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manithree··on Passkeys and Modern Authentication
Not just non-technical people, but a lot of Windows developers I've worked with over the years can't seem to grasp the asymmetric key concept enough to use it for git (and then complain about git over over https).

Being in charge of the strength and security of your private key is something most people don't want to do, so we get multiple identities made "easy" by walled gardens getting popular in passkeys.

manithree··on Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library
Anybody find a license for their online catalogue? Searching for license found one "resultaten" that was a link that 404's, and no hits for "licentie."

Along those lines, though, this: https://www.veradekok.nl/en/2015/08/introducing-the-dememori...

will let you download full page images. and I think this: https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify/issues/209

Should work, also. I don't know Dutch law, but I would think books this old would have to be public domain.

manithree··on Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail
USPS, FedEx, UPS, and Amazon all do this, but USPS is by far the worst here.

There's a new (well, it was several years ago) townhome in the town to the west that has exactly the same street address as mine, just a different city and ZIP code (just one digit different). We got their mail, packages, etc. a LOT for years. The best was when we got home and FedEx had dropped of a set of 4 overnighted tires on our porch.

The townhome is a rental, and sometimes, even when Amazon sends me a photo of their front porch, the townhome tenants claim they didn't get anything of ours. Either they're theives or they have a lot of porch pirates.

manithree··on The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)
I must be way above the median age here if I'm the first to mention how much this looks like what when I was a teenager we called the "Man from Atlantis" stroke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_from_Atlantis
manithree··on Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text
With nice editor integration (especially emacs), hurl is a good postman replacement.

Kinda niche, but I wrapped libhurl to make it really easy to make an AWS Lambda availability monitor out of a hurl file https://gitlab.com/manithree/hurl_lambda

manithree··on Cardiac: A CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation [pdf]
This one is higher quality (https://content.instructables.com/F84/WG7G/K2XU5LKV/F84WG7GK...) and it's all kinda pointless without the "machine" https://www.instructables.com/CARDIAC-CARDboard-Illustrative...

I didn't get mine until about 1979 or 1980. Still have it, though.

manithree··on Computer Architecture – Michael Flynn (2007)
I thought CARDIAC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_...) was pretty cool when I was in high school. I still have a couple of them in a box somewhere.
manithree··on How I got my laser eye injury
Not to be insensitive about your injury, but I'm more curious how you got your laser eye.
manithree··on Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system
I had the same question. Turns out, it's mostly a future possibility, and for most current use cases of branches in git, you would use a channel in pijul. At least that's how I understand these discussions in the pijul discourse.

https://discourse.pijul.org/t/phenomenological-pijul-or-piju...

https://discourse.pijul.org/t/working-without-channels/1047/...

manithree··on Lapce
I've tried Lapce several times over the past year or 2, and have never gotten more than 5 minutes in without it hanging or crashing. I wish I was a rust programmer, but Lapce is not a good poster-child for the language, IMO.

It's not the speed, or even the phoning home that make me rage-quit VSCode on the regular. It's the RAM. EVERYTHING slows down if you only have 24GB and try to use VSCode.

manithree··on Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
Of course they don't know it. They actually believe that the state is better at managing money than the people creating products and jobs.
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