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  • Given the recent uproar about AI usage in rsync a PSA: maintainers owe you nothing

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  • At least it's not like a bunch of other popular libraries:

    Then I get help from the community for a couple of years and a bunch of contributes to my bridge. Then my bridge is so nice that I can add a toll booth on both sides of the bridge and start charging people money to get across

  • Fauxx Data poisoning for your everyday tracking

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  • VeraCrypt Developer Says Microsoft Terminated Windows Signing Account

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  • Maybe you're confused with Truecrypt?

    Truecrypt died and Veracrypt came as a port. Haven't heard of Veracrypt being dead

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    This Phishing email... What is the IP?

  • How EU anti-money laundering rules threaten financial privacy

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  • It's also pretty ridiculous how poorly it actually works. Recently I wanted to cash out some crypto, and the platform I was using was telling about their "peer-to-peer (P2P) rules to comply with anti-money laundering (AML) and Travel Rule standards".

    I could only transfer funds to the exchange if I verified I own the account on another platform.

    So all you have to do to verify it, is make a screenshot of having an account on a different (non-KYC) platform. When you verified you also own that other random wallet, everything is fine...

    Soo, sending crypto "peer-to-peer" directly to the exchange is a big problem - but if you add an extra wallet in between as an extra hop, that you've verified to own but is off-platform - it doesn't matter anymore how that crypto got there

  • VillageSQL, the newest MySQL fork built around the concept of extensions

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  • I guess it's cool - you can port some stuff from Postgres like pgVector and make Mysql a vector database.

    On the other hand, I'm also think 'why?'. At some point just use Postgres instead of overcomplicating Mysql with extensions

  • LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions

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  • Yea, well that was my first though, but then I though - why would chrome even allow any website to just arbitrary check which extensions you have installed.

    So I checked the scripts and at this line the script is showing

     
        
async function fetchExtensionInfo(extensionId) {
  return new Promise((resolve) => {
    const url = `https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/$%7BextensionId%7D`;

    So I thought maybe they were calling the chromewebstore foreach plugin, and if you have an extension already installed, you get a different response than when you don't - or something.

    But I suppose I'm wrong and for some reason a site can just ask the browser internally which plugins are installed

  • LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions

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  • Uhm, doesn't really sound like this could be true. Maybe I'm missing something?

    You'd see 2953 get requests in your network tab, right?

    And the article says:

    LinkedIn silently probes for 2,953 Chrome extensions on every page load.

    Surely it would be drastically noticeable if for every page load they do 3k get requests to the chrome store

  • Authentication in microservices

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  • However, what is stopping a malicious actor from bypassing the API gateway and communicating directly to the micro services ? Do we solve this problem using a firewall, so only trusted traffic reaches the micro services ?

    Kind of - sort of

    With this kind of setup, usually you'd put all your micro services inside a VPC. The micro services wouldn't even be directly accessible from the internet. So it wouldn't really be a "firewall" - but a nat gateway.

    Though conceptually a little bit the same. The API gateway is kind of acting as a firewall

  • My code is self-documenting

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  • It's ChatGPT that's commenting this, isn't it?

  • Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions - GitHub Changelog (Adds self-hosted runner cost)

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  • To be fair, it's not that crazy - your agents are generating a lot of data that Azure DevOps is storing. And they're doing a bunch of other things like release management and showing test results over time, etc etc

    I'm using Azure DevOps practically free - (unless I build way too much and run out of free credits for the month)

    But since so many things in Azure DevOps are already free.. If you're going to start substituting the paid features like extra build agents with your own "free self hosted agents" then where are they getting any money from?

  • JetBrains @programming.dev
    RonSijm @programming.dev
    Functional+Tech demo

    I've put Obsidians' Templater into Jetbrains (Rider, intellij etc)

  • what's the coolest thing you have ever programmed?

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    FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is

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  • It depends on the registrar. By the rules of icann:

    At least annually, a registrar must present to the registrant the current Whois information, and remind the registrant that provision of false Whois information can be grounds for cancellation of their domain name registration. Registrants must review their Whois data, and make any corrections.

    So if the FBI concludes that the provided WHOIS data is false, they could potentially still use that as reason to seize the domains

  • Diptyx is an open source, dual-screen eReader (crowdfunding)

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  • Pretty cool. I tried to google it, and I couldn't actually find the source for it. Just a bunch of articles about it and a reddit thread.

    I'm curious what it's written in

  • Diptyx is an open source, dual-screen eReader (crowdfunding)

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  • If it's "open source hardware" wouldn't it be pretty easy to put it different screens?

    Like it also only had a 2 GB SD card.. I'd guess most people would upgrade that

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    BitLocker reportedly auto-locks users' backup drives, causing loss of 3TB of valuable data — Windows automatic disk encryption can permanently lock your drives

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  • Microsoft WannaCry

  • Would you use a service that automatically identifies refactoring opportunities in your code?

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  • Are there existing tools you love (or hate) that do something similar?

    This sounds similar to "Static code analysis" tools. Especially now that these code analysis tools are getting AI integrations.

    For example we use coderabbit.ai. That does a code review on PRs in github, and reviews these sort of things. Especially the simpler things that you've mentioned like poor naming conventions, violations of language-specific best practices, and readability issues. I'm not sure if it will automatically come up with "large refactoring opportunities" by default - but maybe you can custom-prompt configure it to try, I guess

    (Comment) Why have a separate webpage if such of helper can be built into IDE/editor?

    Coderabbit also has IDE extensions: https://www.coderabbit.ai/ide - I think the separate webpage exists for org level configurations and overviews. These "best practices" are probably defined on a team level to ensure everyone uses the same code-style and things like that

    I'm not sure if "just a website to copypaste code and get reviews" is really a good idea. Maybe for juniors that want to review one class or method or something. But usually code is spread across multiple files, and structural refactor opportunities are on a larger scale then just a couple files

  • How Ruby Went Off the Rails

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  • On September 19, Ruby Central, a nonprofit organization that manages RubyGems.org, a platform for sharing Ruby code and libraries, asserted control over several GitHub repositories for Ruby Gems as well as other critical Ruby open source projects that the rest of the Ruby development community relies on.

    Uhm, so how does this happen? If some people create Ruby Gems and host them under their own github account, how would Ruby Central suddenly assert control over them?

  • Infallible Code

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  • You don't get it. This was made in GameMaker Studio 1.4, which doesn't support a modulo operator. You know nothing about this specific framework. I have 8 years of experience and hacked governments. There's no reason to update it now, because it runs on a smart fridge at maximum capacity.

  • Github has started charging me on the free tier?

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  • Since you're getting downvoted, maybe you want to explain why using Github free is "pointing a loaded gun at your foot"?

    I'm using github for a bunch of my public repos as a free backup service... Why would I want to use a self hosted or way more obscure git forge? Seems riskier than just dumping it on github

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    RonSijm @programming.dev

    Oopsie, Visual Studio License expired, so the build server stopped working

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    RonSijm @programming.dev

    Whatever 'Clean Code' you write now, it'll be shit eventually and in need of a complete rewrite

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Codingame - Summer Challenge 2024 - Olymbits - Bot Programming Challenge

    www.codingame.com /contests/summer-challenge-2024-olymbits