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timando··on Function Arguments Are Not Function Colors
Is `const`-ness (in the rust function keyword sense) a function color?
timando··on Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls
It could just be the particular type of my colour-blindness or my monitor settings, but the red and amber colours look so similar that I couldn't tell that I had even clicked the button.
timando··on The <Usermedia> HTML Element
Just make the button transparent over the whole site and make it so you have to accept before it will let you do anything.
timando··on Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor
Or really bright break lights
timando··on FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
It used to be that you did the ID check when you bought the SIM, but now you have to do the ID check when you activate it.
timando··on HTML Lists
In HTML 4. HTML 5 redefined it.
timando··on Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy
I don't see any cars racing in the Melbourne Cup.
timando··on Don't push AI down our throats
What product should I buy if I need a smartphone to e.g. pay for parking but I don't want a smartphone that tracks me?
timando··on A $1k AWS mistake
Turn off S3 requests, but keep the data.
timando··on A $1k AWS mistake
2 caps: 1 for things that are charged for existing (e.g. S3 storage, RDS, EBS, EC2 instances) and 1 for things that are charged when you use them (e.g. bandwidth, lambda, S3 requests). Fail to create new things (e.g. S3 uploads) when the first cap is met.
timando··on UUIDv47: Store UUIDv7 in DB, emit UUIDv4 outside (SipHash-masked timestamp)
Why does it use version 4 instead of version 8? Version 4 implies that it's random bits, but it's actually not random. Version 8 doesn't imply anything about what the bits mean.
timando··on How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies in detail
I'm thinking something like a switch on the side to switch between slow, fast, and using the app.
timando··on Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button
Some way to simulate a slow CPU
timando··on MS Paint IDE
It automatically resizes so even though I have a tall screen, I didn't think to scroll down because it looked like a basic landing page and had links at the top.
timando··on Is the world really running out of sand?
You don't need to construct sand by induction. Just notice that snow has the right particle size to be considered sand.
timando··on How to Make HTTPS Verifiable
Their email server likely signs their emails using DKIM.
timando··on MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader
The problem is if one channel only uploads once a month and another channel uploads twice a day, I will see many videos from the frequent upload channels and might miss the infrequent uploads. If it was just a list of channels with their most recent video I'd see a new thumbnail and know to check that channel for any new videos.
timando··on 8cc.vim: Pure Vim script C Compiler
Can you use the ELVM backend to compile Emacs into Vim script?
timando··on Show HN: Docker-phobia: Analyze Docker image size with a treemap
Iterate through /proc/<pid>/fd and check for the pipe id in the symlink target.
timando··on Anonymous public voicemail inbox
Whisper can transcribe/translate non-english speech to english text
timando··on YouTube will show labels on videos that use AI
Point a camera at a monitor showing AI generated video and you now have signed video of AI content.
timando··on When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished
> Not to mention if your threat model includes attacker has hacked the server and added javascript, why doesn't the attacker just take over the server directly?

If the attacker can only hack the server that hosts your SPA, but not your API server, they can inject javascript to it, but can't do a lot beyond that

timando··on File Attachments: Databases can now store files and images
"S3" is often used to refer to any S3 compatible object storage system. You can even self-host it with something like MinIO.
timando··on What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?
I weighed 4 sunflower seeds and got 170mg.
timando··on Surpassing 10Gb/S over Tailscale
I have no idea what a gigabit per siemens is supposed to mean.
timando··on PostgREST – Serve a RESTful API from any Postgres database
You can use SET ROLE to become another user you have permission to become (I think you need to be in the same group or something) and RESET ROLE to go back to your original user. If the initial connection was made with a superuser or whatever, you could change to the user in the connection manager and reset when the connection goes back in the pool.
timando··on Tillitis Key – Mullvad spin-off inspired by measured boot and DICE
It would have to hash to the same value as app A
timando··on The Problem with Speed Cubing [video]
> When we race for 100m stride, everyone has the same initial conditions. Same starting line.

Altitude can affect world records for running (less air resistance, but also less air to breathe)

timando··on Schroedinger's streaming service just died
The terms of service might not let you sell it, but I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to change the email address and password on the account and give the login details to someone else in exchange for some money.
timando··on WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push notifications?
Can you disable an alias (i.e. drop all incoming mail to a particular address)?
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