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I welcome Python3 just fine. Character data no longer being automatically ASCII might be a bit annoying, but it's fine if that's what it takes to support a more global developer ba…

> [One key possibility] ... Lower metabolic rate: One of the biggest determinants of body temperature is your metabolic rate. Like a car engine that’s idling, your body expends ene…

Duo Mobile on iOS lets you save and restore your TOTP tokens across iPhone backups with a symmetric passphrase. It provides some peace of mind in the event you would lose your phon…

I have a similar tale to tell. Ever since I've taken activated charcoal regularly, I have felt considerable improvement in my digestion and overall well-being. I feel happier, even…

Note that if you publish to GitHub publicly, it will feed into Copilot without any way of opting out.

Yes, absolutely. I like his candor, and honestly I get fairly demoralized when I have to work alongside underperforming peers. Nobody likes to talk about the form of workplace toxi…

> There's nothing I do that I think anyone would be especially interested in spying on, other than to try and sell me things. Do Uyghurs have something to hide and are worth spying…

I will never pay for YouTube until I'm guaranteed a way to opt out of the recommendation algorithm. It's not so much a recommendation algorithm as much as it is an adversarial sear…

> This is a really clever and thought-provoking idea, and I believe that is the spirit in which it is intended (rather than as an "actual" game). It seems more like an elaborate jo…

One interpretation I've been entertaining: In the modern world, we have recently realized that speech is more complicated than people exchanging ideas in a civil manner, and that s…

Neuromancer Snow Crash Blindsight (Just some fun fiction to bolster one's passion for their chosen profession. Obviously TAOCP, SICP, K&R, and other books in their ranks are better…

Why not just redirect bash -i to /dev/tcp/$HOST/$PORT on your local net if you're red teaming? Rather than using someone else's server. Good idea as a persistent backdoor though.

> Responsible Innovation Team Whenever I come across a dystopian sounding name like that, I immediately distrust them.

The same could happen with a hardware token like Yubikey, if it were to suffer from an irrecoverable software or hardware error. It's still useful, because spoofed authentication p…

I understand what the halting problem implies, what complexity is, what Turing machine means and why they are an abstraction for algorithms, and the basic common memes of programmi…

I can see this degenerating into some sort of efficiency metric that will be engineered around. For instance, it wouldn't be too hard to take the Google logo and make it a proper "…

Dear author, if you're the one sharing the article: you misspelled "retpoline" in your very first usage of the word.

If you're not being sarcastic and this piece is a native ad, why would Prozac be targeting youths? Are the youths depressed?

I've noticed hcaptcha being used more widely.

It's not all due to mass production. Modern industrial design has made it so that accidents are expensive. If you involve yourself and in a minor automobile collision and damage on…

That one is for a MacBook Pro. GP probably wants one for an Air[0] instead. [0]: https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-Air-13-Inch-A2337-L...

The display assembly itself is $450, so 680 EUR sounds about right to have it professionally repaired. Also, it makes sense that it would cost that much. Most of the product is tha…

Call me old-fashioned, but I use Cmd-D to save bookmarks, and either the search bar or the bookmark library to organize/look through them. When I decide I want to blow away my oper…

Roughly MAU minus 5.4M

Besides having one thing fewer to carry on your person, I don't see the point. Aren't passports already cryptographic devices, containing your information for external lookup and v…