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dusnm

@dusnm@fosstodon.org

Hi there! I'm a software developer from Belgrade, Serbia, mainly dealing with distributed systems. An all-round nerd, minimalist and a tinkerer. I sometimes engage in political commentary. My opinions are my own. Besides computing, I'm interested in philosophy of religion, politics, psychology, biology and literature.

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Proud member of #CasioCult :f91w:
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drewdevault, to random
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I needed a break from Real Work, so I'm speedrunning writing a Unix-ish operating system

Day 3

dusnm,
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@drewdevault Of course, just the idea of files having different entries in the FS table, but pointing to the same underlying data on disk is still something I find a little bit like black magic. 😂

andypiper, to random
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It is unbelievable to me that home routers do not have mobile-friendly web UIs in 2024.

dusnm,
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@andypiper I can't imagine ever wanting to use my phone if my computer is right over there in the corner. I imagine it's useful in remote administration scenarios, but damn, if you're gonna do that you already know your way around networking.

dusnm, to random
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Back on Gnome... I keep coming back. Some thoughts:

  • Qtile is cool, but requires too much work for my liking
  • KDE is cluttered, with too many options
  • Gnome works as expected every time.
  • Gnome is simple in comparison to KDE
  • Gnome does a lot of things right, including everything I need to not worry about the environment, but just focus on my work.
dusnm, to random
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Are we Anti-Corporate/Anti-Capitalist or are we open? Turns out you can't have both. But choosing either one is not a crime, we should be able to express these ideas freely.

The whole debacle around Meta potentially joining the Fediverse is getting on my nerves.

I myself stand on the open side. If an average Joe can use APub, I see of no reason why Meta wouldn't be able to.

But what really grinds my gears is that people form premature judgments about the whole thing.

sigh

dusnm, to bluesky
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This is what 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 . Unless the attacker has access to the device with the shared secret, it's borderline impossible to defeat.

dusnm,
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@mackuba TOTP can be considered a "quick fix" as it's trivial to implement.

dusnm, to workspaces
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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.

dusnm, to random
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(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

onepict, to random
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"I'm more concerned with the prevailing attitude in tech that it can do what it likes with our data and it doesn't feel it has to ask us. If anything the default is that you have to opt out of their processing of your data. Which is predatory behaviour as people need to know that they can opt out and the procedure for it needs to be simple, clear and concise. "

https://onepict.com/20240315-barn.html

dusnm,
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@otfrom @onepict I didn't know it was Grace Hopper who first said it. Figures tech bros would twist her words.

dusnm,
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@onepict It's the classic mentality of "It's better to ask for forgiveness than for permission", which is wild, because no other form of human interaction is based upon it, other than relatively benign things.

For some reason it's more prevalent in tech than in other fields. We work with machines so much that it can sometimes be hard to remember that we're indeed humans and that we should be building software for humans as well.

joel, to gaming
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Not a bad day of work lol...

Part of me wants to automate this or just use skraper but, another part of me really enjoys the process as well

not as many snes game covers

dusnm,
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@joel Why are the two MediEvil games not on the list? Why did you choose to commit such a heinous crime?

  • MediEvil
  • MediEvil II

Go, download both of them.

ayo, (edited ) to webdev
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🎉 Project /threads now live!

🔗 https://ayco.io/threads -- a way to select social posts and (in the future) offer fine-grained topical subscriptions.

Depending on your requirements & resources, you can also have your own threads deployed on your site, either of the two options

  • personal.site/threads
  • threads.personal.site

This is the first of some tiny self-hostable apps I plan to work on, that can be composed together.

dusnm,
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@ayo Nice job. Damn, such a simple python app. Flask's templating honestly feels like cheating, considering how much more work you need to do in something like Go to support the same thing. 😢

dusnm, to random
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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, to random
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Came back this morning from my trip to 🇹🇿.

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

While there, we visited mainland 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.

jefflewis, to random
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Why is it so complicated to run a local web server for development that uses subdomains and SSL? I’m drowning in docker, nginx, puma, and rails. It seems like this should be so simple with just a few config files, and yet… 😭

dusnm,
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@jefflewis Take a look at this:

https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

Make an entry in your /etc/hosts file of the domain you want to test with and then procure a locally trusted certificate with mkcert. It can procure a wildcard certificate that's valid for all subdomains as well. 😄

DuncanMSussex, to Eurovision
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A few hours before the show but sending out an early toot to start my Eurovision thread!

Picked up a lot via osmosis, especially the various dramas this year, but avoided the actual songs so hopefully going in blind-ish.

#eurovision

dusnm,
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@DuncanMSussex I love the song. You really have to speak the language to understand it fully. It’s both deeply personal and an omage to Serbian history. I don’t really know if it’s a good fit for Eurovision, but I wouldn’t have anyone other than Teya Dora representing our country.

ayo, to random
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Is this a bad idea

dusnm,
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@ayo Really depends on the implementation.

dusnm, to golang
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Writing a spec compliant implementation of a server that receives webmentions in .

Making sure I cover all edge cases is so time consuming...

drewdevault, to random
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There are not actually many good games for the NDS, it seems

dusnm,
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@drewdevault

While there's an absolute metric tonne of shovelware, the DS is home to some of my favorite games of all time:

  • New Super Mario Bros
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (and all the sequels and spinoffs)
  • Professor Layton and the Curios Village
  • Elite Beat Agents
  • Mario & Lugi: Bowser's Inside Story

And a DSi exclusive:
Shantae: Risky's Revenge

tulpa, to random
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So many password reset processes are trivially easy to abuse or defeat.

dusnm,
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@tulpa How would you go about verifying the identity of a person who requested a password reset?

dusnm,
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@tulpa "I wouldn't" doesn't cut it. People often forget passwords. It's paramount there exist some mechanism to reset it.

The main weakness of the established method (just send an email) is that people reuse passwords.

A better approach is requiring 2FA be turned on at all times. So, even after confirming access to the email address, you must now additionally confirm ownership by way of using TOTP codes.

I think this works well enough.

dusnm, to random
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Everything is political. This much should be self-evident.

What much of the public thinks of as apolitical is, in fact, synonymous with uncontroversial. It's therefore both a reflection and a reinforcement of the status quo.

Being apolitical is both a political statement and an expression of a privilege granted to those that fall under the umbrella of a societal default.

sushee, to random
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as a firm believer that every senior engineer can be onboarded within two weeks and can start working right away I'm creating lists upon lists and example commands how things work so that my new collegue can start right away to actually DO stuff. also 4 nice, juicy upgrades on-hold until he arrives :) now preparing the bug buffet to choose from to get into the ugly stuff :blobcatgiggle:

dusnm,
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@sushee Can you actually understand the business and the system enough in just two weeks?

dusnm, to webdev
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One of the more interesting perks of running a website is that the access logs sometimes contain interesting things.

Imagine my surprise finding this in the access log:

GET /.vscode/sftp.json

One of the more creative attempts of gaining unauthorized access to SSH I've seen in a while.

dusnm, to random
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A simple math question + stopped 99% of contact form on my .

I just hope these won't turn out to be famous last words.

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