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tarxvf commented on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt   huffpost.com/entry/utah-s... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
andreicap · 4 months ago
My poor country (Moldova) just implemented free lunches for kids in primary and middle schools.

What is the reason US doesn’t have this already at federal level?

tarxvf · 4 months ago
Because the US is really 50 small countries in a trenchcoat that aren't all on the same page of the script.
tarxvf commented on Open Source DMR Modem Implementation in SDR with GNU Radio and Codec2   qradiolink.org/open-sourc... · Posted by u/threeme3
glzone1 · 4 months ago
I really wish we could find some "HD" voice codec / mode - all the SIP protocols have gone pretty HD / zoom etc are HD at this point, a lot of cell has gone HD.

Are the bands really so crowded (think on 70cm?) that we can't afford the bandwidth for something a bit more HD?

tarxvf commented on Ask HN: If you could start over, hardware or software?    · Posted by u/lepkn
tarxvf · 5 months ago
I'm not so sure the line is that clear cut. How much hardware is useful today without software? Is VHDL software?

I started with software and have been expanding down the stack more and more, spinning some of my own (very basic) PCBs recently, and it's been a lot of fun. I think the other direction would have been harder, because the ~~core game loop~~ development cycle takes so much longer, and that would have made it hard for me personally to maintain motivation at the beginning.

Software by comparison has almost no barrier to entry and much faster iteration. It's also a lot harder to explain to my mom what I do.

I do think C was a great place to start. Going up and down from there is much easier than trying to go downstack from, e.g. javascript.

tarxvf commented on When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH (2022)   tinyhack.com/2022/09/16/w... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
marc_abonce · 5 months ago
I always use trash-cli and alias rm to 'echo NO! #'.

Only if the file is too big to fit into the garbage bin, I can unalias rm, rm the thing and then reset the alias immediately after.

tarxvf · 5 months ago
fwiw you can usually bypass aliases ad-hoc.

In Bash I believe instead of `ls` you can `\ls` to get the unaliased version.

tarxvf commented on Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge   forgejo.org/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
davidkellis · 7 months ago
It sounds like this is trying to coin a new term. I hadn't heard the word forge used to mean an all-in-one git+issue tracker+project mgmt+etc. suite before.
tarxvf · 7 months ago
The term is decades old at this point. It doesn't seem to play well outside of the older open source communities, now that github has xeroxed.
tarxvf commented on Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option   recyclebin.zip/posts/anno... · Posted by u/gepeto42
hombre_fatal · 8 months ago
The conventional password system requires you to have a shared password manager on every device or that your reuse or memorize passwords. And that none of the service's users reuse passwords.

It's all trade offs, else it would be easy.

tarxvf · 8 months ago
I can access my password manager on my trusted device, and manually type in my password for whatever service on any other device. This is exactly what I do for the rare but important time when I need to login on a device I don't want to have total access to everything.
tarxvf commented on Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option   recyclebin.zip/posts/anno... · Posted by u/gepeto42
miki123211 · 8 months ago
One of the biggest advantages of magic links is that they're unphishable while still being easy to use (unlike passkeys).

Having a code completely negates that advantage, as attackers can just set up a fake website that asks for the code.

Magic links should log you in on the device you click them, not on the device that requested the login session. Anything else, while being a little bit less annoying, is a security issue and should be treated as such.

tarxvf · 8 months ago
That would require I have my email on every device I might want to log in with.

I don't like that for a number of reasons.

tarxvf commented on Web Origami, for making websites where you can understand how they’re made   weborigami.org... · Posted by u/ayoreis
optymizer · 8 months ago

  * To serve content that can be accessed on networks using captive portals
  * To serve content on localhost while developing
  * To serve content on devices where setting up letsencrypt or other SSL is either too much of a hassle or not important
  * To stand up a quick HTTP server on hacked servers
Maybe others can come up with more examples

tarxvf · 8 months ago
To allow access by devices (embedded, vintage) where SSL cannot run.
tarxvf commented on Tree Calculus   treecalcul.us/... · Posted by u/iamwil
tarxvf · 9 months ago
It is absolutely common usage. Nothing about the parent is patronizing or gaslighting.

u/tarxvf

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