exfascist

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by exfascist 4y ago
Open source and large dependency trees are orthogonal. You can depend on closed modules in compiled languages, many people do. You can write open source software and only depend on the standard library, many people do.
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by exfascist 4y ago
I don't run nigtly browser builds because that's too much to keep up with. I have actually read quite a bit of the code for the browser I use. I read almost everything I deploy because I'm responsible for it. Using other peop
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by exfascist 4y ago
If empathy isn't your thing then consider the secondary consequences of this. Many of those people the "pendulum" is swinging away from already feel pretty excluded by society and have little reason to participate. It's
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by exfascist 4y ago
I never interact with cookie banners at all as some sites interpret that as consent (despite what the law says.) If it's in the way I delete it with the web inspector.
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by exfascist 4y ago
Mobile OS dev makes Windows look nice. At least windows has some cross platform toolkits (TCL/TK, Wx etc.)
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by exfascist 4y ago
One nice thing about recent versions of SSH is that they include support for signing arbitrary messages with your ssh key. I know you're not supposed to re-use keys but there have been situations where I needed to prove my identity to
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by exfascist 4y ago
>6th most dense city in America Then both in terms of any arbitrary area in the US or any arbitrary city in the US, it's unusually dense (much more dense than the mean density.) >Park and ride Many places in the US have these and
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by exfascist 4y ago
In reality X (who are actually citizens, part of the issue with statistics is that people have been playing games with the border and 1/10 X are not from here now which actually does disproportionately affect X but no one wants to talk
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by exfascist 4y ago
I'm still not convinced it isn't partially related to the word "base" as in "bad" or "cool" which has been used for a pretty long time.
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by exfascist 4y ago
If they had simply removed the default password entirely without removing the default user both groups would be satisfied. It's not clear to me why they removed both.
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by exfascist 4y ago
There's a very simple argument for hygiene and convention: The halting problem should make code unreadable, it doesn't largely because of hygiene and the shared knowledge formed by programmer culture. These things restrict the lan
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by exfascist 4y ago
Comcast in the US does (if you use your own router and configure it correctly.) There's this goofy band of people that know just enough to bring their own router but don't understand why a misconfigured AAAA record can mess up the
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by exfascist 4y ago
Windows 9x couldn't even run on ~2007 era Intel Macbooks because of the A20 gate.
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by exfascist 4y ago
I'm not convinced the physical size is the problem.
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by exfascist 4y ago
Without that kind of protection usually some group gains power and becomes the only protected group. Neo-Nazis are an indication that even the most socially unacceptable groups still have a voice. They should be considered a canary and a go
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by exfascist 4y ago
I'm anti censorship and post ideas controversial enough to get banned from here pretty often but personal attacks are just stupid. There's no reason for that.
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by exfascist 4y ago
Did they quit drawing the massive client side decorations and go back to a file/edit menu with GTK4+Libadwaita? That was a massive regression.
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by exfascist 4y ago
TCL/TK is still both easier than electron and will produce nicer apps. I think the Electron thing is the result of the popularity of web development more than native API failures (other than mobile development being an incredible pain
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by exfascist 4y ago
Don't TLS certs have domains they're valid for in the cert? (I admit it's been a while since I looked at this.) That would make them hard to phish.
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by exfascist 4y ago
When you're spending twice the time traveling it cuts into time that was otherwise productive. You can't spend all your time relaxing.
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by exfascist 4y ago
> regular people working there that just want to do their jobs and not be subjected to radical politics. There's a place where that doesn't happen?
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by exfascist 4y ago
IIRC they can remove downloaded books. Better advice is "no non-free software in the house" and "mind your external dependencies" but that's a bit too extreme for most people.
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by exfascist 4y ago
If there's no password login doesn't prompt for one (you immediately get a shell after entering the user name) and ssh won't let you login. Removing the password is the correct default for interactive login on GNU/Linux
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by exfascist 4y ago
Lol I thought I was being bad just shoulder surfing for ssh commands.
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by exfascist 4y ago
What I've done for this in the past is create buildroot images that grabbed all the dynamic data from the first FAT partition (you can get it with blkid although on the Pi you can probably just hard code it.)
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by exfascist 4y ago
They should have just removed the password. Default passwords are braindead. Default users really aren't that bad. Fun anecdote: I used to log into people's Pis in college and show them that they needed to change the password. Peo
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by exfascist 4y ago
I think you should read my comment a little more carefully. 1 and 2 are due to serious physical and economic constraints that are very unlikely to change and apply to all but the absolute most dense areas. Remember, this is in DC. It's
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by exfascist 4y ago
So I hate driving and actually moved to DC for work and also partly for the transit. Here's what I found: 1) Taking the metro many places (for example, from my apartment in an urban "luxury" apartment building a couple blocks
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by exfascist 4y ago
It probably has to do with the (lack of) window management on mobile platforms and the coupling of which window is foreground to the (often also lack of) behavior of the application. Man I don't miss owning a smartphone, this stuff is
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by exfascist 4y ago
I was going to say this. I tried LinkedIn a few weeks as an intern ~10 years ago (oh man I feel old now) and was extremely underwhelmed.

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