xxmarkuski

2 mesi fadiscuss

Glad that Mercedes-Benz is doing this change. The management team has been misguided for a couple years. The "only luxury" strategy has not been working out as anticipated, partly due to quality not living up to the level to be truly luxury. The EVs, including the top line EQS, have also not been received to great success.

xxmarkuski

4 mesi fadiscuss

I had so much fun with Lego Mindstorms as well, we had a team at my school and we competed in First Lego league and in regional competitions. We also wrote our software in Java using LeJos one time. Because of it, I got to use git and GitHub.

xxmarkuski

6 mesi fadiscuss

When you have a simple journey and no interruptions DB in long distance is pretty good, not excellent but solid. But with more complicated things traveling with DB is not well thought out and they don't see what could be possible. Changing a platform should show you in-station navigation door to door. DB navigator should not show you impossible journeys, it presents you with train switches where the second train already left once you arrive or displays the stop is canceled entirely. DB Navigator and bahn.de have a monopoly over german train routing and ticketing, but are not subject to anti-trust regulation enough or run by the government directly (dataquality issues, etc). DB is very much against grassroots movements trying to improve customer experience and quality, like community built ticket stores or wallet and calendar integration. I also think the ministry of transportation and politicians are at fault for not getting DB to step up their game. Trying to privatize DB, rigid regulations for how DB has to run and not enough attention to rail as a whole for example. I would consider the "ampel" (21-24) to be one of the better ones. After some reforms, the government is still not in a position to control the monopolist enough.

xxmarkuski

7 mesi fadiscuss

I set it up for an old Google account that has been breached. It did a relatively good job, but HIBP has more data in my experience, albeit it mainly looks at emails, whereas Google's report can do lookups by full name, address, and phone number. I think it was useful, but did not get enough love to be like a second HIBP.

xxmarkuski

7 mesi fadiscuss

I use ChatGPT to compress SVGs, in particular QR codes. Many QR code SVG generators produce inefficient SVGs, and conventional SVG compressors often lack the understanding required for some compression techniques. ChatGPT can replace alignment indicators with <use> elements.

Is there a way to embed the data encoded in the QR code directly within the image? This would allow the data to be parsed directly by the browser, eliminating the need for computer vision to decode it again. Going further, for web images QR codes could be efficiently encoded and rendered by the browser.

xxmarkuski

7 mesi fadiscuss

I have heard, but do not aggree, that Let‘s Encrypt is risky, because phishing sites use it. It’s implied that other CAs do checks against it.

xxmarkuski

7 mesi fadiscuss

Graphene OS provides advanced security capabilities and a thorough defense-in-depth approach including a hardened supply chain. GOS aims to provide mechanisms to protect against 0day attacks. For example Celebrite can not open up GOS. GOS relys on hardware support provided by Pixels. Graphene OS works on getting their developments upstream.

For a list of security features see here [0].

[0] https://grapheneos.org/features

xxmarkuski

8 mesi fadiscuss

Minecraft modding has done so much to get young people into CS. I started learning Java when I was 10 because I wanted to do modding. At university, I met so many people who had the same experience. The tooling developed for Minecraft modding is world-class and better than what is developed during PhDs. It's very advanced, and people internalized the JVM and Java spec. One problem, though, is that Mojang's updates often change much of the foundation, and upgrading mods is very time-intensive. Mojang announced in 2012 that an official modding API is in the works. This is another step.

xxmarkuski

9 mesi fadiscuss

Maybe look into Eleventy [0] or Zola [1]. Both are relatively recent developments and have a skilled and forward thinking userbase.

[0] https://11ty.dev/

[1] https://getzola.org/

xxmarkuski

9 mesi fadiscuss

The best teams from Google CTF were invited to compete in Hackceler8, a combination of speedrunning and CTF, this year on a SEGA Genesis. Today are the finals, which are steamed and commented on YouTube. See this teaser [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/QQjxHBW7wSQ?si=ElmaUomuFnVx043T

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