bobince

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by bobince 6mo ago
> Countless time wasted because the anti-virus or some other part of Windows locked a file. And the whole edifice of “you need to reboot to update anything” is a knock-on effect of the file locking/sharing model, leading to the mise
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by bobince 7mo ago
OVH are putting up prices in the same way, with the same reasoning. (I don't know about storage, but VPS stuff I'm using is going up ~20%.) Used to be every VPS refresh cycle you'd get more server for less money. This is mise
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by bobince 8mo ago
Of all the things I wrote on SO, including many actually-useful detailed explanations, it was this drunken rant that stuck, for some reason.
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by bobince 2y ago
Yes, they're originated by PayPal, but collected by a different original recipient and from there sent on to the victim. The envelope-recipient is not part of the material signed by DKIM, so the signature remains valid. The To: header
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by bobince 2y ago
Script running on usercontent.github.com: - is allowed to set cookies scoped to *.github.com, interfering with cookie mechanisms on the parent domain and its other subdomains, potentially resulting in session fixation attacks - will receive
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by bobince 2y ago
Yeah it's a thin layer over MSI tables, so if you don't already know how Windows Installer works then it's not at all clear how to do many seemingly-basic installer tasks. And few people really know how Windows Installer work
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by bobince 3y ago
Ugh, a friend bought some similar device due to a misleading description of what the HD was. He'd tried to change the partitioning without knowing it was there; turns out if you had anything but a single Windows partition (with custom
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by bobince 3y ago
It's to avoid vertical margin collapsing. The rules for margin collapsing are complex, counter-intuitive, and often considered misconceived. ( https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes ) It's typically easier to wo
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by bobince 4y ago
Yeah Win32_Product is a disaster, even by WMI standards. The proper way to enumerate the Windows Installer database should be MsiEnumProductsEx. Except. If someone has monkeyed with a product key name in the registry such that it's l
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by bobince 4y ago
ReportLab can render gradients, but it's poorly documented. See eg https://stackoverflow.com/questions/452074/creating-a-gradie... I use the method with `canvas.clipPath(path, stroke=False, fill=True)` on a p
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by bobince 4y ago
The Netscape of the 90s wasn't interested in making features ‘safe’. They were about throwing out features as quickly as possible to see what would stick. The simplest possible syntax is to make named elements available globally, and i
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by bobince 4y ago
> So 20.04 will likely be my last ubuntu-flavored distro. I'm hanging on with 22.04 using the mozillateam PPA to get a proper deb firefox and it's working fine for now. If they stop exposing that option I'll be off too. I&
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by bobince 4y ago
The prevalent milk in Germany (originally promoted as “hält länger frisch” et al) is Extended Shelf Life (ESL). It's treated hotter than traditional (HTST) pasteurisation of the type dominant in the UK, but not as brutally treated as t
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by bobince 5y ago
Flexible is a double-edged sword. `querySelector` is bringing in the added complexity of selector syntax, which is more stuff to think about that isn't relevant to what you're trying to do. For example now you have to worry about
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by bobince 5y ago
The reason I run desktop Linux isn't because it has a particular feature I want. It's to get away from all the Windows features I don't want — bloat, bundleware, ads, telemetry, forced AV, forced cloud features, forced rebo
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by bobince 5y ago
In the UK we have cafonline.org which works nicely for this purpose. Nothing similar in the US?
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by bobince 5y ago
It needn't have been this tall. With the internal combustion engine out, Ford could have designed a lower, more curved, less deadly front end. Instead, they kept the high nose and used the space as a trunk. After all, injuring fewer pe
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by bobince 6y ago
Oh it's older than that, even. IE was always fine without the space. It was for Netscape. So, sure, maybe there's a good reason to want XML-compatible syntax. But Netscape 4 users? Let's hope not!
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by bobince 6y ago
They don't even necessarily care about Windows support. Upgrade to a new version that doesn't quite work the same with the hacks in their cobbled-together drivers, and you're quickly in the same boat as the Linux users.
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by bobince 6y ago
> Did Java applets actually have a JS API? Sure. LiveConnect was commonly used as glue to invoke and interact with applets from JS. I wouldn't necessarily say that it enabled a virtually unlimited blah blah enterprise parp, but it h
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by bobince 6y ago
If this unacceptable mess is "doing it well", perhaps the whole idea is doomed and should not be attempting to do it at all. > It comes down to an argument of trust - do you trust Apple is acting in your best interests No. I me
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by bobince 6y ago
I'm guessing Eidos's Optima video editing system? That was the last of the major RISC OS users as I remember it.
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by bobince 6y ago
Very this. My mind is not app-centric. I want the shell where I'm looking at logs, the editor where I'm taking notes, the browser where I'm checking some doc. I don't care to think about which terminal application the sh
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by bobince 6y ago
Another '76. There was nothing in the curriculum where I was. There were computers dotted around the place run by enthusiastic maths, physics and design teachers, which occasionally made it into a lesson, but more commonly would be com
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by bobince 7y ago
At least being online means they can fix it quickly. (Until the next marketing update that adds a vulnerable script, natch.) Back in the IE5 days they had similar bugs in res:// (DLL resource) pages, running in the then-highly-pri
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by bobince 8y ago
> I've never felt like Nielsen's data collection is evil They've definitely crossed the line in the past. For example around 2005 they were stealth-installing NetRatings spyware bundled with file-sharing apps. (And similar
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by bobince 8y ago
The State of JavaScript 2018 is inaccessible in IE. That seems about right.
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by bobince 8y ago
The cost of a false alarm for a smoke alarm is borne by owner of the smoke alarm. The cost of a false alarm for a car alarm is borne by everybody in earshot (typically not the owner). The car alarm owner is forcing an externality cost onto
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by bobince 9y ago
I don't aspire to weight, but I don't really know what you're getting at here - amazonses is commonly blocked as its abuse reporting is a brick wall, much worse than Hetzner who are at least trying, if ineffectively. (Not tal
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by bobince 9y ago
FWIW: I block Hetzner. They have an automated abuse-handling system that sends your complaint to the spammer and asks them politely to stop. This often works for small-time operation on a single IP address, and for compromised servers, but

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