[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 year ago

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I think that’s explicitly forbidden by the EU, and it’s a German domain.

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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/32593480

if I fits...

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago

I wonder how many civilians Israel killed in the process. It's probably a lot more than 0.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 82 points 1 year ago

Question closed as off-topic.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 105 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ll just change my web browser’s user agent then; you’re a fucking website, you don’t need to know which OS I’m using.

It’s amazing how many “unsupported” web apps work perfectly fine once you change the UA. It’s often a completely arbitrary limitation so that they can hire less qualified support staff.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago

Thank you daddy Trump for temporarily slowing down the financial disaster you caused. I barely even remember that the economic wars you started were completely unnecessary and counter-productive.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 years ago

X's official support channel, which has been dormant since August, has so far remained silent on the outage, but one user asked Grok—X's chatbot that provides AI summaries of news—what was going on, and the chatbot echoed suspicions about the DDOS attack while raising other theories.

That's not how LLMs work... Why is Ars endorsing that brain-rot?

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 58 points 2 years ago

My job title is "Linux System Administrator". I'd quit if they tried to make me drop Linux.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 54 points 2 years ago

It's a nightmare to search for anything about GUID Partition Tables (GPT) now.

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I need to transport multiple very large files over an unstable and untrusted network, and the file contents are outputted as a data stream. I wanted to use OpenSSL for streaming authenticated encryption, but they purposefully don't support that and are preachy about it.

Well, it turns out that XZ has checksumming built-in! It even has different algorithms (CRC32, CRC64, and SHA256). It's part of the same file, within/before the encryption, and automatically verified by the decompression tool. I'm already using XZ for compression before encryption, so this is just super convenient and useful. Also, it seems like XZ supports threaded decompression now, when it didn't before. Thanks XZ devs!

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 40 points 3 years ago

In exchange, FF uses Google search by default. So they're also getting direct value from the deal.

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I'm not complaining, but I didn't realize how much work it was. It makes me really respect the people who do it on a regular basis.

For example:

  • You know how to use your software, but other people don't. So you need to write documentation.
  • You can just modify the source files, but it's impractical for everyone to do that. So you need to add a config file.
  • You can just drag the output files into place, but that's impractical for everyone to do. So you need to package it.
  • You trust yourself, but distro maintainers rightfully don't. So you need to package your source code and configure the package to compile it.
  • You will abide by your idea of how the software should be used, but other people might not. So you need to pick a license.

Sometimes I think there must be an easier way, but I can't think of any. I guess it probably gets easier with experience.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 58 points 3 years ago

Reminds me of lolcode:

HAI 1.2
CAN HAS STDIO?
PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"?
    AWSUM THX
        VISIBLE FILE
    O NOES
        INVISIBLE "ERROR!"
KTHXBYE
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My main server is named Postulate (an idea that you assume for the sake of argument), my desktop is named Axiom (a proved postulate), and my backup server is named Corollary (an idea that follows from an axiom).

What are your computers named, and why?

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 49 points 3 years ago

"Vending machines are more deadly than sharks".

While it's true that (at least for some years) more people are killed by vending machine accidents than shark attacks, your personal risk depends on what you do. If you're a vending machine factory worker who never goes into the ocean, you're far more likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark. But if you live in a part of the world that doesn't have vending machines and you swim in the ocean every day, the reverse is true.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 57 points 3 years ago

I bet they said something like "we don't use most of that information, we just need access in case we add a new feature in the future that uses it". And then it'll come out that they've always been using it, and it's been associated with your identifying info. And then their server will be hacked (because the admin password was "meta123") and the all the info will leak. The modern internet sucks.

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I like to read/interact with posts directly from the homepage rather than opening all of them in new tabs, but they keep moving down the page as new posts pop up.

Is there a way to disable that behaviour?

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