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xrisk··on Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mobile device
FWIW, Ctrl+D is not "magic". It works because Ctrl+D is EOF. Applications that read input should expect that the input is done when they encounter EOF.
xrisk··on How Indian lawyers, scientists gave Sci-Hub its first legal defense team
Can you point me to these torrents please? I can’t seem to find them.
xrisk··on Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end
Telegram does AFAIK.
xrisk··on ListMonk – High performance, self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager
Some of us run mailing lists on internal networks :)
xrisk··on Apple’s crackdown on multicast
You seem to give enough fucks to come and rant on a thread dedicated to an Apple device. Maybe just use whatever you want instead?
xrisk··on How Does FaceTime Work?
You can take the call on a computer?
xrisk··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
I’m saying it’s a miracle that Chrome/FF is free.
xrisk··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Probably more like $5000. Have you considered how insanely complicated browsers are? It’s a miracle they’re free.
xrisk··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
I don’t see the point of building for the sake of building.
xrisk··on The unknown features of Python's `operator` module
exhaust((file.close() for file in files)) works.
xrisk··on A privacy war is raging inside the W3C
You can just use an adblocking DNS server I think?
xrisk··on Yes, drinking more water may help you lose weight
it’s not that simple. your diet can affect how many calories your body burns. in my case i dropped to eating ~800 calorie diets and i actually lost weight slower (presumably because my body went energy conservation mode?)
xrisk··on GitHub Copilot
How do you opt out your own GitHub repositories from being a part of the training data?
xrisk··on Engineers can disrupt climate change
population growth is a dog whistle, that particular factor is directly correlated to human development which is what we need to tackle. besides, we have enough resources for reasonable usage even with growing populations.
xrisk··on Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music
For 2), something I didn’t realize till recently is that you can “twist” them towards your face to tighten the grip. Perhaps try that?
xrisk··on Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
I don’t think that’s a good safety heuristic.
xrisk··on Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess
I don’t really care about the address bar being small, but I dislike that you can’t open too many tabs at a time. IMO you should be able to see at least the favicon even when you have 15+ tabs open.
xrisk··on macOS gatekeeper and file quarantine bypass
You have to Ctrl+right click the app, then click Open.
xrisk··on macOS gatekeeper and file quarantine bypass
He’s talking about Homebrew Cask.
xrisk··on macOS gatekeeper and file quarantine bypass
Homebrew cask.
xrisk··on macOS gatekeeper and file quarantine bypass
Ctrl+right click to get the option to open it.
xrisk··on Remote code execution in Homebrew by compromising the official Cask repository
Nix doesn’t even install on my Mac; for reasons I don’t understand.

> Creating a Nix Store volume... error: refusing to create Nix store volume because the boot volume is FileVault encrypted, but encryption-at-rest is not available. Manually create a volume for the store and re-run this script. See https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sect-macos-installation

The provided link doesn’t really tell me what to do...? Why are there so many (complicated) ways to install this thing, and why can’t it do it automatically?

xrisk··on Pass: The standard Unix password manager
I used to use this, and then I moved to a real password manager. Like seriously, this doesn’t hold a candle to an actual well-engineered password manager. I use Keepass right now, with MacPass and Keepassium; both excellent apps.
xrisk··on Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
I don't think brew does this? What it does do is update its package definitions automatically.
xrisk··on Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
Why would you run brew upgrade if you don't want to upgrade packages? I don't understand.
xrisk··on Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
What you want to do is maintain a tap for your organization and pin formula versions there.
xrisk··on Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default
HSTS preload lists exist.

And the scenario where an ISP blocks https connections is unrealistic, the server can simply refuse to serve content on http other than redirects.

xrisk··on Accidentally quadratic: When Python is faster than C++
Rust already does better than C for some benchmarks. See: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
xrisk··on 20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower
How is this on the Wayback machine?!
xrisk··on Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal
Tor bridges work in the same way as this proxy; except Tor operates a centralized way of getting access to them.
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