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blog.kodewerx.org 11mo ago

Are We Teaching Rust Effectively?

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www.phoronix.com 1y ago

Zlib-Rs Is Not Only Safer but Now Outperforming Zlib C Implementations

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www.eff.org 1y ago

Court Orders Google (A Monopolist) to Knock It Off with the Monopoly Stuff

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www.phoronix.com 2y ago

Linux Distributions Now Encouraged to Build GTK with Vulkan

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thewalrus.ca 2y ago

The inescapable rise of moral superiority

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www.theverge.com 2y ago

Ubisoft won’t delete your game-filled accounts, it claims

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www.theverge.com 3y ago

Supreme Court rules for web designer wanting to discriminate against gay clients

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blog.mastermind.dev 3y ago

Understanding database indexes in PostgreSQL

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www.theverge.com 3y ago

Microsoft experimenting with a gaming handheld mode for Steam Deck-like devices

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arstechnica.com 3y ago

The mounting human and environmental costs of generative AI

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arstechnica.com 3y ago

Android app from China executed 0-day exploit on millions of devices

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arstechnica.com 3y ago

Playstation’s new Discord integration is a key step for the cross-play dream

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arstechnica.com 4y ago

US carriers want to bring “screen zero” lock screen ads to smartphones

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www.itworldcanada.com 4y ago

Quebec government to pay researchers for discovering vulnerabilities

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arstechnica.com 4y ago

Ukraine asks ICANN to revoke Russian domains and shut down DNS root servers

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blog.kdheepak.com 4y ago

Loading a Rust library as a Lua module in Neovim

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I started with hyprland when I switched my desktop from windows to arch recently (june) and moved to sway. I ran into bugs and behaviour I don't like:

- Having two monitors and turning them off (either physically or through dpms) shifts all workspaces to the last monitor that is on, even if it's on for a split second,

- Turning off monitors (physically/dpms) caused waybar to crash.

I don't have those issues on sway, so I'll stick with it until hyprland matures a little more.

I just tried it and it works as expected for Windows <--> Android.

I was using syncthing but this will replace it for one offs.

EDIT: I checked out another app in the comments and their website mentioned that it didn't work with a VPN. I can also confirm that LocalSend works when connected to VPN.

This deal, given to Google, once again shows how these laws reward large corporations, and hurt small start-ups who can not broker or afford such exemptions.

Can you explain how this hurts small start-ups?

Just like a bunch of us here, I also wrote an SSG.

I setup a cronjob to fetch weather data and run the SSG to parse the XML and render a weather "website" on my VPS.

But for the blogs I've had/have, I just use a pre-existing one (zola). There are hundreds of SSGs out there, why bother building yet another one if one already exists for transforming your preferred base doc (markdown, asciidoc, morse code, etc)

it's just that you need a specified amount of air time from French Canadian and indigenous presenters.

It's only specific to Canadian and Indigenous content. The content does not have to be French.

Wealth is an industry term. It doesn't imply that one should be wealthy (rich) to use this tool. Wealth management is a tool for planning your own personal wealth for the future.

For example, you add all your accounts/investments and have the software calculate how much you need to save so that by age 65 (retirement) you have $X which you will need so that by the time you reach life expectancy (say 90 y/o) you have > 0$ left.

There is other stuff you can add in, like "I would like Y$ saved by 20XX so that I can purchase a house. How will that affect the amount I need to save now and how much will that affect my savings at retirement."

Or do they have meetings with their accountants, bankers, brokers.

It is probably a good idea to have a financial advisor do this for you since they have the know-how (and certification depending where you live) and will know about regional benefits you can apply which can increase your "wealth". However, if you want to do this yourself because you know the space then there is software like this, or Wealth Simple for example.

If in fact wood turns into a truly viable alternative for satellite manufacturing, it does have some potential benefits compared to the typical metal alloys used in today’s constructions. For one, it is more environmentally friendly, across the board. It is easier, cheaper and cleaner to produce, and is much more disposable when it comes to a satellite's end-of-life.

There's no mention of how a wooden satellite would compare to a "standard" satellite in terms of weight. Would they be similar?

Thanks for sharing, I hadn't seen these.

With all the negative comments in the thread I had expected some kind of massive changes but it basically looks the same. Sure, nitpick about this or that but in the end the overall look remains nearly identical (for calendar, again, havent seen the other screens).

I am seeing similar results. That being said, I'm only using thunderbird on Windows, so I can't speak to Mac/Linux perf.

I am sometimes required to have my resume in multiple languages. My current workflow is to create a copy of an english version and then translate it to the language required.

Would LaTeX make this easier, using something like templating where I could have a resource file for each language or would I still need to maintain multiple versions?

“Users no longer need to enroll each device for each service, which has long been the case for FIDO (and for any public key cryptography)," said Andrew Shikiar, FIDO's executive director and chief marketing officer. "By enabling the private key to be securely synced across an OS cloud, the user needs to only enroll once for a service, and then is essentially pre-enrolled for that service on all of their other devices. This brings better usability for the end-user and—very significantly—allows the service provider to start retiring passwords as a means of account recovery and re-enrollment.”

I'm not so sure I like the idea of my private keys being synced to "the cloud". I much prefer my current workflow where my yubikey is the sole owner of my private key. It is unclear to me if I will be able to continue using this method with passkeys.

From a cloudflare email I received 2 days ago:

Cloudflare launched at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on September 27th, 2010. Every year since then, during the last week of September, we celebrate Cloudflare’s birthday by announcing innovative products that further our mission of helping build a better Internet.

A note on the unix tools, if you have git (with git bash I guess) installed, you can add C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin to your environment Path and you'll have access to ls, grep, tail, etc... from powershell.

Use both!

I think one of the main differences is that scoop will install for the local user. Which means you don't have to install stuff from an admin console (I think you can do that with choco but its not the default).

I also just checked to see what apps I've used in scoop vs choco and the only one that choco doesn't have (that scoop does) is wsl-ssh-agent.

scoop had all the apps I install through choco.

I'm sure theres more differences that go a little deeper, but as a simple end user, those are the only things I've noticed

I deleted my FB account about 8 years ago. The only thing that is a minor inconvenience is when people organize events over FB. The events I'm talking about is never from family or friends and usually for local groups or businesses.

Keeping in touch with family is pretty easy through calls/texts.

By the time I got rid of facebook, my feed was just full of spam and hot takes from people I didn't really interact with IRL anymore.

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This has to be some kind of sarcastic parody or troll post.

The software will not be used or hosted by western corporations that promote censorship

The software will not be used or hosted by anyone. (FTFY)

Vetting the Cargo 4 years ago

Having heard about this for the first time, I think it's a great initiative. However, I'm concerned about the liabilities of having vetted a crate only to accidentally (ie non-maliciously) miss some kind of vulnerability.

Could this lead to the auditor getting sued?

I wouldn't mind getting a legal take on cargo-vet and similar tools.

there won't be an incentive to reward people which provide zero value.

I am assuming you mean "who don't work" when you say provide zero value. The poor encompass more than just people living in a cardboard box in some alley. There are poor people living paycheck to paycheck who are barely able to afford food AND a roof over their head. A poor person can be a single parent with two kids who works two minimum wage jobs just to be able to provide for their family.