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by alyandon 1y ago
You wasted their time delaying them moving on to someone else. Mission accomplished.
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by alyandon 1y ago
I don't have a specific answer for that but it is really a problem that residential ISPs are going to have to solve now that gigabit or faster symmetric internet connections are becoming the norm.
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by alyandon 1y ago
If someone is reporting malicious traffic coming from the ISP's network then an ISP should be obligated to investigate and shut off the offending customer if necessary until they've resolved the problem.
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by alyandon 1y ago
Not a 100% solution but would help greatly if ISPs: 1) performed egress filtering to prevent spoofing arbitrary source addresses 2) temporarily shut off customers that are sending a large volume of malicious traffic
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by alyandon 1y ago
Installing old versions of Windows doesn't mean you can still access the drivers that were available when the OS was still supported. If you still have the drivers handy - sure. I personally would trust older versions of Linux more th
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by alyandon 1y ago
Oh sure - you could also just run an older kernel that still supports it and take precautions. Linux being open source completely enables that possibility where otherwise you'd be screwed.
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by alyandon 1y ago
Unfortunately, there is no guarantee. If the maintainer for a driver stops maintaining it and no one else steps in to pick up the work then eventually it'll get removed if it isn't widely used.
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by alyandon 1y ago
DJGPP was (is?) such an amazing thing for me. It was the first baby step towards the world of open source and unix-like operating systems.
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by alyandon 1y ago
It's about having a fully supported Windows 11 install vs bypassing the CPU and TPM check the installer does.
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by alyandon 1y ago
I get that security is part of the posturing - I just think it is tone deaf to the reality that not everyone is going to be willing to spend $500-$2000 USD just to be able to "run" Windows 11. I have friends and family that will c
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by alyandon 1y ago
This really just blows my mind that Microsoft believes people are going to throw their perfectly functional laptops/desktops into the trash. All Microsoft has to do to keep people on Windows and in the Microsoft ecosystem would be to
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by alyandon 1y ago
I reached a similar point where I was done dealing with crappy consumer gear but even OpenWRT didn't help my situation much because the hardware I had was just plain bad. That's when I decided to switch to Mikrotik routers and Ubi
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by alyandon 1y ago
I am so glad I stopped using Authy and (painfully via the desktop extension and some hacking to get my TOTP keys) migrated to Aegis. I eventually moved from Aegis to keeping everything in Bitwarden + self-hosted Vaultwarden.
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by alyandon 1y ago
they have a terrible release "process" that seems to not include testing I wouldn't say they have no testing process at all but it seems to me that they lack discipline when it comes to building releases and testing.
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by alyandon 1y ago
Just give users the ability to pin the icons they care about and hide the others in a pop-out panel like Windows does.
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by alyandon 1y ago
I've always joked about the eventual evolution of the GNOME desktop converging to a single login screen followed by a full screen button labeled LOGOFF because they will claim anything else is too confusing for their users.
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by alyandon 1y ago
17/20 for me on Windows 10 with a cheap(ish) 27" 1440p gaming monitor. I really struggled with the purples so I'm wondering if that is more the monitor than my eyeballs.
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by alyandon 1y ago
FYI - The last release of XChat was in 2010 so not really sure why it was posted or upvoted.
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by alyandon 2y ago
What benefit is there to me to do so? Why would I want to be locked out of my own PC if I have an extended internet outage and the cached credential expires? What if Microsoft bans my Microsoft account? Note that I also refuse to set up a
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by alyandon 2y ago
It is absurd but I also got tired of fighting it. I use a Microsoft account associated with an outlook.com address I never use for anything important to collect the local PC entitlements. After that, I create a local account and never tou
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by alyandon 2y ago
I'll check that out - thanks for the pointer.
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by alyandon 2y ago
I had a similar issue with a Gitea instance that has some public repos. Gitea doesn't follow best practices for a web application and the action to create an archive of a repo is an HTTP GET request instead of an HTTP POST. AI crawle
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by alyandon 2y ago
I've slowly been converting from screen to tmux. However, muscle memory is really hard to overcome so I've come up with this: https://gist.github.com/alyandon/b19e2634fac6505bb5bd0e0c99d... Yes - I'm a
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by alyandon 2y ago
Are those supposed to be high? Yes, for me they are high relative to the apparent value they bring to the table regarding Firefox. What's a reasonable salary for executives? I won't take a hard position on that.
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by alyandon 2y ago
Kind of in a ranty mood today. I'd gladly pay to support development of Firefox if it were possible to fund it directly via something like a recurring subscription. Instead my only option is to donate to the Mozilla foundation which li
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by alyandon 2y ago
I had some success in soaking gooey rubber parts in a vinegar and water bath overnight. It seemed to cause the gooey stuff to slough off enough that I was able to removed by scrubbing lightly with a dish rag.
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by alyandon 2y ago
Yeah, I wonder what the Frontier devs could have done with $500M USD. More than $500M USD and 12+ years of development and the game is still in such a sorry state it barely qualifies as little more than a tech demo.
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by alyandon 2y ago
Yeah, they never should have expected to take an FPS game engine like CryEngine and expected to be able to modify it to work as the basis for a large scale space MMO game. Their backend is probably an async nightmare of replicated state tha
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by alyandon 2y ago
And Star Citizen will prove to have been worth it along along Sounds like someone isn't happy with the 4.0 eternally incrementing "alpha" version release. :-D I keep checking in on SC every 6 months or so and still s
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by alyandon 2y ago
Yep, you hit the nail on the head. That is the reality of working with LLMs from the big players these days.

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