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Raymond Cheng faced a similar situation here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240927-00/?p=11... The problem boils down to usage of stack memory after the memory is gi…

If you are on Linux and prefer a Qt based GUI, then check out zuluCrypt[1]. It can create PLAIN dm-crypt, LUKS, TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt volumes. It can unlock PLAIN dm-crypt, LUKS,…

This tool works in Windows and Linux and is a GUI front ends to the following CLI tools that deal with online media downloading. The extension based architecture makes it possible …

A passport will allow you to go from anywhere in the world to anywhere else in the world and its usually hard to get. "An emergency travelling document" will allow you to go from a…

Typically, its from "8:00 AM" to "4:00 PM". In swahili time, i would say "its from hour 2 in the morning to hour 10 in the everning.

Each african here and in Swahili time, the day starts at 7:00 AM and ends at 6:59PM and night starts at 7:00 PM and ends at 6:59AM. So, I would read "12:00 AM" as "six hours into t…

Problems with std::function:- 1. It can not hold move only callable objects. 2. It heap allocate stored callable object if the object is large enough.

Don't use "NULL" in C++[1]. [1] https://cpp4arduino.com/2018/10/26/why-cpp-programmers-dont-...

There a couple of solutions that are fuse based and dealing with folder based encryption and gocryptfs has a page that compares them here[1]. It will be interesting to see how this…

If you loose your phone here in Tanzania, the phone company will require a police report and a copy of a photo ID(passport, drivers licence or national ID card) that matches the lo…

Native Swahili speaker here and the language cares only if its a being or not a being and for beings, it simply doesn't care if its a man, a woman, a horse, a pig or an alien with …

These etilqs files consumed 60GB of this[1] person's hard drive space. I think it was a good decision to change the name of these files because they give sqlite a bad name while th…

There is a windows program named sshfs-win[1] that allows mounting of remote SSH location as local folders and SiriKali[2] is currently its only GUI frontend. SiriKali also support…

securefs[1] is a command line tool and it works on Linux, Windows and MACOS. This tool does folder based encryption. SiriKali[2] is a Qt/C++ based GUI tool that acts as a front end…

How effect is this if its possible to be elected into office at a very late age.

This discussion[1] maybe useful in solving the problem. "things()" member function should be qualified with a reference to prevent it from being called from an rvalue object. [1] h…

All my projects are C++14 so it wasnt an issue for me but i liked being c++11 for other people and i am glad there is a way to get it back to c++11. Already committed your suggesti…

Your code failed to compile but this one[1] succeeds. Side effect of your way is that it now makes the project requiring C++14 but i can live with that. [1] https://github.com/mhog…

sometimes,declaring lambdas with auto is not not sufficient as i discovered in my "tasks"[1] project. An example place where auto breaks is here[2]. [1] https://github.com/mhogomch…

There could be an efficiency bug here. 1. "item->id()" is designed to return a pointer. 2. Consumer of the API writes their code to take a copy of the pointer and passes it along t…

project page: https://mhogomchungu.github.io/zuluCrypt/ >> why did you start it I bought an external hard drive and i wanted to encrypt it just because i could,i already knew about…

How do you measure battery life? 1. Do you charge it to 100% and live it alone until charge goes to 0%? 2. Do you unplug it in the morning and use it "normally" and see what charge…

I am a christian Tanzanian in Tanzania and i though this was a Muslim thing and not something specific to india as this article and wikipedia[1] suggests. My understand as it was e…

Tanzanian here and i am surprised find my country in the front page of hacker news. Summary of what is going on. 17 years ago, Tanzania signed a "bad" contract with acacia mining c…