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trulyme··on pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for JavaScript
I mean, of course? Especially, why would I put ssh keys and similar in the container?

This still doesn't mean that one can install just any package, but it does make it much more difficult for it to do much harm. Breaking out of a container is not as trivial as it once was. That said, it is not a perfect solution, so I'd be happy to hear of better ones. Any suggestions?

trulyme··on pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for JavaScript
Given what a dumpster fire npm ecosystem is security wise, it's best to run the whole build chain in a container anyway, at least for frontend apps. This way you also don't care about the chosen package manager or node.js version - you can just set it as you wish in the Dockerfile. It does take more disk space though, but to me it's a nice compromise.
trulyme··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
Genuinly curious: do people in US report tips on their tax forms? (forgive my ignorance - tips are much less common around where I live)
trulyme··on Zulip 5.0: Threaded open-source team chat
Not a fan of Zoom myself, just - it seems to be used quite a lot around me. For me Jitsi is king for video conferencing.

Sorry about Jira. :)

trulyme··on Zulip 5.0: Threaded open-source team chat
There seem to be quite a few Europes around. The one I live in uses mostly Zoom, with some Teams, Skype, Slack and even Jitsi thrown in the mix.

Yeah, Teams is the worst of them in every dimension.

trulyme··on Killed by Microsoft
Lync is getting killed? Nice! Can we please take care of Teams next?
trulyme··on MDN Plus
OSS actually sometimes does that - here is what we do, and hey, someone else is doing something similar.
trulyme··on The illusion of evidence based medicine
True. It is just evidence that sometimes modern medicine doesn't have any superiority over quack medicines either.
trulyme··on Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from restaurants – lawsuit
The data is incoming, no worries.
trulyme··on Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ear to cheat in final
Is there something like Oculus but... Well, in control of the user? Or at least less FB-y?
trulyme··on My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
Me too. Had to go back to Windows at $JOB recently and find the experience... unpleasant, to put it mildly. I guess once you get used to a certain way it's difficult to change it. Hoping to get rid of Windows again soon. Can't imagine using W11, from what I've seen.
trulyme··on My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
Heh, MS Teams... I wonder if the UX team is the same as for SharePoint. They both suck in a similar way - fortunatelly I can mostly avoid them both.
trulyme··on My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
Or maybe they don't want to waste their time for users who can't even be bothered to type a few keys?

GUI is a great concept, but at some point, for more advanced operations, terminal simply makes more sense.

trulyme··on My essential Firefox fixes in 2022
I am still hoping someone picks up development of uMatrix. NoScript is great, but just too tiresome to use on the modern web, while uMatrix has this genius UI where you can pick the allowed parts of the page easily and save the rules for later if needed. Highly recommend it, though it is sadly no longer supported. For now it works. :-/
trulyme··on Piercing the Cloud Armor – The 8KB Bypass in Google Cloud Platform WAF
Sorry if I wasn't clear enough, I was talking about query params in the URL, not request body.
trulyme··on Piercing the Cloud Armor – The 8KB Bypass in Google Cloud Platform WAF
This limit is often on client side though, so it pays to chech how this particular API does it.
trulyme··on Piercing the Cloud Armor – The 8KB Bypass in Google Cloud Platform WAF
Thank you for the clarification!
trulyme··on The case for induction cooking
Whoa. Is that an import/export opportunity here? In EU the prices of both are comparable.
trulyme··on Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite to power market
> The number of new meltdowns per decade rounds to zero, to five significant figures.

That's a weird metric (one meltdown is quite a catastrophe) and the calculation seems suspicious too. Between Chernobile and Fukushima I don't see how this could be correct.

I do find your other points more convincing, though with some "citation needed" wrt. coal.

trulyme··on Piercing the Cloud Armor – The 8KB Bypass in Google Cloud Platform WAF
Why only POST? Query params can be "hidden" in a similar way too, is there a reason GET requests are not vulnerable? Url length limit maybe?
trulyme··on Stripe Crypto
Besides, why commit credit card fraud when there are so many scam options available in the crypto world. :)
trulyme··on A 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet
>... Ford Pinto scale...

Link for curious: https://philosophia.uncg.edu/phi361-matteson/module-1-why-do...

trulyme··on Flow Browser: Flow makes HTML faster
And if not opensource, business model and price?
trulyme··on How to take credit for someone else's work on GitHub
If somebody clones the repo they can even rewrite history. But that is not the same as them being able to claim the ownership of a commit in the original repo.
trulyme··on How to take credit for someone else's work on GitHub
Well, yes, but maybe they should? It doesn't seem like a huge feature...
trulyme··on Full consensus for disconnecting Russia from SWIFT achieved, process has begun
Off-topic: when reading the wikipedia articles that talk about "hot topics", if you want to see a less biased version, it pays to check edit history. In this case the page was last changed in November 2021 [0], before a set of changes occured starting at 21st Feb 2022. So... Be careful to at least notice the propaganda when it is happening.

(I don't have a proof of course, ymmv, and all that...)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foundations_of_...

trulyme··on Full consensus for disconnecting Russia from SWIFT achieved, process has begun
It seems that Europe should make it a top priority to cut the supply of gas from Russia.
trulyme··on Curious lack of sprintf scaling
WSL2, afaik, runs modified Linux kernel (maintained by MS) on a modified Hyper-V. I would hardly call that a VM in traditional sense because it might introduce differences in behavior. However it is true that WSL2 uses virtualization technologies, so in that sense it is a VM. But calling it "a real Linux in a VM" is a stretch imho.
trulyme··on Curious lack of sprintf scaling
Ugh. Locales should be used for (user faced) input / output, never for saving data internally or for exporting it.

Well, there are some exceptions, like actually caring about the original datetime, but they are rare.

trulyme··on Curious lack of sprintf scaling
> I only have an Ubuntu 20 install via WSL2 here to test, and using the default compilers there (clang 10 and gcc 9.3), things look pretty nice:

WSL2 is not that bad, but installing a real Linux in a VM takes about 10 minutes, so this seems a weird thing to say.

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