dusnm

dusnm, 11 days ago to bluesky

This is what #BlueSky considers a perfectly acceptable implementation of a two-factor authentication system.

Just send an email with the 2FA code. This is insanely irresponsible and I'm sure they know it.

Since most people unfortunately reuse passwords, any sane person must reasonably assume the email is likely to be compromised as well...

I have no clue why they don't use #TOTP. Unless the attacker has access to the device with the shared secret, it's borderline impossible to defeat.

dusnm, 1 month ago to random

(And use XDG Base Directory for your next unicorn startup)

https://dusanmitrovic.xyz/blog/post/2024-04-01/Please-don't-clutter-my-dollarHOME-directory

dusnm, 1 month ago to random

I should move my website off of node.js, but I'm too lazy to rewrite it...

dusnm, 2 months ago to random

Is there a reason people feel the need to share their personal stories when writing recipes? It’s endlessly annoying. I just need the recipe.

“Today, we’re gonna make some food, that my grandma… unnecessary personal story…”

Please, don’t. Just give me the recipe… I passionately dislike food bloggers.

#foodblog #recipe

dusnm, 2 months ago to random

Rest in peace, Akira Toriyama.

I fondly remember waking up every morning before school to watch my favorite show, Dragon Ball.

Thank you for all the wonderful experiences. It's a sad day to be a Dragon Ball fan.

dusnm, 3 months ago to random

The reason you feel miserable on your job is that you're robbed of autonomy to make your own decisions on what needs to be done. You may have agency in deciding how to do something, but your actions are determined by your boss who assigns tasks for you to do in the first place. This alienates you from the products of your own labor, rendering the work you do mundane, repetitive and unsatisfying, external to yourself, rather than being a part of your character.

🧵 👇

dusnm, 3 months ago to random

Came back this morning from my trip to #Zanzibar 🇹🇿.

Beautiful people, culture and food. I feel like I've spent two weeks in heaven.

While there, we visited mainland #Tanzania for a day at the Mikumi national park. It's all just so breathtaking.

I wholeheartedly recommend the trip to everyone.

A heard of wild zebra at the Mikumi national park.

dusnm, 3 months ago to ai

You hate to see it.
You scroll to some Youtube video that seems interesting only to find out it's narrated by some AI reading Wikipedia...

The #AI revolution was a mistake.

dusnm, 4 months ago to react

#React is a #framework, deal with it. It may call itself a library, but it isn't one. It's unopinionated, but that doesn't make it a library. I have a simple guideline that helps me determine the difference.

• It runs my code and I have to structure my code to conform to its expectations -> framework
• It becomes just a part of my code and helps me do some task -> library

React is a framework, albeit a minimal one, a micro-framework if you will.

dusnm, 4 months ago to random

Repeat after me:

👏 NAT 👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 A 👏 FIREWALL

#nat #firewall

dusnm, 4 months ago to piracy

What a rabbit hole, integrating Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Deluge and Jellyfin to completely automate the tracking, sorting, naming and searching of my entire media library.

If buying isn't owning, #piracy isn't stealing.

dusnm, 5 months ago to random

Had a free SATA slot on a computer I'm using as a home server, but I didn't have any hard disks lying around, until I noticed I have an external 2.5" 2TB HDD that's just collecting dust. I immediately cracked it open, to remove the hard drive and put it to good use.

A listing of all storage devices connected to my system, showing the now internal hard drive as device /dev/sda.

dusnm, 5 months ago to random

Play to win or play for fun is a false dichotomy. Winning is fun. Everyone wants to win. More specifically everyone likes good competition. So it comes as a surprise to me that you’re not supposed to announce your desire to win. If you do that everyone will team up against you. Why are we like this? Is it perceived arrogance on the part of the competitive player or something else?

dusnm, 5 months ago to random

And I'm tired of pretending it's not

https://dusanmitrovic.xyz/blog/post/2023-12-11/Imperative-code-is-more-readable

dusnm, 5 months ago to random

I don't agree with the notion that declarative programming is more readable than its imperative equivalent. It's only more readable if you already know what the declarative methods do, while imperative code is readable to anyone who knows how to program.

Essentially, you need more information than you can obtain just by reading to understand declarative code.

I only understand maps, filters and reductions, and other higher order functions because I've written their imperative equivalents.

dusnm, 5 months ago to random

People often get angry about this, but most people need to learn how to ask good questions. One example of a bad way to ask questions is dubbed "The XY Problem"

• A person wants to do X, but doesn't know how.

• The person thinks (often erroneously) that Y is the solution, but doesn't know how to do Y either.

• The person asks for help with Y, rather than their original problem X.

https://xyproblem.info/

#AskGoodQuestions #XYProblem

dusnm, 6 months ago to random

What's not provocatively written with the proverbial clickbait title, won't reach nearly as many people as the clickbait title would have.

There's something about emotionally charged, assertive, argumentative and clearly defined writing that, while polarizing, retains attention of most people.

If anything, I myself want people to choose a side when debating topics. Nobody likes when someone tries to play both sides, especially in technical discussions.

dusnm, 6 months ago to random

"Redis is basically a hash table with a mutex over a TCP connection."

• Tsoding, 2023

I've never been this upset with how right someone was. 🤣

dusnm, 6 months ago to random

I can't believe this needs to be stated. Learning JavaScript should be a prerequisite for learning React. #ThereISaidIt

dusnm, 9 months ago to random

It's disheartening to me that configuring an email client with IMAP and SMTP credentials is consider complicated. 😞

#imap #smtp #mail #mailclient

dusnm, 9 months ago to GNOME

#Gnome unironically has one of the best #desktop paradigms.

What makes it great:

• Keyboard shortcuts galore
• Keyboard driven
• Dynamic workspaces
• Spotlight-esque shell behavior
• Well organized and distraction free
• LibAdwaita (controversial)

Bonus: Successfully killed the traditional, windows paradigm.

What could see some work:

• Better accessibility
• Sensible extensions that don't break the entire shell

dusnm, 9 months ago to workspaces

Is there a way to emulate Gnome's dynamic workspaces on MacOS?

I don't understand why anyone would want static workspaces, when you can just let the environment manage them for you.

#askfedi #workspaces #macos #gnome #linux #unix

dusnm, 9 months ago to random

Do me a favor. Share #depressive, but somehow #uplifting #lyrics you like in the comments. I'll start.

Make a brand new vow
In the heat of an evening
The darkness swarms
I was nothing, ever
But red like the sun
Dying down over the freeway
Is the brand new sky
Over the mountain ridge

#Katatonia - Day And Then The Shade

dusnm, 9 months ago to Software

Remember when we didn't have to think reading a manual to do some task was a daunting task? When did we start thinking everything in software must be immediately intuitive? Why did the focus shift to the ever more elusive and poorly defined "user friendliness"?

#software

dusnm, 10 months ago to random

This is exactly the news I needed to hear today. I feel good. 😄

#FuckNFTs