tomkarho

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by tomkarho 4y ago
Continuing with the food analogy: Obscurity is not the meat and potatoes of your security. It's salt and pepper.
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by tomkarho 4y ago
> Every windows program has to (eventually) call a Linux library, since Wine emulates Windows on top of Linux. Obligatory reminder: Wine Is Not Emulator.
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by tomkarho 4y ago
Not me but someone I know pivoted their career at well over 30. They started out their career in bars and food industry (restaurants primarily) and then spent few years in uni to learn coding. Now he's a full fledged developer in the s
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by tomkarho 4y ago
Before slack, Stackoverflow was my rubber ducky.
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by tomkarho 4y ago
> So it was frustrating for me and amusing to the interviewer to see when I use to press Vim keystrokes while writing the code in VS And this is why I have never been comfortable with vim or the idea learning it on that level. Why would
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by tomkarho 4y ago
Being a faithful user of keepass and it's variants, I see no problem with offline managers like that and I would always recommend those over any other manager. That being said, if password managers are not your thing, you really have o
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by tomkarho 4y ago
Maybe, maybe not. I managed to disable TPM when installing Windows 11 on a virtual machine using a guide from Oracle of all places. > https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/post/install-microso... Don't k
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by tomkarho 4y ago
In other news, IMDB (which Amazon owns it seems) has a strange bug (certainly an accident and coincidence /s) that you can't see any of the written reviews of Rings of Power that are under 6 stars. And yet, House of the Dragon wor
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by tomkarho 4y ago
> I believe Amazon also licensed Silmarillion from the Tolkien Estate. Actually it's worse (or better depending on your pov) than that. Amazon only owns rights to the appendices of LOTR so they are extremely limited with what they c
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by tomkarho 4y ago
There are alternatives that might work to such an effect. Tauri comes to mind: frontend using html/css/js but backend is in Rust. Then there is Blazor: C# in the browser. With Blazorserver, you could actually do both core logic an
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by tomkarho 4y ago
This but also, I want to turn the second one around a little: - Learn new tech stack that I don't get to at work with hope that it might keep me employable in case I am laid off
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by tomkarho 4y ago
I'm not sure that's how it works. Couple of things (IANAL): 1. I don't think ip address alone constitutes PII but needs to be combined with other data to be applicable 2. Even if it were, I would imagine it falls under articl
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by tomkarho 4y ago
>> Preferably those who have maintained some unfashionable, boring seeming infrastructure project for the past couple of decades. So essentially this guy: https://xkcd.com/2347/
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by tomkarho 6y ago
Because web development is like a blazing fire: starts brightly (a new framework/library to play with), burns fast (the framework is older than a week, time for a change) and leaves behind a pile of ashes (legacy software built with th
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by tomkarho 6y ago
Can't you login with your Jetbrains account (see Help => Register => Get licence from: JB Account)?
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by tomkarho 7y ago
They might have to eventually do the divergence if Oracle wins it's lawsuit against Google. I wonder if the folks at MariaDb have taken that into account and planned accordingly? Calling themselves a drop-in replacement in my mind scr
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by tomkarho 7y ago
The way I see it you have four roads to take. Each one with their own pros and cons. 1. Be the jerk. This will unfortunately mean that you will sacrifice any high moral ground (imao) you might have over the jerk since you have now stooped
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by tomkarho 7y ago
My definition: a server is a computer that does things for other computers.
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by tomkarho 7y ago
Actually the year is 2032. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rVQGT01Kzg
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by tomkarho 7y ago
Start advocating the other way: one pronoun for all and if anyone demands their own special pronoun, ask them why do they feel entitled to some kind of special privilege.
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by tomkarho 7y ago
There is also a book from Big Nerd Ranch called Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide which had an update rather recently. The 4th edition is written in Kotlin.
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by tomkarho 10y ago
I don't think the fact how knowledge of the privacy and tracking changes individual behavior is brought up enough. With the knowledge that we are constantly watched I choose my words on and offline more carefully. I try to keep some m