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jesprenj··on What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?
(2014) https://web.archive.org/web/20141027044008/www.sqlite.org/af...
jesprenj··on Farewell to Meshnet
2025: A major VPN company stops offering Virtual Private Networks.
jesprenj··on Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources
if it just downloads from youtube and is just a browser, i'll just continue using http://music.youtube.com/ with sponsorblock and ublock origin.
jesprenj··on Static sites enable a good time travel experience
If your website is one static file you can use vim undo history to go back years in the past.
jesprenj··on Nginx-CGI brings support for CGI to Nginx and angie
Presumably by F5 from original Russian developers. But they forked it into freenginx and angie and this module specifically mentions angie. So they "stole" it back and continue developing it.

Edit: there's already a sibling post with a link with way more info

jesprenj··on Faking a JPEG
Yes, but you still waste their processing power.
jesprenj··on Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver
I never saw anyone use T9 in Slovenia, but from being online and watching american movies I noticed it's used almost universally. I guess it works for typing English but Slovene didn't get such good support. Plus it was never enabled by default so people (myself included) just learned to get fast fingers.
jesprenj··on Yes-rs: A fast, memory-safe rewrite of the classic Unix yes command
One rarely needs yes' output to be a terminal.
jesprenj··on Multiple Security Issues in GNU Screen
Likewise in Gentoo. But in Gentoo it has SETGID for utmp group. Though I'm not sure what the implications are.
jesprenj··on Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production
Any recommendations to what similar FOSS could be used for a radio station?
jesprenj··on SSH Keys Aren't Real
What?
jesprenj··on First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb
> The first baby born as a result of a womb transplant was in Sweden in 2014. Since then around 135 such transplants have been carried out in more than a dozen countries, including the US, China, France, Germany, India and Turkey. Around 65 babies have been born.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29485996

jesprenj··on Show HN: I built a Rust crate for running unsafe code safely
Why use a pipe to communicate instead of shared memory?
jesprenj··on HTTPS RR in Curl
Down? https://web.archive.org/web/20250331082114/https://daniel.ha...
jesprenj··on 2FA or Not 2FA
I think that 2FA is widely required not to protect users of online services but to protect the services themselves and/or their administrators from a burden of annoying work. Users that create accounts with weak passwords because they don't care about their accounts present a problem for the company behind the service, because their accounts will eventually become used as puppets of spammers etc. By requiring a very complicated login procedure, spammers won't try to hack those unused accounts and exploit them, resulting in less email being sent to abuse@.

And I think that's the most probable reason 2FA is _required_ today on most online services.

jesprenj··on London Street Views (1840)
You can't, because it's a single composite image of all of them.
jesprenj··on Show HN: ESP32 RC Cars
It would be quite nice to add a 4G module, allowing you to drive around the city (:
jesprenj··on Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs
In circa 2022 I got covid and lost smell. First I couldn't smell the spices in the kitchen, but I thought nothing of it. But some days later, I couldn't smell WD-40. That's when I noticed I can't smell anything at all. My sense of smell never really recovered. After about a year, I could faintly smell menthol. Now I have to really try hard if I want to get some faint sense of smell, but a lot of time I just don't smell anything.
jesprenj··on Mixxx: GPL DJ Software
Can you share the program that reads the now playing track? We use Mixxx at a student radio station and we could maybe try using something like this to show the now-playing track on the website.
jesprenj··on Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
This could be mitigited by having a special secret token in this honeypot URL that limits the time validity of the honeypot url and limits the IP address that this URL is for, let's say: hhtp://example/honeypot/hex(sha256(ipaddress | today(yyyy-mm-dd) | secret))

This special URL with the token would be in an anchor tag somewhere in the footer of every website, but hidden by a CSS rule and "Disallow: /honeypot" rule would be included in robots.txt.

jesprenj··on Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin's Children Left on His Manuscripts
> Error 405 Slovenian users must use proxy. > Slovenian users must use proxy.

> Guru Meditation: > XID: 66443665

> Varnish cache server

interesting ...

jesprenj··on USB RJ-45 adapter with malware from Aliexpress
UPDATE: There doesn't seem to be any proof that this is in fact malware. It looks like it just tripped the automatic malware detection software.
jesprenj··on Thank You, Airbnb
I read the linked page without an account.
jesprenj··on Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading
Right now they are just buying, no one is selling ... interesting.
jesprenj··on Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated
Send a dummy event and see if you get an ACK in response. Depends on the library you're using.
jesprenj··on Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated
You can easily multiplex data over one connection/event stream. You can design your app so that it only uses one eventstream for all events it needs to receive.
jesprenj··on Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports
Only if you distribute the binary/source of the GPLd library. You may build a non-GPL program that dynamically links with a GPL library and freely distribute it. As long as your program does not contain copyrightable code, you do not have to comply with the licence requirements, because you do not need a licence at all to do that. Same applies for static linking if you only distribute the source and require your users compile the program themselves.

This is not limited to GPL, but applies to proprietary libraries as well. It's OK to require a proprietary library at runtime and you don't need a licence to do that. As long as you do not distribute some intellectual property, copyright law and its limitations are not applicable at all.

This sounds quite assertive, so compulsory "IANAL, this is just my interpretation".

jesprenj··on Show HN: Minimal, customizable new tab for Chrome/Firefox
I really dislike that you can no longer create a home page that opens on a new tab in firefox. You can still do that on mobile browsers, for example kiwi browser. I have a homepage [0] with large links for resources I frequently visit and I really miss having this as my home page on my computer.

[0] http://splet.4a.si/dir/home.shtml

jesprenj··on Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot
> In law enforcement scenarios, a lot of the forensically relevant data is available in the AFU state. Law enforcement takes advantage of this and often keeps seized iPhones powered on, but isolated from the Internet, until they can extract data.

In Slovenia, devices have to be turned off the moment they are seized by their owner, prior to putting them into airplane mode.

jesprenj··on Adding IPv6 to My Home Network (2024-11-03)
You'd be surprised how many cheap tenda wifi "access points" sold right now for 15€ still don't support v6, even though access points shouldn't mess with anything above L2.
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