nloomans

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by nloomans 27d ago
> a digital copy with the ability of doing millions of copies is stored somewhere somewhere were we can't access it. as the article states: “permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers” the issue isn't
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by nloomans 5mo ago
https://archive.is/4HBye Website redirects to the regional homepage instead of showing the actual article. I don't get why this is still a thing.
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by nloomans 1y ago
Interesting read! I find the idea to use SQL queries to get only the relevant data quite convincing. I do wonder how this would work in practice though. Any changes the user makes would have to be inserted with SQL to allow for the new data
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by nloomans 1y ago
Website got hugged to death: https://archive.is/plsp9
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by nloomans 1y ago
These example commits seem like pretty bad commit messages to me. They are just a summery of the changes (something a motivated reader can rediscover by reading the diff), while leaving out the why, which will be lost to history if not docu
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by nloomans 1y ago
No I did mean flag values. Allowing user-controlled short flags is horrifying.
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by nloomans 1y ago
I disagree with it being a minor issue. If I write a shell script around a program that accepts GNU-style arguments, I expect the following to be correct: ./cmd -a"$USER_CONTROLLED_DATA" A program using this package
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by nloomans 2y ago
I think because Claude said so and the author just copied it without checking. You can see it in the first screenshot of Claude's output: > After examining the provided code, I've determined that this appears to be a CLI applic
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by nloomans 2y ago
Only if you don't care about accessibility. You still want labels for screenreaders and other assistive technologies.
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by nloomans 2y ago
Have you tried it? They use a proprietary integration with Authy that prevents you from using anything else. No QR code is ever provided.
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by nloomans 2y ago
I tested the example using the TalkBack screenreader on Android. With Firefox I was able to select and click on the link, but it did not announce the email address. With Chromium it completely ignored the existence of the SVG email. I was u
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by nloomans 6y ago
Release notes can be found here: https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_ulyana_cinnamon_whatsnew.php
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by nloomans 6y ago
I agree! Showing a bit of the markdown in the rendered text really gives the page a nice hacky feel. I'm doing something similar on my website[1] but this blog looks a lot nicer then mine! The biggest problem on my version I think is t
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by nloomans 7y ago
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C/C++ (preferably C), Go, Docker, Linux, JavaScript, React, Vue, ASP.NET, Microsoft Azure Résumé/CV: https://noahloomans.com/re
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by nloomans 7y ago
This isn't true. Take the @valvesoftware twitter account for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20191118232351/https:/twitter.co... The account was already verified right from the start.
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by nloomans 7y ago
It's called Direct Debit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_debit
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by nloomans 7y ago
At least with the bank I use (bunq) I get notifications for such transfers and I need to manually approve them for the transfers to take place. If it's a recurring payment I can set it up so it automatically allows transfers up to a sp
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The happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work(drewdevault.com)
4 points by nloomans 7y ago|0 comments
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by nloomans 7y ago
I just woke up to this and was surprised the title was eddied as well. I looked up the guidelines and it looks like I violated the "If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed
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Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression(archlinux.org)
271 points by nloomans 7y ago|153 comments
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by nloomans 7y ago
The app has a permanent notification stating 'Your Internet is now private.' while using warp. That seems very misleading to the end user in my opinion.
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by nloomans 8y ago
Interestingly, Dutch news websites usually handle GDPR popup dialogs property. Example: https://nos.nl/ . It's just as easy to opt-in as to opt-out. Just tap the checkmark or the X and then Save your preferences.
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by nloomans 8y ago
Sounds interesting! I would recommend you to add some examples of what your extention actually does. The code of ethics only gives me a vague idea.
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by nloomans 8y ago
I personally prefer https://send.firefox.com/ as they also encrypt the files.