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Riot Games's League of Legends login issues due to expired SSL certificate(old.reddit.com)
5 points by dossy 9mo ago|1 comments
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by dossy 9mo ago
Users unable to log into League of Legends due to an internal SSL certificate that was valid for 10 years expired today, 2026-01-04. Temporary workaround is to set your computer's clock back to before the certificate expires, until a n
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by dossy 1y ago
There's still a way to load it under Chrome 138, but when Chrome 139 lands, that's when MV2 will finally be removed. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate... > Just as befo
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by dossy 3y ago
I still have my copy of Skitch installed, and agree, it is and was the best solution for so many use cases. However, given the fact that it has been abandonware for a long time now, I did look for alternatives for that fateful day when Appl
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by dossy 3y ago
Very cool. I'd love to know what technique they used to build the dialogs with the simulated chat, with the text animation sequences filling out the "DMARC Results" area -- what does the source for this UI look like? Edit: J
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How to install jdbc_fdw into PostgreSQL 15 on Amazon Linux 2023(gist.github.com)
1 points by dossy 3y ago|0 comments
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by dossy 3y ago
Look at techniques such as Dependency Injection, and Feature Flags. Each deployment should only be a different configuration of Feature Flags. Otherwise, you're overcomplicating things.
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Show HN: A handy one-liner to turn 132x66 text into PDF(gist.github.com)
1 points by dossy 3y ago|0 comments
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by dossy 3y ago
https://portal.office.com/servicestatus > Last refreshed: 2024-01-26 21:04:32Z (UTC) > > Current status: Our failover operation did not provide the anticipated relief to end users in North and South A
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by dossy 3y ago
There are a number of companies out there that pay well above market rates, and are unable to hire enough _sufficiently skilled_ developers. They literally hire every single one they can find and pay them at top-of-market--I mean, what the
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by dossy 3y ago
> What? b is 2? It should be 4. Or produce an error, or something. But not 2. There's no universe in which that result could be considered correct, it's just wrong. It is correct, and what I would expect based on the behavior i
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by dossy 3y ago
> These days this is just not possible. Why not? I still format my code to an 80 column width. I can still use `pr` to paginate my source for printing, and use `enscript` to produce a PostScript document of it, then `ps2pdf` to convert t
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by dossy 3y ago
A specially crafted malicious file when opened by Notepad++ may be able to execute arbitrary code on the victim's computer, without any further interaction, aside from opening the malicious file.
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Notepad++ v8.5.6 still vulnerable to possible arbitrary code execution(securitylab.github.com)
18 points by dossy 3y ago|3 comments
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by dossy 3y ago
All visits to Calendly.com are met with the following boilerplate message: > We respect your personal privacy > > We and our third party partners use cookies and other tracking technologies to provide a proactive support ex
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by dossy 3y ago
> Also, lmao at the guy saying you can create a 1B dollar product in 5 years. If it were that easy everyone would be a billionaire. I never said it was _easy_. I said it was _possible_, and it hasn't always been possible to do with
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by dossy 3y ago
Operating my own consulting practice, working on a startup, working with non-profits, and getting to pick and choose what I work on. I've been in the industry since the late 1980s, and I will say that things have only gotten better wit
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by dossy 3y ago
> Should I even try getting a SE job anymore? Based on what you've written, my answer is: no. You don't sound cut out for it. > The market isn't the limitless growth starry-eyed future it was during the first 20 years
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by dossy 3y ago
If Calendly didn't include language in their Terms & Conditions that stated using the Calendly application requires users to give permission to listed third-party services like Heap to collect usage information, then shame on them.
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by dossy 3y ago
> The distributed model means that a single post from an account with followers on (e.g.) 400 instances means that that’s 400 connections to 400 servers, all at once. If only the kids working on Mastodon were old enough to know what NNTP
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by dossy 3y ago
Shh, don't tell RedHat that ...
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by dossy 3y ago
If the packages are of GPL'ed software, then you (anyone) are within your rights to charge a fee to download the software: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#DoesTheGPLAllow... Of course, in order to com
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by dossy 3y ago
It's hard to know if "their code was horribly written" without privileged knowledge about their code, but we can infer some things or at least formulate some reasonable assumptions based on what factual information is publicl
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by dossy 3y ago
> Most of my roles have been through recommendations which short-circuited the typical tech interviews or was I hired by non-technical people who only cared about the output, so I have been fortunate in that regard. If you realize that t
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by dossy 3y ago
Ah, the Pareto principle hard at work. Love it! When people talk about "10X developers," this is what we are referring to. It is possible for an individual to have outsized impact, and it's not necessarily about having extra
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by dossy 4y ago
The house never loses.
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by dossy 4y ago
When faced with a decision that is uncertain or otherwise risky, how often do you find yourself choosing the less certain or more risky path?
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by dossy 4y ago
How sensitive are the secrets? How often will you be rotating them? Are the secrets sensitive enough to encrypt them at rest? Keeping the lock (the encrypted secret) and the key (the decryption key) in two separate places makes it slightly
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by dossy 4y ago
> AI has failed to automate driving. (Despite enormous efforts) Sure, if you consider this an all-or-nothing boolean, the OP is right. However, AI has automated many driving tasks and outperforms the average human: take parallel parking,
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by dossy 4y ago
Joshua should have hired his own lawyer. IANAL, but, my argument here is that the defendant is proceeding pro se (representing themselves), and utilizing a _tool_ to assist in researching their defense. Joshua and DoNotPay are _not_ practic

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