Notices by codesections (codesections@fosstodon.org), page 5

@linuxliaison I really ought to do the same, if only for testing purposes. (Not to be confused with testing porpoises, which I don't condone)

I see it works with a sub-domain—maybe I'll set something up on a sub-domain of https://codesections.com

Why'd you go with `m.`?

@brandon

> Is there some sort of forum or something that Mastodon admins can refer to for asking questions?

In addition to the discourse @amolith mentioned, there's also a discord channel (I'll never get over my confusion at the similarity of those names) at joinmastodon.org

(Though, iirc, you may have to support mastodon at $1/month to get access)

There's also an IRC, but it's (sadly) not as active as the discord

@linuxliaison well hello there!

@jankoekepan

> Pascal. In streaming, the first thing that (should) come through is the string length.

That's basically the approach #redis takes—which is another area where streaming is important.

thought I was attending a lisp meetup group but it was a romantic novel club reading something called "sexpressions"

@mwlucas

> Lead. Or follow. Or get out of the sewer.

I initially read that as

> Lewd. Or follow. Or get out of the sewer.

Which, you know, kinda works too.

http://www.ostechnix.com/4-easy-ways-to-generate-a-strong-password-in-linux/

My preferred :
openssl rand 14 -base64
gpg --gen-random --armor 1 14

... but the passwords are not easy to remember. A good argument to use a password manager.
#password #linux #gpg #openssl

@YesIKnowIT

> My preferred [way to generate a password in Linux is with the command]:
openssl rand 14 -base64
gpg --gen-random --armor 1 14
... but the passwords are not easy to remember. A good argument to use a password manager. #password #linux #gpg #openssl

And *my* prefered way to generate a password is to use the command line tool I wrote for exactly that use case: https://passgen.codesections.com :D

(and the passwords are easy to remember/type, in addition to being secure)

@RandomDamage

> I'm honestly torn, but Pascal style is also SQL style, and it does have distinct advantages over null terminated.

I didn't realize that about SQL strings. Interesting.

Does that mean that strings in SQL have an inherent length limit the way Pascal strings do?

What's type of strings do you think is best? Why?

(related: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/11/back-to-basics/)

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