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connicpu··on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
I gotta say, using full fat uBlock Origin in Firefox on my android is pretty great.
connicpu··on KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland
My personal experience using KDE on Wayland, certain electron-based applications have been huge pains about stealing focus when they really shouldn't.
connicpu··on Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
I guess the JS-free way to access would be `git clone`
connicpu··on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year
Scooters shouldn't feel the need to drive on sidewalks when the speed limit is 30km/h
connicpu··on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year
Great, scooters are much less likely to kill pedestrians during collisions. I'm glad more people who didn't actually need 2 ton metal boxes are downsizing to something more practical.
connicpu··on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK
It basically adds a bitmask to every memory access, which sounds about right for a 10% slowdown.
connicpu··on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK
Right. The sandbox can scramble its own state, but as long as the accessible APIs have a protected interface it can't mess up the overall game.
connicpu··on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK
WASM brings a memory sandbox that prevents out of bounds access to arbitrary pointers.
connicpu··on I hacked my washing machine
You might be able to set something up using a current clamp connected to an esp32, though it might have to go over a point where the wires are separated so possibly inside the machine. Might not be too hard depending on how you feel about opening up your dryer.
connicpu··on Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters
I don't use traditional VPNs for this, but I use tailscale with an exit node back at my house to avoid Netflix complaining about my location changing.
connicpu··on Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
Starlink.com is hosted on Azure judging by its DNS records
connicpu··on Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions
Regardless of how the average person may feel about it on a surface level, I think it's absolutely critical that congress has so many lawyers elected. These people write laws, we need people who actually understand the way law works doing that job.
connicpu··on Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?
~200,000km/s is the speed of light in fiber optics. Electromagnetic propagation in copper is more like 99% c.
connicpu··on Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022)
So that your sales and marketing team can add the third-party tracker for a new ad campaign service without bothering the engineering team.
connicpu··on A proof-of-concept neural brain implant providing speech
The brain is incredibly adaptive, I guarantee eventually it would learn to avoid firing the neurons the device is probing when you don't want your inner monologue spoken aloud as long as there's a feedback loop where you experience negative emotions when something you didn't want spoken aloud was broadcast.
connicpu··on The time is right for a DOM templating API
The XML abuse I've seen at work is truly horrifying. We use protobuf for most of our inter-service IPC, but for one particular team one of their customers demands the use of XML so that it can be run through some XSLT "security" filters, so they have to transform a fairly large protobuf object into XML, run it through said filters, and then convert it back to protobuf :( I weep every time I think about it.
connicpu··on The first non-opoid painkiller
Paracetamol was coined in 1956, acetaminophen was coined in 1955[1]. The world pharmaceutical stage was a bit less globalized back then, so splits in naming like this just happened. They're both contractions of the full chemical name, so it's hard to argue one is more correct than the other. At this point the names are too entrenched in their respective countries, so changing them would only cause mass confusion and likely overdoses due to people not understanding what they're taking.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol#Naming

connicpu··on Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux
Free as in freedom ;)
connicpu··on Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux
A corrupt government official selling a copy of that key to the highest bidder just sounds like the free market to me /s
connicpu··on The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
I love debuggers, but unfortunately at my current job I've found that certain things we do to make our application more performant (mainly using giant structs full of fixed size arrays allocated at the start of the application) cause LLDB to slow to a crawl when `this` points to them. It really really doesn't like trying to read the state of a nearly 1GB struct...
connicpu··on Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust
Specifically, the rust dependencies are statically linked. It's extremely easy to dynamically link anything that has a C ABI from rust.
connicpu··on Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
Considering it's just the desktop application being rendered to a canvas, I imagine not a ton of effort even needed to be put in and the UI framework is handling most of it.
connicpu··on Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git
I wouldn't know, the choice was made years before I joined the company, and I haven't come across anyone who told me what considerations went in back then.
connicpu··on Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git
External AI are banned, local or otherwise on-prem models are allowed. We're currently experimenting with some kind of llama instance running on one of our servers, but I personally don't use it much.
connicpu··on Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git
We use BitBucket where I work. Due to certain export regulations it's simpler for us to keep as many services as possible on-prem if they're going to contain any of our intellectual property, so BitBucket Server it is. There are other options of course, but all of the cloud solutions were off the table.
connicpu··on How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
As long as you have tests that regularly exercise your algorithm at n=max where you would notice if they were exceptionally slow
connicpu··on The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State
Plus Amazon's Kuiper when it eventually launches
connicpu··on The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State
"Low earth orbit broadband gear" is incredibly specific lol, I believe there's exactly 2 companies with large offices in Washington that would apply to.
connicpu··on The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State
I imagine they will simply only provide the required parts/software/documentation to customers/repair shops who prove residency in a state that has these laws.
connicpu··on Why I wrote the BEAM book
The problem with marketing just anything is that if you market too many things that people don't actually want, your brand starts to lose its power as people stop trusting that what you're advertising is something they might want.
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