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miniBill··on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
As someone who loves rust: this is dumb. They're not even close to ready
miniBill··on deSEC – Free Secure DNS
> Had DNSSEC been deployed 5 years ago, Muammar Gaddafi would have controlled BIT.LY’s TLS keys. Yupp. Which is why using bit.ly is a terrible idea unless you live in Lybia
miniBill··on hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate
I understand that your comment is meant as a joke but... all the people working on iOS use macOS daily. On their Mac. That they work on.
miniBill··on Rethinking Database Programming
I mean, it's the same for - say - Photoshop?
miniBill··on Sun Clock
Makes me want to build this physically with a color e-ink display + a standardish 24h clock mechanism
miniBill··on The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era
The former
miniBill··on Road to Elm 1.0
FFI is still mostly done through ports (or web components, for the view part). This is an intentional choice and likely to stay until 1.0 and beyond
miniBill··on Choosing a Public DNS Resolver
DoH and ECH fix that
miniBill··on Microsoft Deliberately Bricking All Office for Mac 2019/2021 Installations
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341578
miniBill··on Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
The included sample slaps :)
miniBill··on 'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'
Holy cow this is so cool <3
miniBill··on Copy Fail
Don't you have like, a sudo in /run/wrappers/bin?

EDIT: Sorry, I failed at reading your message. Never mind.

miniBill··on A perfectable programming language
It's a fun challenge! My list is Ada Agda Assembly Awk BASIC Brainfuck C C# C++ COBOL Curry D Elixir Elm F# FORTRAN Gleam GLSL Go Haskell HCL Idris Intercal Java Javascript Objective-C Ocaml Pascal Pony Prolog Python R Ruby Rust Sh Sketch Swift Typescript Visual Basic Zig
miniBill··on CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised
It is possible but visible, and it means burning an identity, so it's not irrelevant
miniBill··on Germany Mandates ODF for Public Administration
ODF is an open format. DOCX is an "open" "format".
miniBill··on US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike
Sending hugs. I don't have solutions, but I feel your pain. I look around and think "where are the adults?"
miniBill··on U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession
Are we looking at different data? If I look at https://ourworldindata.org/population-growth - which lists data from 1950 - I see a basically linear growth?
miniBill··on Wirth's Revenge
Per Betteridge's: no
miniBill··on The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
The same difference between a kitchen knife and an AK 47
miniBill··on Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust
That's fine but the matching exposes that you should also handle the "has more than one element" case. And in general it's pointing to the idea of "try to not separate checks from code that depends on those checks"
miniBill··on Fighting the age-gated internet
On behalf of my younger self: fuck this shit
miniBill··on “Boobs check” – Technique to verify if sites behind CDN are hosted in Iran
You never know! Maybe they've all disappeared!
miniBill··on A new bridge links the math of infinity to computer science
Uh? Could you write an example or two?
miniBill··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
Ironically, see the phrack article someone linked above
miniBill··on PYREX vs. pyrex: What's the difference?
Oooooooh, smört
miniBill··on WASM 3.0 Completed
In fairness, this is talking about Figma, not an email client
miniBill··on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
Does your comment meaningfully contribute to the conversation?
miniBill··on I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself
I don't know if this helps but I've been adding a full stop next to emoji exactly for this. It doesn't fix it for ~new people but it's something for yourself?
miniBill··on Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship
No one is defending the game. Everyone is just saying that payment processors should not be judge, jury and executioner
miniBill··on Dumb Pipe
This doesn't punch through NATs at all, which is the point of Dumb Pipe
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