Minoru / is on Nostr

Programmer, reader; dreaming of getting back into cycling.

My avatar is from the poster for https://myanimelist.net/anime/5682/Phantom__Requiem_for_the_Phantom anime. I don't associate myself with the protagonist though, don't read too deep into that please.

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2024-08-16 13:27:45

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@npub17es…clcm I'd bet on Minix instead.

2024-07-29 21:21:07

#Anki has been driving me crazy lately because it uses a very dark blue for "cloze tests"; this makes these tests unreadable with black theme I'm using. Turns out it's easy to fix, but discovering that took some digging. Here's a blog post in hopes that the next person will have an easier time: https://blog.tty8.org/posts/2024-07-29-howto-fix-illegible-cloze-colour-in-dark-mode-anki--black-mode-in-ankidroid.html
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/112/871/859/431/014/513/original/83257ac8726191f7.jpg

2024-07-25 12:45:05

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@npub17es…clcm I am pleasantly surprised that not all your posts are rants teeming with hatred :)
Nice overview! I should probably look into it as well, just in case ForgeFed never realizes its potential.

2024-07-13 10:56:10

NSA can't release a previously-thought-lost lecture by Grace Hopper because it's recorded in an "obscure video format" and can't be easily redacted? What a farce.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/07/the-nsa-has-a-long-lost-lecture-by-adm-grace-hopper.html

2024-06-22 18:15:57

The kind of insurance I want: I get my minutes of life back if I spend them on weird regressions in my tooling (today it's compilers and code formatters). Seriously, it happens only rarely, but when it does, it hurts.

2024-05-18 15:12:29

With Junethack 2024 (hopefully) right around the corner, it's a good time to watch this little dive into NetHack source code and discover the techniques, the humour, the philosophy of this great game:
Alexei Pepers - Nethack: Tech Tourist Mode
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5y_IAdOwaYs
#NetHack

2024-02-23 21:15:07

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that breaking end-to-end encryption by adding backdoors violates human rights
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/02/eu-court-of-human-rights-rejects-encryption-backdoors.html
🎉 #privacy

2024-01-07 20:11:29

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@npub1l4z…cyh6 Inability to paste in a password makes people choose passwords which are easy to type in, which almost always means the passwords will have less entropy. I know because I had to type some of my "32-char mixed-case alphanumeric + ASCII special characters", and that wasn't fun at all; typing passphrases that have corresponding amount of entropy wasn't fun either.
Overriding paste makes the system more amenable to dictionary attacks and/or bruteforce.
@npub17es…clcm

2023-12-21 19:11:58

BlackBerry (2023) is a fairly good movie. I'm yet to read Wikipedia and find out what actually happened, but I like how the movie doesn't fall into the trope of "engineers had it good, then business types took over and ruined everything".

2023-06-17 14:08:51

Hey netizens, do me a favour: if you have a site and it has a newsfeed (#RSS or #Atom), please check it with https://validator.w3.org/feed/ If it fails the validation, please tell the author of your software about it. If you're the author and you don't understand what the validator is telling you, comment here and I'll try to help (others are welcome to help too!)
The world is full of slightly broken feeds. Let's make it a better place.