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Ah, yes, I live on “St Mary’ ; DROP TABLE street”

He did say he was doing it to learn. Maybe when he’s done he will be able to appreciate what goes into making a viable browser.

Isn’t this basically how lisp works?

https://mbasic.facebook.com/ still works. It's missing some modern niceties, but usable. That's what I use for occasional messages.

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Like Myst? I love those. Have you tried The Witness?

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Do you perhaps have Resist Fingerprinting or Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection turned on?

I was never able to get videoconferencing sites working with any combination of those (on Linux), so I just use a vanilla Chrome instance just for videoconferencing.

I was also going to suggest Haiku. It’s the spiritual successor to BeOs. I was always disappointed that didn’t become more popular.

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I think the glass doors on the refrigerated coolers that were electronic displays that showed you an ideal image of the drink or whatever was supposed to be inside, but you couldn’t see through them to see if there were any actually on the shelf.

If you get the sha256 from the same place you got the main file, then anyone tampering with the main file could also recalculate the sha256 to match the tampered file. A signature signed with a certificate uses complex math (public-key asymmetric cryptography) to give some certainty that the signed content (the sha256) is the same sha256 that the original file author created. It’s not mathematically feasible to recalculate the certificate signature. Why don’t we just sign the whole original file with the public-key crypto and skip the sha256? Because asymmetric crypto is much, much slower than plain symmetric crypto or hash functions. It’s faster and easier to generate the valid hash or key, then sign or encrypt just the smaller key.

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There's an Expedition going on for the next 6 weeks in NMS. It's like a self-contained mega-questline. Start a new single player game and choose "Expedition". They give you lots of upgrades along the way and you'll see bases and messages from other players along the same path.

It probably won’t affect Fedora because that’s already a consumer-oriented distro. For me, it’s a philosophical question. Do you want to run a distro that is supported by a company who would behave that way?

What did you find in Fedora that you didn’t find in the other distros? Was it something about the graphical interface, or was it more about the system packaging ecosystem and developers?

TIL: "The Old French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis (twice) and coquere, coctus (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means "twice-cooked". This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven."

Does it need to be online? If not, you could use LibreOffice.

Are you editing from the smartphone, or just viewing?

Would a wiki site with tables be suitable?

Yes, I have family members that I don’t talk to anymore because their posts showed me a bit about who they really are, or at least who they want to be.

I very much want to actively support the ability of people to express themselves as they feel best. If I were to meet you, should I offer encouragement and support, or should I treat the situation as just like any other?

Ditching TCP/IP and defining a whole new protocol stack would require your ISP to have routers that know how to route this new protocol without IP addresses. Also, every router between the source and destination would have to support the protocol also. That seems like a huge hurdle. We can’t even get mainstream ISPs to support IPv6 in the last 25 years.

Unless the author intends to layer this on top of IP, which defeats the defined goal.

If you did this, you would be running your own “Internet” with only your own routers connecting to each other.

Do it! Start with The Real Thing, then Angel Dust. Both are fantastic.

No car payment sounds like a step forward to me! 👍

Ah, I see you’ve played No Man’s Sky, too!

A fork in a pot is definitely not a grounded earth connection. The electrical circuit needs to go back to the actual planet Earth.

A copper cold water pipe coming into the house from outside is a good choice, as are ground terminals on electrical equipment.

Where’s that X cursor?

In other words, if the sha matches, then it wasn’t corrupted during downloading. If the signature matches, then it wasn’t tampered with before you downloaded it.

There’s also a third check. Even if the certificate signature is valid, you have to have confidence that the certificate is authentic and trusted to be from the original author. This is usually done by having a trusted third party sign the certificate with another, more trusted, certificate.

Potatoes in a Marwari Style by Madhur Jaffery

They are so good, and you can make them in an instant pot.

The full recipe is hard to find online, but here are some pointers.

https://www.eatyourbooks.com/library/recipes/2153404/potatoes-in-a-marwari-style

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7182070/

If you search for "ocean of pdf madhur jaffrey instant indian", the first result should be a link to the PDF of the cookbook. Everything I've made from this book has been fantastic, so I recommend buying the book if you like this style.

This is a good overview.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/types-of-potatoes_n_4877050

I wouldn't call them "sweet", but they're less starchy, less "earthy" and firmer.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-GNU-Hurd-2023

In the Debian GNU/Hurd case it's even less practical due to the many limitations of Hurd and its primitive hardware support.

Given the Hurd limitations, Debian GNU/Hurd is mostly practical in VMs.

Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for i386 and can build around 65% of the Debian archive.

Since the prior Debian GNU/Hurd release, APIC, SMP, and 64-bit support has improved a lot but is still a work-in-progress.

Debian GNU/Hurd has improved a bit over the past decade since last time testing it but is still very much limited and niche compared to Debian GNU/Linux.

Well, time to go watch Black Mirror again. You know, the one with the robot dog that hunts you, or the one with the quadcopters that kamikaze tap you on the head with explosives?

I never got past the first boss on the horse.

Look for something that’s Goodyear Welted. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear_welt

They probably won’t be sneaker-style, but are much more repairable.

Unless the AI processing is much more specialized than graphics, I think manufacturers would put that effort into making more powerful GPUs that can also be used for AI tasks.

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Can you give your opinion on the difference between those magazines you mentioned? I guess I should just read them all.

I use Emacs' Org Mode. It may not be exactly what you're looking for, but it is highly versatile.

Yes a back up is possible. Don’t back up partitions, back up the whole device. All 150+g at once.

Whenever you try to mount the device or the filesystems, make sure to mount it read-only so that no changes are written to the device.

Also, shrinking 84g of data into 32g is definitely not possible. Just changing the fdisk partition table doesn’t shrink or relocate the data. You need a filesystem-aware resizing tool to shrink the filesystem before shrinking the partition.

Hopefully you can just change the partition table back to the original values and get a clean fsck.

Here’s a contact page that offers to help you find someone local to you.

https://www.alleycat.org/our-work/feral-friends-network/feral-friends-network-connect/

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Real programmers curl unverified shell scripts into bash.

Me too. I could never get into nushell or fish because they’re not posix and I don’t need to learn two ways to do something.

Consider how well Lotus Notes handles your form>…>messaging pipeline. Why aren’t we still using an evolution of that? There’s always a shiny new technology that promises to fix all of the problems of the previous ones.

Here are more tips on TNR https://kyanimalwelfare.com/community-cats

And a list of wildlife rescues near Bowling Green, KY. These groups will usually handle animals other than cats and dogs, but tell them you found an injured feral kitten and they might be able to help.

https://app.fw.ky.gov/rehabilitatorNew

There will be metal parts on the microwave somewhere, and they will be properly grounded into the power socket. Maybe the back panel.

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