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"We need to explicitly load this into memory and keep it there"

"What do you think the OS does with all that unused RAM? We can just open the file whenever we need it, we don't have to juggle not OOMing the machine or destroying OS performance"

fixing and deploying a critical bug fix when everyone's on vacation like oh yeah shower me with praise and give me that happy juice

Finally got a public IP, only took a week

Also, being on CGNAT absolutely sucks, because your IP reputation tanks, I constantly had to wait for CloudFlare to validate the browser, and every recapcha would force me to click on the images, it would never implicitly trust me

And before anyone pipes up, no, Google Assistant isn't better when it comes to Swedish voice recognition

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I use American Siri because that gives me better results in terms of voice recognition than Swedish Siri

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I just realized why I can never understand American Siri trying to pronounce Swedish

She pronounces the letter å as "a-ring"

As in the word "går" gets pronounced as "ga-ringr"

Why

I want to change how I do my reverse HTTPS proxy, it's a bit OTT to do it through kubernetes, and I want to customize the configs a bit to do things like block things that pretend to be browsers from hitting API endpoints, and scrapers running over tor

It makes you stop being able to think straight, it makes you nauseous, it generally just ruins your day

If you have a genuine need for it, you really can't abuse it

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gotta love how ADHD meds described in studies as "potentially least preferred agent based on safety" is commonly prescribed because "people might abuse stimulants"

if you've ever tried it, you know taking high doses of Methylphenidate absolutely fucking suck, it's not a recreational drug

getting a rolodex to keep track of everyone's plural systems

Dusty :blahaj: boosted

“The password generator included in Kaspersky Password Manager had several problems. The most critical one is that it used a PRNG not suited for cryptographic purposes. Its single source of entropy was the current time. All the passwords it created could be bruteforced in seconds.”

donjon.ledger.com/kaspersky-pa

They used math.random() on the web version y’all. This is a “security” company. I’m speechless.

Revolut printed the wrong name on the card because they assumed the first word in my full name is the given name, and shorted all the other ones

My given name is actually the third name
The first of the names is the name of my grandpa

fun fact about eu net neutrality law: as an ISP, if a bunch of your subscribers are ddosing a site, you can block it without repercussions, as it's a risk to network stability

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