xyyzy | 18 days ago | on: Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
I remember from the Gentoo days that when you compiled PyPy from source it would generate a Mandelbrot in ANSI art during the compilation. I was so impressed!
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xyyzy | 3 years ago | on: Irwin – the protector of Lichess from all chess players villainous
how can you cheat on chess?
xyyzy | 4 years ago | on: Arch Linux turned 20 years old today. It was released on 11/March/2002
Before Arch, the Gentoo wiki was a gold mine for technical details. Until they lost it all and didn’t have any backups.
xyyzy | 4 years ago | on: Apple Open Source
Did you also know that it actually spawns the `sjeng` command line binary as an NSTask and attaches to stdin and stdout. So basically it’s just a fancy GUI around the Text based UI :)
xyyzy | 5 years ago | on: Whatever happened to IoT smoke alarms?
The battery life of the Nest Protect is also incredible! I have them for 3 years already without changing the batteries.
xyyzy | 5 years ago | on: China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy
I see it mainly of getting rid of physical money faster. Ofcourse people already use alipay, wechat pay and they spearheaded it. The expiration timer is most likely to incentive people to use this over wechat and alipay and get faster usage feedback.
Note that wechat and alipay are commercial companies. So having a national digital currency does have benefits
xyyzy | 5 years ago | on: Breaking GitHub Private Pages for $35k
The CTF part made me confused though, was this bugbounty part of some CTF?
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