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I am just confirming that CAPTCHA still works against most basic bots.

I added custom captcha (simple math as slightly distorted pictures with audio alternative) on one of my forms, it prevents ~80% of spam submissions. less than 1% of spam passes, other ~20% are blocked on key words (like "sex", "passion", etc...).

It's interesting, couple of things you can fix/change:

1. It's annoying to be asked to provide username every time I complete a level. Can you simply remember my previous choice? Instead something like next level button would be my preference.

2. Tab works until it stops working, it will switch between game elements and then at one point it will focus on buttons (firefox, windows).

So is local stack dead? Is this situation the lesser evil? Or is it not dead and we will see a villain rise?

Edit: I see now, they have commercial offerings: https://www.localstack.cloud/pricing

I am not sure if my corp will be willing to pay or tell us to find something else, but I use it everyday, our integration tests depend on local stack.

Also IANAL: I Am Not A Lawyer. If you really want to guard yourself from a legal standpoint, write the full sentence. "IANAL" could mean anything.

That being said, I am not a lawyer, I am not a legal professional, this is not a legal advice.

> If Photoshop ran in the cloud

Off topic, but there is something like that: photopea, it's free and it's good enough for my use cases (I need it once a year maybe).

> The goal of specs is largely to maintain desired functionality over many iterations, something that pure code handles poorly.

IMHO this could be achieved with large set of tests, but the problem is if you prompt an agent to fix tests, you can't be sure it won't "fix the test". Or implement something just to make the test pass without looking at a larger picture.

After ~13 years of working with C#, I moved to Kotlin. It's such a beautiful language. When I have to read docs for a Java lib I realize why I like Kotlin.

I want to say culture around Java doesn't have to change, new culture is growing around succinctness (if not simplicity) of Kotlin, and it gets most of the benefits of Java ecosystem.

It's probably the only program I despise, but need. I want to use small button under the wheel as middle click (I have short fingers), and until now, the only way to do it is/was to use logi options+. LO+ updater will get stuck on update every couple of months and while it's updating my button configuration doesn't work. Solution? kill process, uninstall, reinstall and hope it will not get stuck again any time soon.

I have to test Mauser.

While I am here, can anyone recommend good alternative mouse with both smooth/quick and precision scroll like logitech's? Back and forth buttons are also a must for me, horizontal scroll optional. Ideally a mouse would save configuration onto itself, so I don't have rely on garbage software like LO+.

It's probably just <video> element without "controls" attribute.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

> controls

> If this attribute is present, the browser will offer controls to allow the user to control video playback, including volume, seeking, and pause/resume playback.

Edit: I misunderstood, you are asking

> how they'd managed to hide the video context menu

Not sure, but it works in FF for me

Caning is really extreme. I watch a documentary on it. Punished person would avoid going to toilet (#2) for days because of how painful it is. They would not eat anything to prevent #2.

AI written driver could be a rip off Linux driver.

It doesn't have to be consumer hardware to be economically viable. I can imagine something like this replacing or complementing tape storage at data centers. We already have hard drives filled with gas for dust-proofing. For archival storage it does not have to be fast (in terms of latency) it just needs to be reliable with high data density.

Hard drives where the size of a car decades ago, we could now have archival storage of the same physical size that can hold petabytes (just guessing, didn't do the actual math).

Yes, same, also FF, but it was working an hour or two ago.

edit: https://archive.ph/fiCKE

They don't care, they would rather let you use pirated MS software than move to Linux. There is a repo on GH with powershell scripts for activating windows/office and they let it sit there. Just checked, repo has 165K stars.

This could be the same, they know devs mostly prefer to use cursor and/or claude than copilot.

There is PeerTube for video content.

One minute latency? Sound like worse experience than dial-up.

Yandex had a data center in Finland,, not sure if it's still operational. It was heating 1500 homes with 4 MW.

https://www.euroheat.org/dhc/knowledge-hub/datacentre-suppli...

Anyone knows why docker is dropping wasm workloads? I never heard of anyone using it, I thought it was because wasi hasn't reached "1.0" yet, so ecosystem is still small.

Wasm and wasi are very promising, as stated in the article, it's safe/isolated by default, it can target different hardware and almost any popular language (in theory) can be compiled to wasm. It sounds perfect on paper. It's quick to start (quicker than docker). Maybe it will be replacement/supplement for lambda-esque type of workloads.

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/features/wasm/

You cant reliably store secrets in tpm and expect it to work after an os update. Windows is using workarounds during windows update to avoid breaking bitlocker.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-...

I was thinking the same thing. Apple and Google can start (as tech companies) to add signatures to images. As long as private key doesn't leak we are good. And each manufacturer can have different cert issued by higher authority e.g. Google, so it can be revoked when it leaks. They could include digital camera manufacturers (sony, nicon, canon, ...) and define a standard. Signature can be a meta tag based on hash of the image.

This would limit authenticity to images taken by official software.

It's not the usual type of 'dump', but he will probably again request massive bonus or threaten to leave. And his statements are the key for pumping part.

If it was be that simple. In that case I would have to go to the bank for every transaction/payment I want to initiate online. Banking app doesn't work for jailbroken devices. Using PC to access banks website works, but transactions still require 2FA and they don't support any other 2FA flow except the one in the app.

SVGs also are mostly unsupported for og:image tags (dependents on the app/browser). I know it's supper specific and I am not even sure if open graph is standardized protocol or not, but it's used everywhere.

> 10x10 monochrome icons

I don't mind the size, but lack of colors is annoying. If common icons where color-coded, like green to save, blue to download/print/export, red to delete, UI would be friendlier to use.

There is a quote about lazy developers, but I too lazy to search for it.

I would also recommend Benn Jordan's YT channel, he has a couple of videos covering flock cameras. His latest one is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY

edit: grammar

Off topic question.

> I imagine 90%+ is peered or hosted inside ISPs, not via transit

How hosting inside ISPs function? Does ISP have to MITM? I heard similar claims for Netflix and other streaming media, like ISPs host/cache the data themselves. Do they have to have some agreement with Steam/Netflix?

Who would run Windows on AWS? I know some companies do, but it's like 0.01% of all Windows machines.