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The easier, less invasive but also less accurate option would be to publish an empty crate with a random name that does not exploit typos (just some random junk) and check how ofte…

AFAIK antivirus systems do (did?) not scan RAM, only persistent memory. So decrypting/decoding the malware in-memory and jumping into the code should avoid detection. That's how "r…

Well then you have to check the generated tests. That's just one more layer, isn't it?

Could you share a link to your repo? This setup sounds interesting. Currently I have two separate repos for NixOS and home-manager.

> Most of the tests I write aren't for pure functions In response to this, I recommend the "Functional Core, Imperative Shell"[0] talk/pattern. The idea is to extract your business…

Dito for German: "vom Laster gefallen"

During the quarantine, I started photographing on film, developing the film at home and digitize the negatives using my DSLR. At least for B/W film, the process of developing film …

Sure, if you have an either/result type, the whole thing becomes a fold, where each validator is a function from user to Either and then validators.reduce(Either.right(user), (acc,…

When validation gets complex (e.g. there are many criteria to check), I like to build a list/stream/array (what ever the language offers) of tuples of predicates (functions from th…

In my opinion this pattern is better if you write it like this: _ = isDefined(user) || throw new Error("user must be defined") This reads way more natural for me. "A user is define…

You can install nix side by side to your distro package manager and only install some packages using nix. You could also use something like lorri and direnv and let nix only manage…

Yeah should have validated that claim first. Seems like the form on hibp.com always submits your input to the server... Still, if I had to chose between hibf.com and hibp.com, I'd …

I think HIBP implements it like this: you hash your email/phone number and send only a prefix of the hash to the server. The server responds with a list of hashes matching the pref…

From what I can see, this site sends your whole number to the backend to search for a number in the dump[0], while haveibeenpwned.com will hash the input, send only a prefix to the…

IMO tinc is really awesome. I've been using it for years to connect my servers, laptops and desktops into a VPN. Including my RPI (running PiHole in my LAN) into the tinc VPN gave …

> Bitcoin consumes more energy than all of China This is not true. Bitcoin energy consumption is somewhere between Chile and Argentina.

This is in reference to "Hashes cannot be undone". One-way functions are functions that are easily computed given any input but where it is hard/impossible to compute the/a input i…

Small nitpick: The existence of one-way functions has not been proven, yet. Actually proving this would also prove `P != NP` so this would be a big deal (interestingly enough, prov…