I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that since 3blue1brown open-sourced his library for producing his YouTube visualizations, various other channels produce videos with looks identical to his.
The reuse of his code to generate math animations is cool, but by sticking to the default settings (colors, fonts, text animations), people are effectively ripping off his channel's entire visual identity, and that sucks.
@hisham_hm Shortly after we started dating, Christine and I did a sort of challenge where I showed her my favorite hacker film (Sneakers) and she showed me her favorite hacker film (Hackers) so we could see which was better.
The thing is, Sneakers has the realism down pat, but … well, nothing in hackers is realistic in terms of mechanics, but Hackers has the emotional truth down so pat!
<small>Right down to "oh god at least two of these people are going to gender transition in 2007"</small>
"Unfortunately, to maintain C++98 compatibility, the C++ interface of librdkafka is not quite object-oriented"
Now that's a take I wasn't expecting. Is this a mainstream opinion nowadays, that one can't do OOP with old-school C++? I must be completely out of the loop as I can't see why that would be the case. I could see all sorts of arguments for using Modern C++, but lack of OOP is a new one to me.
Piles of destroyed furniture in front of every house in my neighborhood, and the stench of the leftover sludge still in the streets in spite of all the cleaning that is still ongoing.
@hisham_hm my wishes for a short recovery period. hopefully the community can pull together to get the streets cleaned up. that is a shocking amount of damage
Today I was thinking how amazing it must sound to an English speaker that the Portuguese word for overtake is not over-take, but literally... ultra-pass!
It's so much more badass when you're on the road and instead of overtaking another car, you ultra-pass them by!
My home state in southern Brazil is suffering with heavy rains that are causing floods, deaths and destruction.
My city, Porto Alegre, is flooded right now. The river is at its highest level ever, surpassing the flood of 1941. (Last boost has a video.)
I live close to the river. It's been raining for the whole week. The flood has reached my street tonight. I'm fine, and I have water, power and internet, but I expect to the stranded in my apartment for the next couple of days.
I know that back in the days of POP3 and unencrypted email you could write anything in From: and one would have to cross-check with the other headers to see if the message at least went through the domain in the address.
I believe nowadays big servers like gmail are stricter in the email they accept (to the point of rejecting valid emails, which is super annoying, I know), but is there a standard in check that foo@bar.com comes from bar.com?
@kinnison@hisham_hm#DKIM does help against spoofing headers such as "From:", and the mail body. It comes with the major caveat (amongst others) that once leaked, you have no way* to plausibly deny authorship of emails. IIRC this has happened with Hillary Clinton's mails on Wikileaks.
*you can regularly rotate your signing keys and publish the old keys, however there does not seem to be a standard way of doing this.
@kinnison@hisham_hm There's also #DMARC which instructs servers how to interpret the SPF and DKIM rules. The important part here is called "alignment", where the domain in the "From:" header must match that of the MAIL FROM line and the signer of the DKIM signature. Otherwise SPF/DKIM wouldn't protect against spoofers authenticating themselves. It's noteworthy that Microsoft does not refuse mails as instructed.
I see your gazillion browser tabs and I raise you my gazillion terminals, a dozen of which were ever used to run "cal -3" once, another bunch of them still holding a "lua" prompt after having evaluated a single math expression, and about three of them running long-forgotten instances of "htop".
I've never really used a trackball. I mean, I've played with them in kiosks and whatnot, but I never sat down to actually use a computer with a trackball.
Does anybody here use a trackball in a non-retro-computing environment? What are your impressions?
@hisham_hm for literally decades I'm using thumb Trackballs; they're both amazingly precise and I've much less issues over time with my wrist than using computer mice.
@vga256 yes! so pretty and so functional! Such button-screens would be welcome for so many applications where touch screens are creeping into our lives (car panels and home appliances immediately come to mind!)