Viewing profile — Hawxy

> "By immediately I mean we send it to k-ID who said that's what they do." People have already validated this fyi. When k-ID was first added you could send a bogus age result to di…

3.5 is approaching end of life in the next few years, you definitely should not building anything new with it. There's a lot of QoL changes in modern .NET that makes your life as a…

> Why is there so much difference in the NuGet downloads between both libraries tho? Because there's a boatload of older .NET apps that have been using Newtonsoft for over a decade…

> however the 4.x stuff is definitely out of support [...] Sorry, I did not know they had actually brought non-Core ASP.NET forward into 5.0+ None of this is true, you've gotten yo…

This appears to be the code change: https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/commit/97a86434195a82fc...

> Discord then fail to honour their end of the deal by deleting their users documents after use, and then get breached. This wasn't documents uploaded via the automated ID checker,…

That's a 47 day old release and the fix for the macOS issue only came out 7 days ago. Not critically out of date by any means.

Microsoft has been actively working on a new API to make third-party password managers natively integrate with Windows: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/develop/secur…

> I don't know how well-organized or efficient they are They're 50 employees with an annual budget of $14.4 million. The cost/benefit ratio here is very good.

The PII masking aspect is very interesting and something we couldn't get when we decided on DBLab a month ago. What does the deployment model within AWS look like?

If all you care about is the forking aspect we use DBLab Engine pretty effectively: https://postgres.ai/products/dblab_engine . Gets deployed within your own infrastructure.

Tested Meilisearch recently, was a great experience, getting a multi-index search running in our frontend was very easy. Just wish they had an Australian instance, the closest is S…

.NET is a very productive stack, if you're coming from a JS background you'll find all of the batteries included that'd usually require a dozen or so NPM packages. If you're buildi…

- Windows 11 has provided a hardware security baseline for Microsoft, with features that require hardware support (HVCI, TPM etc) to be enabled by default going forward, stating th…

> Security There's a pretty interesting video from 2023 that goes through much of Microsoft's thoughts around Windows security. It flew under the radar unfortunately: https://www.y…

Modern EF Core can generate SQL very close to handwritten and will aggressively warn you if you do something dumb. I wouldn't worry about it.

C# runs on practically everything these days. See Avalonia: https://avaloniaui.net/

> too much ambitions, too many people, and poor management. The main problem in this case was SC's game director. He was around for nine years and set the scope/goals/roadmap for t…

The website is a fun mix of ancient Vue that was written a decade ago alongside an ongoing overhaul that has replaced the menu and most main pages with React.

That device very much predates Samsung's long-term support policy. I'm surprised it was even being sold at that point.

You get your name + address marked off the roll when you go to vote. If you get your name marked off multiple times it would indicate fraud.

> Forced voting is proof of it. Forced voting is a net benefit, the biggest being that it forces parties to the center rather than having to say/promise stupid stuff to appeal to t…

It's not the fault of the language, it's just the nature of infrastructure code that's been ported from terraform. With Pulumi C# you end up with multiple nested objects/dictionari…

As much as I like it, I find C# to be too inflexible of a language for infrastructure code. I tried with Pulumi for a while but moved to TypeScript as it works so much better. Stru…

No, Windows Update's Nvidia driver set is usually years out of date and rarely gets updated. It exists as an emergency fallback and doesn't push out regular updates.