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Yes I'm aware. An inside job against mastodon would be harder. A few people may be able to deliberately insert malicious code but that goes for any open source project.

A large company is guaranteed to have been analyzed very carefully by skilled analysts. If you have a small sum to invest, a big risk appetite and you are willing to do your homewo…

If mastodon had a security hole they could all be owned at the same time. Fediverse servers on different software would be unaffected unless the hole is in a library used by both.

Google was willing to pay the most. This means it was more confident than anyone else of being able to scale the products.

The higher performance is not free. Fear makes you accept a higher risk of injury.

The nyquist limit is based on recovering a general signal. If you have a-priori knowledge about the signal you can do much better.

Are vacation apartments included? And if they are not how can officials know whether someone visits a few weeks a year? Or will this target company owned apt complexes?

That reminds me of the one annoyance of the very cool Softice debugger. The clock would stop while active.

It's like the halting problem. It's hard to decide whether a given switch works in the general case. But it's possible to design an obviously correct breaker. Edit: the gnarly thin…

It's not only about the mathematical factor. It's about which usecases are possible.

If you let the number of objects to sort go to infinity while keeping size of objects in bits capped, then they will behave like integers.

I'm ok with tying some conversations to phone #. Others, not so much

Abstinence only is an interesting meme. It's successful as a meme precisely because the advice does not work.

I think the mockup emphasises the original tweet too much and the apology too little. Suggestion: put the apology first. Use black color for apology, faint gray for original.

If any of these projects should pose a risk to Microsoft it will be able to pull the rug from under them. Code hosting gone, sponsor income gone, forums gone, bug tracking gone. At…

Checking divisibility by a known constant can be done in a better way than doing a division. https://lemire.me/blog/2019/02/08/faster-remainders-when-the...

Music is definitely an acquired taste. My family was not very good at nor into music. I didn't understand the point of instrumental music until my mid teens. Before that I only lis…

Consider this from the perspective of the user's intention. This is the exact behavior I would want if I installed Edge. Saying this as someone who mainly uses firefox and occasion…

Does getting beat for recording actually happen though?

Modern processors still know how to run 16 bit code.

What we all want to hear is that they blasted some poor animals with radiation their whole lives and nothing happened. And that they exposed people for a few years to no ill effect…

When people talked about blameless post mortems I never fully believed them. I did however never fear ending up on death row.