Monet. Zoom in. Look closely. Regardless of
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by stblack 4y ago
We've had a nest thermostat for five years. For the past four and a half years it's been on a shelf in the basement, in its box. Gonna throw it out someday. What crappy tech. Its problem: its backing plate heats up. Causing the
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by stblack 4y ago
So tech is a lot like crossing a river hopping from rock to rock. You make these leaps, and you try (or mostly hope) these leaps lead to a great career. At the beginning, you're a 20-something person. You mostly don't get to pick
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by stblack 4y ago
Yeah I should probably clarify, I'm not looking to compete in a Fortune 500 job placement situation. Where I'm at, Fortune 500 calls me. I'd do a master's degree because I'm curious as hell, and having tons of fun
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by stblack 4y ago
OP may already possess a master's degree, school-of-life alumnus. But I "get" it. I've thought of doing this too. I would add one criteria: I get to do the whole master's degree using Rust. I'm sure this would

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