jcarrano

Increased tactile stimulation of the hind legs causes an increase in levels of serotonin.This causes the locust to change colour, eat much more, and breed much more easily. [1]

Fascinating.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust

You could jump on a train from NL and be in Belgium in 15 minutes, get a "bootleg" physical copy of the diary and head back to NL. No one is suing for that.

usernames were passed as arguments to getent(1) to retrieve the corresponding passwd entry

Always try to use actual API/system calls (in this case getpwnam) instead of calling sub-processes.

Watch his lecture series on YouTube. We you started programming, you had to adapt your brain to the way of thinking of computer programs. Think of this as an continuation of that evolution, were you acquire new methods of reasoning that can abstract many apparently different problems into the same concept.

life is short—play naked!

Such a concise way of saying what I've been thinking for a long time.

Meanwhile in Germany I see, quite literally, 12 traffic signs on a 100m stretch of road. I'm pretty sure that looking at all those signs adds up to a few seconds at least.

In dbus, it seems the feature is intended for two processes to know they can access the same shmem and other system resources. I'm struggling to understand in which circumstances would that be useful.

Aside from the writeup, how stupid must one be to commit cybercrimes from a Windows 11 computer full of spyware?

If signals were based on low impedance current loops as opposed to voltage-based like they are today, interference could be much reduced. This would break phantom power, so power to preamps would have to be send through another set of conductors, which would make the design of the electronics easier as well as safer.

Of course, none of this will ever happen.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Get pwned

2. Open Notepad++

3. Get pwned again (?)

We are living through CVE-inflation (or CVEflation?) where anyone who discovers a bug using LLMs will instantly claim it is huge security hole.

How is this supposed to be zero-click? All attack scenarios require either the attacker to modify configuration files, or the user to click on a malicious shortcut.

Optically, it looks very nice, but it kills my CPU.

I found, in my rather recent experience with Go, that using anything other than zero for invalid, default or "sentinel" values is a source of potential problems due to the lack of real constructors.

It is also relatively easy to work, since ancient times. Iridium is the rarest metal, so rare and hard to work that it is not practical.

At one point I used to have two mice plugged in and would use either one depending on which hand was free.

That's honestly a fear of mine, that I might lose the taste for simplicity.

How much of the fish self-sufficiency of China is due to them plundering the seas across the globe?

Thinking how a secure setup for uploading packages from a CI would look like: the package must be signed by the devs, and for that they must build it independently on their machines (this requires a reproducible build).

100% of those cases would be favorable to cops. Defamation laws are quite restrictive in Europe, much more so when it involves public officials (take a look at the Strafgesetzbuch)

Exactly what I meant. For example, in Germany one would have a hard time for much less.

"Download more HP" is the new "download more RAM".

My colleague's Thinkpad had its fan fail. He ordered a replacement which arrived next day. He swapped it himself and kept on working.

100% agree. I used to watch the sun rise over the river from the train during my commute. It was worth having to wake up when it was still dark.

This control board uses the same microcontroller GPIO pin to both drive segment A of the LED display and sense the door switch.

Is it necessary to be so skimpy with a safety feature?

"If you need subsidies in order to live off art, you don't live off art but live off the state".

As part time artist I see many problems with these schemes:

- Decoupled from people's actual appreciation of the art being done: I feel better when I know people voluntarily gave up their hard-earned money for what I do. - Monopoly-style "winner takes all". The people who benefit from this are the ones already in a position to ask for the benefit. - No one bites the hand that feeds then. That will form a body of "artists" subservient to the state.

The human problem is that no artist is willing to acknowledge that the public is not willing to spend money on their product.

Society has not disintegrated.

Has art improved in any measure?

That is one of my problems with systemd: it has way to much "magic" built in. SysVinit/OpenRC and related are easy to understand and debug: they only do what's in the scripts.

The 3d-printer of software: get a custom part quickly and cheaply, even if not suitable for mass production.

They "conveyed" the software, according to GPL wording. They violation is towards the original software's authors.