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Google is putting ads in gmail. WTF?
These ads only appear in the "promotions" section of Gmail, the section that is by definition for advertising emails. It's not great, but this is the least intrusive place to put ads.
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Google is putting ads in gmail. WTF?
These ads only appear in the "promotions" section of Gmail, the section that is by definition for advertising emails. It's not great, but this is the least intrusive place to put ads.
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Taco Bell Programming
This works until you scale the team beyond 1 person and someone else needs to decipher the 30 line awk | sed | xargs monstrosity you created. Give me a real programming language any day.
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Remember to give yourself some simple pleasures
Everything in moderation, including moderation
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Our only chance against the aliens is a kid who got the maximum score on dance dance revolution
In the 2009 Oscar-snubbed masterpiece Monsters vs Aliens, the alien mothership is defeated by a half-man, half-cockroach scientist doing DDR.
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What is the term for an abstract personification? (Examples below)
The term is metonym. It is when you use a characteristic or associated attribute of a thing as the name of that thing. A classic example would be "the crown" when talking about the monarch or "The Whitehouse" when talking about the president.
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.dev Why is C hidden gold?
And then, because you were never in a classroom and never took a class on security, you probably have no idea what a buffer overflow attack is or how to use tools like valgrind to check for them.
Then you put your C code on the internet and get your server pwned inside of an hour.
Slightly hyperbolic? Yes definitely. But there is a reason we don't teach C to beginners anymore. Generally you want them to understand the mindset of coding before throwing them in the deep end. And I would bet nothing has caused more people to quit programming then Segmentation fault: core dumped
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My VSCode started to summon DEMONS😈, how do I stop it? I have checked PHP docs but got nothing. 😥
It's perfectly normal for your computer to have daemons.
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Anthropology PSA
"I learned participant observation from watching you" is such a phenomenal line
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Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain
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This has nothing to do with email as a protocol. The court order discussed in the article asked for the recovery email address of an account. No actual email data was transferred.
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They say doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is insanity. Well what is doing the same thing over and over again and GETTING different results?
Unknown variables
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Receive only email server
You should definitely set up a DMARC record to prevent other people from using your email domain to send spam. If you don't have DMARC configured, other email servers will give any senders the benefit of the doubt and accept mail that claims to be from your domain.
You can just set the DMARC record to reject 100% of unverified mail and call it a day. Since you aren't sending anything it won't affect you.
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Which would you pick?
Racoon is the chaotic energy choice
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Rule
The number is real you guys
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I have suddenly inherited a PHP project. What VSCode extension or server is best for developing it locally? I’m down with any other suggestions too!
Jetbrains Phpstorm is probably best in class, but you'll have to pay for it.
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Tricky [best with sound on]
Greatest character select menu of all time
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It must a pain to make a Rich Textbox
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So long as you have robust data sanitization on the backend to prevent XSS and HTML injection attacks...
If you can get away with just using Markdown, you should definitely use that instead of full HTML.
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Malicious npm Packages Mimicking 'noblox.js' Compromise Roblox Developers’ Systems
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In my (non-expert) opinion, there are a few reasons
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Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX ordered by US court to pay customers $12.7bn
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There are a few ways that the court can get this money. Disclaimer I am not an expert in bankruptcy law.
The most obvious one is what you said. The court can order the company's assets to be liquidated and then the proceeds of the sales would be distributed proportionally among the creditors.
Next they can go after the perpetrators like Sam Bankman-Fried and his crew. If they have any personal assets that they acquired as a result of their criminal activity at FTX, the court may be able to take some of that money to pay creditors.
Lastly is "clawbacks". Let's say you invested $1,000,000 in FTX and you were one of the lucky ones and happened to withdraw $10,000,000 in proceeds during the height of the scam. The court could claw back up to $9,000,000 from you since all of those proceeds were the result of a scam, even if you had no idea that FTX was shady. This is typically how the courts recover money from ponzi schemes like Bernie Madhoff
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Web-based cryptography is always snake oil
What a brain-dead take. If your threshold for true safety is "literally no one can force you to decrypt it or affect the system in any way" then of course it's insecure, and so is everything else unless everyone writes their own crypto implementation yourself locally.
"oh I compile my binaries from source so I'm safe"
Someone could compromise the source repo and have it serve a compromised version to your machine. I guarantee you aren't reading the entirety of the open SSL source code before you compile it.
Anyone that takes this article seriously should read On Trusting Trust. It's a very short essay that states the point much more eloquently than the post author that you eventually have to trust someone. Whether that's Apple or Signal or some random maintainer of your crypto implementation library, you have to trust someone that it hasn't been backdoored.
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Voyager 1 is sending data back to Earth for the first time in 5 months | CNN
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For most transmissions of digital information (even those here on earth) there's a concept of a "checksum". Basically at the end of every message, there's a special number, and you can do some math on the rest of the message to get that same number. If anything happened to change or damage the message in transit, the math doesn't work out and so the checksum fails.
I would assume Voyager works in a similar way so every time it receives a message it will compute the checksum and see whether it matches