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skeeks··on As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond
Isn't the solution really easy? Make the students show up on the first day in-person, compare.with ID and take a photo.
skeeks··on One year after switching from Java to Go
There are a lot of applications where the startup time of several seconds does not matter at all. More likely, for most applications it does not matter. Of course, if you are FAANG, it does, but you should not optimize for that in the beginning.
skeeks··on NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker
Mouse-over over the chart is broken (scrollbar shown and hidden again and again). I believe you dont need to set x-overflow-auto on the div where the scrollbars appear.
skeeks··on Switzerland moves ahead with underground autonomous cargo delivery
Switzerland has no space for additional "simple roads". It would also be extremely difficult go get it approved, as it would pass through many municipalities. You would have hundreds of objections by residents and probably also a few referendums.
skeeks··on Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
That is a separate, standalone app, not the regular LinkedIn app
skeeks··on Lenovo Forums stores plaintext password as a cookie
And what if the server is compromised in the future? It is trivially to then extract all the cookies and send them to a attacker-controlled server. The attacker then uses those password to try to login on different platforms.

After initially setting a password, the database/server should only store a salted hash.

No exceptions.

skeeks··on What science says: Could humans survive a nuclear war between NATO and Russia?
And what about all the climate consequences?
skeeks··on Analysis of the situation in Russia, claimed to be by an active FSB analyst
The claim in this comment is fake. Check facts. Without emotions.
skeeks··on Ask HN: Are We in a Bubble?
I doubt that any country could have prevented covid spreading through the world.
skeeks··on Log4j 2.16: Certain strings can cause infinite recursion
"they"? It's an open source software. What exactly do you expect?
skeeks··on Typora 1.0
Yeah, that's one side. But how you can guarantee that everyone that uses your software has really a license? It is not an easy problem.

And once, the product is discontinued, they still could release an update disabling the license check.

skeeks··on How I helped build a profitable MVP over a weekend
> The app would assign the order to a free courier, triggering an email. Their Gmail was our mobile app!

I guess, the MVP tracked which couriers are free and also would automatically assign a courier to a new order, depending on who was free.

If you have to send out an e-mail, you have to pick a recipient, therefore you have to know by yourself / look up manually which ones are free...

skeeks··on The Trouble with Checked Exceptions (2003)
Hejlsberg said it multiple times: Most software developers handle exceptions centrally, e.g. around their event loop.

If an API really throws a new exception which can be handled otherwise than displaying "something went wrong", then I dont think its the task of the programming language. This should be in the release notes.

skeeks··on Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked
I would be very deeply concerned if Twitch, a multi-billion dollar company owned by Amazon, does not properly hash and salt the passwords of its users.
skeeks··on Show HN: Optimule, a free vehicle routing platform built with Open Route Service
When he mentions Open route serice, I assume none of the route calculations is done by himself, so Optimile is just an UI for Open route service.
skeeks··on Gobang – Cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Rust
what is TUI? or what does it mean?
skeeks··on The State of Python in 2021
Off topic: is it just me or is the font of that webpage barely readable on screen?
skeeks··on What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
The official validation apps will not show this detail to the user. Unofficial apps may come up but app stores will probably quickly ban those (they are very careful about the whole COVID topic in the playstores). There is still the chance of sideloading the app, but one does also need to consider if the vaccination information must really be protected that hard. In most countries, it's more or less randomly when and with what kind of vaccine you got vaccinated. And the really important information in my opinion is: is someone vaccinated or not? And this information is what the bouncer needs to know to let you in...
skeeks··on What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
On most ID cards, there is the full name and the birthdate of the person. So it does not matter if it's on the QR code too. The place of residence is neither on the ID card nor on the QR code.
skeeks··on Now your car is a cybersecurity risk, too
You're not the only one driving on the streets and often, other drivers are the greater danger.
skeeks··on Netflix's “Love Is Blind” Wants Unpaid Photographer for Five Weddings
1) Nobody reads them. 2) nice, but not useful for further business. 3,4) maybe the contracts would disallow that.
skeeks··on Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?
Taxes?
skeeks··on Java Is Underhyped
Despite Oracle being the primary contributors, there are other big companies (IBM, Apple, Microsoft, etc.) [1] supporting OpenJDK. And this are only the big companies, there are so much medium/little companies just using Java as a language without actively sponsoring/supporting the OpenJDK project. IMHO, there is no possible way that the OpenJDK (and Java) arent going to be enhanced further for many many years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK#Collaboration_with_IBM...

skeeks··on Java Is Underhyped
Java is not only driven by Oracle, there are even independent JVMs. And then, there is OpenJDK, which is supported by many different big companies (Oracle, IBM, Apple, Microsoft, etc.) [1] As long as you are just _using_ the JDK, I see no problem regarding that Oracle may sue you. And besides that, I see no problems about Oracle _owning_ Java (idk if you really can say that Oracle _owns_ Java, I mean OpenJDK is open-source and free).
skeeks··on New 5G protocol vulnerabilities allow location tracking
No, that's what 5G enables but 5G itself is something else.
skeeks··on Time for Next-Gen Codecs to Dethrone JPEG
Direct link: https://cloudinary.com/blog/time_for_next_gen_codecs_to_deth...
skeeks··on Zero Data App
The name is imho inappropriate chosen. Under zero data, I understand that the app needs no data at all.
skeeks··on Adobe will end support for Brackets on September 1, 2021
> If you would like to continue using, maintaining, and improving Brackets, you may fork the project on GitHub.

https://blog.brackets.io/brackets-eol-notice/

skeeks··on High-Throughput Game Message Server with Python WebSockets
Or java
skeeks··on SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System
We used SageMath in cryptography lessons at university. Very useful stuff and easy to get!
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