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qtqtqt··on A failed experiment in laptop cooling (2025)
Exactly. If you increase the capacity of a bus in a highly crowded area, the bus will still have 100% occupancy, but that doesn't mean it didn't help. The throughput increased.
qtqtqt··on Hardcoded credentials and other issues in Tata Motors App
Looks like curl doesn't work (same command, same error) but Firefox does.
qtqtqt··on Hardcoded credentials and other issues in Tata Motors App
If you want to have more fun, visit the homepage (https://cert-in.org.in/), navigate to the Latest Security Alert section, and right click on any link. The context menu won't show up. If you click on the link and visit the page, your browser's address bar won't change. This happens only if JavaScript is enabled.
qtqtqt··on Hardcoded credentials and other issues in Tata Motors App
Tata says the issue has been fixed and there were no leaks: https://auto.timesofindia.com/news/cars/tata-motors-says-ira...
qtqtqt··on Ask HN: What are forgotten topics in computing that deserve a new revisit?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System

qtqtqt··on Servo Browser Engine Continues Broadening Web Compatibility, New Features
Discussion on upstream news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50379576
qtqtqt··on Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues
How to check if one's SSH keys are still compatible?
qtqtqt··on C++26 Disapproved
> basically every production language that isn't Go or Rust.

Even in their case. Rust depends on LLVM which is wriiten in C++. Go needs libc on some platforms.

qtqtqt··on Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal
I wonder if Jordan Schlansky influenced the author in various ways.

Jokes aside, do Linux distros ever get such launch events?

qtqtqt··on Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core says "Error: please contact the wikimedia SRE team to discuss a less disruptive approach at ..." Related?
qtqtqt··on Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI
Any good models that do not need a dedicated GPU?
qtqtqt··on Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs
> You can add a comment to this post by sending me a pull request.

Interesting.

qtqtqt··on Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training
doc: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetcher...