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by thombles 6y ago
An underappreciated benefit of using a password manager consistently. It might be a long and unpleasant chore but you can have some confidence that you're updating everything that matters.
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The Leitmotifs of Wagner's Ring(pjb.com.au)
54 points by thombles 6y ago|23 comments
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by thombles 6y ago
I'm not totally sure what the author is asking for, apart from refcounting and heap allocations that happen behind your back. In my experience async Rust is heavily characterised by tasks (Futures) which own their data. They have to -
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by thombles 6y ago
There are options in the middle - e.g. in M365 Personal, camera uploads are deposited as plain old files in your OneDrive Pictures folder and the Win10 photos app is driven directly by that. I periodically take offline backups by copying my
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by thombles 6y ago
The author explains one of their main concerns: > its attack on “tracking” — which goes far beyond the IDFA — makes it increasingly impossible to acquire users in one place and convert them in another Somehow I can't bring myself to
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by thombles 6y ago
The linked bug report is literally that one of the about:config preferences has been removed and will no longer be respected.
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by thombles 6y ago
Not sure if serious, but I will point out this is significantly different. If I'm installing an application like homebrew or the Rust toolchain then I am explicitly giving them the right to code execution. It doesn't much matter w
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Deleting DerivedData the Right Way(lapcatsoftware.com)
4 points by thombles 6y ago|2 comments
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by thombles 6y ago
Because Apple’s policies are so much more restrictive, particularly around background modes and streaming games.
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by thombles 6y ago
> So what you're saying is you are willing sacrifice personal privacy and security so that technically illiterate people can have a good user experience? Well, yes. Who is this for if not the tech-illiterate? I’ll be fine. I can use
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by thombles 6y ago
Unfortunately the way he describes the "Ulysses Pact" is fantasy. He makes it sound like it would be just like today, except a savvy user could sideload Signal for example if Apple was compelled to remove it. What would _actually_
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by thombles 6y ago
Take care with Migadu if you use mailing lists. I troubleshooted some issues with bounces earlier this year and both users in question were using Migadu - they had ended up with the unusually strict "p=reject" DMARC policy. Every
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by thombles 6y ago
I had a soft pad similar to this - take care that the pad is able to register arbitrary combinations of left/right/up/down simultaneously. Mine was not, so I ended up using it rotated 45˚ with the auxiliary buttons remapped,
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by thombles 6y ago
Those advocating we inspect the downloaded script surely wouldn't rely on plain old "cat" would they? :) https://www.infosecmatter.com/terminal-escape-injection/
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by thombles 6y ago
Good grief... who would sign up for such a thing? The biggest lighting system I worked on was Philips Dynalite. It's a gigantic RS-485 bus - you just make sure all the dimmers and light switch panels are on the segment. It can be over
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by thombles 6y ago
Are there any manufacturers working on similar high-performance-per-watt CPUs for PC, i.e. Win10 on ARM? I know that ARM servers are a thing but it all seems very quiet on the laptop/desktop front.
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by thombles 6y ago
I would struggle to get many things done if not for that one particular Apple engineer and their forum posts.
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by thombles 6y ago
Is that a common thing? IME they do always arrive unless the recipient has a habit of leaving their phone turned off for weeks.
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by thombles 6y ago
> and (barely usable) SMS What's the issue with SMS in the US? At least in Australia, SMS is no hindrance to messaging between Android and iOS apart from the colour of the bubbles.
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by thombles 6y ago
Not to mention a whole lot of intermediate-level piano sheet music! At 92, a fine gift to those younger generations who want to get in on some irreverent fun.
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by thombles 6y ago
One obvious requirement for bisect to work is that your code builds on every commit - and so does everybody else participating in the git history. Straw poll - do you enforce this? If so, for literally every commit, or do you use partial sq
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by thombles 6y ago
The lesson of Matrix is that you have to give everybody all of the features. All at once. In advance. Even the ones nerds don't need. Then they'll be there for everyone else.
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by thombles 6y ago
According to uBlock Origin's developer it is not enough https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/hdz0bo/will_u...
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by thombles 6y ago
> iCloud Don't forget that Finder has customisable tags which sync perfectly across iCloud. They are a top-level browsing option on the iOS Files app. Probably you were thinking of something more tag-first but it does exist. :) Pers
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by thombles 7y ago
Apple's effective policy is that any long-running service should be mediated via a remote server. This affects not just SSH but every other protocol that relies on long-lived TCP connections such as IRC and XMPP. Not only can you no lo
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by thombles 7y ago
Serious question - can anyone explain how you would choose which of these to use? e.g. I'm aware that Quinn is tokio-based whereas Quiche is an async-agnostic state machine. Where does this one fit in?