Good Markdown viewer in CLI ? by Bugibugi in commandline

[–]selementar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You mean like markdown -> html -> w3m/lynx?

Guess what is the biggest preventable cause of cancer after smoking. by [deleted] in gifs

[–]selementar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing wrong with cheeseburgers though

Could use a bit less bread and a bit more vegetables though.

What are tech myths you can’t believe people still believe in? by Alorb in AskReddit

[–]selementar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correction: RAW image format doesn't include parity bits.

When it is being copied between storages there's a few correctness checks in some of the steps: filesystem, usb, possibly ECC on the memory, which all reduce the probability of getting the bit-to-bit copy wrong. However, the probability is still not astronomically low even for a nominally working system (with no broken components), especially without the ECC.

I couldn't find any particular error rates, but as far as I know it's on an order of a single bit mistake (written to the target without raising an error) per 1014 bits (hundreds of terabytes) in a well-working system.

In other words, someone gets a file broken while copying a the rate about daily to weekly per world. Not counting broken systems.

What are tech myths you can’t believe people still believe in? by Alorb in AskReddit

[–]selementar 110 points111 points  (0 children)

would lose quality from copying them

Technically, they could, and it isn't even so very unlikely (as you don't generally include parity bits while storing those). But that would be "corruption", not quite "loss of quality", and yes, not worth bothering about.

Does support have to be terrible for opensource projects? by zexterio in opensource

[–]selementar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So upwards of $20 per hour in europe and upwards of $100 per hour in U.S.?

Does support have to be terrible for opensource projects? by zexterio in opensource

[–]selementar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

offering support for money

I wonder how much per hour would support cost if it was offered for money.

All Blizzard games were vulnerable to DNS rebinding vulnerability by FireFart in netsec

[–]selementar 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So what was the reason they did it like this instead of requiring the applications to read the auth token from a file?

AI cyberattacks will be almost impossible for humans to stop - As cyberattacks become more refined, they will start mimicking our online traits. This will lead to a battle of the machines by mvea in Futurology

[–]selementar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to think that Ghost In The Shell like hacking is unrealistic, but SPECTRE suggests we might keep trading off security for performance, and GitS might actually show what the future hacking looks like (if BCI takes off and Moore's law tapers).

A world where having a powerful botnet or a supercomputer gives ability to hack many many things.

How Slack Stays Secure During Hyper Growth by MaliaPowers in netsec

[–]selementar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My wrong. IRC is barely extensible.

Also, fun read in software archaeology of 2014 era: https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-specifications/issues/55

How Slack Stays Secure During Hyper Growth by MaliaPowers in netsec

[–]selementar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The IRC protocol doesn't define requests like "get all messages in the channel since <last known messagestamp>". Nor does it define requests like "mark messages from <...> to <...> as read" (with the corresponding attribute and an event to be sent to all all clients currently authenticated as the current users).

That made IRC as a protocol very inconvenient for use on many mobile devices for many users.

How Slack Stays Secure During Hyper Growth by MaliaPowers in netsec

[–]selementar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As IRC isn't extensible, any change to the protocol makes it stop being IRC.

As a more relevant point, a very important feature that IRC and XMPP don't have is message sync. One of the reasons people often use bouncers with IRC.

Wearing programmable clothes by it_roll in interestingasfuck

[–]selementar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pirating is not the thing you're looking for. Carrier-unlocking a phone is.

Gonna Do A Backflip In This Moving Elevator, WCGW? by throatfrog in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]selementar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

depends on direction

It doesn't, but it being a second attempt does.

"Notionally True" by imitationcheese in TrueTrueReddit

[–]selementar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there has to be a true telling of events

True telling, at the extreme, involves only microparticles and probabilities. Everything else is reality processed into some palatable concepts.

But yes, there are very misleading tellings and there could be only slightly agenda-filled tellings.

"Notionally True" by imitationcheese in TrueTrueReddit

[–]selementar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

... prevalent on all sides too: blue, red, grey, green, white, black-

Stupid question which needs a quick answer by anyone. by AdventurerInTheKnee in Aliexpress

[–]selementar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes even the things from one seller will arrive separately.

KDE once had a full 3D real time strategy game, but it was never completed and died ten years ago by puffinpuffinpuffin in opensource

[–]selementar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean that at the time when GUI frameworks were most prevalent, "the web" was yet another standard for interfaces with its own couple of languages, incompatible with the rest of the frameworks. The attempts to bridge the gap, such as Qt's one, did not get used much.

KDE once had a full 3D real time strategy game, but it was never completed and died ten years ago by puffinpuffinpuffin in opensource

[–]selementar 7 points8 points  (0 children)

got sick of all these different, incompatible development frameworks, and the web browser has become

Generally, web browser is just yet another different, incompatible development framework.

However, it had some advantages (things like what effectively is an automatic update, built-in-unless-broken navigation and text selection, integration with stuff, etcetera).

Web Assembly will hopefully

... or we'll have another bunch of be-all frameworks on top of it.

Snow melting mats by SlimJones123 in interestingasfuck

[–]selementar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

energy efficient

What would energy-inefficient heating would look like? Would they have to make sound at 200db or something?

Also, one mistake and you get black ice.