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y4mi··on Exodus – relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their deps–without containers
The tilde is usually parsed/replaced by the shell, so yes it you can use it for path definitions in the shell. The parsing is disabled by single quotes however. A lot of my colleagues were confused by that.
y4mi··on Graviton2 and Graviton3
DDR5 has basically minor cpus on the RAM for improved performance. That's the main reason why they're so expensive and sometimes need active cooling
y4mi··on Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
Apple fanboys are generally serious, even if they always sound as if they're trolling
y4mi··on Omicron Update, Dec 2
I corrected it to they, sorry for using a gendered pronoun. It sometimes slips my mind, as I never really thought about "he" being male in this kind of context. I will pay more attention to it.
y4mi··on Omicron Update, Dec 2
i don't have any domain knowledge so i cannot build an opinion on the matter, but the fact that they discovered it doesn't give them more authority on the topic then everyone else.

most researchers i've heard on the topic only said "we will have to pay close attention to it", which sounds pretty reasonable from my uneducated perspective.

y4mi··on Ten Million Deaths a Year: David Wallace-Wells on Polluted Air
There are a lot around. One random example https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265948386_Impact_of...
y4mi··on Ten Million Deaths a Year: David Wallace-Wells on Polluted Air
I mean your technically right to question because the only thing which can increase deaths are births ultimately as everything else 'just' moves them forward, but I think it was quiet clear what they meant.
y4mi··on Ten Million Deaths a Year: David Wallace-Wells on Polluted Air
I disagree. It depends entirely on what the purifiers did and how the air quality was before/after.

The ability to concentrate really drops a lot once the CO2 content goes above 1k for example. I'd expect at least that kind of change if these managed to get the CO2 from 1.5k+ down to 500 ppa or other similar metrics.

y4mi··on Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?
That's exactly the reason why non smart TVs don't sell.

The smart one's are subsidized by their ads and spyware; so you'll always pay a massive premium to get a dumb one.

y4mi··on Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains
no, thats was why i wrote two numbers each; completely spelled out:

  private person: 150€ intellij only, 250 € all products
  corporation: 500 € intellij only, 650€ all products 
https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/#commercial
y4mi··on Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains
> Jetbrains products are free for students, and paid for professional use. In my opinion, the pricing of the product is spot on. My company pays about ~200 euro per seat per year, which is a good price for the quality tooling you get.

well, they're in violation of the licence if thats true. The 150€/250€ licence is for private people, companies have to pay 500€/650€.

/edit: i guess non of the people that are responding to me can read. he specifically said that the company is paying for that and the price of non-intellij licences don't overlap with 200€ on any tier I can see.

y4mi··on I returned my Remarkable2
Z library has a button to email/send the ebook to your kindle, so it's done after the first step. You can do that on your phone or kindle itself depending on the model.
y4mi··on I returned my Remarkable2
If readers didn't care about anything besides comfort then they'd just download the DRM free epubs from z-library for free, which is even less hassle then dealing with amazon kindle.

I still own a Kindle and buy books through it, but it's just false that this is the least hassle option.

y4mi··on Piracy release group EVO ‘blames’ movie industry for its popularity
It's great if it does, not sure how that makes me mistaken though. I never said anything about what was actually supported.

My point was that the pixel density is pretty hard to determine with low Bitrate streams as you get them from Netflix.

y4mi··on Piracy release group EVO ‘blames’ movie industry for its popularity
HD starts at 720p.

The difference between Netflix 1080 and 720p is often pretty small, so you might've really just not noticed. They're generally streaming with pretty poor bit-rates

The first time I watched a pirated episode after years of streaming from Netflix was pretty eye opening for me wrt video quality.

y4mi··on Germany will legalize marijuana and promote drug harm reduction
I'm pretty sure his theory is that the whole discussion about cannabis is a distraction from other political topics, i.e. that our new Kanzler was one of the people responsible for the biggest corruption scandal in Germanys history (Google his name + CumEx) and other similar stuff.

It's not so much what people are gonna do once it's passed and more about what controversial topics they can raise so people don't pay attention to other things.

I personally have never had a worse outlook on Germanys political future. This will show any politician that they don't have to worry about anything and keep enriching themselves with no recourse to speak of.

y4mi··on YARP – Microsoft toolkit to build fast reverse proxy servers
CaRP sounds a little fishy though.
y4mi··on Can mRNA Vaccines Defeat Herpes?
I'm pretty sure it had an effect on sex workers though. And people thinking about paying for their services.
y4mi··on Fingerprints can be hacked
You can unlock most home doors within seconds even without having the key

Nonetheless, we still lock our doors and thieves often break in, even though picking the lock is both safer and less likely to arouse suspicion.

