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jurf

63 karma · joined September 6, 2025

I liked en dashes and curly quotes before AI thought it was cool.

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jurf··on The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
I wonder if this show is the ”Connections” in “Technology Connections” [1]. I can’t find a reference on it but I wouldn’t be surprised.

[1] https://youtube.com/c/TechnologyConnections

jurf··on Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused
Yeah because Meltdown and Spectre [0] weren't a thing.

[0] https://spectreattack.com/

jurf··on Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
That seems like it would be hard to see, even for the person sitting right in front of it.
jurf··on Defer available in gcc and clang
My university also taught best practices alongside that, everytime. I am very grateful for that.
jurf··on 1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico
I get a choice, at least in the EU. Admittedly you need to scroll down a bit on mobile, which is not clear at first.
jurf··on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client
Finally. It was the reason I was always reluctant to buy something from GOG.
jurf··on ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
This at the same time super cool and really disappointing, as I've been carrying around this idea in my head for maybe ten years as a cool side project and never got around to implementing it.

However, there might still be room for competition, heh. I always wanted to do this on the _entirety_ of Unicode to try getting the most possible resolution out of the image.

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