winkelmann

Sure is. My best guess, assuming it's not a bug, is that someone somehow managed to get an offensive-looking Identicon and complained loud enough so they removed them.

In any case, I really hope they return. There is the username, of course, but it is a nice touch to have a mostly unique simplistic avatar for those who don't supply their own profile picture.

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Update: It looks like the Identicons might be back.

I've had the Berkeley Mono trial on my system for a while now and tried it every so often when I changed up my terminal/editor themes, but it never quite clicked with me. I tried Ioskeley and I personally prefer the way it looks on my code. There are enough differences that I'd call it a bad clone if that were the intention, but a good font if you generally like how Berkeley Mono looks but want something different.

(Note: I have paid for fonts before and wouldn't hesitate to buy a coding font if it fit my preferences)

At least let me actually use a security key! PayPal already lets you use security keys for 2FA, but it appears they only allow for smartphone based passkeys for some reason. I'm sure these are behind all the TPMs and Secure Enclaves and whatnot, but a security key is still orders of magnitude safer.

I am incredibly unsympathetic to statements like the first reply to the issue "This sounds like a hardware issue. Please can you contact the reseller for a refund." from the "Software Engineering Manager at Raspberry Pi, working on firmware, bootloader, security and low-level Linux software." (Read: I suspect this person knew exactly what happened here)

If the reply was along the lines of "This is a new firmware check to curb fraud related to undisclosed aftermarket RAM upgrades with potentially unreliable chips." - I'd be fine with it, but basically just coming out to gaslight the user about the issue leaves a very sour taste in my mouth. In the end, they had to come clean anyway, big surprise.

I say this as someone who has been loving Pis despite their price for the straightforward and reliable long-term software support. Not gonna pretent like I'll never buy a Pi again, but it's another strike moving me to explore other options in the future.

The most unfortunate thing about Google's 3D photogrammetry is that they don't allow you to view historical captures, as they only serve the flattened 2D version there. For the time being, the only resource for these captures are various Microsoft Flight Simulator addons where people dumped Google's photogrammetry data to add scenery not included in the built-in photogrammetry coverage.

I'm not a web developer, but I've picked up some bits of knowledge here and there, mostly from troubleshooting issues I encounter while using websites.

I know there are a number of headers used to control cross-site access to websites, and the linked blog post shows archive.today's denial-of-service script sending random queries to the site's search function. Shouldn't there be a way to prevent those from running when they're requested from within a third-party site?

Call me naive, but I still believe that people generally disapprove of their internet connection being abused to conduct cyber-attacks.