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by ang_cire 2y ago
Blocking Google from downloading anything onto your computer without consent is always a good idea.
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by ang_cire 2y ago
So in other words, the colo data center is hosting the server for you, rather than you hosting it yourself ? This isn't hard, but sure, just pretend words are all nebulous and ineffable and "imaginary".
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by ang_cire 2y ago
> Terrorism is targeting civilians to further a politician or ideological agenda. This is the old, pre- War on Terror definition. The definition of terrorism now, as used by most imperialist governments, is far less strict. https:/
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by ang_cire 2y ago
It is very service-dependent. If you are wanting to run a NAS for e.g. a media server, you may want to look into Cloudflare Tunnels or Tailscale. I set up Jellyfin and Kavita, and those are internet-exposed, but also Nextcloud, and Portaine
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by ang_cire 2y ago
> was always subject to home ISP ToS limits on doing that very thing Every ISP prohibition on self-hosting that I have seen specifies commercial use, not just hosting services (since obviously that could technically prohibit tons of norm
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by ang_cire 2y ago
In my case I am just interested in the software I'm running behind the proxy. I use CF tunnels to expose my internal services, and spend my tinkering time on the actual services, rather than (to me) wasting the time to bother with worr
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by ang_cire 2y ago
If you are using a hosting provider, you are by definition not "self hosting", since you are in fact, not hosting (unless you happen to own the hosting provider company). I actually self-host tools, and that involves having (in
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by ang_cire 2y ago
Protesters , not protests. https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-human-rights/inside...
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by ang_cire 2y ago
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-human-rights/inside...
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by ang_cire 2y ago
You assume. They've cracked down hard on anti-war protesters inside Israel. It's absolutely not a safe, nor even likely true, assumption that Mossad does not also surveil Israelis.
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by ang_cire 2y ago
Terrorism is just a label to describe attacks by people that powerful governments don't like. If you have enough military power, you're a legitimate government conducting a war (even if you're lobbing hundreds of missiles and
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by ang_cire 2y ago
The executives would never deign to enter the offices that house our unwashed technical worker selves.
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by ang_cire 2y ago
Haha, yeah, hearing things you literally did being discussed like they're urban legends. xD
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by ang_cire 2y ago
Every waterfall project was actually spiral or hybrid.
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by ang_cire 2y ago
That'll take another 5 years
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by ang_cire 2y ago
Either your product is at its core useful, or its not. If the environment is rapidly changing, either your product is still relevant, and you should be focusing on stability, or it's no longer useful and it's too late to change th
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by ang_cire 2y ago
nah, I work at a Fortune 100 company right now that is in "War Mode"
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by ang_cire 2y ago
People don't want cops coming to their homes with files on them. Florida is telling people that if they support an abortion protection amendment, they will send cops to your home with files on you. Clear intimidation.
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by ang_cire 2y ago
Clear cut voter intimidation.
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by ang_cire 2y ago
I'm not saying they secretly are working as specialists, I'm saying that knowledge accrual is never perfectly even across skills. Whatever company you work at has their specific set of tools, and the longer you work on them the mo
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by ang_cire 2y ago
Yep, it's 100% MBA-bros who don't understand the actual technical foundations of their companies "optimizing" away their specialized knowledge workers. They get stuck in fire-and-hire cycles of boom-and-bust, and tend to
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by ang_cire 2y ago
> Only the largest organizations with stable income can afford to teach people how to do their job. Sure, you can't take someone who's never programmed anything before and train them on the job in a startup... but you can&#x2
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by ang_cire 2y ago
The jobs aren't rare, but they usually aren't paying as much as an experienced specialist (and certainly not paying more, despite the job covering a larger knowledge area). Since experienced generalists are always still going to h
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by ang_cire 2y ago
I think the rule is more that a senior dev will have picked up specialized knowledge that they themselves will target in their job applications, because specialized knowledge positions pay more. So while they may also have the generic ski
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by ang_cire 2y ago
> Developers of the past I'm only 36, but you're making me feel extremely old. To me, "developers of the past" were the people working on COBOL and JCL and FORTRAN and DB2, on z/OS or System 390/370/3
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by ang_cire 2y ago
Like I said, I have no issue with integrated operations models, but if you try to have one person be a Jack of All Trades, you will end up with them all being 'masters of none'. DevSecOps works very well when you have your codin
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by ang_cire 2y ago
> So, either capitalism doesn't work Yes, it's definitely this.
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by ang_cire 2y ago
I sometimes wonder about whether the decline in IT worker quality is down to companies trying to force more and more roles onto each worker to reduce headcount. Developers, Operations, and Security used to be dedicated roles. Then we made D
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by ang_cire 2y ago
For a moment the headline had me thinking Strategic Simulations Inc. was coming back, and now I'm even more sad to find out it's just more AI junk.
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by ang_cire 2y ago
> But you didn't. Probably because you're just anti-authoritarian, but not all the long list of other issues associated with the condition. It's actually not that long of a list[1]. You only need to have 4 symptoms out of

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