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eXpl0it3r

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About eXpl0it3r

https://duerrenberger.dev/blog/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48787320

    Are CVE really a good thing for open source projects? No doubt is it a good thing to have issues reported and fixed, but CVE feels a bit like blackmailing maintainers - either you …

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    Comment #48063231

    Despite the "Gold-suite" comparison, when looking at the KaTeX and RaTeX output [1], the KaTeX output is consistently better. RaTeX has either a lot of aliasing going on or appears…

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    Comment #47919419

    If it's an open source project that has been used by others, please consider giving out maintainer access to others (now or later). It's sad, when projects are abandoned and a whol…

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    Comment #47805707

    As maintainer I won't be able to give you an unbiased response. The biggest difference is, that SFML is a C++ library. What motivates me to work on SFML is, that we're building som…

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    Comment #47426613

    The Nature paper from last year: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-91115-8

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    Comment #47151543

    Yeah, then again most people haven't experienced this and are happy to just enable "track changes" in Word and send the document back and forth, maybe if you're lucky, it's hosted …

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    Comment #47150736

    OnlyOffice, Nextcloud OPffice, Collabora might all have free offerings to a degree, but you'll end up at the mercy of the companies behind those tools and OnlyOffice comes with Ent…

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    Comment #47031443

    Since this uses Direct2D, is this Windows-only? How much of the code was vibe-coded?

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    Comment #46794248

    I'm in the opposite camp. Give me some local tool that does disappear when the maintainer moves to the next thing. Well and I can eat the cake as well, make it some native app that…

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    Comment #46791661

    I still have two active accounts and neither of those were in the breach of the 20% of accounts.

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    Comment #46718837

    The discussion requirement is often to prevent disappointment, waste of time, and anger, when maintainers simple close PRs, because it's not the direction they want the project to …

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    Comment #46716277

    Except for investors who couldn't figure out the right "Zoom" to buy shares from [1]. [1] https://www.ft.com/content/98635c63-b4ab-49a3-9c18-1de6819d6...

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    Comment #46703458

    A lot of users still like the mix of a good UI for most tasks, while being able to do a lot of power user stuff without an added layer. Plus many will choose macOS also for the har…

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    Comment #46702475

    I hate this as well, especially since I have greylisting enabled on some email addresses, so by the time the email login is delivered, the login session has already timed out and o…

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    Comment #46588263

    Inventing and replicating face different challenges though.

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    Comment #46584756

    What's DEP?

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    Comment #46568411

    In my opinion this is mostly self-inflicted by Microsoft. Sure some push for web-based solution has moved a lot of people away from desktop applications, but even before that Micro…

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    Comment #46551120

    Or "Management Studio". Never heard "SQL Studio" either.

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    Comment #46313006

    What are the reasons to use a throw away account and neither mention the product nor the niche area?

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    Comment #46310166

    What's your source and/or quality of the financial data? How much do you cover? What data fields do you provide?

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    Comment #46286626

    That's already what is happening... When you do a check on https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords nothing is sent to the server. Instead the password is hashed locally and a list of …

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