bilkow

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by bilkow 6d ago
I think what Linus pushed back on was specifically "social media brigading" as a solution to internal issues: https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/6/1292
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by bilkow 13d ago
Let's pretend it's OK for them to just drop your domain, ignoring the stability and security issues that arise from that (and how ICANN should prevent that, in theory). How about the fact that you paid for a service for 10 years a
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by bilkow 14d ago
Loved it! I made this version for `fish` and `wl-clipboard`: function clipboard-format-json # Inspired by https://chris48s.github.io/blogmarks/posts/2021/jsontidy/ if set -l formatted
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by bilkow 15d ago
I also discovered the joy of shift-selecting a big range of tabs and pressing ^W only once. It also feels pretty good, but in a slightly different way...
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by bilkow 15d ago
> never displays or updates apps correctly. Half the time an app showed up on the website that didn't show up on the phone app. The other half of the time even when I did get something installed, it would just never understand that
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by bilkow 22d ago
About the post you linked, see [1] and [2], which makes me question both whether that is an actual vulnerability (Signal, the messenger recommended by the author, also didn't have that check, and it's addition is absent from relea
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by bilkow 27d ago
My personal opinion on each of those: JSON: there are a ton of different ways to do serialization and deserialization, each with their own tradeoffs, and serde (the most popular) is far from universally agreed upon. The same goes for JSON s
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by bilkow 1mo ago
> A modern consumer GPU can crack "four random English words" in a day. Let's run the math: EFF's long wordlist[0] (the one used by Bitwarden's passphrase generator) has 7776 words, which is about 13 bits of entr
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by bilkow 1mo ago
It's because of the Play Integrity API, which AFAIK runs downloaded binaries in the DroidGuard environment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_Integrity_API The strongest levels require hardware key attestation (w
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by bilkow 1mo ago
Specifically about "humans": my understanding is that Clean-room design is not a requirement and the "Case law" section on your Wikipedia link explains that and has examples. How and whether the same principles can be ap
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by bilkow 1mo ago
See also this article, which discusses transcripts from lectures given by Einstein in Kyoto and Chicago in 1922 and 1921 (respectively), and letters from 1899, with earlier accounts of the Michelson-Morley experiment influence: https:&#x2F
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by bilkow 2mo ago
Your quote is missing the end, required for it to make sense (irrelevant parts omitted): > When Windows ME and Windows Vista came out [...]. Microsoft was forced to respond by making [...] Windows XP and [...] Windows 7 respectively. It&
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by bilkow 2mo ago
> It does all this while leaving everyone else undisturbed. > it's the least intrusive, least effort solution to the problem that will actually work. Currently, I have no account tied to my phone or my computer(s), except for an
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by bilkow 2mo ago
Ah you're right! You were actually very clear by saying Android 9 or below, but I misinterpreted while multitasking here, sorry for that. > If you're arguing that it is Google who is dropping support/making people have ins
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by bilkow 2mo ago
There seem to be updated stats here: https://composables.com/android-distribution-chart Which seems to indicate about 4.8% are below Android 9. But also, Firefox for Android still supports Android 8, of which there are 1.7%
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by bilkow 3mo ago
Note that the snack price was increased "from 12 yen ($0.08) to 15 yen ($0.10)". That's a 25% increase.
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by bilkow 3mo ago
Sorry, I am a bit confused about the caching delay, which seems to suggest you can switch kernels without rebooting? That's not what the wiki suggests[0], and what even happens to running programs? Or do you mean just changing the &quo
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by bilkow 3mo ago
That is true, it is harder, although AFAIK people do sell all kinds of illegal things there.
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by bilkow 3mo ago
If they have access to the "dark web" they can already do anything that requires age verification there. In the same way you expect that the rule to "not sell UUIDs" wouldn't be respected there, I wouldn't expe
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by bilkow 3mo ago
Have you checked the install date? I'm not sure which are the compromised version numbers, but if they were installed before June 10 you're probably safe. (I think libgdata 0.18.1-5 used to be on the main repos in February, and ha
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by bilkow 5mo ago
> I mean we got relativity because of a minor discord with newtonian Laws. (the orbit of Mercury). I don't think that's true. One of Einstein's test for General Relativity, using Mercury's orbit, came around 10 years
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by bilkow 5mo ago
This is how I'd do it: jj new branch1 branch2 branch3 This creates an empty commit that merges all 3 branches, you can think of this as your staging area. When you want to move specific changes to an existing commit, let'
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by bilkow 6mo ago
I'm curious on the source for these "facts". - You state that PPA is enabled by default, but it was an experimental feature that was never activated and later removed: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb
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by bilkow 6mo ago
I don't really understand the point you're trying to make, I don't see anywhere in the post nor the title claiming the purpose changed and the title is directly related to the content. In fact, it seems like you are just agre
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by bilkow 7mo ago
Even if the false-positive rate is very small (e.g. 0.01%), you probably won't be affected, but more than a hundred thousand of websites would be and that would still be an issue. I have no idea how big is the false-positive rate. Ther
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by bilkow 7mo ago
Not affiliated with Zulip, but have you checked the "Free and discounted Zulip Cloud Standard" info on their help center? https://zulip.com/help/zulip-cloud-billing#free-and-discount... Sounds like you could
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by bilkow 8mo ago
Are you saying that the author engaging in online activism and presenting very common criticisms of SUVs in a sarcastic way somehow implies they're bad neighbors?
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by bilkow 8mo ago
I'd argue it's more like "looking at your keys while you're picking them". Selecting text is also known as highlighting and some people highlight text while reading / thinking.
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by bilkow 8mo ago
You don't need primary selection to avoid the keyboard, you can also hold right-click on your selection and release it on "copy" (or right-click on your selection then left-click on copy, more intuitive but slightly more cumb
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by bilkow 9mo ago
I mostly agree, but a generalized attack at the remaining GitHub workers by calling them "losers" and then "rookies" is unwarranted and leaves a bad taste IMO. See the edit history here: https://news.ycombinat

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