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Hamburg, Germany: the public transport services released a new app a few months ago which assumes that the request failed when the app has not finished receiving an answer to a rou…

> I live in Japan which people usually mock for still using fax machines Greetings from Germany as well...

> I heard it talked about on a podcast […] Do you remember which one? I'd like to get some more detail on this...

> … the vast majority of right leaning sources (aside from fox) are effectively blacklisted. This reminds me of a past blog post, a few weeks ago or so, from a journalist who spoke…

Since it's a student project to learn about VHDL and synthesis the pong clone had a few additions like simple math-expression based textures and we ignored trying to get close to t…

I still have a VHDL version lying around from my old student project. :)

> Looking now at the demos at https://www.qt.io/qt-examples-for-webassembly , a lot of the same problems are jumping out at me. A complete lack of accessibility features, poor hand…

Germany has that, too. Any USB-Stick, CD, etc. that a normal user can write any data onto.

The sensor needs a lot more energy. This produces two types of IR cams: actively and passively cooled. The passive cooling is easy to take around with you but only possible with a …

Can you give me a reference? I am somewhat interested and my current information is that they are generally trying to work around the disadvantage of giving up scale compared to tr…

> And an unhandled exception crashes the program, which is often worse than an invalid value. Please elaborate. Why is working with garbage better than not working at all? Would it…

I want to like that idea. Unfortunately, I can counter with: When you (as an outsider) see two very similar projects, one claiming to be from 2018 the other from 2020, what will yo…

Is it though? It surely is authenticated but is it authorized ? By whom? Certainly not by the user.

I would call that system secure. It does not just rely on an obscure password but is actually restricted by a list of whitelisted networks. The failure in that case is only that th…

I can only half agree with you on that. Yes, I also dislike APIs that make wrong or unsafe use easy and correct use more bothersome but seemingly no different in behaviour (until i…

I can see how that happens immediatly... var domain = addr.split(['@','.']).take_last(2) var tld = domain[1] // check TLD against wacky rules... See, boss, it's easy. What's next?

GDPR has a section that defines a way for an EU institution to "grab" cases, but that's timely and not used much (or at all, I don't know about the numbers).

Thanks for clarifying. You convinced me.

> Anyone doing secure comms at this level, and is talking about families of mathematics always gives me the impression they don't really know what they're doing. Why is that? Do yo…

Could also simply mean that they are chaining different encryption algos from libraries (à la TrueCrypt) which would indeed add to the security level or even at worst not harm it. …

Can you elaborate on why Catch would be impossible or unergonomic? It's a test framework, right? Why would one even use it instead of the normal rust test framework? Also, how is i…

Is it less effective, though? From what I remember about successes e.g. against organized crime or other groups that operated partially or totally over the internet in the news ove…

My german bank Haspa has a limit of 12. My guess for the reason -- apart from "we didn't have any problems, yet" -- is that part of the relevant infrastructure is ancient and uses …

> While 32 chars is plenty long for a password, [...]. It might be plenty long for completely random characters, but when one uses a word sequence, the 32 characters are easily rea…