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by alerighi 3y ago
The fact that an app is in the store doesn't mean that uses platform appropriate controls. In fact a lot of applications nowadays are just web app packaged with tools like Ionic, or cross platform applications built with React Native o
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If you need scaling. Not all applications need scaling (e.g. I'm doing an internal tool for a company that has 1000 employees, it's unlikely that from one day to another that number of employee will double!), and for most applicat
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by alerighi 3y ago
Not only that. I used to run an email server and despite the fact that I had all of that one day outlook decided to consider my IP address (on AWS EC2) as spam and thus reject emails. To this day is too much effort running your email servic
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by alerighi 3y ago
If you want an easy system to give to something with little/no experience with computers, these days to me is better to install to them something easy like Ubuntu or Fedora, or Zorin OS if they are familiar with the Windows UI, and the
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by alerighi 3y ago
I get it, but if my car doesn't have it, and I don't want to buy a new stereo. Also, Bluetooth requires wasting my phone battery, and use either mobile data bandwidth or phone memory space, while I can load a 64Gb USB sticks of so
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by alerighi 3y ago
> An application that has permission to map memory pages as executable is a coveted target for spyware and malware as it provides a much better starting point for pivoting to root and pwning the entire OS No more than any other app. It r
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by alerighi 3y ago
And if you want to see a movie or show that is not on Netflix? What you do?
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On a PC, yes. But let's say that I want to listen to music in my car, and I have an old stereo (that I don't want to replace) that only has CD and/or USB input. I can't from Spotify just take the music and download it to
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by alerighi 3y ago
It's not the 10$ a month for Spotify: 10$ to Spotify, 10 to Netflix, another 10 to Disney+, to Now TV/SKY (in my country), to DAZN, to Prime Video, etc. If you sum all the services you have to pay you spend easily more than 100$ a
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by alerighi 3y ago
The most important thing is to setup DKIM, SPF and DMARC correctly. I mean sign the emails with the correct key, but also setup the correct records, e.g. SPF record must be TXT, if you create a (deprecated) SPF type record GMail won't
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by alerighi 3y ago
The reason why I host my own email service is that I can have a wildcard address, that no provider (that I know) offers. So that I can use whatever address@mydomain that I want, without creating an alias in the mail server. For this reason
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by alerighi 3y ago
It's not that difficult. I host my email server on an AWS machine (so the IP that gests out is clean), and all I had to do is to setup DKIM signature and create the SPF, DMARC and DKIM DNS records for the domains. Setting all up is com
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by alerighi 3y ago
> A lot of Palestinian content descends straight into hyperbole. People have somehow been convinced a small amount of civilians being killed relative to the whole population is somehow a “genocide”. This is the consequence of totally unm
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by alerighi 3y ago
I don't see what there is such difficult in a COBOL program to have to take a programmer out of retirement. The syntax may be different and old, but still there is no reason why a programmer can't learn it. I mean, I know people o
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by alerighi 3y ago
What is a good program? To me, it's a program that does something useful and serves a purpose (being this a person or an organization). I'm tired of this "good programming", there is people that talks about good programm
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by alerighi 3y ago
My problem with Wayland is that it is (or at least seem to be) so much close in respect to X11. Linux is not just great because the code is open source, but also because the whole ecosystem is open. This meant that X11 was open to applicati
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by alerighi 3y ago
The problem to me is another. Yes, there are people willingly to spend time and computing resources to train a model and improve it. The thing is, with software it's easy to verify (or, quite easy) that a contribution actually improves
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by alerighi 3y ago
They upgraded my line from VDSL (~80Mbit/s down and 20 up) to 1Gbit/s FTTH (~800Mbit/s down and 300 up) and didn't see that big difference, on normal navigation. Sure, if I download a torrent, it is much faster. But is n
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by alerighi 3y ago
I think the big problem with C++ was the “C” in it, that is maintaining compatibility with C (or sort of compatibility). Rust didn’t make this choice and it’s a completely new and different language. Bad choices in C++ will ever change sinc
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by alerighi 3y ago
What they are even trying to achieve? A criminal can always use an e2e messaging system. Even if they ban the systems (such as Signal) that don’t employ these measures, it’s just a matter of using a VPN. The excuse of reducing crime is just
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by alerighi 3y ago
I have a diesel car. Every 3 weeks I have to fill my tank. This wastes me around 5/10 minutes, depending if the gas station is full of person that want to fill their tank. And this only thanks to the fact that I've one of the gas
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by alerighi 3y ago
First, it doesn't say that the backup generator did not work. An oil leak doesn't mean the system will not function. It's something to pay attention and repair, but not something critical. If your car has an oil leak you keep
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by alerighi 3y ago
The problem with 4G (and 5G) is that it supports only internet traffic. Phone traffic is passed trough VoLTE that is VOIP on the network. Is something that is fairly new, few years ago only a couple of operators in my country even supported
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by alerighi 3y ago
> I just want an IoT plug so I can switch things off and on. It should expose a tcp port and allow me to send packets to it via wifi with some level of authentication. I don't want any cloud shit with it. Just a simple (okay, it&#x
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by alerighi 3y ago
Well Linux is usable as a desktop operating system. For IoT there are multiple open source project, Home Assistant, ESP Home, just to name a few. The real problem are mobile operating system. Android phones are nowadays even more and more l
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by alerighi 3y ago
Where I live the company is responsible for safety, so if a worker decides to not use the safety equipment the company is liable, not the worker, since they must enforce their usage and check that the workers comply, and if not take measure
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by alerighi 3y ago
Why not. If there is no ambiguity you save characeters (few bytes, but for each page) and thus pages will load faster even on slow connections. Also if you write HTML by hand (something not a lot of people does these days, but for example f
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by alerighi 3y ago
Well I like the "workaround" that Microsoft proposes for a limitation of Windows that shouldn't really be to this day. UNIX resolved this decades ago: the filename is just a link to a structure on disk. You can delete a file
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by alerighi 3y ago
> I suspect the final form for software installation is probably where iOS and Android are going in the EU, where there's a single means of installing software to the device so that everything can be sandboxed properly, but the acqu
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by alerighi 3y ago
There are two issues. One is a false sense of security. You think that you have the same level of security of a full disk encryption, but you don't. On a full disk encryption only who knows the password can access your data. On this sy

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