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daurnimator

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About daurnimator

Melbournian; Developer; Software Architect; Lua Lover; Electrical Engineer; hashbang.sh Sysadmin and Teacher; Mentor; MelbourneWireless node.

https://github.com/daurnimator/

http://daurnimator.com

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #47001034

    seaweedfs: `weed server -s3` is enough to spin up a server locally

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    Comment #42998982

    Lambic beers prove you can do that

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    Comment #41738390

    And if he isn't "annoying Steve" now he will be known as that soon enough :)

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    Comment #41488555

    hmm? https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/54606a9d3fea9...

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    Comment #39557472

    > It's not copy protection. It may change the structure and content of the page that is sent but that is not copy protection. It is though! Often news websites use the user agent t…

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    Comment #39532994

    Have you seen user agent strings? Every browser pretends to be all the browsers before it to get around restrictions on who can see/render content.

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    Comment #37980888

    A major goal of an email-like system is full decryption of the entire history of messages. Same as it's a feature of my filing cabinet that items don't incinerate themselves whenev…

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    Comment #37980501

    Email is also an archive of communications with vendors, shops and government departments. Signal doesn't let you migrate chat history to your desktop. Trying to migrate between ph…

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    Comment #37980118

    I expect it would be far cheaper to scale up tempo/loki than it would be to even run an idle kafka cluster. This feels like spending thousands of dollars to save tens of dollars.

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    Comment #35568128

    zig supports importing C headers via the special built-in `@cImport`. That feature requires a C language front end to operate. https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.10.1/#Import-from…

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    Comment #34659983

    I personally find the yq tool from https://github.com/kislyuk/yq much more useful: it has all the same options and formats as `jq` (as it's really a wrapper around jq). Rather than…

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    Comment #34541316

    e.g. some anti-virus software requires a kernel module; this adds additional attack surface e.g. historically anti-virus engines have had bugs where e.g. when they search inside of…

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    Comment #34146987

    Just stay until you get arrested for trespassing and "escorted" out.

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    Comment #33679856

    That seems to be at least a $22000 car. (cheapest one for sale right now: https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2015-nissan-leaf-az... ) How on earth is that worth it when a sim…

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    Comment #33463960

    Note that Postgres has built in range types which makes much of this cleaner. See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/rangetypes.html#RANGETYPE...

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    Comment #33459507

    You might be able to find a solution in migadu ( https://www.migadu.com/ )

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    Comment #33007433

    Fails to load in firefox 105.0.1 (64-bit ArchLinux) for me. WebGL warning: : WebglAllowWindowsNativeGl:false restricts context creation on this system. d3wasm.js:1:156185 Failed to…

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    Comment #32745151

    While I don't disagree, a secure location with a trusted proctor is not simple or easy for all cases: students may be studying remotely/at home, which could be in a rural area with…

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    Comment #32468052

    > I'm guessing the town wants him to do very basic stuff to get the property up to code, and he doesn't want to. It looks like he wants to but the city won't let him. e.g. https://…

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    Comment #31362218

    My Sony Z3 Compact back in 2014 had IP68 and a headphone jack.

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    Comment #31326843

    https://github.com/yefremov/isnan An entire module for just `return value !== value;`

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    Comment #31224811

    > You should pay them by their time, like you would a doctor. Except it'll cost like $200 I looked into this a couple of months ago. It turns out it costs minimum ~$2,000 here in A…

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    Comment #31095759

    I invite you to try my test suite at https://github.com/daurnimator/lpeg_patterns/blob/master/spe...

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    Comment #30966631

    > But I have not needed to prove it because (as far as I know) only one programming language that uses async as its concurrency model claims to not have function colors. The zig "c…