plingbang

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by plingbang 1mo ago
This feature has been was available on GNOME since forever. I'm still waiting for Microsoft to steal another nice thing: MRU (Most Recently Used) keyboard layout switching. If you have two often used keyboard layouts A and B, and less
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by plingbang 1mo ago
I've got an identical output with the prompt "do not lock the door".
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by plingbang 2mo ago
I wonder if the sound could be fully synthesized instead of the current 2.9s recording. That's not an easy task, but perhaps the result would sound more realistic.
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by plingbang 7mo ago
> Teen-by-default settings to roll out globally for all Discord users Does it mean that even people who reside outside jurisdictions touched by the age verification craze will have to deal with all this? > use facial age estimation Su
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by plingbang 10mo ago
I have a recording of me trying to pass the captcha for straight 5 minutes and giving up. To be fair, this has only happened once. What is the purpose of such loop? Bots can simply switch to another residential proxy when the captcha succes
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by plingbang 11mo ago
citation needed
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by plingbang 1y ago
A very close idea was jokingly suggested in The Birth & Death of JavaScript[1] at 18:07 (rewind to 14:14 for more context) [1]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by plingbang 1y ago
Fighting with the OS is futile. The OS is always in control and apps can only ask it nicely to do things. Microsoft can simply change Recall to capture DRM-marked content too. And to avoid copyright issues, it will store some kind of visual
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by plingbang 2y ago
I found a wall of shame that includes manufacturers that make it hard or impossible to unlock the bootloader[1]. It was mentioned in a forum post[2]. [1]: https://github.com/melontini/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame [2
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by plingbang 2y ago
> It's tricky, though. What else can you do? I had an idea about amost-privacy-preserving system by involving government ID and blind signatures: 1. The service passes a random string to the user. 2. The user authenticates to their
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by plingbang 2y ago
Some time ago there was a website that showed you a random YouTube video. Like truly random. The biggest discovery to me was that a typical video has 0-1 views, nearly always <10. I bet most people don't realize this is how YouTube
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by plingbang 2y ago
Looks usable and useful unlike my joke version: https://plingbang.github.io/morsel/
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by plingbang 2y ago
That's probably rare but I had a no name TV which just let me just enable adb over network with full root access. IIRC I had to install an app that can launch arbitrary activities so I could access the buildin Android settings menu ins
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by plingbang 2y ago
For a case when file sharing is intended between individuals or small groups there's an easy solution: Anyone who got the link should be able to delete the file. This should deter one from using the file sharing tool as free hosting
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by plingbang 2y ago
Can you provide some context? Do you mean MS employees are prohibited from doing open source even outside work hours?
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by plingbang 2y ago
Awesome but seem to fail on some numbers e.g. https://api.isfizzbuzz.xyz/api/15000000000000000000000000000... BTW, there are neat divisibility rules which can give you the answer in practically linear time when the num
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by plingbang 2y ago
That's a good point. Moreover, someone built[1] an SSH server that prints your name when you connect (because GitHub publishes SSH public keys of every user): ssh whoami.filippo.io [1]: https://words.filippo.io&#x2F
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by plingbang 2y ago
> so users can see in real-time what code was run and when I'm really curious how this was presented to the user. A table with timestamp, filename, line number, and line contents? Or something more advanced?
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by plingbang 2y ago
I understand they "cannot test every possible browser" and that "users may get subpar experience". I don't understand why there isn't "continue at your own risk" button. Maybe with a scary warning. It
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by plingbang 2y ago
Can you name a single Android phone or tablet model that is <10 y.o. for which you can access personal data with this method?
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by plingbang 2y ago
Why not just an LLM-based interpreter that direclty executes a PDF spec plus edits received by email? No need to recomplile and restart the app. A DB is also not required - the LLM will naturally remember all user requests and figure out th
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by plingbang 2y ago
And what makes it worse in phpBB and other forum engines is the waste of vertical space. 4 messages on your screen seems to be the maximum despite using smaller fonts than web average nowadays.
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by plingbang 2y ago
> Or you can end up like the people who lost their data [1] I don't see how encryption at rest could've changed the outcome. In the article, the cloud provider, which has full control over the VMs, was compromised. The VMs were
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by plingbang 2y ago
I remember MS Teams opening various files within itself instead of launching an appropriate program. I wonder what they're using for rendering PDFs.
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by plingbang 2y ago
I used gnome-terminal for years and at the times when I had to switch to a virtual console, I often had a feeling that the latter was more responsive. But that could be the placebo effect due to higher cursor blinking and key repeat rates.
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Show HN: Faster-than-light ping (April Fools')
53 points by plingbang 2y ago|14 comments
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by plingbang 3y ago
Sounds like Selection sort[1]. It was probably the first sorting algorithm I ever implemented. I don't know why bubble sort is usually taught first. Selection sort seems more obvious. Perhaps the implementation is slightly harder due t
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by plingbang 3y ago
Combined with IP source address spoofing, it would probably help greatly with DDoS amplification attacks while only saving up <50% packets for good users. If you care about time rather than packet count, you can send packets with all rea
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by plingbang 3y ago
Interestingly, Firefox records all your visits to a particular page, not just the latest visit. You could've changed the history sort order to "first visit" so that the list doesn't change when you revisit the page but t
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by plingbang 3y ago
The plot looks a bit weird when I ping my server ;) gping ftlping.net

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