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jacekm

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Jacek Maciejewski is a QA Engineer living in Poznań (Poland). Loves traveling, especially around Japan.

Currently: Lead QA Engineer at VML (after series of rebrandings Cognifide -> Wunderman Thompson -> VML) Poznań, Poland (Feb 2017-present)

Previous positions:

    * Senior QA Consultant at ThoughtWorks London (Oct 2014 - Mar 2016)
    * Senior QA Engineer at Cognifide Poznań, Poland (Feb 2011 - Sep 2014)
Education:

    * Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan)
    * Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland)
website: https://maciejewski.eu

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/jacek; my proof: https://keybase.io/jacek/sigs/3XArjWFBqBHtwB0NujKq9C9x-t4hAmLa9ntXBFHMCsM ]

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jacekm··on The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)
I am curious how much they are in your country? In Poland one egg costs about $0.30
jacekm··on List of DRM-Free Bookshops
I understand that inspiration for posting this was the Amazon taking away the ability to "Download and transfer over USB". Can anybody tell me if downloading will still work via Kindle for PC? That's how I download my books before removing DRM in Calibre.
jacekm··on A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chile
What you describe is the entrance to their esophagus. That's why although the kayaker found himself in whale's mouth, the animal could not swallow him and had to spit him out.
jacekm··on Amazon ends kindle ebooks "Download and Transfer via USB"
Via desktop Kindle Reader app.
jacekm··on Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search
You can, but to retain anonymity you'll need to go through decentralized exchange (DEX). This is extra hassle, especially if you have never done this before.
jacekm··on LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
It's subjective. LibreOffice UI is why I stay away from MS Office. I can't find anything in MS Office anymore, I have to rely on their "search for command" feature (or whatever it's called) to be able to do anything. LibreOffice is mostly intuitive for me. On the other hand, my father does not like it and keeps nagging me to buy him the MS product (I can't justify the costs for his casual use though).
jacekm··on LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
I think in FF (and also Edge) you can only add text or drawings, you cannot edit existing text.
jacekm··on Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search
Kagi accepts bitcoins but Vlad (the founder) mentioned on their forum that so few people use this option that it does not make sense to work on accepting Monero.
jacekm··on LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
Can confirm, I am from the EU (PL) and don't see such option. But I saw one that mentions passing data to third parties for "social, economic, and workplace research" and I took the opportunity to switch that off.
jacekm··on Kagi Assistant
Highly unlikely, that would undermine their business model. For the same reason they don't offer pay as you go plan. Vlad explicitly stated somewhere that they are able to make money only because many people do not use their plans to the fullest.
jacekm··on EUCLEAK Side-Channel Attack on the YubiKey 5 Series
If you have a Yubi Key and you are worried, read this part from their report:

> the adversary needs to open the device (...) Then the device must be re-packaged and quietly returned to the legitimate user (...) assuming one can find a reliable way to open and close the device, we did not work on this part

Yubi Keys are supposed to be tamper-evident and you can also put tamper-evident stickers on them. I am more concerned that a determined attacker may eventually find a way to record the signals without having to remove the casing.

jacekm··on MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract
Reportedly there are Nexus bots on Telegram but I am not sure how they work and where to find them.
jacekm··on Rrweb – record and replay debugger for the web
Is there any browser extension based on Rrweb that would let me record my actions and export them to a file which could be then replayed by another person? I know commercial tools, I am wondering whether there is something free available.
jacekm··on Zed on Linux Is Here
Yup, Ctrl twice.
jacekm··on Shodan – Search Engine for the Internet of Everything
There is a finite number of IPv4 addresses, you can simply open TCP connection to each of them on multiple ports and index everything that is returned. There are tools to do this by yourself (the only challenge is to find a provider that won't ban you for scanning the entire internet). There are also other services that do the same thing (e.g. ZoomEye, Censys, FOFA)

For IPv6 there are too many addresses to scan them all so obtaining an IP to scan is a slightly different story (e.g. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/using...) but once you get the address the scanning process looks the same.

jacekm··on Codestral: Mistral's Code Model
The article says that the model is available in Tabnine, a direct competitor to Copilot.
jacekm··on Search.chatgpt.com domain and SSL cert have been created
There is free service called Certstream [0]. It does not provide notifications, you need to ingest the stream, look for the patterns of interest to you and handle notifications by yourself. But it's fairly easy and the service is commonly used by security teams.

