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I’ve seen code with binary data (such as icons) baked into constants. I can’t wait for the three hour narration of base64 encoded pngs.
I’ve seen code with binary data (such as icons) baked into constants. I can’t wait for the three hour narration of base64 encoded pngs.
To paraphrase an old tweet: “parentheses - for when every thought comes with bonus sub-thoughts”.
No, they’re saying that companies that want graphene would probably grind up plastic rather than pay to extract microplastics from the environment.
“The camera adds ten pounds” has become a legitimate excuse.
There are two things I can’t stand in this world: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures… and the Dutch.
You’re able to run MemTest? That’d suggest it’s not actually fried if it can still run things.
Check your BIOS/UEFI to see if Secure Boot was re-enabled. If your CMOS battery died and you didn’t notice, your machine config could have reset to its default values during the power loss.
I believe you are correct. I had my MBR overwritten a few times back in the Windows XP days, but haven’t heard of it happening on modern UEFI setups outside of warnings like these.
I still segregate my system drives out of paranoia though.
There’s a much cheaper model, the Zero, that’s good enough for messing around with and performing simple server tasks like PiHole. Even it has had its price increase multifold over the years, though only to fifteen bucks from an original price of five.
It’s also much smaller than the already tiny Pi, being able to fit in a standard orange pill bottle. Though the downside of that size is smaller and fewer ports, so you need a USB OTG adapter (preferably a hub) and micro HDMI adapter to plug things into it if you don’t want to run it headless.
Due to all the registry and group policy changes I’ve made to decrapify Windows, I’m legitimately worried that every major update will brick my install. Luckily so far they’ve only make it worse in the ways that Microsoft intended.
How big is 10 MB anyway?
To be honest, after typing all these numbers, 10 MB doesn’t even feel that big or special. Seems like shipping 10 MB of code is normal now.
If we assume that the average code line is about 65 characters, that would mean we are shipping ~150,000 lines of code. With every website! Sometimes just to show static content!
And that code is minified already. So it’s more like 300K+ LoC just for one website.
An important takeaway, as I feel byte size can be hard for people to intuitively visualize. And for those who didn’t read the article, many of the sites tested sent significantly more than 10 megs of JS, even sites containing nothing more than simple input boxes that should be doing any processing server-side.
I want to see the difference with ad-block enabled. Analytics and tracking are certainly complex enough to account for a lot of that payload. Same with an addon like Decentraleyes to see how much is bloated frameworks that could easily be cached locally.
It should switch to it automatically now, but you can try the manual flag if it doesn’t.
If neither works, symbolic linking yt-dlp and youtube-dl should.
YouTube-dl
Just a heads up, yt-dlp is a far more active fork with more features.
The vulnerability is in the library’s logging function, which is coded in the C language. musl is also C (afaik), it’s just a more modern, safer rewrite of libc.
I’m not sure what you mean by a “vulnerability in the logs”. In a logger or parser, sure, but did you think text data at rest was able to reach out and attack your system?
We call this tactic “Spank & Tank”.
Ubuntu used to ship out free installation CDs. Since it was free, I figured why the hell not. Played around with it, loved it, but didn’t use it for much more than messing around.
A decade later those fond memories enticed me to buy a Raspberry Pi and play around with Linux again, and a few years later it became my main OS. It’s just so much fun to tinker with in a way that Windows never was, and nowadays it runs almost everything without a problem.
That could take a lifetime!