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The '-sha' suffix is often used in short/informal versions of Russian names which might contribute to a lot of confusion since many people use the informal version of their name as formal overseas.
With the formal versions, the vowel rule is a good bet, but a lot of the informal versions for both male and female names end in 'sha' (and thus 'a').
Here's a few examples:
- Natalia: Natasha (Female)
- Aleksandr, Aleksandra: Sasha (Male/Female)
- Aleksei: Lyosha (Male)
- Daria: Dasha (Female)
- Oksana (Female)
- Nikita (Male)
- Yurii: Yura (Male)
- Pavel: Pasha (Male)
Keeping it terse here, the list goes on and on, you can come up with an 'a'-endng informal version of almost every male name.
As the others have said, I don't think you can
unknowingly break embargo. If anything, I'm grateful you posted - the timing was right for me:
- I've been able to notify the clients that we are going to have to take urgent action;
- Had some time to figure out what actually happened;
- Set up monitoring to know when the fix is out;
- Managed to compile the new binaries the moment they became available.
If the client cares for your craftsmanship.
We're about to land in kaka territory with this one.
Thanks for sharing the experience.
> As in the others that I _won't_ buy (which is what I meant)?
Correct. Sorry, worded the question a bit too ambiguously :)
What kind of trouble did you have with ASUS and D-Link? Security or the lack of configuration options? Haven't bought them in a while, but I remember them being somewhat decent.
I'm quite frequently in the market for a simple home router/AP for friends and family, and they'd rather have something simpler and cheaper, so that rules out Mikrotik (which I would normally go for). Would love to hear some stories about the issues you've had with all kinds of off the shelf stuff if you have the time to share.
Oh, I rather meant the brands to avoid. But it's still interesting to discover new ones, thanks.
> I'll never buy TP-Link (amongst others)
Been wondering recently what the others might be. Can you give a few examples among popular brands?
Are there any downsides to that approach? No custom CSS, for instance?
The gradient is part of the theme. Updated the post with how to roll back the UI changes for now. After rolling back, select an old theme.
The UI was tidy and nearly perfect, now it's all over the place: weird paddings, different border radiuses even within a single element, clashing background colors, and boy, do I love rainbow gradients everywhere.
Update: for those unhappy with the changes, you can roll them back for now:
about:config -> browser.nova.enabled -> false
I absolutely despise when people commit their personal ignore patterns. My opinion is that the code in the repository shouldn't know anything about personal environments. The exception is when the entire team benefits from having their common ignore patterns in the repo - in this scenario, the environment details are no longer personal and it doesn't make much sense to not commit them. In any other situation, people are perfectly capable of ignoring their crap on their own and shouldn't pollute the repo. Glad .git/info/exclude is getting more exposure.
> Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never <...> be tortured by
Right.
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n4bz0r on Friday March 27, 2026 @03:49PM
from the twitter.com dept.
Seems like a fitting area for government regulation and certification. But in order for a government to even begin to consider the lack of security in IoT a problem, the adoption must ubiquitous. I.e. the devices (or the number of thereof) should pose enough a threat to public infrastructure (think botnets) to be subjected to regulation. Is there such an incentive in any country at the moment?
I might be wrong, but I don't think people really care about the addictiveness in the first place. As I see it, the shorts were
irritating to see, mainly because they were heavily out of tune with the rest of recommendations. But they seem to have tuned them to be more in line with the rest of the videos. Being not that different from the rest of the videos one gets recommended, there is not much point in hiding them? I'm not exactly
protecting shorts here. My point is, you can, of course, cut some of the videos from the feed, but the rest would still be affected by the same algorithm. You still don't get to filter anything, really. So what's the point?
If addictiveness really is that much of a factor, I rest my case.
On the main page, shorts, as all the other videos, are served by the recommendation algorithm which should filter out general audience crap you'd see if you're not logged in or have view history disabled. You'd normally see the same stuff you're subscribed to there, plus a few random videos of cats. Maybe a wamen butt occasionally. Might as well hide the main page entirely if you're not that easily entertained. To be quite frank, the main page is such an echo chamber lately that I almost got myself unhooked from procrastinating on YouTube.
On the search page, shorts are mostly a mixed bag, but you do occasionally get useful results.
So what does this solve? Seems like a form of protest nobody important (those in power) cares about.
Another thing is, I have, to my own surprise, discovered a few decent channels that I like, that post their videos in form of shorts exclusively. That's a somewhat new trend and mostly relevant to humor-related or music channels, though.
Almost forgot to mention. YouTube recently added the scroll bar to the shorts so they aren't all that different from the other videos now.
Not exactly news, wiki's been used for misinformation quite extensively from what I recall. You can't always be 100% sure with any online source of information, but at least you know there is an extensive community that'll notice if something's fishy rather sooner than later.
Went right over my head :)
Funny thing that it's exactly the same for Russian citizens - they'd rather use US government malware. Same goes for mail providers.
There is normally a wiki page for every popular program which normally contains an official site URL. That's how I remember where to actually get PuTTY. Wiki can potentially be abused if it's a lesser known software, but, in general, it's a good indicator of legitimacy.
I don't think there is an S in IoT?..
As someone not familiar with Haskell and Ocaml, which parts of Java are poorly implemented?
> If my computer goes to sleep, WSL becomes unresponsive. I have to save all my stuff and reboot to continue working.
Try wsl --shutdown. Works for me when WSL hangs for no apparent reason.
I've also noticed that, in my case, these hangs are somehow tied to Docker for Windows. Couldn't figure what triggers them so far, though. I just restart DFW and kill WSL when that happens.
Why is my banking app 1.5GB?
For a throwaway, I don't think Jenkins will be much of a problem. Or any other tool for that matter. My only suggestion would be to still put some extra effort into building your own Jenkins container on top of the official one [0]. Add all the packages and plugins you might need to your image, so you can easily move and modify the installation, as well as simply see what all the dependencies are. Did a throwaway, non-containerized Jenkins installation once which ended up
not being a throwaway. Couldn't move it into containers (or anywhere for that matter) without
really digging in.
Haven't spent a lot of time with it myself, but if Jenkins isn't of much appeal, Drone [1] seems to be another popular (and lightweight) alternative.
[0] https://hub.docker.com/_/jenkins/
[1] https://www.drone.io
> Sysadmin/DevOps (they're synonyms now!)
I've notified the authorities and social services.
Cons:
- DSL is harder to get into.
- Hard to reproduce a setup unless builds are in DSL and Jenkins itself is in a fixed version container with everything stored in easily transferable bind volumes; config export/import isn't straightforward.
- Builds tend to break in a really weird way when something (even external things like Gitea) updates.
- I've had my setup broken once after updating Jenkins and not being able to update the plugins to match the newer Jenkins version.
- Reliance on system packages instead of containerized build environment out of the box.
- Heavier on resources than some of the alternatives.
Pros:
- GUI is getting prettier lately for some reason.
- Great extendability via plugins.
- A known tool for many.
- Can mostly be configured via GUI, including build jobs, which helps to get around things at first (but leads into the reproducibility trap later on).
Wouldn't say there is a lot of hate, but there are some pain points compared to managed Gitlab. Using managed Gitlab/Github is simply the easiest option.
Setting up your own Gitlab instance + Runners with rootless containers is not without quirks, too.