C++ is fine, tbh. One of the first langs I learned even though I haven't mastered it. My first *real* program was a thing that would capture key presses and rewrite your text so you can type like a #homestuck troll.
Speaking of #Cryptography , this post was a great overview of the tradeoffs in different modes of AES encryption.
https://www.highgo.ca/2019/08/08/the-difference-in-five-modes-in-the-aes-encryption-algorithm/
this old nintendo ds wasn't turning on
I removed the cartridge from the gameboy advance cartridge slot, blew on the cartridge, put it back on
now the nintendo ds turns on.
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Womp womp. #meshcore #encryption is not great. On a positive note, I managed to notice this by reviewing the code myself before I searched for an issue!
Made this thing a few years ago to simplify setting up wifi hotspots for #p2p apps to network together. Click a button and you either join an existing one or make a new one.
This petition wants contributing to Free Software to be legally and officially recognized as volunteering in Germany on the same level as youth work or ambulance service:
This would bring fiscal and funding advantages for FLOSS organizations and the volunteers themselves.
If you are a German citizen, please sign the petition and let's get our volunteers the recognition they deserve!
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Neat, Electron apps only provide their full tree to the accessibility API if they detect that a process called `orca` is running. This means they don't work with any other screen readers without setting extra command line flags.
There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.
Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
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