JTbane

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by JTbane 5y ago
>Linus Tech Tips is running a series on desktop Linux and they are hitting the hammer on the nail where exactly all the pain points are. I watched it, they failed to install Steam (the game platform) on Pop!_OS via the package manager, t
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by JTbane 5y ago
This is the most tone-deaf thing I have read today. Logging in to a website is miles easier than waiting hours in a phone queue.
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by JTbane 5y ago
I'd agree but there seems to be an epidemic of baby-duck syndrome, as people refuse to even take the first step to learn anything other than Windows. Additionally, there is a lot of legacy Win32 applications still in use by gov't
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by JTbane 5y ago
The TreasuryDirect website requires login with a case-insensitive on-screen keyboard in the page itself. I have no idea why such an idiotic approach would be taken.
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by JTbane 5y ago
> We've done two other releases in the past month and both required a day of troubleshooting to fix issues. I feel you, it's especially frustrating when your product has such fragile and bespoke testing that things break on a r
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by JTbane 5y ago
Might go full idiotic like the Australian government and mandate backdoors
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by JTbane 5y ago
Yep, people seem to forget history. The polio vaccine had issues when it was rolled out in 1955. No one bats an eye taking it today because it saves lives. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/
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by JTbane 5y ago
>We are pretty small and have a 'camera on' policy for our one one hour meeting on Friday every week, and if you don't want to have your camera on you are asked not to participate Wow, the whole team gets to see my unsmili
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by JTbane 5y ago
The conclusions made in this blog seem wrong, it's perfectly fine to write these kinds of tests if you have to as part of a rush job, but WHY DO IT ON PROD? You know 100% that you are making calls to the 3rd partys' prod, assuming
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by JTbane 5y ago
Tor is very slow, and VPNs will rat you out immediately.
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by JTbane 5y ago
>you can get away with spooky arcane oldhat sysadmin deploy techniques (scp release to prod hosts, run deploy script, service or cron to keep running) You would be surprised at how many old enterprises still do this. Sure, it's ugly
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by JTbane 5y ago
>Why is the government getting into banking? Because you shouldn't have to pay $2 or whatever to get every paycheck you have cashed. Banks often have minimums in the hundreds to thousands of dollars for checking accounts.
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by JTbane 5y ago
Those systems are good for idiot-proofing. You don't want some idiot with underinflated tires running off the highway. In the same way, you don't want them to back over your kid in a parking lot.
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by JTbane 5y ago
These sorts of numbers are total bunk- the likelihood is pretty high one of their services go down (or something happens to your connection to Cloudflare) that will knock you offline for a few hours, maybe a day.
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by JTbane 5y ago
> Supposedly, it's good for security discussion Can you really discuss anything useful with only 280 characters?
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by JTbane 5y ago
By the way, in the US of A it's not getting hit with a wrench you need to worry about, but indefinite imprisonment because you're in contempt of court. If you "hold the keys to your own freedom", no habeas corpus for you
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by JTbane 5y ago
Econ 101 says that rent control (in effect a price ceiling) just results in scarcity (people are unable to get ANY housing), rather than actually reducing the cost of housing.
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by JTbane 5y ago
This is good advice, I was in an interview and was asked why "add the X shit" appeared in one of my commit messages in my personal github repo.
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by JTbane 5y ago
Honestly, most of primary education is a waste of time. If you are a young student and demonstrate good ability in the basics (Algebra, Geometry, sciences, etc) you should be allowed to get ahead. Additionally, public schooling is more of a
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by JTbane 5y ago
>going with a RV route is looking more like the best possible option for the future, cause you can just pick up and leave when bad weather comes what's the plan when fuel shortages start happening and your RV can't be kept roll
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by JTbane 5y ago
>I wonder more about the nutrient content of the soil after a few years of such products. Sadly I don't think anyone cares about that. You can encourage the use of organic fertilizers all you want and they will still dump unsustaina
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by JTbane 5y ago
If someone can get close enough to drop an AirTag on your person or in your car, they can harm you regardless.
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by JTbane 5y ago
That's Apple's so-called "stalker warning", a ridiculous concept.
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by JTbane 5y ago
Watching his channel, a beefy disc tumbler locks seem to be your best bet for keeping a bike secure. For your home, a high security pin tumbler with security pins are fine too. It takes very high skill to defeat these.
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by JTbane 5y ago
Man, Lenovo used to produce some amazing machines, like the the Thinkpad 200 series, with great keyboards Now it seems like they are just pushing crap
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by JTbane 5y ago
> Meanwhile, here in America we're perhaps a few years away from something like the movie "Ass" from Idiocracy winning an Oscar. Very true, this is the first thing I thought of when I head of the popular show "Naked a
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by JTbane 5y ago
A civilian would be criminally charged for this. The police will likely get a slap on the wrist, or a token fine.
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by JTbane 5y ago
And yet it is used as such, in banking, healthcare and everywhere that matters. An alternative ought to be made.
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by JTbane 5y ago
>To this day I don't know how the hackers did it. Thru social engineering on phone? In person at an agency with fake id? Or a corrupt insider working at T-mobile. Usually these SIM swaps are from an outside person socially engineeri
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by JTbane 5y ago
Unfortunately most solutions are in the realm of science fiction, solar shades and the like.

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