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currysausage

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About currysausage

Try some currywurst, it's delicious!

(Actually, eat vegetarian. It’s good for you and good for the planet.)

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    Yeah, I fell into that rabbit hole once. Tried all abuse channels that I could find. network-abuse@ refers you to the Google Cloud abuse form. They ‘are not able to take action on …

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    Great post. Very minor nitpick: ‘The small element must not be used for subheadings; for that purpose, use the hgroup element.’ ‘The small element represents side comments such as …

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    When I need a refresher on the basics of Python, I refer to Python Distilled, and when I want a deep dive, I turn to Fluent Python. Reading these books makes me feel like I'm sitti…

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    Comment #44915387

    The web frontend could still send secrets to third parties.

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    Comment #44558101

    Aptos replaced Calibri in Word and Excel.

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    One upside of this reimplementation is that we can now enjoy state-of-the-art Electron-level loading times when opening a new Explorer window. /s

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    There are, of course, web email services that purport to encrypt messages. But they store encryption keys (or code and data sufficient to derive them). These systems obviously don’…

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    I believe the sentence from the RFC: [XHTML1] defines a profile of use of XHTML which is compatible with HTML 4.01 is technically incorrect. While the XHTML 1 compatibility profile…

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    This is especially ironic, considering the same people will gladly use XML syntax and serve it as text/html. Historically, this has only worked because no relevant browser has ever…

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    Comment #43705363

    CERT stands for Computer Emergency Response Team. CIRCL, the supposed operator behind gcve.eu [1], "is the CERT for the private sector, communes and non-governmental entities in Lu…

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    If I remember correctly, W3C’s XHTML2 working group wanted a generic tag [1], and WHATWG, focused on evolving HTML in a backwards-compatible manner, repurposed as a context-depende…

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    Fira was designed by world-class type designers, and it’s only free thanks to the funding by Mozilla and Here, so yes, definitely a different category. Same goes for IBM Plex, by t…

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    Comment #43158524

    Another nitpick: the attribute was called name, not id. https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/frames.html#h-16.3

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    > use TPM (PCR 7+11) with a PIN A power-on password (set in the BIOS) should also work, since without it the system will never get to the point where the TPM unlocks the FVEK, righ…

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    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/tips/clipboard-histo...

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    Looking for something like this right now. How does it compare to rclone [1]? [1] https://rclone.org/sftp/

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    Tell HN: Microsoft Remote Desktop app for iOS does not verify server certificate

    By default (in the absence of a CA-signed server certificate), RDP connections between Windows PCs rely on a trust-on-first-use (TOFU) model, where the client software displays a w…