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CameronDev

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  • It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

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  • Still sounds like you'd be shipping your data to the cloud, where it can be exfilled from there.

    Would potentially be a great phishing tool, just need to trick someone into putting sensitive data into a precooked excel file, and it gets exfilled.

  • It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

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  • Could result in some very cursed codebases.

    "We dont use git, we just update the excel spreadsheet"

  • It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

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  • Integrated python scripts in excel sounds like a malware developers dream.

  • looking for a fediverse/foss website for hosting some sort of guestbook

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  • If you go down the "Little Free Library" + Lemmy community route, you can easily attach NFC stickers to the books, that point to a thread.

    You can buy a bunch of NFC stickers for a few dollars and program them with your phone (make sure you write protect them once written). Alternatively, you could print QR codes onto stickers.

    Would be pretty cool, please share the community when you have it setup.

  • looking for a fediverse/foss website for hosting some sort of guestbook

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  • How are you going to weather protect the books?

    You could easily create QR code (or NFC tags) that linked to a post in a lemmy community.

    As for posting opinions without a login, that is a little harder to pull off. Firstly, anonymous internet opinions are usually garbage, so you wouldnt want it to be truely anonymous. You'd be wading through spam in no time.

    If there was a way to encode creds into the QR code, such that it autologged into an account, that would be kinda cool, and it might last a little while until the creds were leaked.

    A basic (no-auth) guestbook site could be knocked up fairly easily by anyone (give me a week or so and I'll give you something if you want, you'll have to host it though), but getting the auth part right is nontrivial.

  • You typical Node project

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  • Yes and no, the linker does nicely trim a lot of the fat, but rust binaries are still pretty chonky. Its good chonky (debug etc), and static compile doesnt help, but they are quite fat.

    Also doesnt help compile times that you have to build all this extra stuff, only to throw most of it away.

  • Desired features in a "git-killer" (next-generation DVCS)

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  • designed for •binary code

    Okay, this person doesnt understand git at all, I dont think they are qualified to design the next gen.

    They also seem to confuse/use git and Github interchangeably.

    Skim reading this was a waste of time.

  • Want an alt account here. Can i port my block lists?

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  • You typical Node project

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  • Too late, is_even_rs now depends on tokio

  • You typical Node project

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  • Or bugs that you only work out much later on.

  • You typical Node project

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  • I'm not sure its a problem in of itself, but i agree it definitely enables a problem. Between "is-even" and vibe coding, modern software engineering is in a very sorry state.

  • You typical Node project

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  • Its certainly more painful to collect dependencies with cmake, so its not worth doing if you can hand roll your own easily enough.

    The flip side is that by using a library, it theoretically means it should be fairly battle-tested code, and should be using appropriate APIs. File watching has a bunch of different OS specific APIs that could be used, in addition to the naive "read everything periodically" approach, so while you could knock something together in an hour, the library should be the correct approach. Sadly, at least in rust land, there are a ton of badly written libraries to wade through... 🤷

  • You typical Node project

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  • Rust as well. Seems to just be a modern language thing.

  • Is there a way to use my OpenWrt router to help people connect to Tor?

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  • That also makes sense. Wouldnt that potentially risk the users de-anonymising themselves (and OP)? They wouldnt be protected by the tor browser protections, so a site could request location etc.

    Standard VPN is probably a better tool.

    For OP: Routing all traffic through a VPN isnt too hard, you can just add the VPN client and then route traffic through the interface. You can do it all from Luci. If you want more info, I can share how I did it with wireguard.

  • Is there a way to use my OpenWrt router to help people connect to Tor?

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  • I dont disagree on the danger, but what did you think they wanted?

  • Microsoft to Finally Improve and then Open Source the Windows App SDK

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  • I think its that as well, but we shouldn't have to guess. Renaming remote desktop to "Windows App" was just stupid.

  • Is there a way to use my OpenWrt router to help people connect to Tor?

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  • You can run an exit node on openwrt: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/tor/extras

    Depending on your country's laws, you may be on the hook for any content that is accessed via your network. So all the child porn, extremist content etc, thats all possibly on you.

    Hacking risk is minimal, but every additional service you run on your router increases its attack surface.

  • Microsoft to Finally Improve and then Open Source the Windows App SDK

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  • See, this is why naming is important, is this the SDK for "Windows App" (the rdp thing), or something else. I think its something else, but who the fuck knows anymore.

  • Linux users are about to face another major Microsoft Secure Boot issue

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  • Oh, well, if it requires a password that is pretty much solved. The original commentor made it seem a lot less hands on.

    I was under the impression that the shim let OS's boot all the way up, and that it was just a standard part of the boot process, I was suggesting instead that the signed binary only let's you add a new key, which you can then use to boot without the shim.

    Doesnt help when the key expires though.

    Thanks for the additional info, greatly appreciated.