SlavikCA

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by SlavikCA 6y ago
I was born in Russia. That's my red passport. My parent moved with us to USA, when I was 18. That's my dark blue passport. When I was working as Software engineer in California, our company got aquired and they asked us to relocat
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by SlavikCA 6y ago
NextCloud is generally slow, but with photos - it's unbearable slow. It has multiply layers of cache, which make everything slower(?!), it's slow to show thumbnails, it's slow to go from one photo to another. Basically it&#x2
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by SlavikCA 6y ago
O.U.R. published response to the NY article here: https://ourrescue.org/blog/the-new-york-times-misses-the-poi... > the new york times misses the point: not preventing children from being sexually victimized would b
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by SlavikCA 6y ago
Can't be insured for? I find that ironic, because we actually have medical insurance and unemployment insurance here in USA, but we often see "individuals with limited resources" wiped out for reasons you mentioned.
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by SlavikCA 6y ago
> Personal liability in an accident is potentially unbounded. This is an example of an unbearable loss that must be protected against, even if it costs money on average. Why it is "unbearable loss"? There is saying about that:
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by SlavikCA 6y ago
> for individuals with limited resources who will be wiped out if uninsured Usually, individuals with limited resources can't really be wiped out: there is not much to wipe out. Here is my perspective: I consider myself typical indi
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by SlavikCA 6y ago
How does "running fully free software" helps alleviate "compromised x86"?
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by SlavikCA 6y ago
I'm using Nextcloud RSS aggregator and really like it. https://github.com/nextcloud/news
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by SlavikCA 6y ago
What do you mean by "Most PHP ... is not stateless"? Usually, the state of PHP app is in the DB. Other "state data" are: 1) sessions. By default saved in files, can be moved to DB, making PHP stateless 2) storage (i.e.
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by SlavikCA 6y ago
> all lawsuits are settled with funds from police pension funds I like it most. > police go to jail > officers who do not report other officers go to jail > bosses/chiefs etc who are aware of abuses of power and brutality a
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by SlavikCA 6y ago
I'm curious: since GitHub Pages intended to PUBLISH pages, why to make the repo PRIVATE?
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by SlavikCA 7y ago
I had a similar incident at my home lab: - I had Windows Server 2016 with few Hyper-V VMs running - RDP was exposed to the Internet I remember I was working on that computer, and the screen got locked, like someone pressed Win+L. So, I logg
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by SlavikCA 7y ago
If I employed fulltime now, then I'm unlikely to consider switching to 3 months contract. On the other hand, I think it may be a good idea for the company to consider: - either hire fulltime somebody, who has solid track record and &qu
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by SlavikCA 7y ago
Do I understand it correctly, that the idea of that license, is that software can not be used unless "users vaccinate their children, and themselves"? Regardless of the author's opinion about vaccination, that seems strange a
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by SlavikCA 7y ago
Gitter was acquired by Gitlab, not Github.
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by SlavikCA 7y ago
I still don't see your point. Yes, Guacamole may be "turnkey server", but noVNC is server, too. noVnc supports only VNC. Guacamole supports VNC, RDP, SSH. noVNC can be run on Windows and Linux. I think Guacamole server has be
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by SlavikCA 7y ago
NoVNC is a wrapper, too. It requires VNC server and present that VNC server as HTML5 app.
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by SlavikCA 7y ago
Google wants everybody to sell Android's phones - that's how it promotes Android OS; that's how it competes with iOS. That's why Android OS open sourced by Google. But at the same time, I think Google wants to sell it&#x
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by SlavikCA 7y ago
The example of strength of centralized organization
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by SlavikCA 7y ago
I was always thinking highly of people, who are adopting orphans. Still do. But after reading this article, I'm coming to conclusion, that even though adopting parents doing good deed, but by paying all "fees" they are indire
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by SlavikCA 7y ago
3 hours outage per month is ~99.5% of monthly uptime. Recently I was reading about SLA for all cloud's durability, availability, uptime, etc... with many-many nines. But somehow, there are always some unforeseen factors, where your end
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by SlavikCA 7y ago
Well, without COBRA you'll have to pay $2500 for the same coverage.