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shaknais

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Author | Aussie | Written all kinds of tales over the years - romance, murder mystery, science fiction and fantasy and more.
Warning: Short term memory loss.

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nixCraft, to random
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Be honest. Why do you dislike the .webp format? What did it do to you? 🤔

shaknais,
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@nixCraft
It did this to me.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/uncovering-the-hidden-webp-vulnerability-cve-2023-4863/

decryption, to random
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the same guy that made FFMPEG also made QEMU, fucken hell mate, leave some for the rest of us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard

shaknais,
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@decryption I'd list this geniuses accomplishments... But just about everything on his homepage is utterly game changing.

https://bellard.org/

thelinuxcast, to random
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I wonder why Nautilus is so effing slow? Sometimes takes 20 seconds to enter a directory. Does not happen in any other file manager

shaknais,
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@thelinuxcast Two things cause Nautilus to slow down massively, especially compared to other file managers.

First, the preview tech does a ton of stat calls, to work out what to show you. Disable it, and things get about 20% faster. They know about it, but no one has done a patch to fix it in over a decade, so I wouldn't be hopeful.

Secondly, the more bookmarks you have, the slower things get. Every time you open a folder it pings every single bookmark for some reason.

donni, to random
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Jurassic Park didn't even have ONE swing set

shaknais,
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@donni But they did have a canteen full of jelly! Unmelted, even, somehow, after days in a storm.

RickiTarr, to random
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Oppenheimer is Godzilla's Dad.

I don't make the rules, don't get mad at me.

shaknais,
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@12thRITS @TidalFlats @RickiTarr
Yes.

shaknais, to random
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Well, my search engine, aimed at weighting more towards content than recent or SEO, etc, is up!

Who wants to break it...?

https://rustysearch.org/

nixCraft, to linux
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the existential question ...

shaknais,
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@nixCraft Don't worry, run0 is probably going to break it...

cirrus, to javascript
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Grumble. is doing my head in. Why do Angular packages create a new package.json in the dist folder and expect you to cd into there before running npm publish?!?!

I have a monorepo with lots of other non-Angular packages. I use Changesets to manage versioning and releases.

Now, because Angular can't just use npm like it's meant to be used, I'm stuck.

shaknais,
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@cirrus Any chance you can just use a symbolic link to work around it?

golgaloth, to random
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As long as it's not a fully automatic bear, we'll be fine.

shaknais,
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@golgaloth Just gotta get yourself a ManBearPig, even if the right say it doesn't exist.

shaknais, to random
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OMG! What happened to your MC's parents?

Nothing. Phoebe is just an accountant. I mean, one who fell through a portal to another world, where she happens to be the subject of prophecy after prophecy...
But she's not a witch. She's rather adamant about that. Even if she managed to summon a wolf made of fire. Or fight an actual witch, spell for spell. Not a witch.

Gruna's family... Well... Or Elion's... Uh... That witch from before? She um... Killed them all. A sacrifice...

shaknais,
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You can actually read this one for free, over here, as it rolls out.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/83567/phoebes-destiny

The print book is coming. Slowly. But it is coming, too.

dgar, to random
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Thanks to everyone who explained “plethora” to me.

It means a lot.

shaknais,
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@dgar I wanna hear you rapping out a plethora on plethora now.

nixCraft, to random
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What's the most unusual place you've ever coded from? 🤔

shaknais,
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@nixCraft One of the most fun things I ever did, was push a BASIC program, which I wrote, from a - can't remember what's it's called

There used to be these tiny computers, basically a keyboard and a 1" screen, that a reporter would use. Powered by a half-dozen AA batteries. You could write up some text, and then plug in and fire it off to the home server over telnet

Well, I used one of those to update an IBM server, whilst I was at a football match, to fix the "automatic" scorecard system

RickiTarr, to random
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That Novelty Cup you had to have on vacation, you'll never use it again.

shaknais,
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@RickiTarr Who hurt you? Why are you attacking us all?😆

shaknais,
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@ccdudley85 A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V; you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

orci, to random
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Groceries.

shaknais,
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@orci My local was sold out of CurlyWurlies yesterday! 😿

LRRRonEarth, to random
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ADDING "BEFORE:2023" TO GOOGLE SEARCHES MAKES IT FEEL LIKE YOU'VE TRAVELED BACK IN TIME TO WHEN THE INTERNET WORKED.

shaknais,
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@LRRRonEarth @RavenLuni
Could always have a look at https://clew.se/

peterrenshaw, to privacy
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“Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to ”

“he outlined an argument that a dynamic tension exists between security and technology, Burgess added “encryption protects our and enables our …and creates safe spaces for violent to operate, and .” labelled encryption “clearly a good thing, a positive for our democracy and our economy” because it “protects , it enables communications and transactions.” But he noted it also provides with , which is why has laws that make it possible to access encrypted messages.”

/ <https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/25/asio_afp_accountable_encryption/>

shaknais,
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@peterrenshaw Either encryption is secure, or it's not. Want another Optus-sized data breach? Undermine the system that protects you accessing a webpage, the system that allows online shopping to even happen.

The people in charge know there is no grey. They're willing to risk every citizen losing their bank accounts (again, encrypted), just to go after a few people.

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm going to start writing all my posts on old English, and daring people to correct my grammar and spelling.

shaknais,
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@RickiTarr Swelc se ġerisene sméae eallwundorum.

eniko, to random
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Spice racks are adorable. Your wee lil rack can store 16 containers? That's so cute. Anyway this is what a spice rack looks like for people who cook a lot

And we still constantly find recipes with spices we don't actually have

shaknais,
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@eniko Have you managed to track down any silphium yet?

shaknais, to random
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24 April - When older novels use outdated or racist language, should they be edited for the modern world or left alone and viewed in context?

Hiding from the past means you're often doomed to repeat it.

My country, completely fucked up. I've met survivors from the Stolen Generation, and listened intently to them. We give them a platform to speak, because we know that they need to be heard.

Mein Kampf shouldn't be banned. A lot of the arguments in it are good - Meaning...

shaknais, to php
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PHP's use of iconv allows for immediate and easy buffer overflows, via a bug in glibc. (Other servers don't tend to use iconv in the same way, so don't appear to be vulnerable yet.)

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2024-2961

erictopol, to random
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This isn't good, folks.
I'm not worried about H5N1 transmission to humans (yet) but the USDA pathetic lack of transparency, how long it took for the genomes to be released, lack of testing asymptomatic cattle......
All detracts from "confidence"

shaknais,
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@Extra_Special_Carbon @ralfmaximus @erictopol

"As for beef, the U.S. cattle outbreaks are confined to dairy-producing cows, at least for now."

shaknais,
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@Extra_Special_Carbon Right now, it looks like it spreads via the milk, not by air transmission. (https://doi.org/10.1126/science.zq8xjll)

Right now, it seems that cows have natural immunities that make it appearing in the beef very unlikely. (https://doi.org/10.3390%2Fv11060561)

Scientists were screaming about Covid. They're not about the cows.

dgar, to random
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Them: What’s S in Morse Code?

Me: …

shaknais,
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