Your argument makes sense, but we humans aren't really rational

y4mi··on Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law
> Minimising harm should be a given for all but that doesn't rule out all meat eating that veganism somehow does.

I'm not a vegan but from my perspective if minimizing harm is your goal then veganism is the only valid choice.

Any meat consumption will unquestionably increase the misery and pain the consumed animals had. Both while alive and at their final end. You're lying to yourself if you cannot admit to that.

Your argument wrt the insects and land animals is super strange too... What do you think the animals are going to eat until they're butchered? Love and good feelings?

y4mi··on I Love Arch, but GNU Guix Is My New Distro
I doubt that. While the attack was possible on large hosting providers, utilizing the same on workstations or hardmetal and actually get important data was basically impossible.

It had to be fixed, but your thesis that anyone was actually owned by these security issues because they didn't want to apply the mitigation rounds to at most 0.0% with an infinite amount of zeros before a 1.

y4mi··on Debugging a weird 'file not found' error
I have to disagree there. Yes they're only writing the id of the error, but if you just Google that you usually get a super indepth description with steps how to resolve it.

Just printing error ids is fine if there is a good knowledge base which addresses them.

y4mi··on German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
> Didn't Munich do this like 20 years ago and it was a complete failure?

Yes, but the failure was basically manufactured. You cannot keep every process as it was before and just install Linux/libre office, yet that is what they did.

Their current processes are optimized for windows to a degree that usage of the Microsoft office suite is part of the training they undergo.

Switching at this point would be a multi-year process that cannot be rushed. Each task needs to be evaluated separately and a new solution has to be tested and likely engineered from the ground up.

y4mi··on Corded headphones are making an unexpected return
i still use my Sony 1000XM (the first gen) and have to say they're by far the most reliable headphones i've used on any android device. hardly useable on anything else though. Pairing is always a disaster on windows/linux and iOS (ipad).
y4mi··on Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys
but why do you want to do this.

there is no security benefit from revoking individual keys unless they've been compromised - however, the likelihood of only leaking a single key is extremely unlikely.

There are very few attack vectors how you can compromise a private/public key pair and they all basically boil down to local access. This is not a PreSharedKey situation like a password, where both parties effectively share a single string for authentication. The private key never leaves the authenticating machine, as you're only sending a signature over which will be validated against the public key. So, how are you going to compromise a single key that splitting them increases your security?

you're either completely compromised and somebody has filesystem access or you've forwarded your SSH-Agent to a compromised host. When its the former, you'll have to have the private-key encrypted so they're unable to use them (encrypted at rest) and when its the later, you cannot have your keys added to the agent, making the forwarding redundant in the first place.

y4mi··on Fantasy Map Generator (2018)
> The multiplayer side won't be interesting unless the world is persistent, so you have to split the world into several servers to not overload servers, because players need to cross the path of other players for the game to feel alive.

Honestly, you only need some shared towns to be persistent. Everything else being ephemeral could be made a feature through lore (i.e. reality destroying mists which eats the world whenever nobody is watching, player characters try to fight against the neverending destruction by venturing out into the world, temporarily reclaiming parts for harvesting etc.)

The biggest issue would be to actually generate towns, npc story etc on the fly. I think you're really underestimating the size of that challenge. Generating assets like that is generally the most expensive part of game development with multiple people working on each one. If you automate that away, you'll be able to make a ton of money just by providing modules for unreal engine and unity.

y4mi··on Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys
What attack vector do you think this would mitigate?

You'd need several prerequisites for that to actually increase security, i.e. not using an ssh-agent (required password for every key prompt) and encrypting them at rest

Otherwise you'll leak all your keys as soon as any attack vector is utilized such as hostile host siphoning from the ssh-agent forwarding or filesystem access.

y4mi··on How my genius roommate changed my perspective
I like that you shortened it to WAF. Now I will always imagine Web Application Firewalls to be the wife of the application. And she denies all strange requests entry.

Fun image, though some overly sensitive people might decry it as sexism somehow, so probably not something i can joke about at work.

y4mi··on Google sends anti-regulation propaganda to small businesses using Google Maps
Except it's not. Apple has basically unlimited resources and tried. While it's a decent navigation option at this point, it continues to fall short wrt everything else if compared to Google maps.
y4mi··on Write thin to write fast
thats actually super easy if i didn't misunderstand you

    .col-style {
        columns: 250px;
        height: 100vh;
    }
    <div classes="col-style"><p> everything in here will be in columns of 250px width and the scroll bar will be going to the right instead of the bottom</p></div>
try it out on the linked articles <body> element :) (you'll also have to remove the margins on that page however, as they're using negative values)
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