ms264556

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[–] ms264556@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And yet, just across the ditch ..

$35k in NZ for the base electric model: https://www.fiat.co.nz/en/offers/500e.html

And Facebook & Instagram were plastered with ads for the 500e last time I visited.

[–] ms264556@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

(Tweaked) Verdana FTW.

I liked proportional fonts for reading code - several of my favorite programming books used proportional fonts for code examples - so when Verdana was released in 1996 I switched to using it in my IDEs. I've had 27 years of pleasantly ergonomic coding - it has a high x-height, different 0/O, I/l/1, and impeccable hinting and kerning. ❤️❤️❤️

[–] ms264556@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The first report I looked at was Entrust refusing to revoke certs because their clients' manual processes would make applying reissued certificates inconvenient.

Quite fun reading, surprisingly - a mid thread revelation that they'd pulled the exact same shit 4 years ago, an attempt by Entrust to kill the issue because unattributed legal advice said they'd misreported the error. And then, just when their chutzpah seemed to be wearing everyone down, a good 'fuck you' from Apple forced them to revoke the certs after all.

I'm not surprised Google had enough & yanked their license to print money.

[–] ms264556@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago

This. Exactly the same response where I worked.

[–] ms264556@beehaw.org 10 points 5 months ago

I'm not sure how much money they'll actually get from this.

The (50,000 employee) company I worked for had very slow IT processes at the time, but when the licensing changed they treated it like a critical security vulnerability because of the amount of money involved: they very quickly migrated their software packages to include non-Oracle OpenJDK builds & rolled out an update to uninstall Oracle java from all PCs. And all server owners were given a deadline to migrate or start paying recovery costs.

I imagined it'd be smaller organisations which would've sat on this issue.

[–] ms264556@beehaw.org 8 points 7 months ago

Totally OK way of doing it. You basically manually implemented the protocol APIPA uses to allocate 169.254 addresses.

[–] ms264556@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I occasionally have to download and run old versions in a VM to build poorly supported software.

E.g. step 1 of the build instructions here...

Install the following packages in an ubuntu - 14.04.6 LTS machine

[–] ms264556@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's pretty close already. I forget where I cribbed the technique from, but I embed python functions into my scripts very often...

E.g. see here