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An open letter to the UK Government on digital privacy(jimmyff.co.uk)
20 points by vsajip 6mo ago|6 comments
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by vsajip 6mo ago
Is it me, or is there a subliminal message in the banner of LightSpeed magazine? No time to look into it, but there appears to be a changing message that flashes on and off to take the place of the "LIGHTSPEED" graphic in the bann
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by vsajip 7mo ago
In my experience working with Notes over many years, it was a neat architecture let down by client UI that did not meet the expectations of users who also used, for example, MS Office apps. Often, they were cosmetic things. But Notes enable
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by vsajip 3y ago
The works of Elleston Trevor, writing as Adam Hall, are also worth a look. His protagonist is named Quiller, and perhaps the best known work is "The Berlin Memorandum" adapted into a film titled "The Quiller Memorandum".
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by vsajip 3y ago
Other libraries are available: distlib is even part of PyPA, but apparently its approach to trying out new things put some people off, so it's not "blessed". It supports legacy, standard and semver versions in its version mod
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Railroad Diagram Generator(bottlecaps.de)
2 points by vsajip 4y ago|0 comments
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by vsajip 4y ago
The CFG configuration format is a text format for configuration files which is similar to, and a superset of, the JSON format. It's not new - it dates from well before its first announcement in 2008 - and has the following aims: * Allo
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by vsajip 4y ago
I developed a configuration format which is similar to, and a superset of, the JSON format. It's not new - it dates from well before its first announcement in 2008 - and has the following aims: * Allow a hierarchical configuration sche
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by vsajip 4y ago
Just under their table of contents, they say that "This list is fairly outdated." and point you to https://github.com/xflywind/awesome-nim - and that repo seems to have recent updates.
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by vsajip 5y ago
The pagesign module (named from ‘Python-age-sign’) allows Python programs to make use of the functionality provided by age [1] and minisign [2]. Using this module, Python programs can encrypt and decrypt data, digitally sign documents and v
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Show HN: Pagesign – A Python Wrapper for Age and Minisign(docs.red-dove.com)
1 points by vsajip 5y ago|1 comments
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by vsajip 5y ago
The CFG configuration format is a text format for configuration files which is similar to, and a superset of, the JSON format. It's not new - it dates from well before its first announcement in 2008 - and has the following aims: * Allo
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Show HN: The CFG Configuration Format(docs.red-dove.com)
1 points by vsajip 5y ago|1 comments
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JIT Compilers Are Implemented and Fast: PyPy, LuaJIT, Graal and More(carolchen.me)
4 points by vsajip 5y ago|0 comments
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by vsajip 5y ago
The license is currently just All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2020 Lucian Marin It was the MIT license at the time of initial commit, and been updated to this. So it's not immediately clear if anyone else can necessari
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by vsajip 6y ago
I've started playing around with Tailscale [1], which is based on WireGuard. Free to use for a single user, and I've tried it out on Raspberry Pi, Linux x86_64, Windows and Android. Seems to work well, except there appears to be s
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by vsajip 6y ago
In 2008, before many of the options for configuration that are available now had been created, I came up with a hierarchical configuration language [0] to use in my Python code. More recently, I had a look at some of the newer options avail
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by vsajip 7y ago
Coconut oil works very well for soaps. You can get great great results with it. I've tried (as a hobbyist maker) red palm oil and coconut oil and I found the latter much preferable. Coconut oil costs more, of course.
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by vsajip 7y ago
Response by the UK Vegan Society: https://www.vegansociety.com/whats-new/news/statement-media-...
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by vsajip 9y ago
If your threads are doing I/O rather than computation, then the GIL is less of an issue because it will be released until an I/O operation completes. It's only for threads which contend for the CPU that the GIL is a problem.