bpavuk

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by bpavuk 4d ago
same, switched from Scratch to C at age 8, but I only really wanted my programs go fast back then :)
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by bpavuk 7d ago
> The question is, how do we prevent China and India from just taking our research and copying it for free centralize all chemistry research behind the closed doors, weapon-level export controls on U.S.-made fever drugs simply because th
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by bpavuk 10d ago
and Europe. Europe should also decouple itself from the U.S. as much as it is possible, and not repeat the mistake of overreliance with China. not because China is somehow worse, but because you always should be able to say "no",
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by bpavuk 14d ago
TIL that "Muphry's law" is a deliberate misspelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
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by bpavuk 22d ago
well, yeah, now I understand that. whoever has the money dictates the kind of 1984 you are going to have
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by bpavuk 22d ago
this was literally the reason pointed out in chat. devs liked how I worked, had zero questions on review, and that's despite me seeing their tech stack second time in my entire life
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by bpavuk 22d ago
I consider myself a high-quality junior, rivaling my senior industry peers on flexibility, systems thinking, low-level engineering, and understanding of user experience. yet all I found this year was a place I got fired from 2 weeks after g
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by bpavuk 23d ago
okay, now we are boiling the ocean. literally. P.S. for pedantic folk: yeah, it's far from the actual boiling threshold of ~100°C, but to boil the humanity, you don't even have to go 80-90% of the way there
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by bpavuk 24d ago
on "reboot and re-root" - some exploits are known to last only for a single boot. look at some console soft-mods that fly away on reboot, especially PS3, early PS4, and early Switch 1. in Android 4 days, the OS was full of them, w
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by bpavuk 24d ago
who said that you still technically cannot disseminate the results? bulletproof hosting and private communications still exist. if law is being used to harm the consumer, the consumer in question has full moral right to speak out against it
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by bpavuk 24d ago
I know enough people for whom this risk is the entire appeal
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by bpavuk 24d ago
it's especially fun when you do it yourself, I advise toying around with https://crackmes.one . with time and practice, everything becomes open-source because you can read assembly XD
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by bpavuk 24d ago
okay. where is the source code? the writeup (HANDOFF link at the end) looks decent at the first glance, and it's much more easy to rebuild an exploit from a writeup than without it, but I don't feel like hunting down a tablet with
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by bpavuk 24d ago
the Hister extension is available on Firefox for Android :) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hister/
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by bpavuk 25d ago
I spent a month trying to set this thing up, to no avail
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by bpavuk 25d ago
well played, hats off! :D
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by bpavuk 27d ago
that is more manageable but c'mon I can't even keep Google One 100GB up on a consistent basis, that's how poor I am. self-hosting would be a far better option because apparently I find enough people to provide free Hetzner VP
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by bpavuk 27d ago
I'm betting on Tangled and Codeberg. Tangled has a better press and in general is a dark horse, Codeberg has the "brand" and some network effects from projects that moved to there. (famously, Zig.) I heard that Sourcehut is h
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by bpavuk 27d ago
if you knew how to cook it, you could use make older EF Core (and original EF) go brrr. you sound like you do know. my problem is that it is hard to find out what exactly is the best without dropping down several abstraction layers, sometim
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by bpavuk 27d ago
> Windows XP had its own share of complaints. The original wallpaper for Windows XP was Red Moon Desert, until people claimed that Red Moon Desert looked like a pair of buttocks. oh thanks, now I cannot unsee it. :)
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by bpavuk 28d ago
EF Core is so easy to turn into a disgrace for performance, developer experience, AND build times...
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by bpavuk 1mo ago
everyday transactions and subscriptions still go through banks and apps. also, > Preparedness is having several thousand euros in cash. totally agree. not that I, much like any average Ukrainian, have more than €400 behind my name, but I
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by bpavuk 1mo ago
Diia and plastic are treated equally valid within Ukraine, but losing my ID is going to deal more damage than losing my phone. so no, I don't carry ID with myself at all times - why when I can just scan the QR code and keep the "r
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by bpavuk 1mo ago
well, me being in Ukraine also means readiness to move out of my house whenever the need (or opportunity to escape abroad! I hate this war and kidnap-conscription) may arise. it's as much convenience as it is preparedness
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by bpavuk 1mo ago
a technology of bygone times. we shall preserve it
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by bpavuk 1mo ago
just don't want to. it would be nonsensical to get it since all functionality that was provided by ATMs in pre-mobile age mono provides only via an app. ATMs log in through app and only exist to accept cash, so I can't use it as a
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by bpavuk 1mo ago
Google!
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by bpavuk 1mo ago
Ukraine. Diia (open-source govt services app) likely won't work. monobank either. on banks there is also Oshchad, Privat, Pumb, and none of them will work on Linux. GPay is a staple, I don't even have a plastic card (mono customer
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by bpavuk 1mo ago
I kinda already have this with Niri's infinite-scrolling horizontal strip and Vicinae as the control plane for complex stuff. like, to replace my Niri setup I'd need a 48:9 (!) monitor
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by bpavuk 1mo ago
oh, if you talk meeting your significant other on a party or having some wine on a date, that's but a formality we should render obsolete

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