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by u801e 6y ago
How does the client identify itself during the SMTP or IMAP transaction?
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by u801e 6y ago
> app-based, not SMS-based two-factor authentication) How does that work when using an email client and connecting to the server and using SMTP and IMAP?
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by u801e 6y ago
> Imagine if web-browsers have automatically generated password-protected self-signed certificates that could be used to authenticate to web services without need of any third-party. What should be done when creating a new account is tha
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by u801e 6y ago
After re-reading your original comment, there doesn't appear to be enough detail to say one way or another whether we're in agreement. Specifically, you didn't mention or address the issue of tests enforcing coupling between
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by u801e 6y ago
> I mean, the very fact that we're on TLS version 1.3 and not SSL 1.0 should be clue enough. But we still conduct a lot of business online without issue. If we followed the line of reasoning that you're suggesting, then we woul
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by u801e 6y ago
> The person you're replying to is wishfully handwaving away electronic attacks like we haven't been facing an endless cascading catastrophe of device security breaches since practically forever. Which is why I mentioned using
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by u801e 6y ago
> When I modify this code, what tests will tell me that it still does what it's supposed to? While that's true, you don't want to end up in a situation where the test is enforcing coupling which makes it harder to refactor
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by u801e 6y ago
> I'm saying that if I've abstracted out the filesystem into an interface the distinction of asserting against whether a method was called on that interface and asserting a side-effect is somewhat trivial. But now you're e
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by u801e 6y ago
It seems that the boundaries of what a unit test should cover have never been clearly defined. In my opinion, unit testing should only cover logic that does not have side effects (like writing to disk or communicating over a network). If
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by u801e 6y ago
> We can't even secure computers when the fate of the entire world _doesn't_ depend on it. This is hyperbole at best. In most cases, international policy does not change all that much regardless of what major party member happ
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by u801e 6y ago
There are plenty of things that people do online without really understanding how it works, but they still do it. Online voting could be done securely over the network and could be authenticated with a certificate associated with one's
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by u801e 6y ago
I think a lot of your points could be addressed by using perl instead, and it's a lot more flexible in terms of manipulating text rather than using a combination of utilities like awk and cut.
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by u801e 6y ago
You could even pass in the line number or range and the list command would only show that part of it.
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by u801e 6y ago
> Hindi was promoted because of the need for a common language for a nation with 300+ official languages (not counting the dialects) - as it's the language that is most commonly spoke and understood I thought that English actually s
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by u801e 6y ago
But the purpose of doing that is to provide a suggestion for a change in approach for a given patch. I don't think it would make much sense to start a new thread because you lose the association between the original approach and the m
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by u801e 6y ago
> Just send out email in HTML format with the code portions set to fixed width font and syntax highlighting already applied That won't work because people actually download those email messages and apply them to their local reposito
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by u801e 6y ago
> You should never have to directly work with message IDs if you're using git-send-email and letting your mail client handle replies. In certain cases, if you want to include a patch in an email reply to an existing patch series (us
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by u801e 6y ago
The git mailing list seems to be a mix between the two and their submitting patches document doesn't seem to indicate which convention is preferred. Which mailing lists recommend against using the In-Reply-To header referencing the pre
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by u801e 6y ago
Are commit sha1/256 values preserved when using git format-patch -> send-email -> am? If not, then that would be a problem for signed commits or tags I think.
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by u801e 6y ago
This is the one I'm using: https://github.com/Qeole/colorediffs . I installed it several years ago, so I'm not entirely sure whether you can install it on a current version of Thunderbird, but it is still wor
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by u801e 6y ago
> "After they told me of the reports and their finding that I had violated the code of conduct, they asked if I had anything to say." That's essentially a Kafka trap [1]. [1] https://lifelessons.co/critical
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by u801e 6y ago
Based on the documentation I read, it looks like Gerrit handles this by grouping changes by topics [1]. I'm not sure whether that can be done automatically when pushing up changes that span multiple commits in a local branch. If I cre
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by u801e 6y ago
> I'm guessing one disadvantage is the method of diff is hard-coded into the patch. It would be good to switch to word-diff, or ignore whitespace, but I'd imagine these could be applied as transformations on the generic format.
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by u801e 6y ago
True, I suppose most people use Gmail or one of the other major email providers through a webmail interface. I haven't been able to get Gmail or Hotmail to display threaded messages the way they're displayed in Thunderbird and th
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by u801e 6y ago
> I honestly never fully understand how to read the maillist patch. The plain text format makes it very hard to understand what's going on. That may be due to the settings in your mail client. If it's displaying plain text in
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by u801e 6y ago
Now you're claiming that I'm making an argument that I never made. To be clear, the original statement was whether there was a better review tool compared to Gerrit for those who review code and use that tool for that purpose. I r
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by u801e 6y ago
> To be polite, I think the target audience of tools might not include you. Insinuating that I'm a special case doesn't add to the discussion.
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by u801e 6y ago
> With Github/lab's model, if you force push your PR, you lose the ability to view its previous state and diff against that. I'm not sure about Gitlab, but Github has recently added a feature where you can view the diff be
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by u801e 6y ago
> Moving stuff to Gitlab will probably increase the number of volunteer contributions, at least i'm more interested in contributing more now. Is there a project out there that originally used something like Gerrit, Phabricator, Revi
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by u801e 6y ago
> I am yet to know people who Review code and use Gerrit to name a better solution. What about reviews via patches sent to a mailing list? I haven't looked into Gerrit for a while, so one question I have is how it handles related co

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