[0] https://certstream.calidog.io/

jacekm··on I Lost Faith in Kagi
> Would you be upset if they had just donated that excess to charity?

Yes.

jacekm··on Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search
I typically use a mix of Google and DuckDuckGo and this combination serves me well. I block all ads with uBlock Origin.

I tried Kagi and I like it but not enough to justify the price to myself. If they ever introduce a plan where they charge per query I may start using it more often. Also, I don't like the idea of every query being tied to my credit card details (Kagi claims to be privacy friendly but many companies do, very few really are, it's better not to trust such claims)

jacekm··on Giphy is sharing your IP address and private data to 816 partners
Wouldn't one have to agree to the cookies on Giphy site for the data to be shared? There's no such possibility in Slack, so I'd assume different T&C apply here.
jacekm··on IrfanView
It's about speed mostly. And I got used to the shortcuts, ctrl+r to resize, 'i' to check image metadata. I don't really use any of the editing features (I use Paint.NET for edits). In theory I don't need a dedicated image viewer but I like IrfanView so much that I even paid for it so I can have it on company's laptop.
jacekm··on Show HN: Control Panel for YouTube
I use uBlock Origin for hiding shorts:

  youtube.com##ytd-reel-shelf-renderer:has(.ytd-reel-shelf-renderer:has-text(Shorts))
jacekm··on Show HN: Control Panel for YouTube
I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem... - it replaces thumbnail with a frame from the video.
jacekm··on Apple Vision Pro users return headsets, say they cause extreme headaches
There's no such a thing as "trial period" in the EU. You have 14 days to return the product without a reason but only if it was an online purchase. If you bought the goggles in a brick-and-mortar store you'd be out of luck.

However, if the product is defective you have 2 years to return it regardless of where you bought it.

jacekm··on Wikifunctions
> Is this a tool for computer scientists to use in mapping the standard functions in various languages, rather than a reference resource for the working coder?

Neither of these. The video on https://www.wikifunctions.org/ gives a better explanation. If I understand it correctly, the project seems to be aimed at providing building blocks to more complex functions. Once the basic functions are defined in programming languages and described using natural language, you'll then be able to create new functions without writing any code, just by using existing blocks. Because each function is supposed to be described in multiple natural languages, you will be able to utilize them even if you don't speak English. Whatever you create you'll be able to embed on Wikipedia pages to perform calculations (e.g. automatic unit conversions) or string transformations.

jacekm··on After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data
Competition will love to have a look at this data but obviously they won't announce it to the whole world that they are digging through the files. One day Airbus will build a new plane before Boeing or just win a lucrative contract and we will never know whether this happened naturally or because of the knowledge they got from this data.
jacekm··on Ask HN: Will Google delete inactive gmail accounts that forward email?
It's good as long as you don't forget to pay the yearly fee. Sure, they send reminders, but if you don't log in to your account often then it's easy to miss them. I lost a couple of domains this way...
jacekm··on Ask HN: Will Google delete inactive gmail accounts that forward email?
The phone number is the last step, at least it was for me. I had luck with virtual phone numbers, not the freely available ones, but paid apps like e.g. Vyke.
jacekm··on Ask HN: Will Google delete inactive gmail accounts that forward email?
This is only partially true. I have many GMail accounts (I often create a new one per each service where I create an account) and went through all of them a couple of months ago to make sure that they are not deleted. All I needed was a recovery email address (to which I luckily have access) and a brand new phone number (whatever number you have access to, does not have to be associated with the account in any way).

The part that is true though is that you're out of luck if you set a recovery phone and you no longer have access to it (same for recovery email). But even then I was offered a possibility to contact support to resolve it. And if someone is desperate they may try calling the new owner of the phone number and kindly ask for the code (you'll sound like a scammer, but hey, it's worth trying ;))

jacekm··on Organic Maps
If you're using maps primarily for driving I'd stick to Magic Earth.
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