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currysausage
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About currysausage
(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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Comment #48255756
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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Comment #46560790
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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Comment #44406629
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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Comment #44252580
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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Comment #44137045
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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Comment #44134151
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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Comment #43657245
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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Comment #43591808
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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Comment #42558484
> 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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Comment #42079355
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/tips/clipboard-histo...
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Comment #41610030
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…