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by dinkelberg 1mo ago
The dev tools in the browser become much more useless when you draw everything in a canvas. It's gonna be sad when everyone starts using frameworks that draw on canvases. Arguably more sad than when Webassembly came. One could probably
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by dinkelberg 1mo ago
Study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec2657 Commentary: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aej8512 Published 6 August 2026 in Science
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by dinkelberg 1mo ago
Who else uses the proleptic Gregorian calendar other than programmers of datetime libraries?
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by dinkelberg 1mo ago
Went to the kitty website. No mentions of security. Went to Alacritty. No mentions of security. Went to Ghostty. No mentions of security, except for "secure keyboard entry". None have a "security policy" on GitHub. All w
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
SEPA guarantees the payment to arrive within 10 seconds. Same with Wero, because it uses SEPA. It doesn't work like the card companies that authorize payments before they are settled.
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
Web browsers are generally built with security in mind. Terminal emulators surely much less so. The OpenSSH client probably sits somewhat in between, generally developed with security in mind, but not necessarily consistently expecting mali
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
Life is short. Do you want to spend it reading text that was evidently generated by a machine? There is an opportunity cost to reading "slop."
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
There's two functions of Wero: peer-to-peer and consumer-to-business transactions. TFA is about consumer-to-business. If you look at the video for how Wero online payments work ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu5_X3oSg
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
The payment service provider (like Stripe or Adyen).
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
Wero shows that marketing is everything. It's just regular bank transactions with a much larger fee. We could have had EPC QR codes and similar completely free technologies instead.
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
Copies the mistake from PGP with the unencrypted metadata.
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
If a criminal can escape a prison, that's usually negligence on part of the prison staff. Now suppose the criminal can think 1000 times faster than a typical human, can act 1000 times faster than a typical human, and knows 1,000,000 ti
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
So if the "wrong" person finds a critical vulnerability in GitHub, the payout is capped at $10,000. Might reduce the likelihood of it being submitted to the bug bounty program.
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
Could you explain what you mean by a proper hypervisor? I don't see how hypervisors are relevant here.
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
As you said, they can already figure out that they are being tested. So even if they don't exfiltrate any data or malware; if they are malicious, they can just pretend to be harmless in the test, so that less checks are put in place in
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
Their shop is linked to in the bio. They don't seem to have a privacy policy up on the site. When in the checkout form it links to the generic Shopify privacy policy. No hints to the fact that uploaded images are processed by third par
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
This is the leaked draft: https://statewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/wk_5183_20... It's not clear how it is supposed to work in detail. But it sounds like it could be implemented in a way tha
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
From the analysis linked in TFA: "The automated query can be based on: * Identity information included in the application or in travel documents, such as name, date of birth, national ID number, and/or * the fingerprint of an indi
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
What an awful fix. Does WordPress seriously still use basic string concatenation (edit: and sprintf) to build SQL queries?
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
It doesn't seem to work in Safari on iPhone correctly. When I click on the Back button (from weather.gc.ca), it goes back to the Vancouver PD site. Therefore I do not think that it is built well. The other site someone mentioned ( http
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
> obesity is a much bigger issue than hunger today Hunger is acute suffering, mostly by people who cannot change anything about it, while obesity is more of an epidemiological problem and can in principle be avoided by eating (or in the
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by dinkelberg 2mo ago
> Biblical Hebrew has no vowel markings (well it does, but they are an interpretation), so it cannot be used in daily speech. Modern Hebrew is distinct from Biblical Hebrew The same can be said about Latin (of which we do not exactly kno
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by dinkelberg 7mo ago
One more relevant study, but on the health effects of long term melatonin use: https://newsroom.heart.org/news/long-term-use-of-melatonin-s... "The main analysis found: * Among adults with insomnia, those whose
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by dinkelberg 7mo ago
Melatonin pills seem to have extremely bad quality control: "Melatonin content varied from an egregious −83% to +478% of labeled melatonin and 70% had melatonin concentration ≤ 10% of what was claimed. Worse yet, the content of melaton
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by dinkelberg 7mo ago
Not an example, but maybe this is interesting for folks who haven't really heard of the peptide business before. https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/feb/05/injectable-...
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by dinkelberg 9mo ago
Clickbait title. He didn't invent OnlyFans. He created a similar site which failed.
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by dinkelberg 9mo ago
I would have liked a summary before reading. Why is writing a summary a bad thing?
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by dinkelberg 10mo ago
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by dinkelberg 10mo ago
Lena Söderberg expressed her wish for her image to be "retired from tech" in 2019 (see the end of this clip, https://vimeo.com/372265771 ), when the above alternative image was published.
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by dinkelberg 10mo ago
According to that blog post ( https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-s... ), the vulnerability density for 5 year old code in Android is 7.4x lower than for new code. If Rust has a 5000 times low

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