Readit Newsm-chrzan commented on Facebook-owned sites were down facebook.com/... · Posted by u/nabeards
Is Signal not equally centralised, and thus susceptible to the exact same problem as this?
Yes. In the ideal world messaging would've have followed the same federalized model as email. XMPP offers this, unfortunately few people use it or even are aware of it.
m-chrzan commented on Command line tools for productive programmers earthly.dev/blog/command-... · Posted by u/mooreds
m-chrzan commented on Martin's Sunday Corner, an ephemeral microblog m-chrzan.xyz/sunday-corne... · Posted by u/m-chrzan
Also here's a blog post about the Corner going into more details: https://m-chrzan.xyz/blog/sunday-corner.html
Good thing I use pass
pass is great. I use the dmenu script to get passwords into my clipboard without leaving the keyboard or being locked into browsers with a supported extension.
As others have mentioned, the Android app has slight issues, but they're not dealbreakers for me.
There's some interesting pass plugins, e.g. pass-otp. You can get 2FA passcodes from the commandline rather than being locked into Google's Authenticator.
I have been reading HN for a long time but your comment is the first time I violently felt the need to create an account and respond. I want you to consider how significant that is. Ternaries are NEVER easier to read.
I don't want to come of as insensitive, it sounds like you've had some really bad experiences with ternaries in the past and it's important to acknowledge your experience. But I just want to say that not all ternaries are like that.
In a more serious tone, ternaries in places where they should be used, i.e. as expressions, are in my opinion much clearer to read than replacing them with an if-else statement. In my mind, an if/else block is an imperative entity that describes two different actions that could happen. Even if in reality both branches are trivial, my mind will be unnecessarily occupied with the fact that it needs to reason about code here, not just data. A ternary, on the other hand, is a declarative entity, saying that this expression takes on this or that value, usually in such a way that each branch of it maintains some invariant with respect to what's in the conditional.
m-chrzan commented on New phishing attack uses Morse code to hide malicious URLs bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/thedday
Do I understand correctly that the encoding is only done to obfuscate the URL from automatic spam filters? So the choice of Morse code was arbitrary - any other simple substitution scheme could have been used to the same effect (maybe very common ones like base64 encoding or ROT13 are already being checked for?).
Looks like a nice tool, but it seems to be built around a very specific workflow that you've found works for you.
Personally I have been managing most of my plaintext notes with the minimal tools required to do so: a text editor and a file system. For technical notes about software I add git into the mix[1], mostly as a means of synchronization between machines.