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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/pingiun; my proof: https://keybase.io/pingiun/sigs/NBYyCWJK6Fgq27CyB_BwLqAKiz9kUJGLgkzBnCzpRqU ]
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pingiun··on Distributing Dating Apps in the Netherlands
See also Marco Arment's (creator of Overcast) commentary: https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/1489595417117483010
pingiun··on Show HN: Hebrew Wordle
I made Dutch wordle! https://woordle.nl

Also source (in Elm): https://github.com/pingiun/woordle/

pingiun··on What's next for language design? (2017)
Zig does this too I believe
pingiun··on Leak at Covid testing company made it possible to fake result in CoronaCheck app
Original research was done by Daniel Verlaan[0], who has uncovered data leaks related to COVID testing before[1].

In an email to people who had gotten an appointment from this "coronatestnu" company, all the recipients where addressed in CC[2].

It seems the required pentesting that is needed with these testing companies wasn't done correctly and will be looked at internally[3].

[0] https://twitter.com/danielverlaan/status/1416673022023458816

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/dutch-covid-19-patient-data-so...

[2] https://twitter.com/danielverlaan/status/1416700373230923776

[3] https://twitter.com/danielverlaan/status/1416687638896070656

pingiun··on An unwanted update to your Google Account
That’s why there’s a browser setting that handles this for you
pingiun··on Can’t use iCloud with “true” as the last name
> Might be harmful to wetwares though.

I think that’s the point exactly

pingiun··on New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped
Thanks this is a very useful tip, the folder actions in general seem pretty useful
pingiun··on Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994-2020)
> s/he

Just use they, it reads better and includes everyone instead of people with binary genders

pingiun··on GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy
IMO NixOS has the right stalebot settings[0]. It was discussed thouroughly in the RFC, as to choose the right information text and other actions by the bot. For example, the bot will only mark the issue/PR as stale and will never close the issue or lock it. Issues are only ever closed by humans.

The information text they came up with is quite a bit longer than the ansible one[1]. I think this is a very important point when adding such a bot, otherwise the user will be left helpless.

[0]: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/51

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/92254

pingiun··on The Confusing World of USB
I think it's because USB flashdrives don't have the logo, or might have a company logo on the "wrong" side. In some cases the USB receptable would also be mounted vertically
pingiun··on Adding comments to a static blog with Mastodon
This seems like a feature to me
pingiun··on PostgreSQL Configuration for Humans
This seems pretty cool, but it would benefit from some extra information on what it considers. And maybe links to documentation about the options your setting so you can double check.
pingiun··on Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?
Do you have any research that talks about in-ear speakers in particular? With my very lazy Goolge search I only found articles about loud volume being bad
pingiun··on Cloudflare Radar
I think that might just be based on their public dns service (https://1.1.1.1)
pingiun··on Hal Finney’s proposal for optimizing Bitcoin to be enabled in Bitcoin Core
I've been wanting to try this: lnbc1u1p0hphp0pp5dp6fyfuttast7jnxd2qf3sd2q7lwsw6xwsfr3ng5ajz3qfsajrzsdqqcqzpgxqyz5vqsp5pqzhlpxnlu86aa5g9rw6wwzddfwx9jex7enft689vxtu62n9f2rq9qy9qsq08ncw74lylcsy2ehn3ymfj4mfj667n0gnhgl8q6xsvyven77n67kvx3vga4v0c97cyatv292w3p5zagm7japmgvajtqezwy42j659mcpxnndzv
pingiun··on “You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)
I mean, piece by piece authoring could still be done on a blog. Which seems better because you're able to edit it afterwards (if you want)
pingiun··on A Gentle Introduction to the Nix Family (2019)
The hashes will only be different if you install different versions of the derivation (package). All the inputs of a derivation, so even selected plugins and compile options influence the hash.

That said, if me and you agreed on a specific git commit of the nixpkgs repo and build some packages from that, our hashes would be the same. This knowledge is also used to download packages from the binary cache. You can see the automatic building of the packages on hydra.nixos.org, from there they will be made avaiable on the binary cache.

pingiun··on Show HN: Inlets – Expose your local endpoints to the Internet
It would be difficult to ban this as it looks like regular https traffic
pingiun··on Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers
I missed that, great stuff!
pingiun··on Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers
Hetzner would be a great provider to add to this, even better if you could integrate with their server auction :D
pingiun··on Quinn 0.2.0: QUIC protocol implementation in Rust
On public wifis they might not want you to do anything weird, so they block everything except "web ports", i.e. 80,443/tcp
pingiun··on Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns
Unfortunately this is flash based :(
pingiun··on IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses
A MAC address is 6 bytes, so 48 bits
pingiun··on Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30
You could also use a chromecast audio, which should work with spotify: https://www.spotify.com/en/chromecastaudio/
pingiun··on Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
You could also say, "I'll just duckduck it"
pingiun··on Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
ptpython seems really useful, thank you! I was frustrated with the limited capabilities of the vanilla python REPL.
pingiun··on TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
It's CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, there's a license link on the top of the page.
pingiun··on This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways
You can deterministicly make sense of random noise
pingiun··on Christopher Domas: Hardware Backdoors in X86 CPUs
Have you heard of Temple OS? It's an operating system where everything runs in ring 0.
pingiun··on LibreOffice is now available for Haiku
Almost, you got one too many syllables in the second sentence.
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