pwshguy

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[–] pwshguy@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

No Azure DevOps automatically increments it every time you run the pipeline.

 
[–] pwshguy@programming.dev 10 points 3 months ago

I remember before scrambling they just put blocks that prevented you from going to certain channels. I somehow figured out if you ran the cable box through the VCR first and put it on channel 2 while the TV was still on 3, it would shift all the channels down one. Cinemax was channel 14, which our box just would not go to. But it would go to 13, so doing my little trick teenage me got to watch a lot of skinamax.

[–] pwshguy@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

If I understand correctly, the signatures generated by PuTTY aren’t perfectly random, so if someone got a hold of a bunch of keys from a server, they could figure out the pattern. It takes about 60 keys. This affects not just PuTTY, but also FileZilla, WinSCP, TortoiseGit, and TortoiseSVN.

In other words if you have NIST P-521 keys, or any others using 521-bit ECDSA, you should revoke them and generate new key pairs. After you update your software.

[–] pwshguy@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

I installed some security cameras around my house and set up Shinobi using an old PC. Unfortunately the PC is too old to use the built-in detectors in Shinobi. So, I took my first dive into playing around with some image detectors.

I wrote some python to download the daily recording from old PC to a newer one with a 3080 GPU. Then checks the videos for people. It will then trim the videos to only include times were there are people in frame. It cut my the storage requirements by over 95%.

 

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[–] pwshguy@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

For some reason their API would not return anything for assembly. I was curious to see where it would rank too,

 

I was looking at code.golf the other day and I wondered which languages were the least verbose, so I did a little data gathering.

I looked at 48 different languages that had completed 79 different code challenges on code.golf. I then gathered the results for each language and challenge. If a "golfer" had more than 1 submission to a challenge, I grabbed the most recent one. I then dropped the top 5% and bottom 5% to hopefully mitigate most outliers. Then came up with an average for each language, for each challenge. I then averaged the results across each language and that is what you see here.

For another perspective, I ranked each challenge then got the average ranking across all challenges. Below is the results of that.

Disclaimer: This is in no way scientific. It's just for fun. If you know of a better way to sort these results please let me know.

[–] pwshguy@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

The book I wrote. When I first talked with the publisher he asked, "what skills would you look for in someone who wants to do your job?" And that's the premise I stuck with writing it.

[–] pwshguy@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Very close to VB. Glad I noticed it didn't have End If and End Function before I guessed.

[–] pwshguy@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel down a rabbit hole, a few years ago wonder the same thing about C#. Here is what I found.

  • C# was developed in 2000 as a successor to C++. Doubling the ++ to a #.
  • C++ was developed in the early 80s as a successor to C. Adding plus (+) to a name was a common way of indicating it was an enhancement. Also ++ is the incrementing operator for C.
  • C was developed in the early 70s as a successor to the B programming language. C comes after B.
  • B was developed in 1969 and was derived from the BCPL language. Basically, B was a stripped down version of BCPL.
  • BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) was developed in 1967 and was a designed as an simpler version of CPL.
  • CPL (Combined Programming Language) was developed in the early 60s at Cambridge. The original name was "Cambridge Programming Language" but was changed to Combined when it was published jointly with the University of London.
[–] pwshguy@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

From personal experience, it seems like things outside of your normal listening don't affect too much. At least in my case, my daughter making me play the Encanto soundtrack 250,000 times hasn't affected my weekly or daily playlists.

[–] pwshguy@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

That's pretty similar with what happened with me and the train. Kept getting random drops from a plant. I went out to investigate and everything tested perfect and the network was staying up. That was until a freight train rolled by. Turns out AT&T had run the line by shoving a piece of PVC through the gravel between two cross-ties, then running the cable through it.

[–] pwshguy@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've actually had an excavator take out my network. I've also had networks taken out by forklift, train, and a semi-truck towing three other semi-trucks.

 

I have seen a lot of calls around Lemmy for more moderation tools. I have been working on Lemmy PowerShell module for a few weeks now, and I went ahead and released a preview version with multiple moderation tools now available. The module has the ability to perform the following tasks using a simple command line tool:

  • Search posts and comments
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You can get started now by installing the module through the PowerShell gallery.

Install-Module Lemmy-preview
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If you run into any issues please let me know either here or by submitting an Issue to the repo.

 

The sidebar states "Please see the request thread to request more communities" but I'm not seeing such a thread.

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