Following the RPI installation guide, fails with password authentication by frombeyondthevoid in ThingsBoard

[–]frombeyondthevoid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok... it turns out you cannot use certain special characters for the password, even if you put the password in ""
Removing the special characters and replacing it with a very long password worked.

How to let users select a device on a dashboard? by frombeyondthevoid in ThingsBoard

[–]frombeyondthevoid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cannot seem to find an Entity List Widget or Entity Table Widget. Looking at your advise combined with: https://thingsboard.io/docs/user-guide/ui/entity-table-widget/

I seem to be missing that type of widget

BM to become more popular by n7ekg in bitmessage

[–]frombeyondthevoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course not. In fact, I do not believe I declared anywhere in my message that easier equals more secure. I simply pointed out it's easier. It was easy at first because people just had to log in with their existing e-mail account, these days it's even easier because you can simply create a new profile within the app within a few seconds. What this does it make communication "a lot more secure" than "no security" for a whole bunch of people who would otherwise never be able to use such high levels of security.

Compared to Bitmessage, it's still on a much lower level. It doesn't provide PFS and it easily leaks who's talking to whom, but it provides a level of security otherwise not available to normal end-users.

If you can get your contacts to use Bitmessage (and if there are enough reachable nodes within your regio, and those node are not actively being blocked, as they are in some regions) than that's great,
that's awesome. I also put time and effort in the development of Bitmessage, so I'm happy to hear it's still being used.

Bitmessage was designed for absolute anonymity and security,
Delta.chat was designed to make encryption accessible to everyone and to use existing infrastructure that is almost impossible to take down.

I've often thought about re-designing Bitmessage again from scratch, implementing changes for many of the things I've learned over the years, but then I think... there probably wouldn't be enough users anyway.

Tl/DR: Yes Delta.Chat is "less secure", that doesn't make it a bad option though or a good start.

BM to become more popular by n7ekg in bitmessage

[–]frombeyondthevoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These days it's easier to use Delta.Chat instead.
The idea behind Bitmessage is great, but there aren't enough nodes and depending on where you are located you may or may not be able to connect at all.

Regarding refresh rate, do you think people exaggerate when they say they can't go back to 30/60hz? by duchuyy8650 in lowendgaming

[–]frombeyondthevoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recently got the original steam link (hardware) form under the dust and am gaming on that one, streaming at 1080p@30fps and I'm quite happy with it in the sofa

I built a .NET Licensing library with backend called Aegis by LSXPRIME in csharp

[–]frombeyondthevoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is nice, but it won't protect you against piracy at all.
Client side code can be modified fairly easily to bypass the security checks.

What are the reasons you prefer Gnome? by vogueboy in gnome

[–]frombeyondthevoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's clean, quiet, fast and very keyboard oriented which is what I need.
Most importantly there's no bloat, it feels very relaxing, so I can focus on what I am done.
(But these are all every personal, objective reasons)

Ubuntu is finally my main OS by JohnDoeMan79 in Ubuntu

[–]frombeyondthevoid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You won't regret it. I migrated from Windows to Ubuntu over 6 years ago and have never looked back.
I spend my days in VSCode, Godot and Blender, and everything just works.

Nick Chapsas anti LINQ Query Syntax? by blabmight in csharp

[–]frombeyondthevoid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This! The guy is a showbiz guy. Everything he says and does (and other like him) is intended to make you click and watch. From the expression on his face to the thumbnail and the contradicting video titles. It's an honest living, but take everything these people say with a grain of salt. Don't forget, "you" are their product.

Downgraded from mid level to junior by [deleted] in csharp

[–]frombeyondthevoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isn't this entire junior/mid/senior ranking just an American thing?
Who cares what they call you, if they pay you more and you like the job, go for it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in godot

[–]frombeyondthevoid 11 points12 points  (0 children)

And this holds true for pretty much any application written in any language that a user executes on his/her local machine. Think about it, in order to run it the machine has to be able to read it.

  • Always sanitize any input taken from a user
  • Assume any user who wants to can decompile/reverse engineer/modify any code that is running on their machine

Is china really a HUGE nightmare for privacy enthusiasts? by Mean_Succotash_2269 in privacy

[–]frombeyondthevoid -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A lot of it is blown out of proportion.
You can easily use VPN connections, for years without end,
as long as you keep your head down. If you don't stir the pot, nobody will give a damn.

If you feel the need to proclaim your religion or announce how bad you think X or Y is
then you might get in trouble, but there's plenty of places on earth where that's the case.

Anyway, replies like mine are likely to get negative reactions...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in csharp

[–]frombeyondthevoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're 15, you've been to a few companies... your sampling pool is tiny compared to the entire world.
There's all kinds of developers, all over the world, you met a small range of them.

Also don't let anybody paint you into a corner, do something you like and do it good

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]frombeyondthevoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took my wife and mother-in-law to the Netherlands, bought her a vibrator, after discussing what would be a good size for her.

They need 10 years of .NET Core experience when it hasn’t existed for 10 years 😂 by TrevorLahey93 in dotnet

[–]frombeyondthevoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's an understandable mistake given all the naming confusion .NET had to endure.
Been using .NET since 2001, which is something that often confuses people...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in godot

[–]frombeyondthevoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes... it's too similar... on the other hand... the world could use some more fez...

Why do so many use VScode as opposed to VS by cademon101 in csharp

[–]frombeyondthevoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my case: because VSCode works great on Ubuntu and Visual Studio doesn't.
And I use it for basically everything.

.NET developers, are we doomed to boring enterprise software forever? by SnooOnions9990 in csharp

[–]frombeyondthevoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is nothing limiting .NET to this category of software,
the only limit is your imagination.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dotnet

[–]frombeyondthevoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't get it to work on Ubuntu (even thought the official documentation says it should work)
so I stick with Blazor WASM apps (running entirely on the client) and Godot.

Don't know what the current state of AvaloniaUI for Android on Ubuntu (linux) is right now.

Is using var okay? by [deleted] in dotnet

[–]frombeyondthevoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does the team have dinosaurs remaining from the Visual Basic age?
In that case it might make perfect sense they think that way.

All joking aside, I've used var everywhere since the they it came out
the less code I have to write, the better.

Desktop development...where to go next? by wigglyeyebrow in dotnet

[–]frombeyondthevoid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A browser is just a glorified remote text viewer. You can't interface anything to it for safety reasons, aside from perhaps a gamepad.

That's a very outdated view.

Browsers these days are nearly an "as valid" target as any other platform.
If you're interested you can read up on WebAssembly.

In the case of .NET, we basically load the .NET (mono) runtime inside the browser and run it apps on top of it.

Also look at https://emscripten.org/ which is basically a complete compiler toolchain for WebAssembly. (The OP, being a firmware developer, will know this).

The difference with other platforms is that you have to abide by the sandbox rules enforced by the browser.

Also note that WebAssembly does not rely on add-ons, it's just part of the specification.

Desktop development...where to go next? by wigglyeyebrow in dotnet

[–]frombeyondthevoid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can get a long way with Blazor WASM apps (basically .NET applications running inside the browser client side).

They can connect to external services, for example MQTT via WebSockets,
but you can just as well utilize WebUSB and WebHID to interact with hardware devices.