alanpost

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by alanpost 11y ago
Wikipedia does a fantastic job of curating recent events, thank you for posting this. While it's difficult to access on mobile, I can also recommend reading the Talk page to better understand how the page is developing as news comes i
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by alanpost 11y ago
I own quite a number of NUCs, these machines really work for me. I'm pleased this new model supports 32G of memory, I've got stuff I can't run on the 16G models. The single hard disk is rough--I wish these devices had an eS
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by alanpost 11y ago
And build systems, for that matter.
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by alanpost 11y ago
Earlier this week I was robocalled. The caller ID was spoofed to appear to be from someone in my address book.
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by alanpost 11y ago
Traditionally, you had to bind each SSL certificate to it's own IP address. Today, if both you and your client support Server Name Indicator (SNI) it works to specify the certificate inside each VirtualHost. EDIT: I realize after post
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by alanpost 11y ago
IME you can statically link glibc, but your statically linked binary will still call ld.so.
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by alanpost 11y ago
It's not clear to me, looking at your landing page, what this is. I went looking for an about page but couldn't find it. I'm really not interested in "meeting" the personas you've created to understand the of
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by alanpost 11y ago
I run a personal mail server there too. I'm very happy with them: I was in the free tier for years, after they acquired the hosting provider I had been using. I recently asked them to start billing and am very happy to be a paying cu
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by alanpost 11y ago
The same thing started happening to me, just this year actually. A domain I registered in 2014 didn't suffer this problem. My observation is that it is coming from the whois record for the domain.
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by alanpost 11y ago
Use a burner domain and enjoy yourself, it's a good learning experience. It is, as you yourself indicate, a pretty good waste of time too.
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by alanpost 11y ago
I found it much easier to start by using a store-and-forward service to receive email and a relay service to deliver mail. A store and forward service will accept delivery of your incoming mail, do the necessary spam filtering and blacklis
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by alanpost 11y ago
Why do you ask?
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by alanpost 11y ago
Warning to others who might be inspired to watch based on the reference to Glengarry Glen Ross: this video is an advertisement.
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by alanpost 11y ago
From the MailTime FAQ: Q: How do I use email accounts other than Gmail? A: We understand that this is very important to our users, and we have been working very hard to make this happen as soon as possible. The next round of support will
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by alanpost 11y ago
The author goes to great lengths to provide examples of what he calls a "Die Progress Unit (DPU)," then vaguely but not explicitly implies it is the measure for what he calls "human progress;" leaving the reader to assum
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by alanpost 11y ago
> The essence of make is this: make is an implementation of constructive logic programming To be perfectly pedantic, the essence of make is that it is an expert system for traversing a directed acyclic graph (DAG). It works by constructi
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by alanpost 12y ago
They have not: "The OpenSSL group do not tell the LibreSSL group about vulnerabilities that they are fixing in upcoming releases." https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=142654095813320&w=2
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by alanpost 12y ago
The user will ls their home directory, see this file, and attempt to rm it. The shell will instruct rm to remove their home directory instead.
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Note from Don Knuth – bug(s) in MetaPost?(tug.org)
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