Is the first part a key of some sort? @Kimmax

I have a feature request: can we have an RSS feed?

@OttkO And then print a few sheets of paper with the word "money" written on it, or (bad) homemade drawings of currency

@catintroholic It looks like it was soldered in... I think you'll need to get your soldering iron out

@catintroholic From what I've read, the back cover is attached to the rest with clips. You should be able to open it with something like a guitar pick (or those nifty plastic tools from somewhere like iFixit)

Is the button broken or the plastic cover on top of it broken/loose?

If it's the first one, you can always try shorting the button pads/pins with a small wire/paper clip to "press" it.

If it's the second one you can probably just open the phone and push the button itself.

@Fiftyseven When combined with CSS it actually is!

@RodrigoF OH I didn't know those were illegal... Need to remember that when the contract is over.

I love USB C but I think it may just end up confusing more users and creating a lot of problems.
You'll end up with people connecting two things that never should and complaining it doesn't work. And a lot of crappy non standard cables cause compatibility issues.
Not to mention the increased circuit complexity.

It's handy and simpler both from an usability and technical point of view to have different connectors for different kinds of data (storage devices, video, audio, network, etc)

HTML can be considered a programming language: https://youtu.be/4A2mWqLUpzw (the guy in the video gives awesome explanations in CS-related things btw).
Funnily enough, you can get HTML to do conditions with frames and someone actually proved that when combined with CSS it is a turing complete language.

@Jop- It does! It's not hard to check it. GeoIP should be the fallback option.

I spent about a month going crazy with a new pc because I was getting mostly random kernel panics every day. Curiously, not if I left it running stress tests.

Since my earlier experiences with Linux revolved around dealing with bad drivers for a 2011 MacBook Pro (yay Broadcom Wi-Fi that drops constantly), it took me a while to consider hardware failiure.

After a quick HP RMA all is good and elementary is running smoothly!

It's a feature, to drive off noisy people that may know your password

@Axis Security by obscurity isn't that good anyway. There are clever ways to do security, and the devs of the popular cryptography libraries have a big chunk of it figured out. Encryption and physical restrictions (that is, no exposed USB ports on ATMs) and it should be good.

@karakamen Yeah, I'm waiting for the flash shortage to end so I can get myself one...

I could imagine a weaponized siacoin virus making money off of each unused GB on every infected device.

I instinctively opened this when I saw "[Read more]"...

Honestly, I gave Windows a shot when I got a new laptop.
It took ages to start. I ran the setup wizard, connected to the internet. It took an hour or two to restart because it was "updating". After that it had a bunch of updates still pending. At least 3 hours have passed now, and I cleaned all the pre-installed bloatware. It's really slow, with HDD usage at 100% just with light web browsing. Also using 2-3GB of RAM while idle with nothing else open.

This simply did not happen to me on macOS or Linux, so I switched. Though I'll probably miss Microsoft Office as the alternatives always had some compatibility issues.

@devloz For exotic languages go for functional programming.

I'm having fun this summer with Haskell. Takes a while to wrap your head around it but it's great to play with it.

Taught me Java

Rust is a nice alternative

@dfox @trogus We need a way to subscribe to a rant without commenting. (Also commenting to get more jokes)

It's a feature. DevRant now uses ML to detect when it's time to do something else.

On AliExpress there are some 20$ Arduino kits with a big bunch of sensors. Some soldering is required for pin headers, but that's it. They come from China and take a month or two to arrive (unless you pay a lot for EMS shipping), but it's worth the wait!

@datablitz7 The idea behind it is that no matter what device is probed first by the kernel, the names will remain the same. A deterministic algorithm for name assignment. I think you can set up human-friendly aliases though.

@Redrield Use Lineage with Magisk Root! That passed safety net for me

@g-m-f Of course. Instant feedback is good design!

Input validation should always be performed server-si​de! You can have it client-side as well to provide instant feedback without reloading, but user input cannot ever be trusted without validation and sanitization on the server.

@gitpush Try successfully opening, editing and saving a file (and close vim) with no help.
Now seriously, I believe it's a lot more customizable, but I never used any of them for more than editing a few config files when there is no Sublime Text/VS Code.

@kaqqao Minification puts them back... A good minifier will not operate on source code. It should parse it into an Abstract Syntax Tree and then generate the minified code from it.