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by alrs 5y ago
^ ^ ^ If there's any Keanu-pill to swallow, it's this. Intelligence agencies don't "make us safe," they drive financial gain for insiders. I'd bet the ratio of effort spent on "market manipulation" ve
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by alrs 5y ago
6. You used to need to wonder: Have I been hacked? How bad? Now you get an invoice day-of.
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by alrs 5y ago
Ransomware is great. 1. Creates a huge financial incentive to try and break PGP encryption. 2. Pushes aside all of the lame corporate compliance "infosec" people whose job it is get lied to about PCI compliance and bitch about ver
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by alrs 5y ago
..and they put up a strong fight as newspapers were waning. The NYT was already garbage in 1999 when LAT was going strong and publishing stories about the primary function of the US intelligence establishment being economic espionage.
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by alrs 5y ago
if you're running brew on Linux, throw in the towel, it's over.
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by alrs 5y ago
If they're public IRC channels, do you mind mentioning them here? I'm trying to find the remnant. :)
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by alrs 5y ago
It showed up kind of late to the Munin game, but I wrote a library for making plugins in Go. https://github.com/alrs/muninplugin
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by alrs 6y ago
aside from running into fire trucks, isn't that their primary claim to fame? https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-fire-shanghai-parking-ga...
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by alrs 6y ago
The good news is that Rust is going to need to get serious about first-tier support for all architectures supported by the Linux kernel if this is to go anywhere.
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by alrs 6y ago
I'm gonna go way out on a limb here and guess that the author wasn't a fan of the GPL to begin with, and is hitching his wagon to the FSF news cycle.
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by alrs 6y ago
"Heavy competition" is overselling the threat that Linux faces from Windows in the Internet server space. I'd go with something like "Linux roundly dominates, save for some legacy environments that have largely been pick
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by alrs 6y ago
My feelings aren't hurt, I've collected a datapoint on the prevalence of kinda-naive super-fans in the nix community for the low price of three Internet points.
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by alrs 6y ago
The merges-straight-to-master give me the willies. https://botsin.space/@complainingaboutmastercommits
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A Review of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class(danwright.substack.com)
2 points by alrs 6y ago|0 comments
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by alrs 6y ago
8088
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by alrs 6y ago
I run Firefox myself, but you can't really blame developers for not wanting to deal with the whims of Mozilla.
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The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its own stealth bomber(thedrive.com)
467 points by alrs 6y ago|250 comments
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by alrs 6y ago
The patents on Trackpoint must have expired by now. I need 3 physical buttons, at minimum.
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by alrs 6y ago
"Modern," huh?
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by alrs 6y ago
To their credit, when they write about Los Angeles they usually prepare by re-watching "LA Story" and writing about the tourist spots they visited 15 years ago. In this case they actually had a writer on the ground in Texas.
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by alrs 6y ago
Hosted in Texas, maybe?
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by alrs 6y ago
We have 13 years of compulsory education in the United States to convert children into "We the People." Your ideological opponents (whoever they are) are not victims or imbeciles.
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by alrs 6y ago
I'm a huge fan. Here's my Docker-ized take: https://github.com/alrs/full-text-rss-docker EDIT: full-text-rss + newsboat + nyt screenshot: https://lsngl.us/@alrs/105652475456016345
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by alrs 6y ago
https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/authentication/#ldap-lightweight...
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by alrs 6y ago
Microsoft has been on the 1.0-is-useless, 3.0-is-tolerable track for over thirty years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.0
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by alrs 6y ago
What complicated it is that usually when you were coming to Debian you were coming from Slackware or a BSD, so everything you knew about init systems and software distribution went out the window. Where's rc.local? Why did ./confi
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by alrs 6y ago
I'm surprised that you're surprised.
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by alrs 6y ago
fighting with XF86Config, hoping not to fry your monitor.
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by alrs 6y ago
Standard? Someone in vfx would have to answer that, but my understanding is: not really. There is a lot of vfx work that happens on Linux workstations. https://vfxplatform.com/about/
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by alrs 6y ago
The HP T620+ is fanless, draws very little power, and has a PCIe slot so you can run multiple network interfaces. 4 cores, 25W TDP. model name : AMD GX-420CA SOC with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics

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