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How do I lock down my "real" account? For instance, I want to disable the ability for anybody to pull money, and I must manually push into a billing account which only maintains li…

Already been done [0]. Unfortunately, the first attempt, the probe crashed, but given the physical durability of the media, it is expected to still be readable. [0]: https://www.ar…

Is this still technically true? Since the movie was released, both sides developed bunker busters to dig deep into fortified military installations. If salt mines did become part o…

I suspect having that cross training is also desirable that there will always be someone who can run machine X and that everyone becomes disposable.

It does feel like an odd complaint. I have had mismatched desktop elements for a very long time now. What's another oddball entry on the list?

>...and creating a new distro (with a bad case of NIH) that no one asked for Eh, after suffering through many Gnome We-Know-Best design decisions, I would be happy for a new entran…

Cannot offer any justification for the error. Just that I have done it more than once, and each time it has taken me too long to debug the underlying cause.

Eh, I'm not sure that has ever been a stated policy other than an offhand remark when Steam was much smaller. Valve is unlikely to have the legal right to strip away DRM from other…

>... a comma at the end of the line turned his Python scalar into a unary tuple I have been burned by this mistake a handful of times. Each instance managed to eat up a shocking am…

Rule of threes: three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food. I feel like this rule is dated from a thinner time, so feel free to adjust for BMI.

The only winning move for sure. Living inside a major population center (near major military bases!) means that if bombs were really falling, I would be vaporized or fatally irrita…

>...near SF, which I hope isn't a target in such a war You are talking about a city right on the coast, a top-20 most populated in the country, representing the tech center of the …

>... This has the added benefit of sorting the values as well I don't think you can rely on this? Happy to be proven wrong, but set does not guarantee iteration order. There may be…

YMMV, but a tuple should be faster than a list for construction and iteration. Though, I believe it is a pretty negligible amount.

That's the wild thing about this. It would take very minimal resources to pull off this kind of action.

We're taking about a trillion dollar company who can afford all of the talent and has very limited time pressure. I would prefer they do it correctly.

Has that attack ever been observed in the wild? While I don't know if the current incarnations of Nix/Guix will succeed, I think we are slowly making progress towards reproducible …

I have been thinking about picking up this miniITX, Cooler Master NR200P[0]. Similar form factor that would be completely adequate for a daily driver and could accommodate a sizeab…

Now I am curious. - how big is it if you exclude non-Python3 compatible? - how big if you only wanted the latest version of everything?

Meta has repeatedly demonstrated they will do whatever it takes to capture user data. Kid VPNs, in app browsers, etc. Is it any surprise that people are deeply suspicious of any co…

I have thought there needs to be much more trivial plug-and-play caching solution that works for the major services: npm, pypi, cargo, docker, etc. Right now, is is justifiably ann…

To be that guy... Didn't Guido officially step down as BDFL?

Specifically, I want a backup key off-site. Anytime I enroll a new service, I need to retrieve my backup key from storage for the purposes of enrolling. Depending on how/where the …

The thing that trips me up is the ability to make backups in the event it is lost/stolen. Seemingly not all services allow registering an additional key, and even if they do, the p…

Nginx security page [0] lists a non-zero amount of exploitable issues rooted in manual memory management. [0] https://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.html