Dogeek

@Dogeek@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to tip your gas station⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re part of the problem dude, tipping 10% when they shouldn’t be asking for tips means that it’s worth it to them to now ask for tips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retcon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The doctor is a monster for creating the monster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Linux is better for (most) developers!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I already thought about disabling the dedicated GPU on that laptop, but I unfortunately cannot since I need it to train neural networks and the occasional lan party at, work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Auto import transactions to financial manager by parsing bank emails–– a sanity check⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that banks in Europe are bound by law to follow PSD2, which is a set of guidelines to propose APIs. I found a stackoverflow post to generate the required certificates for that but those are only supposed to be for testing purposes stackoverflow.com/…/how-to-create-eidas-certifica…

  You can use the PSD2 api to fetch the transactions from your account directly, that would be a lot less troublesome. There is also the woob (formerly weboob) project that has web scraping for a lot of banks (specifically french but also some American ones like amex)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Linux is better for (most) developers!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My company didn’t leave me a choice, I got an XPS 15 which I had to setup with my distro of choice (but all the internal tooling is for Ubuntu, I personally would have preferred to install Fedora or Debian 12 with i3wm).

  It’s not that bad a laptop but it overheats like crazy and has really shit battery life (barely enough for a meeting), and some of its features I can’t explain : why is a 4k touchscreen on a laptop a good thing? It eats 4x the battery for no noticeable visual improvement. I don’t use my laptop 5 inches from my face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It always gets me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I see what you did there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  ELI5 : Take the string AAAA.

  A simple Cypher would be to change the letters to the next one in the alphabet and offset by 1 for each letter, the message would encrypt to ABCD.

  If you try to compress that, well you can’t do it, otherwise you lose required information.

  If you were to compress AAAA first, you could represent it as the string 4A. You can then encrypt that to 5B.

  Encrypting is about adding entropy to a message. Compressing is about finding common groups and represent them differently so that the size is lower. Compressing an encrypted message is basically useless because you added so much entropy to the message that there are no more recognizable patterns to apply compression to.