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AI-generated research, so it might be sloppy.

https://github.com/qznc/sloppy_research

Are girls allowed?

Try the nightly build:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds/releases

I would look at the tools that the preservation groups use for doing this. The optical media layouts are funky and IIRC using dd on the block device is not enough to archive a bit-for-bit copy. There are details about the track layout and so on that need to be recorded separately. This is why formats like BIN/CUE exist.

eg. https://wiki.redump.info/Redump#Technical_Questions

Oh I see. If the URL puts the sensitive information after the anchor, like https://example.com/bsod#sensitive-info-goes-here then the browser would never send that part to the server. Everything after the anchor is just used locally by the browser to scroll the page to a specific place (or in this case for the javascript to read and process).

You’d need to check every time you scan a QR code though that the # is in the URL and it’s not malformed. Trivially replacing the # with a ? would turn the private URL into one that sends all the data in the GET request. It’s training users to do something risky.

Oh and it also assumes that the javascript hasn’t been tampered with to upload the data somewhere.

I don’t like it.

So it’s leaking information about your system to an external site?

That’s just what we need.

It’s worth learning nftables, it’s actually pretty cool.

IIRC Tor Browser makes its own connections to Tor within the application, it doesn’t use the Tor daemon even if one is running.

Your post history:

I’m subscribed to all of these communities, so in my feed it appears as spam. Could you please stop?

GrapheneOS has ported its code to QPR1 before Google even released it, but still doesn’t have permission to ship that work.

Huh? What do they need permission for?

I had no idea that GrapheneOS was so dependent on Android as an upstream project.

An article about a tweet.

I don’t use Waterfox but if I did, this blog post would not make me feel particularly good about continuing to use it. It’s not so much what they did say but more what they didn’t say.

Does this mean Waterfox is slop?

Apart from my detestation of the overuse of this word, no, it is not. Every line of code is my responsibility, the art and design is either done by myself, oftentimes poorly, or I pay someone.

I think someone who wasn’t using LLM code-assistants would phrase this unambiguously. “Every line of code is my responsibility,” dances around the subject.

Wow, so many incredible looking games here. I wish I had time to try them all.

Why even mention the nazi distro at all?

Nice write-up. This is the first time I’ve encountered DynamicUser= in systemd, so I learnt something new.

scrap (third-person singular simple present scraps, present participle scrapping , simple past and past participle scrapped)

(transitive) To discard; to get rid of.

(transitive) To stop working on (a project or plan) indefinitely.

Synonyms: abort, cancel, mothball

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scrap

vs.

scrape (third-person singular simple present scrapes, present participle scraping , simple past and past participle scraped)

(ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.

Synonym: scuff
She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.
That car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance.
…
(transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.

Just use whatever you can scrape together.

(computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.

They didn’t provide an API, so I simply scraped their website.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scrape

I don’t know anything about this creator, what is it that makes you dislike them? It seemed like a fairly ordinary video to me, but this post is on -4 votes at the time I’m commenting so I must be missing something.

I was going to suggest this one. I haven’t used it but I listened to an interview with the developer of asciinema on one of my favourite podcasts: Developer Voices. That’s as good as a recommendation to me.

The interview is here on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHwWNFAjAxo

That’s another good one. There are so many parts of that book that are directly relevant today. It boggles my mind that people in general are not furious about what is happening.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre. With the feeling that he was speaking to O’Brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote:

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

- 1984, George Orwell

We would do better at recognising the tools of fascism if more people engaged with the literature of our culture. It’s there right under our noses.