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SVGs are such an amazing attack vector. Nearly every webapp I've seen that allows image or SVG uploads is vulnerable to XSS. If the Roundcube implementation allows for remote image fetching, it's probably worth checking it for XSS vulnerabilities.

Also: what's the legal status of this kind of tracking? How does it jibe with the GDPR?


Instead of money flowing to lower income countries (by virtue of their cheaper labour), which helped those countries grow, money is now flowing to the already richest economy on earth. That's a big difference.

It's just Wolfram explaining how he likes stuying things that can be describe by simple rules and how complexity can emerge in spite of (or because of?) the seeming simplicity of those rules. He came up with a word for it, and while I think "ruliology" sounds a bit silly, it does say what's on the tin.

The word he's looking for is "formal system".

For some reason he doesn't like doing mathematical demonstrations so he shuns the practice of doing them, and invented a new word to describe that way of using formal systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_system


To me it sounds like this stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy

But maybe it is more like fractals and emerging complex systems?


I miss the time when rollerblades seemed like the ideal mode of transport.

My ankles don't.


I've been inline skating ten years now, and the last three years been doing long outdoor skates, 43km a couple of weeks ago.

It is the ideal move of transport! (if cars were less common and hills less steep).

I've got weak ankles from rolling them regularly playing other sports, but the inline boots strap em in nice and tight.

If you need some motivation, or just like to watch some decent skating, check out The Stuttering Skater on YouTube. I'm nowhere near even thinking about being that good, but he's great to watch weaving through NYC traffic.


Rollerblade technology has come a long way since then! Modern skates are much more comfortable and often use bigger wheels that make it easier to roll over rougher terrain and go fast. I get around Chicago almost exclusively through a combination of inline skates & trains (it's easy to wear skates on the trains here).

I bought a piece of wooden furniture some time ago. It came with a label saying that the state of California knows it to be a carcinogen. I live in Belgium. It was weird.

The proposition 65 warnings apply to carcinogenic materials used on furniture surfaces which can be released into the air or accumulate in dust. None of these substances are a conditio sine qua non, there are alternatives. https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov/fact-sheets/furniture-product...

The same warnings and labels are used in the EU, for example for formaldehyde which will be severely limited in its use starting in August 2026. https://easecert.com/blogs/insights/formaldehyde-emission-li...

It may look weird, but personally I prefer a warning to being submitted to toxic substance without my knowledge.


Just an observation, but this California meme seems like the go-to talking point for anti AI regulation crowd lately.

It's not even a good argument. Studies have demonstrated it reduces toxic chemicals in the body, and also deters companies from using the toxic chemicals in their products.

That's a weird comparison, hadn't heard that one yet.

I'm very much in favour of regulating (and heavily taxing) AI. But I very much dislike silly warning labels that miss the point. Owning wooden furniture is not carcinogenic. Inhaling tons of wood dust (e.g. from sanding wood in a poorly ventilated room) could be carcinogenic. But putting such warning labels on furniture is just ridiculous scaremongering.


TIL community biolabs are a thing ...

Are they really? Is this just limited to some very specific areas with an active biotech scene?


In my part of the world it is a common thing among high schoolers, which form associations and use labs at school or a local university.

It's not uncommon that adults do something similar and run a community workshop with whatever the members are interested in.


That is very cool. Over here we can barely keep the odd makerspace or hacker space afloat, nevermind anything related to biology or chemistry.

That seems like a stupid ban. Heat pump water heaters are impossible to install in many smaller dwellings, even if we're ignoring the need for large storage tanks.

The only problem with resistance heaters is the large current draw to heat water for bathing. Central heating can be done at lower temperatures (as is the case with heat pumps), but bathing cannot.

There are some resistance heaters with built in (electrochemical) batteries aimed at reducing peak current, but I'm assuming the ban would affect those as well...


What about heat per unit of volume? Seems like the selling point is that a pretty small box can service a whole bathroom. Presumably it has a higher density than water and requires less insulation?

I think this is the most crucial part. External heat pumps are OK - people install air conditioners everywhere already - but most houses/apartments aren't set up for large water tanks. The interior heat storage needs to be comparable in size to the existing gas boiler.

How long do these last? How many hours/days/.. can you use them for? And how long can you store them safely before they disintegrate or whatever?

There's a particulate filter and an organic vapor cartridge, and you're primarily worried about the organic vapor cartridge which has a peel-off seal when you assemble it.

https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1948355O/combination-car...

40 hours of use or 30 days, whatever comes first, it says.

It's probably not what I would bet my life on, but I've used a bunch of these up doing wood finishing and cleaning. You swap them when you start to smell anything through the cartridges, because it's not actively handling organic vapors anymore. I think 30-40 hours of real exposure use is realistic.

I typically wipe down & pack masks with organic vapor cartridges into a ziplock bag filled with paper towels when I'm done for the day. This ziplock thing is just what I started doing after leaving it out on the counter and found the cartridges weren't effective the next day. This is entirely unscientific, but I think they last longer stored like this.


I use PKL for most of my configuration needs these days. But PKL is only a format, it doesn't say where to store the config. Could I use Externalized Properties to e.g. fetch config from some random source but have it be PKL?


Definitely! There's no limit on what configuration formats Externalized Properties can support as you can implement custom `Resolver`s to retrieve from any source and format e.g.

    public class PklResolver implements Resolver {
        public Optional<String> resolve(InvocationContext context, String propertyName) {
            return getFromPklConfig(propertyName);
        }
    }


    // Register custom resolver when building ExternalizedProperties

    ExternalizedProperties externalizedProperties = ExternalizedProperties.builder()
        .resolvers(new PklResolver(...))
        .build();

    AppProperties appProperties = externalizedProperties.initialize(AppProperties.class);

    // Resolves config from PklResolver

    String myConfig = appProperties.myConfig();


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