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edp··on CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised
So strange to see you commenting on HN, I was an avid reader of Joystick back in the day !
edp··on Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
Windows had wordpad but it was discontinued two years ago : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad
edp··on Memos: stick private notes on your email
You made me check but there is a "birthday" field on the contact form and I can display a "Birthdays" calendar with events for the birthdays of my contacts.
edp··on Cosmopolitan v3.5
There is a complete super metroid walkthrough using this technique : https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588741-super-metroid/faqs...
edp··on Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
I don't know exactly why this bug would still be open, but you can use x86-64 images on an ARM64 Mac :

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/#4250

I have been using it for a few months (in beta) and it works great !

edp··on Lightweight SQLite Editor for Windows
Can't you just put the image as a file inside your repo and reference it from the README.md file ?
edp··on Your.Online: Gandi continues its development
I've been using Gandi for years and I'm looking for a new registrar. Which one(s) are you recommending ?
edp··on We updated our RSA SSH host key
The fact that users have to delete the old Github key from their systems and accept a new one is what could lead to a MITM attack.

If your system doesn't know the public key of an SSH server, when you connect the first time, the SSH client will display a warning and ask you if you accept the server key. An attacker could be between you and Github and if you accept without checking it's the correct key, you would be toast.

edp··on Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden
I guess that would be Doom.
edp··on Ask HN: Are companies becoming increasingly pushy? If so why?
On Instagram, when you create an account, you now need to submit a selfie picture while holding a code given to you while registering. For suspicious account, it can even be a video selfie. I know bots are an issue but they should ask for this only when posting/commenting, not for browsing. No way I'll send a picture or video to facebook linked to my email/phone number.
edp··on Researchers quietly cracked Zeppelin ransomware keys
I think asymmetric encryption is not usable for large amount of data, the only thing it is good for is to encrypt a passphrase or a binary signature (like a hash). If you can catch the process of encryption while it is running, it is likely that the passphrase is in memory (or used as a command line argument).
edp··on Oracle Contributing GraalVM Community Edition Java Code to OpenJDK
I think you're talking about Bryan Cantrill : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m
edp··on The Reason Java Is Still Popular
This was code from another article, linked in the introduction.
edp··on Tell HN: Lost access to my Apple account even though I have the password
As the sibling comment is saying, I never set up 2FA on my account. When I do, I'm using totp and store backup codes. Apple decided to force 2FA and use security questions as the second factor on my behalf.

On top of this, many companies provide customer support to reset 2FA with an other way to verify who you are.

edp··on Tell HN: Lost access to my Apple account even though I have the password
But I never set up 2FA on my Apple account, security questions were meant to be used as an account recovery procedure if you lost access to your account email. THEY set it up as 2FA and as a result I can't log in. I have accounts on numerous website and this is the first time I'm completeoy lockout. I would gladly send my ID card to Apple but apparently this is not an option.
edp··on Tell HN: Lost access to my Apple account even though I have the password
I'm not in the US, there is no Apple Store near me, only resellers. I never had to answer security questions up to now, and never stored the answers in my password manager. I thought that a reset by email was possible, but apparently not ...
edp··on Tell HN: Lost access to my Apple account even though I have the password
I can reset the password myself, what they won't do is reset the security questions through an email for example. They told me that if I don't have the answers, there is no way to recover my account.
edp··on Ask HN: Co-Founder pivoting, what are my options?
Is there any way you could offer to _buy_ the code from your cofounder ? If he/she believes there is no value in it (hence the pivoting), there shouldn't be any problem.
edp··on Show HN: A daily math puzzle inspired by Wordle
I was a little confused at first but seeing your comment makes it clear, thank you.
edp··on Show HN: A daily math puzzle inspired by Wordle
I think I have a valid solution but it's not marked as green.

Find the solution that equals 23 :

5*9-22

edp··on Docker Business/Docker Desktop FAQs
I got an email from Docker stating that Docker Desktop is no longer free for business use when exceeding 250 employees and $10M annual revenue. I guess they need more revenue streams.
edp··on Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2
I think it's because of echo cancelling technology. In software like discord you can disable it and it's way better when people are talking simultaneously.
edp··on Git for Computer Scientists (2010)
I don't think this is even possible with SVN or CVS, is it ?
edp··on Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year
I get what you're saying, it's not strictly income tax, but the end result is the same : it's a mandatory tax, based on what you earn. As for getting these expenses back, I hope I will have work and be healthy for as long as possible, and I'm happy to pay these taxes for poorer people to get access to healthcare or unemployment benefits. But I sure feel ~50% of my income is going into taxes without being a millionaire.
edp··on Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year
Here in France, as a contractor, if I bill a client 100 000€ annually and decide to get as much as possible in personal income, 30 000€ will go as social taxes (health, retirement ...) and for the remaining 70 000€ you will have to pay around 25% as income tax (if you don't have any children).

You will have an income of ~52 000€ for 100 000€ billed during the year. You're not earning millions and yet around 50% of revenue was paid for tax purposes.

edp··on Slidev – Presentation Slides for Developers
Missing from markdown/web based slides is a way to auto resize text content to fit on a page, like powerpoint does. I didn't find a way to manage this correctly with reveal, remark or marp and from what I'm seeing, slidevjs won't do it either.
edp··on Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
IANAL

a) postgres is not user facing, so no

b) there is no linking (as in compiler linking) between your application and postgres, so no

edp··on Zenreader: A 4.7" E-Ink RSS Reader
Chming in to to say thank you for the tools you created for sending articles to the kindle. I recently became a patreon member to support your work.
edp··on A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16
Starting with OpenJDK 11 (and I think available in OpenJDK8 with an optional flag), the JVM will use the memory constraints of the container, so no more -Xmx flags and so on if you are running the JVM in a container environment.
edp··on Tell HN: My entire company's Gsuite access has been banned
And yet, my father works at Airbus and they switched to gsuite last year. Needless to say, the transition from excel to gsheets is not easy, but he's learning javascript in the process.
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