Sure. I’m not recommending anything, just stating what has worked for me. For simple use cases, I think most of the DDNS services are pretty much the same anyway and it’s easy to switch to an another one if one stops working for some reason.

I’ve been using No-IP free plan for years without issues. Inputted the credentials to my routers DDNS client and then basically forgot about it. Free users need to confirm their account once a month via email but that’s just one click.

If your domain registrar happens to have an API to update DNS entries, you could implement DDNS yourself by writing a simple automated script to check the external IP (e.g. via ipify.org) and if it’s changed from the last check then call the API to update the DNS entries.

My main issue with CVEs nowadays is that it seems one gets generated even when 99% of the use cases for the software in question are not vulnerable as the vulnerability requires a very specific configuration/circumstances/etc. to be exploitable. In large projects with lots of dependencies this adds a lot of noice and there’s a risk that actual important CVEs go unnoticed.

That or live cd (well, most likely live usb nowadays)

I was going to give the example of the Carnival cruise ship that sank in the 2010s (I think) largely due to the captain’s incompetence[…]

That’s Costa Concordia. It received extra media attention and is mostly known due to the awful behavior of the captain who first directly caused the accident and then fled the ship before most of his passengers.

Well, just by looking at responses in this thread, the controversy most definitely still exists. Some seem to like it and others hate it fiercely.

Cool, thanks for the explanation.

a single application that gets bundled with all necessary dependencies including versioning

Does that mean that if I were to install Application A and Application B that both have dependency to package C version 1.2.3 I then would have package C (and all of its possible sub dependencies) twice on my disk? I don’t know how much external dependencies applications on Linux usually have but doesn’t that have the potential to waste huge amounts of disk space?

Sorry to ask, I’m not really familiar with Linux desktop nowadays: I’ve seen Flatpak and Flathub talked about a lot lately and it seems to be kinda a controversial topic. Anyone wanna fill me in what’s all the noice about? It’s some kind of cross-distro “app store” thingy?

I think it would be useful with updates when setting up a new phone or after a factory reset when basically every app needs an update

Google Tasks. Does not have all the features of other apps but does everything I need and was preinstalled

Telegram has a builtin support for proxies and the authorities probably won’t be able to block all of them

Good luck trying to “shut down” a open source software… Still sucks tho, why Nintendo gotta make so good games but be so shitty of a company otherwise

Yes, very much this. I find it kinda funny that once the press discovered this huge disagreement (not really) between them it was talked about in every singe debate even though absolutely nobody is wanting to give us nukes

It’s still unclear if he’s allowed to use the logo and such. The national broadcaster Yle (which itself has a strict policy against advertising) allowed it in the national show and argued that (quote) “Windows 95 is no longer a protected trademark today. The product is hardly used by anyone anymore. Thus the name and the costume are allowed”

But EBU might have a different stance ofc

I don’t remember the exact article I was reading but doing a quick google search yields this one for example. And here’s the actual research paper: https://www.miyashita.com/researches/1hFnR7TlUO4OXNpQFeuN30

I remember reading an article about how we’re already able to simulate basic tastes, like sweetness and sourness, digitally. So just you wait, we might have lickable HTML elements in the future

So nice to be able to play more Portal after all these years

TypeScript

GitHub link

It’s nice to have a quick easy one for a change

import fs from "fs";

const rows = fs.readFileSync("./09/input.txt", "utf-8")
    .split(/[\r\n]+/)
    .map(row => row.trim())
    .filter(Boolean)
    .map(row => row.split(/\s+/).map(number => parseInt(number)));

console.info("Part 1: " + solve(structuredClone(rows)));
console.info("Part 2: " + solve(structuredClone(rows), true));

function solve(rows: number[][], part2 = false): number {
    let total = 0;
    for (const row of rows) {
        const sequences: number[][] = [row];
        while (sequences[sequences.length - 1].some(number => number !== 0)) { // Loop until all are zero
            const lastSequence = sequences[sequences.length - 1];
            const newSequence: number[] = [];
            for (let i = 0; i < lastSequence.length; i++) {
                if (lastSequence[i + 1] !== undefined) {
                    newSequence.push(lastSequence[i + 1] - lastSequence[i]);
                }
            }
            sequences.push(newSequence);
        }

        // For part two just reverse the sequences
        if (part2) {
            sequences.forEach(sequence => sequence.reverse());
        }

        // Add the first zero manually and loop the rest
        sequences[sequences.length - 1].push(0);
        for (let i = sequences.length - 2; i >= 0; i--) {
            sequences[i].push(part2
                ? sequences[i][sequences[i].length - 1] - sequences[i + 1][sequences[i + 1].length - 1]
                : sequences[i][sequences[i].length - 1] + sequences[i + 1][sequences[i + 1].length - 1]
            );
        }
    
        total += sequences[0].reverse()[0];
    }

    return total;
}

Nokia E71 with the full QWERTY keyboard. Loved it, even though the keys were too small to comfortable use. I guess technically speaking that’s still a smartphone so before that I had some Samsung flip phone, can’t remember the exact model

Good luck, because last time they tried to replace the Start menu with a new UI went so well…