unicodepepper | 1 year ago | on: The Mythical Non-Roboticist: Wouldn't it be great if everyone could do robotics?
You can tap on the time wheels and a numeric keypad will pop up. Not the most discoverable UI, but very welcome.
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unicodepepper | 4 years ago | on: Notepad++ v8.2 Released
A text file only contains data that represents characters on the screen, while “binary file” is used to refer to any other file that isn’t meant to be viewed or edited as text.
If you open a (small) image file with notepad you will see a lot of gibberish. This is what happens when you try to view a binary (in other words, non-text) file as text.
unicodepepper | 4 years ago | on: Nginx is now the most popular web server, overtaking Apache
I’m pretty deep into Apache, but I think I’ll use this as an excuse to play around with nginx for a bit. Worst case scenario I’ll learn something new.
unicodepepper | 5 years ago | on: Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since
But vendors are already providing a (somewhat) standard way of displaying that content through regular notifications. If I were to build a unified inbox like this, it would look more or less like a persistent view of the notifications panel from Android.
unicodepepper | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you organize your knowledge?
I have not tried this with Obsidian yet, but I know that Markdeep allows you to render .md files on the fly as HTML by appending some javascript to the unmodified markdown.
unicodepepper | 5 years ago | on: The Slander Industry
Your decision is not quite as neutral if all the options you see point in the same general direction.
unicodepepper | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is it time to quit tech industry?
Could you give some more detail? I’m not familiar with the legal landscape.
unicodepepper | 5 years ago | on: Tell HN: HN now displays the GitHub or Twitter username in the truncated URL
I think this is one of the few aspects where tumblr is more logical than other social networks, by using a subdomain for each user instead of the path.
I think reddit accepts this too to some extent - for example, programming.reddit.com will redirect you to reddit.com/r/programming.
unicodepepper | 5 years ago | on: I built a lay-down desk
I see the keyboard/mouse surface seems to be magnetic - do you have to use special peripherals for them too?
unicodepepper | 5 years ago | on: Google Drive trash items will be automatically deleted after 30 days
Considering that /dev/null always reports success on read and write, I'd imagine that http(s) should give a 200 with no payload.
unicodepepper | 5 years ago | on: Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
I wonder if they'd allow you to transfer such a domain to them.
unicodepepper | 5 years ago | on: Just because it's there doesn't mean you should use it
That brings a lot of needed context to this image I saw a long time ago.
unicodepepper | 5 years ago | on: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?
I imagine that Google would not be happy if they ever were to offer such a proxy service.
unicodepepper | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: GradientMagic
This is delightful. I appreciate you having made this.
unicodepepper | 5 years ago | on: Buying a single character domain – and 3 character FQDN – for £15
Apparently it is possible to do it with local DNS resolution, using your hosts file Not sure how possible it would be on a remote DNS server, or whose authority you'd need to actually do it.
[root@host ~]$ curl -v http://.
* About to connect() to . port 80 (#0)
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to . (127.0.0.1) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
> Host: .
> Accept: /
>
< HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
< Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 15:38:54 GMT
< Server: Apache
< Content-Length: 347
< Connection: close
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>400 Bad Request</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Bad Request</h1>
<p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br />
</p>
<p>Additionally, a 400 Bad Request
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
</body></html>
* Closing connection 0
unicodepepper | 5 years ago | on: China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic using TLS 1.3 and ESNI
Would I be safe from this type of MITM attack if my browser respects SSL warnings? (and I don't bypass them)
unicodepepper | 5 years ago | on: The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators
I would imagine that cases should follow a bell curve - sure, the exceptionally good cases where you feel you saved someone's life are rare, but so are the terrible cases that haunt you at night; and most would fall somewhere in the middle.
That said, I would also wager that the curve can be skewed towards one side or the other depending on the location, timing of your shift, or any other factors.
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