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But also, rewriting history only works if you haven't pushed code and are working as a solo developer.
It doesn't work when the team is working on a feature in a branch and we need to be pushing to run and test deployment via pipelines.
I can spend hours OCDing over my git branch commit history.
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I can spend those hours getting actual work done and squash at the end to clean up the disaster of commits I made along the way so I could easily roll back when needed.
That's a totally normal and predictable response on the daycare's part.
EDIT - This whole saga is obvious rage-bait trolling.
If this was actual journalism, the guy would have went during normal business hours, and brought a child with him, with a fake story like "I'm looking for a daycare for lil' Billy here, would you mind showing us around and telling us about the place?"
PDF is an absurdly complex file format. It's part of the reason there is no single "good" PDF reader, just a lot of mediocre PDF readers that are all terrible in their own way. Which is a topic for another day.
There are several ways to remove data in a PDF:
- Remove the data. This is much harder than it sounds. Many PDF tools won't let you change the content of a PDF, not because it isn't possible, but because you'll likely massively screw up the formatting, and the tools don't want to deal with that.
- Replace the data. This what what all the "blackout" tools do, find "A" and replace with "🮋". This is effective and doesn't break formatting since it's a 1-to-1 replacement. The problem with "replacing" is that not every PDF tool works the same way, and some, instead, just change the foreground and background color to black; it looks nearly the same, but the power of copy-and-paste still functions.
- Then you have the computer illiterate, who think changing the foreground and background color to black is good enough anyway.
Why programmers like cooking: You peel the carrot, you chop the carrot, you put the carrot in the stew. You don’t suddenly find out that your peeler is several versions behind and they dropped support for carrots in 4.3
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/agv5ol/why...
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
: “hey bob, I looked here and here and here and didn’t find the correct information. Can you show me where to look or tell me the answer so I can document it”
Because most people don’t bother doing the tiniest amount of their own research before asking dumb questions it becomes a huge headache to answer the same thing a million times.
However, if you can show that you did put in the effort to look up the answer first people will be much more willing to help.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_transgender_peo...
https://www.them.us/story/trump-admin-fbi-trans-nihilistic-v...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_for_homosex...
Now, whether that's needed or whether the US is handling it in a "good way" is all up for debate. But there is a deliberateness.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Venezuela_relati...
* https://thediplomat.com/2024/08/china-breaks-with-latin-amer...
* https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3335116/china-unlike...
Now it means whoever has access to uncensored/non-watermarking models can pass off their faked images as real and claim, "Look! There's no watermark, of course, it's not fake!"
Whereas, if none of the image models did watermarking, then people (should) inherently know nothing can be trusted by default.
This article is about encrypting the body of the email which is easy* but no widely implemented standard exists.
* Stupid easy for two nerds to email securely.
* Stupid hard to work with multiple people and non-nerds.
I want to try this keyboard, but I also don't want to give up dictation. If I have to switch back to the iOS keyboard to enable dictation, that's just enough friction that I'm not going to move to something else.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows
- This is why I never feel guilty about "pirating" Windows. I've already paid for it!
Loi no 2001-1062 du 15 novembre 2001 relative à la sécurité quotidienne, article 30 (Law #2001-1062 of 15 November 2001 on Community Safety) allows a judge or prosecutor to compel any qualified person to decrypt or surrender keys to make available any information encountered in the course of an investigation. Failure to comply incurs three years of jail time and a fine of €45,000; if the compliance would have prevented or mitigated a crime, the penalty increases to five years of jail time and €75,000.[22]
I don’t want to run your webpage in a web browser I have no control over.
My normal browser has been tediously customized and tailored for my usability.
It’s not a bad deal for either side. The CIA doesn’t have to pay if an agent does something naughty and the insurance company gets a standard income.
Just wait until you hear about employers taking out life insurance policies on their employees.
https://clark.com/insurance/has-your-employer-taken-out-life...
Use of tear gas in interstate warfare, as with all other chemical weapons, was prohibited by the Geneva Protocol of 1925: it prohibited the use of "asphyxiating gas, or any other kind of gas, liquids, substances or similar materials", a treaty that most states have signed. Police and civilian self-defense use is not banned in the same manner.
There's a reason that once alternatives became available, users left QT as quickly as they could.
QT was pioneering A/V solutions; I won't argue against that. So was Flash, so was Shockwave, so was RealMedia, and remember the horror that was Windows Media Player (from the Win98 era)?
Today with modern tools like VLC or MPV and ffmpeg nearly anything can be viewed, streamed, or locally saved by your average user with basic Google search skills.
And the number of free and paid video editing tools as far beyond what we ever had in the past.
Then there’s the vast improvement in codecs. It’s quite insane that we can have a feature length - 4k video with 8 channel audio in a 3GiB file.
The only problem about the modern world is streaming companies who purposely degrade the experience for money. And the solution is simply to fly the pirate flag high.
If you're making money in the UK, they have a lot of legal authority over you.
If you're based in the UK, they have a lot of legal authority over you.
If you're neither of those things, they might complain, but the actual consequences are close to nil.
And they're not banning the tools (this is arguable, but they "can't" logically, as you point out). They're banning businesses from providing the tools.
https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krb5-latest/doc/admin/realm...
Old terminals are slow and have a bunch of weird Unicode issues.
Now, Warp is a terrible product, and I have nothing nice to say about them.
But look at modern terminals like Kitty or Ghostty. There are so many very nice improvements. Like mouse support that works well (as opposed to "kind of works, but who needs a mouse?!, won't fix"), fast keyboard response (you'd think it wouldn't be noticeable, but it's very noticeable), copy-and-paste that makes sense and isn't different from everything else on the system, etc.
Soooo many systems are still using iptables even though we "should" be using nft everywhere.
If you're going to be a Linux Sys/Net Admin today, you need an understanding of both systems.