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kchr··on Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery (2021)
Fair enough, thanks for pointing it out.
kchr··on Use a work journal
Same here. I began using Obsidian when looking for something to drop my collection of Markdown notes into, which was somewhat of an improvement due to the quick search, tags and links, but not life-changing. I tried the Kanban plugin but gave up after a while. Then I read about the MOC concept[0] and started with topic-based index pages using the `dataview` plugin for generating lists of backlinks. Haven't looked back (yet)!

You could also create an index of MOC pages with the same plugin and making sure each MOC have a `#moc` tag, for example by using templates. Then write a query that lists all pages with the `#moc` tag.

For pure TODO lists, I'm a happy user of Taskwarrior since more than a decade.

[0] https://obsidian.rocks/quick-tip-quickly-organize-notes-in-o...

kchr··on Starcraft (A History in Two Acts)
I had the Terran 1 theme as my cell phone ringtone for a long time :-)
kchr··on Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery (2021)
It was scanned and reproduced without the consent of Playboy, if I understand it correctly.
kchr··on Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery (2021)
Why should she need to go through a legal process instead of kindly asking the tech community to move on and use a different image?
kchr··on Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery (2021)
Yes, for example the interview with her in this video: https://youtu.be/yCdwm2vo09I
kchr··on How to implement a hash table in C (2021)
> This is a bit of a pet peeve with anonymous Internet writing, but: are we supposed to know when you were at university? Do you know when I was? Why not state something like the number of decades or whatever?

Does it matter? I tend to read it as "haven't touched it/had any use for it since university".

kchr··on Ask HN: Why did GeoCities have that crazy design aesthetic?
> Alien Skin Software and their Photoshop plugins was all the rage.

Not to mention Kai's Power Tools, and the other plugins by Kai Kruse!

kchr··on CVE-2021-4440: A Linux CNA Case Study
Related LWN article from one of the kernel team members (Lee Jones):

How kernel CVE numbers are assigned: https://lwn.net/Articles/978711/ (June 19, 2024)

kchr··on CVE-2021-4440: A Linux CNA Case Study
> Despite existing for a little over four months and in that time assigning over 2000 CVEs at a faster rate than any other CNA in existence, the harm it's single-handedly caused to the CVE ecosystem hasn't been fully appreciated yet by the public and is mostly relegated to security teams of downstream distributions,

Is this related to the fact that the NIST NVD have had a huge backlog of unprocessed CVE:s since February?

https://www.nist.gov/itl/nvd

kchr··on Goodbye VPN by Google One, Hello VPN on Google Cloud
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40762845
kchr··on Ruby: A great language for shell scripts
The `ip` network utility now supports JSON ouput via the `ip --json` invocation since a while back. I would love to see more tools implementing this as an option!
kchr··on SSH as a Sudo Replacement
Additionally, you need to rotate and distribute the new root password to all root users when you want to remove access for someone.
kchr··on SSH as a Sudo Replacement
> 3. In cases were admin rights have to be shared amongst multiple users, are you going to share the same key for all users (probably not a good idea) or give every user a separate key (making key management a bit of a nightmare, user management is much easier).

To solve the key management nightmare, short-lived SSH certificates can be used to map an identity to a shared user account. Hashicorp Vault is one option for issuing such certificates, but there are other alternatives as well.

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_....

kchr··on Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53
That's because they are using Mullvad as infrastructure, which was audited earlier this year:

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2021/1/20/no-pii-or-privacy-leak...

kchr··on Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt
Would you care to elaborate a bit? I think both Emacs and Vim have valid use cases, and I am interested to hear your opinion.
kchr··on Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt
You can have tabs in vim instead of the terminal. Check :tabedit for example.
kchr··on Music streaming payouts comparison
Yeah, 20 years ago... That was before we got this invention called the Internet, which can be used to promote your music and let others find it instead of having to rely on tours and merch ;-)
kchr··on GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
Should've read the entire post first. o\
kchr··on GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
Interesting, can you elaborate a bit on "cloud-based" development vs for example a traditional workflow of git and a central repo?
kchr··on Receiving SpaceX Falcon 9 Telemetry with a HackRF and 1.2m Satellite Dish
> Mk 1 eyeball

I giggled.

kchr··on Semaphore – Modern UI for Ansible
I am curious about your use case for these tools. What do you find them being so shitty at?
kchr··on How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success
I didn't realize he was _that_ Niko. Apologies and thank you for spelling it out!
kchr··on How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success
> Niko, for example, plans to continue posting ideas to his babysteps blog before they are fully formed, and he is counting on the Rust community to continue to poke holes in them.

Well, I guess personal notes/braindump counts as contribution now as well. Can I use that for my CV? :D

kchr··on Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)
This.
kchr··on DigitalOcean S-1
> As long as you're doing something malicious-y (like crypto mining, exploit testing random websites, distributing malware or a phishing site, etc), they will work with you.

Is this an extension of the Russian Business Network, or did you miss a negation in there? :-)

kchr··on DigitalOcean S-1
But were they really doing anything other than copy/pasting HOWTOs by Falko Timme?
kchr··on Free for Developers
> If of course Oracle allows such comparisons in their terms and conditions...

Gold, Jerry. Gold!

kchr··on Revolut has stopped trading GME and AMC
Yeah, they need to replace those carrier pigeons with something more akin to an interconnected, world-wide network of sorts... Hmmm
kchr··on The GameStop Story You Think You Know Is Wrong
The collateral requirements are way higher for stocks that are heavily shorted, if I understand it all correctly. Meaning RH had to front more money for these stocks to continue allow trading during the 2 day waiting period for executions to fall through.
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