The_Decryptor

I’m still annoyed that “OPAQUE” never seemed to catch on. Uses a username/password combo as normal, but never actually sends the password to the server, only a proof of knowledge. Even if the server is hacked and the DB leaked the attackers can’t actually recover anything resembling a password from it, since the server simply never possesses it.

Passkeys are superior (No password at all), if only the UX around them was better.

They’ve released at least one screenshot, but since they mostly use it for internal testing, and they very rarely ever release those builds, there’s not much to go on.

So builds they didn’t intend to release provide the best insight.

Now I’ve only ever used the English releases, but I know before Vista that this simply wasn’t a thing. Each language release was a separate build, handled separately by different teams. So there was never a mixing of languages or loading strings at runtime, they were hardcoded into the binaries that shipped on disk.

The actual term for it is “Pseudolocalization”, might throw up a hit

From the Wikipedia link above

In the United States and Canada, in a nutritional context, the “large” unit is used almost exclusively.

In the European Union, on nutrition facts labels, energy is expressed in both kilojoules and kilocalories, abbreviated as “kJ” and “kcal” respectively.

So yeah, it’s confusing if you’re not American.

Yes, thank you! I knew there was something like it on the *nix side, but the only thing that was coming to mind was overlayfs, which ain’t it.

Yeah, junctions would be most similar to a mount point. Though you can also mount one directory under another, so it’s more like a directory hardlink in that case.

And symlinks were actually introduced in Vista, but for some reason you needed to be an Admin to create one. With Win10 they removed that restriction, but for some reason kept it behind a “developer mode” anyway, it’s strange.

It was Apple. Or rather, regulators and partnering companies leaning on Apple to manage the content on their app store better, including the content that you could find via those apps.

Could say something about how the app stores are a monopoly power, and the chilling effect these wide ranging and heavy handed content policies have, and why the open web (and web apps) are a better option. But we also handed the web over to Google anyway, so it’s not that much better.

We’re as close to quantum computers as we are to ChatGPT becoming sentient.

It’s “set foot”, didn’t even notice the difference at first.

But it’s clear they aren’t actually about that, otherwise 2020 would have rolled along smoothly and they would have had the same “gods plan” mindset during the 2020 social protests.

Obviously that was Joe Biden interfering in gods plan, so they were just doing the right thing in trying to undo it.

My favourite thing about Halo FTL is how it handles causality, basically relying on the universe to act like a sponge and “soak it up” as it reconciles it across spacetime.

Send too much mass (aka the Halo array) and it massively slows down travel galaxy wide, as the spacetime is “sodden” and takes longer to reconcile it. Meanwhile in the days leading up to the firing of the Halo array slipspace travel suddenly became easier and quicker than had ever been experienced, as the Forerunner realise that after the firing of the array the amount of slipspace travel in the entire galaxy will be nil.

The calculator leaked 32GB of RAM, because the system has 32GB of RAM. Memory leaks are uncontrollable and expand to take the space they’re given, if you had 16MB of RAM in the system then that’s all it’d be able to take before crashing.

Abstractions can be super powerful, but you need an understanding of why you’re using the abstraction vs. what it’s abstracting. It feels like a lot of them are being used simply to check off a list of buzzwords.

And here, they are donating for a project by DHH, because they like the project

Said project is an Arch installer with some extra packages thrown in by default, not exactly groundbreaking stuff.

better compression (btrfs compression doesn’t work on extents smaller than 128KiB, which excludes the majority of potentially-compressible data on MANY systems)

Well straight away that’s wrong.

I also don’t get the complaint that if you create a confusing subvolume layout, it results in a confusing subvolume layout. Don’t do that then.

They actually did, Flash is still around (now called Animate), and can export to a HTML+JS bundle you can include on your own website.

Problem is nobody uses their own websites these days, and you can’t upload stuff like that to Twitter/Facebook/YouTube.

Ehh, bots have always presented nonsense UAs to servers. And since modern browsers hard-code the OS version in the UA string, pretending to be an old browser on an old OS could be a (probably ineffectual) way to bypass fingerprinting.

Anything that polls location data can record it and sell it, probably more apps that sell it than don’t.

Funny thing is, it was actually the device they connected that was faulty, the build of Windows they were using just didn’t handle that failure condition at the time.

MS at least learnt that lesson (for the most part), actually test things first.

The headline makes this sound a lot worse than the article does.

From the article there’s basically a list of exemptions in the law that describes who doesn’t need to follow it (e.g. an online booking site for doctors visits), everybody else needs to check the rules to see if they do. And if they do, they then need to follow extra child safety rules (e.g. Roblox is opting out under-16s from open DMs by default)

GitHub can quite rightly say they don’t fall under the restrictions of the law, and that could be the end of it. The simple fact that it doesn’t have any form of private messaging feature is probably enough.

they’re just a radical left communist

God I wish that was remotely true