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auscompgeek

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About auscompgeek

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    Comment #49095774

    Specifying sp=reject in a DMARC policy would have a similar effect right?

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    Comment #49055161

    That somewhat sounds like the sort of thing git imerge does.

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    Comment #48615606

    Is `cloud-init query` not already a standard interface for "who am I" on cloud instances?

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    Comment #48205829

    As a developer or security researcher, you're able to download and run GitHub Enterprise Server. I'm not sure having access to the full source code makes a meaningful difference fo…

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    Comment #48168251

    In theory eStargz layers should be amenable to CDC.

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    Comment #48062495

    From what I can gather it is the exact same vulnerability.

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    Comment #47922360

    In isolation sure. But in context with the other points it makes it look like "they" refers to Microsoft in all the dot points.

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    Comment #47874940

    describe is also the command you can use to edit the commit message of the change you're currently drafting. In jj there's no staging area, every modification to the working tree i…

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    Comment #46808404

    Depending on what NPU you have yes.

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    Comment #46414966

    It was definitely a relatively well known problem with the 2019 MBP on the internet at some point. I found a Reddit thread linking to a news article about this. https://www.reddit.…

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    Comment #46359653

    I think you may be confusing Agent Client Protocol with Agent Communication Protocol.

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    Comment #46341312

    At the very least schools should be billed for the frivolous police callouts. Who knows, maybe then the school might change their tune.

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    Comment #46073717

    I would've considered signing up if scrolling on your website didn't make my modern flagship phone drop frames.

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    Comment #45873984

    Firefox haven't removed XSLT support yet.

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    Comment #45787978

    git very much supports symlinks. Although depending on the system config it might not create actual symlinks on Windows.

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    Comment #44810054

    IIRC that's actually a change in upstream pip.

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    Comment #44721280

    > Indeed, while Chrome is displaying the dialog, it blocks all Chrome extension popup windows from appearing. We discovered this one the hard way at work. I keep learning this the …

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    Comment #44675970

    typing.NamedTuple also sets `__slots__ = ()`, just like collections.namedtuple.

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    Comment #44335939

    This can be useful for accessibility. For example you might have a colour palette that users can add to, but the colours are only stored as hex codes. Giving a screen reader user j…

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    Comment #43694637

    I wanted to check this out, so I installed the GitHub app on my account, with access to all my personal repos. However when I went looking for one of my repos (auscompgeek/sphinxif…

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    Comment #43480353

    > They can't block every 8 character tag. Whilst Git will be default abbreviate commits to 7 characters, that's merely a default; `core.abbrev` can be set to any number to change t…

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    Comment #42580456

    There's a known issue where the shell integration doesn't respect that setting when it sets the cursor shape. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/2812

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    Comment #42025592

    Curious why you think Canva isn't a good company?