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by dirkf 5mo ago
I've been using SpamCop for years (decades?) but lately I've been wondering if they're still relevant. One example: they seem to have a size limit of 50KB when you report a spam mail via their web form. I've received qui
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by dirkf 1y ago
20? Try 5... I"m working on a repository that uses at least four different jira ticket number formats. All commits should have a jira reference but I think only the current format can still be looked up. And maybe the predecessor if yo
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by dirkf 2y ago
There's one DDD feature that I haven't found elsewhere: its graphical representation of a struct and its contents. You can double-click on a pointer field and then it draws whatever that field pointed to, with a nice arrow connect
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by dirkf 3y ago
(Fellow country man here!) That still sounds like a lot to be honest. According to the yearly stats we receive from our trash collector: in 2021 our family of 4 produced 27,50kg of non-recyclables. That's not per month or per person bu
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by dirkf 3y ago
On a related note: I have the impression Broadcom is more and more losing terrain to the likes of Qualcomm and Mediatek. A couple of years ago nearly everybody was using Broadcom chips in their products (or at least in the consumer-grade te
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by dirkf 3y ago
So something like https://syncthing.net/ ?
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CPNG, a backwards compatible fork of PNG(richg42.blogspot.com)
237 points by dirkf 3y ago|120 comments
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by dirkf 3y ago
Note that they no longer do this fallback to local name resolving: From the advisory: Starting in curl 8.4.0, curl no longer switches to local resolve mode if the name is too long but is instead rightfully returning an error.
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From U2F to Passkeys(imperialviolet.org)
4 points by dirkf 3y ago|0 comments
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by dirkf 3y ago
In my country it has been mandatory for at least a decade in any new construction or significant renovation to collect rain water and use it for at least flushing toilets. It's not that expensive to install at that time and saves a lot
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by dirkf 4y ago
Average house where? Here in my European country the average is more like 10kWh per day.
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South Korea’s online security dead end(palant.info)
271 points by dirkf 4y ago|135 comments
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by dirkf 4y ago
Are you referring to the original DAB (using MP2) or the upgraded DAB+ standard (using HE-AACv2)? I think most, if not all, stations have switched to DAB+. I'm told the quality is better than FM and based on my experience it's cer
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by dirkf 4y ago
It's a balanced mechanical ventilation system with a heat exchanger and located in the attic. It pulls in fresh air via an inlet on the roof and then distributes it via a set of tubes to the various rooms. Similarly, it extracts stale
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by dirkf 4y ago
Passive houses typically use balanced mechanical ventilation coupled with a heat exchanger so outgoing stale air will heat up incoming fresh air to minimize heat losses.
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by dirkf 4y ago
Performance wise floor heating has no problem with keeping a well insulated house warm; it doesn't have to be a passive house for that. Comfort wise I think floor heating is the best. It's radiated heat instead of heat from hot ai
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by dirkf 4y ago
I live in a passive house in western Europe; AMA :) So far autumn has been fairly mild and quite sunny. As far as I know our (floor) heating has not had to kick in, or if it did it has been limited. I was still walking around in T-shirt + s
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by dirkf 4y ago
Wladimir Palant (original creator Adblock Plus and nowadays doing security work with a focus on browser extensions) has recently started a blog series on browser extension security: https://palant.info/2022/08/10&#
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by dirkf 4y ago
(ITYM $1/Wh, not kWh) For reference, I'm currently waiting for delivery of a 10kWh battery that will cost me about €6100 (including VAT, excluding installation and government subsidy).
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by dirkf 4y ago
Indeed; here it's mandated by law to have a bell on your bike (together with lights and reflectors back and front). I would expect that's the case in many European countries. There are cheap bells that you mount on the handlebar b
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by dirkf 4y ago
Firefox Focus on Android basically does that by default. If you set it as default browser then all links you click will be openend there. Hit the back button when you're done and everything is deleted. Another use case is if you quickl
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by dirkf 4y ago
In my European country if a train was running very late they could turn around the train some stops earlier, thereby not servicing the stations further down the track. Since the train would never arrive there it implied it also couldn'
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by dirkf 4y ago
Just FYI: Lua also allows you to provide your own allocator function. In fact, the core API function to create a new Lua state (lua_newstate()) requires an allocator function but usually people use a library API function (luaL_newstate()) f
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by dirkf 4y ago
They're against it; see for example https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3906
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by dirkf 5y ago
For me it's often the other way around... system language is English but where possible (e.g. browser) I indicate Dutch/Flemish can also be used. Still, many websites seem to think that they should default to their French version
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by dirkf 5y ago
In the C world I sometimes do something similar: the C file with the test code simply #include's the actual source file and gets compiled into one executable (together with some mocks). Not too dirty (ahem...) and allows you to test va
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by dirkf 5y ago
Meanwhile in Belgium: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2021/12/08/couriers-fail-to-win...
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by dirkf 5y ago
Note how it says: "match the performance of the LuaJIT interpreter " (emphasis mine). LuaJIT basically has two parts: an interpreter in handcrafted assembly which is quite a bit faster than the standard Lua VM, and the actual JIT
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by dirkf 5y ago
There's now a treatment using low-concentration atropine eye drops to more-or-less stop the further deteriorating of the eyes (at least for near-sightedness). Our ophthalmologist told us about this when we took our oldest there after n
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by dirkf 5y ago
Also see the stark contrast with their Facebook Lite app. Makes you wonder what difference all those megabytes in the full app actually make...

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