dngrs

cuchaz, 6 days ago to random

Once again I get foiled by switching languages. :blobcatfacepalm2:

In Javascript, you have to compare strings with ===, not ==, or else you'll run into type coercion problems, because Javascript thinks 1 == "1" is a totally fine thing to be true. (it's not)

But in Kotlin, === compares identity not equality for strings. But in the JVM, string values are aggressively cached, so === actually does what you want most of the time. Unless your strings come from weird places, like JNI code. Then you get awful non-deterministic behavior that's incredibly hard to debug, but it totally goes away when you use the correct comparison operator == for strings.

sigh I'm not really as good at this whole programming thing as I should be by now.

loosenut, 7 days ago to genart

#GenerativeArt

Colorful blobs of fur
Colorful blobs of fur
Colorful blobs of fur

gsuberland, 12 days ago to random

new engine simulator video!

(if you haven't been following this series, I highly recommend going back and checking out earlier videos. it's wild)

https://youtu.be/J11c8mMN1PA

mcc, 15 days ago to random

Google why do you make me watch videos this way

dngrs, 25 days ago to rust

Ouh yeah! First working prototype of a rotary LED display with #rustlang firmware ✨

LED rotor spinning in the colors red, green, blue and yellow

larsmb, 29 days ago to firefox

Weird request - in #Firefox 's password manager, is there a way to stop it from asking about saving new passwords?

I don't want to fully disable it (since I'm migrating to a different one step by step, and want access to the history), but I want all new ones to go to my new choice.

Seems this isn't possible, but maybe I just missed it or a helpful extension?

mcc, 1 month ago to random

Okay so let me tell you what I just wasted my like… last half hour on?

Let's say you want to get an IP address of a mDNS (".local") server. Even if your computer can connect to these, the nslookup tool will not tell you what they are. One reason you might need the IP is WSL is generally blocked from doing mDNS lookups.

The fix is:

On Linux:
avahi-resolve --name SERVERNAME.local
Or for ipv4:
avahi-resolve -4 --name SERVERNAME.local
You may have to install an avahi-utils package.

On Windows:

gsuberland, 1 month ago to random

coughing up a lung so figured I'd better test.

(it's negative)

passthejoe, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to fedora

My 7-year-old laptop runs as if it's new. Thanks #Fedora (and #Debian and #OpenBSD)

#linux #bsd

larsmb, 2 months ago to random

Time for the regular rant about two-column PDF layouts the tech/CS/IT/ACM/IEEE community seems stuck on for distributing "papers".

ffs.

If anyone should understand people read these things on screens since the noughties it should be us.

FFS.

CatherineFlick, 2 months ago to random

Yay positive for covid, this blows

peter, 2 months ago to random

weird how a speaker at a major conservative political conference calling for the end of democracy and the establishment of a theocratic authoritarian state is something i have to read about in goofy little niche websites and social media accounts because i can't find it in, like, the pages of a newspaper whose catchphrase is "Democracy Dies in Darkness."

mntmn, 4 months ago to random

we did a GitLab security update and now our instance is suffering from the "huge logo when logged out" bug, sorry for that https://discuss.kde.org/t/gitlab-has-big-header-when-not-logged-in/9049

mntmn, 4 months ago to random

little productivity thing for linux that i would like: terminal integration of the XDG (?) "Recent" folder. make it an actual Folder ~/Recent with links to the files, or a FUSE fs. i often have to integrate console and desktop tools and this would make it less painful.

larsmb, 4 months ago to random

Most disappointing about Vlad's response on behalf of #Kagi #Brave is not seeing the clash with their pretend-mission of "humanizing the web".

You can't do that while pretending ethics aren't part of it. Or by defending your business relationship with someone who denies basic human rights to some.

Amorality in tech is not a "principled position", much less the only one. And looking at the people who come out in support for your position should tell you something.

https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave/17

quixoticgeek, 4 months ago to random

Oh fuck it, thread time.

Inspired in a way by a certain long discussion by a well known Sci-fi author about the announcement of a Nuclear powered container ship from China. I wanna talk about "technology won't save us" When it comes to climate change.

"Technology won't save us" is the usual refrain when someone mentions Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). CCS is often touted by the fossil fuel industry as a way of us being able to keep burning dinosaurs. Continue our lives unchanged...

1/n

mjg59, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Ok! https://github.com/mjg59/openssh-portable/commit/44cf1b5fed5d4d5b74eaae1544aaebe2aabdf051 is a hacky first pass at allowing TOFU for SSH certificate CAs rather than the host keys themselves. This means that an admin can update the host keys on a server by simply issuing a new certificate for the new key, rather than jumping through the key update protocol. This only adds the CA for the specific hostname, so assuming the CA private key is at least as well protected as the host key this shouldn't be a net reduction in security?

glyph, 5 months ago to random

This is a subtoot of like nine different things at once, but, fellow progressive/left-leaning friends: please for the love of all that is good in the world just stop ranting about "capitalism". if you think some feature of our current market system is bad, just like, describe the market mechanism and the incentive it creates and the bad outcomes of the incentive. Criticizing "capitalism" is like criticizing "evil" at this point. it's so nonspecific and nebulous that it's counterproductive.

gsuberland, 5 months ago to random

endlessly cruel to suffer from a condition that not only hurts like hell but also has a silly name that everyone thinks you made up