This is a fantastic write-up, thanks for sharing!
What's wrong with Business Insider? Genuine question
You declare it in the package.json as a category when publishing. It's completely self-selected with no oversight, review, or enforced permissions.
I believe they're referring to lower down in the article, where the researchers analyzed existing extensions on the marketplace:
After the successful experiment, the researchers decided to dive into the threat landscape of the VSCode Marketplace, using a custom tool they developed named 'ExtensionTotal' to find high-risk extensions, unpack them, and scrutinize suspicious code snippets.
Through this process, they have found the following:
- 1,283 with known malicious code (229 million installs).
- 8,161 communicating with hardcoded IP addresses.
- 1,452 running unknown executables.
- 2,304 that are using another publisher's Github repo, indicating they are a copycat.
I use Jenkins for work, unfortunately, so I have plenty of experience
FYI, Jenkins has an endpoint to validate the pipeline without running it, and there's a VSCode extension to do this without leaving the editor: https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2018/11/07/Validate-Jenkinsfile/
FYI you can (sorta) redirect searches from the start menu: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-let-google-handle-cortana-web-search-results-windows-10
Mine all go to DDG in FF
The WinAmp maybe sorta open-sourcing is interesting. I've never used it (aside from downloading it to get MilkDrop working in Foobar2000).
Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and a spotlight on Stirling PDF - a self-hosted PDF editing tool
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Yeah exactly, but to get to that point we needed to message it to consumers as such for ~20 years. Similarly, in OPs example, the 20mg feels similarly to a 40mg, but with half the nicotine - clearly the measurement on the box is being used as a proxy for "how does this feel" (no clue if that has a measurement/is measureable) but could definitely message it similarly
That's when you take a page out of the book of lightbulb manufacturers. On the box, CFLs and LEDs don't show their actual wattage on the front, they write "100w equivalent" because that's how people are used to measuring luminosity.
I feel the same way. Designing good, opinionated APIs is HARD, but it also provides the best experience for both the author and the consumer.
- Prettier is the undisputed king of JS formatters because it has no options by design. You set and forget.
- One of the reasons iOS is so successful is because they lock down their APIs and put strict standards on apps, making it hard to write something that doesn't at least look good and slot into the OS well.
Among other examples.
I disagree that procedural generation makes games more boring and repetitive. I think it depends on the game and how the procedural generation is implemented. Look at Noita for example - uses lots of procedural generation, mixed with some handcrafted elements, and it's really fun! Terraria, another similar formula.
Not my cup of tea, but a lot of people love No Man's Sky for that reason - it's fun to explore the crazy combinations.
The original Elite was procedurally generated IIRC, and from what I understand it was super fun (before my time though).
That's what NEET technically means, but it's taken on a greater meaning (especially on 4chan) of "person who lives in their parents basement well past the age it's socially acceptable, has no social skills/is actively antisocial, has poor personal hygiene, and rarely (if ever) leaves the house".
That's how I feel about RuneScape! I don't find it a particularly fun game, but the music is so great and iconic and fits the game so well, I hear it and want to play.
I didn't even know this happened lol
I've never played any others but SR4 is great, super ridiculous
In a world where your IDE and maybe also compiler should warn you about using unicode literals in source code, that's not much of a concern.
VSCode (and I'm sure other modern IDEs, but haven't tested) will call out if you're using a Unicode char that could be confused with a source code symbol (e.g. i and ℹ️, which renders in some fonts as a styled lowercase i without color). I'm sure it does the same on the long equals sign.
Any compiler will complain (usually these days with a decent error message) if someone somehow accidentally inserts an invalid Unicode character instead of typing ==
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Yeah, also a bunch of other details, and the whole plot is way more focused on the war in the movie. In the book it's more of a backdrop. You should give it a read, it's worth it :) I also like her other books!
I don't know the answer, but happy to see someone talking about this book. I feel like so many people know the movie and have no clue that it's based on the book, nor how much they changed it. I personally love the book and am happy to see it.
Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and a spotlight on Zoraxy - a reverse proxy and forwarding tool with a web interface
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A directory of companion apps for self-hosted software curated for easy browsing and discovery
Not my website. Interested to see how this will play out though!
A directory of self-hosted software and applications for easy browsing
As a long time follower, this is pretty exciting! I've definitely been looking for something along these lines.
Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on Fitbit Health Dashboard - a script for fetching and visualizing Fitbit data
As usual, not my blog, just a good community share. Authors are on Mastodon at @[email protected]
Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on EGG, a minimal self-hosted photo gallery
The weekly post. As usual, not my blog, just a good community share. Authors are on Mastodon at @[email protected].
[BUG] Comment number doesn't show on collapsed last comment
Until I trigger the collapse mechanism, the last comment in a post doesn't have the number of subcomments when it hides subcomments by default. See the below pictures for an example with a specific post, but I've noticed this on every post I've seen recently.
If I reload by pulling down, it again hides the comment number.
Without the comment number after loading the post: !Without the comment number
After tapping to collapse the comment, comment count shows: !After tapping
Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on DDNS Updater - a web application for updating DNS records across multiple providers
Weekly share. As usual, not my blog, just a good community share. Authors are on Mastodon at [email protected].
Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on HortusFox, a plant management and tracking application
Weekly posting! As usual, not my blog, just a good community share. Authors are on Mastodon at [email protected].
Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on Docker Socket Proxy, a secure proxy for exposing the Docker API
My weekly post :) usual reminder: not my blog, just a good community share! Writers are on Mastodon at [email protected].
Instance upgrade (sh.itjust.works)
My instance has just upgraded to Lemmy v0.19.3 yesterday, but I don't see any of the new features (scaled sort etc). I tried logging out and back in (had to anyway as the subscriptions weren't showing). Switching to a different instance on 0.19.3 shows the correct features, but when I switch back, nothing.
Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on 2FAuth, a self-hosted 2FA web application
Not my blog, just a good community share :)
Does anyone know anything about Solid pods?
I heard about this project years ago. Cool concept: standardized, interchangeable storage + identity that can be plugged into arbitrary apps. The idea is that your identity is tied to your data, and your data can be hosted anywhere so you can retain control over your data or use a simple provider. It was also created by Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the web.
However, it doesn't seem to be gaining traction anywhere, even in the already-niche self-hosting community. From the GitHub (which was hard to find on the website!) I could see that it's being actively developed, including a new website redesign, but everything else seems stagnant. Their newsletter has no updates since 2021. There are only a small handful of apps listed on the site and most of them haven't been maintained since 2019 or earlier, and a lot are just things like "solid pod explorer" or "demo app".
Anyone had any experience with it? Or know more about the situation? I would love to see this become more widely used.
Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on listmonk, a self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager
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Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on Scrypted, a camera streaming platform and NVR
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Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on PiAlert, a network device scanner with configurable alerts
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Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on Stalwart Mail Server, an all-in-one self-hosted e-mail server
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Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on wg-easy, a WireGuard management container with a web interface
Again, not my newsletter, just a good community share. Author is on mastadon: https://fosstodon.org/@shollyethan?ref=selfh.st
Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on Wallos, a personal subscription tracker
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Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on ProxMobo, a third-party iOS client for managing Proxmox instances
Not my newsletter, just a good community share