unilynx

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by unilynx 5y ago
Do you have examples of #4?
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by unilynx 5y ago
There should be a rule that if an IP was broadly commercialized at any point (eg. offered at a retail store) the owner can’t resist any abandonware offering unless he’s still offering the IP at RAND terms That still protects the individual
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No one could describe the color 'blue' until modern times(businessinsider.com)
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by unilynx 5y ago
A GET of a webpage shouldn’t have side effects - if it does, your app is broken. This might be new for Google, but some virus scanners have been prefetching links for decades.
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by unilynx 5y ago
“That major update where we redid the whole API turned out to be so unexpected painful, we’re never doing that again” once for every business
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by unilynx 5y ago
In the past (ie Win7 days and before..) I always made a point to set games to "Windowed Fullscreen" wherever possible as that vastly improved Windows' stability. It was probably bad for graphical quality/performance&#x2F
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by unilynx 5y ago
What are the odds of Proton helping to improve Mac gaming? Will those improvements to Wine trickle through to the Mac eventually or they too linux-specific ? (I'm not that up-to-date with all the graphics APIs they all have nowadays, a
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by unilynx 5y ago
Is your PC synchronising the source files or the borg files to the cloud ? Otherwise it's still a SPOF for your backups (the borg files might corrupt, and you might be syncing that corruption to the cloud)
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by unilynx 5y ago
> Rumor has it (according to a report from The Information) that Google Cloud Platform is facing a 2023 deadline to beat AWS and Microsoft, or it will risk losing funding Here's a scary scenario - Oracle Cloud is smaller but apparen
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by unilynx 5y ago
I assume they don't mean to refer to the physical building, but to the organisation responsible for the building and its physical security. Anyway that's a thing for auditors to have fun with (so you say you're hosting provid
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by unilynx 5y ago
Are you sure they're actually saying that? A lot of hosting providers actually say that their data centers are ISO 27001 compliant, but that doesn't make the provider itself compliant (and it seems scaleway is still doing that t
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by unilynx 5y ago
They seem to be working on that. We got Safari 14 some time before the Big Sur release, and I think Safari 13 was faster than the accompanying OS update too ?
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by unilynx 5y ago
Given the many historic openssl bugs related to certificate parsing (ie x509 and asn1) I’m not sure you should even trust expert crypto programmers to deal with that
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by unilynx 5y ago
Finding a way to embed the domain registration date might be sufficient, that would cover most of the expiry situation There was a ietf or similar registry that used your domain and registration date to carve out your namespace, ie dns.2021
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by unilynx 5y ago
You mean like ODF and DOCX still are zip files, basically a file system? It was there for a reason - you could embed documents/excelsheets/external apps that supported OLE into each other (think adding an editable excel graph to y
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by unilynx 5y ago
It might be very problematic to read multimedia files from 15 years ago, weren't those the days of 'codec packs' and every downloaded movie seeming to require a different one ? But at least the multimedia files (and archive f
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by unilynx 5y ago
That differs per TLD though. In .nl updates are usually fully processed within the hour (they update the zone file twice per hour)
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by unilynx 5y ago
> 2. Set up snapshots to be taken periodically (hourly/daily) and sent to a different host or volume. Does btrfs or ZFS have a way to pull snapshots in a way that they are encrypted on the client side ? Ideally you could hire a thir
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by unilynx 5y ago
http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/20050815_224_... (a site that tries to keep a proper backup of the ever moving writings of Chen)
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by unilynx 5y ago
Crontab a git fetch. You can then pull when needed (but won’t have a process overwriting your docs and scripts at the wrong time)
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by unilynx 5y ago
The Netherlands have been passing various restrictions on mortgage interest reductions over the past few years. Many are phased in over 30 years. With the current interest rates it's an ideal time to pass any tax changes anyway - they
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by unilynx 5y ago
Isn't sending a card an alternative to visiting in person (different in the US?)
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by unilynx 5y ago
Apple isn’t really in the business of undercutting competitors on price
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by unilynx 5y ago
I wonder if the Gmail people could use this to give their app a non-blurry Favicon. It looks really poor when task switching between apps
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by unilynx 5y ago
> It was a way of allowing the application not to lock up not just the application. with cooperative multitasking (eg windows 3.1) the whole computer would be unresponsive if you didn't give the event loop a chance to run.
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by unilynx 5y ago
This (partly) solves some cases of the two generals problems, where you didn't receive a response to eg. a resource creation request but aren't sure whether that means that you can safely retry it, or need to use other APIs to fig
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by unilynx 5y ago
They should integrate this with bricklink - I feel for all those people who have to catalog all their little bricks to sell them or just 1 or 2 cents a piece (but a great way to spend the holidays, reconstructing your old sets and having to
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by unilynx 5y ago
I fear most core features are done - the basics (CI, issues, merges) work very nicely, even though a bit spartan at some points, but it's not enough for Gitlab's sales to be where it needs to be. So to me it feels like Gitlab is n
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by unilynx 5y ago
Under that definition (printable plus whitespace controlling characters) a BASE64 encoded document is plain text. I'm not sure that makes it a very useful definition.
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by unilynx 5y ago
There's one restriction you should do, trim spaces from the start and end of a password (or any input field, for that matter, unless there's a good reason not to). People copy/pasting from emails or Word documents are good at

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