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omeletdufromage

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omeletdufromage··on Laptops with Stickers
Not the OP, but I have heard something similar from a sec conf before. Gist being if a laptop has stickers like this, then the chances of the owner being an engineer is significantly higher, so pentest teams / malicious actors can better focus their efforts on those individuals, and have a higher chance of gaining access to internal systems than if they targeted random folks in public.

Doesn't help as well that arguably the kind of stickers a laptop displays tends to hint at who's a sysadmin or not, etc.

omeletdufromage··on Two billion email addresses were exposed
Another commenter mentions ProtonMail, but somewhat unadvertised is with a paid Proton sub (I forget which tier), you also get access to SimpleLogin. It's a service which lets you create new email aliases with your domain that just send them to another email you own. (Also lets you send emails as that alias, so the other end doesn't see your real address.)

I use it with Vault/Bitwarden, which lets me generate email addresses of format `<uuid>@my.domain.com` when I create new login info for services.

omeletdufromage··on Future CSS: State Container Queries
> If you need to style something when it is stuck, why not make the css class that made it stuck include that style?

Because the CSS rules that define sticky only defines when something gets stuck, not that it's stuck. Ergo, it can say "this element becomes stuck when it's containing element is 200px from the top edge of the viewport", but until the user actually scrolls the document so that's true, the CSS rules that defined that doesn't make it stuck yet.

Personally, I'd settle for a pseudo class (e.g. `:stuck`, like `:active` I suppose). Currently I use an `IntersectionObserver` to dynamically toggle a `--stuck` class on my stickies, and I can target that as you describe it.

omeletdufromage··on I won’t spend more than $250 on a new smartphone
I've been on a LOS since v18 on a Samsung device, and — barring a handful of inconveniences — I love it. (Most) things just work and I'm confident they will keep on working for a good while. Hardware will probably fail earlier than it losing software and update support.

That being said, I dread having to bump major versions on LOS, but I'm not sure if there's any getting around it. When I upgraded from v18 to v19, it was a massive chore to backup and restore what I had since the upgrade required a full flash, and that meant all data on my device is goong to be wiped. Now there's an outstanding upgrade to v20 available for my device, and the only reason I've been putting it off is the data wipe and restore tedium.

omeletdufromage··on From Go on EC2 to Fly.io
Exactly what happened to me as well. In my case, I was (fortunately?) messaged by someone from Fly.io after asking around the community forum how to remedy the issue. I think the person I talked to was inferring that the system got tripped because I was using my own domain for my email address.

It's since been corrected, and I still have a handful of services running with them, but getting started with the platform definitely was a rougher experience than I was expecting it to be.