awaythrow98765

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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
> I'm a cloud proponent because it means not having to sit through hours of meetings to deploy a $5/mo virtual machine. And endless orgies of "call for pricing" with hardware vendors and hosting. Shitty websites where
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
That is not really a difference, you may as well lease your server farm in the basement, practically the same cost as buying it, just as a monthly payment with the supposed "advantages" the business people might care about.
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
> If your business invests in physical servers anticipating strong growth next year then later finds out actually we're going into a recession and those servers are no longer needed, then that's a sunk cost. Cloud vendors also
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
> No. Passkeys can't be phished, passwords can. Passkeys can't be cracked after a data breach. Passwords can. Passkeys can't be set to something easily guessable. Passwords can. Passkeys can't be written on a post-it
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
For an end-user, reliability and ease-of-use trump security. Passkeys are imperfect in the wrong places imho.
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
Amnesty International is primarily an advertisement and donation collection business. Most of your donations go straight into advertisements and collecting more donations. Collectors aren't volunteers but hired professional collection
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
Yeah. Except if the usual Qualcom spy chips (also available in Google Pixel) phone home all your biometrics...
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
Those passkeys are either insecure or unreliable. Let me explain: Those passkeys are asymmetric cryptographic keypairs where the private key is securely stored on a device, unlockable (for use, not reading) only by convincing your devices s
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
Actually I'd see a future where some of those password killers might replace passwords, even for some of the under-funded, under-manned applications out there. What is necessary is a robust, simple-to-integrate standard for authenticat
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
Actually, there is no "folding in good faith" in such like cases. A company is bankrupt if a point in time can be foreseen, where the company can no longer pay its debtors (employees here are debtors, sometimes even a higher-prior
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
This is assuming the LNT (linear no threshold) model of radiation damage is true. Which it probably isn't. Lower than predicted deaths from accidents such as Windscale/Sellafield are sometimes taken as arguments against LNT. Howev
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
No written contract (over here) is sometimes a very nice thing in those kinds of situations, because then some very employee-friendly default terms do apply (unlimited contract time, long notice period for dismissal, no reassignment to a f
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
Yes, but actually no: I was tempted to include it but didn't. The one big argument for bash and sh is ubiquity and compatibility. Perl also has those. Python is somewhat lacking in those. Ruby is very lacking on both.
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
Easier, lightweight syntax for shell-like pipes, command execution and catching stdin/stdout/stderr. Something like Perl's IPC::Run. Also, more shell-relevant stuff in the default distribution, so that one doesn't need t
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
If you are at this level of required complexity as in those examples, you should use a proper programming language, not shell. Half those snippets fail with spaces in the wrong place, newlines, control characters, etc. I think all such shel
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
As it seems by getting rid of all the industry.
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
Anti-nuclear-people have mostly been a vocal minority. However, due to mostly anti-science reporting and irresponsible media-spread panic after Czernobyl and Fukushima, there have been temporary majorities for a shutdown, which populist pol
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
Whats even more stupider, burning coal emits more radioactivity into the atmosphere than all nuclear accidents ever have...
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
2 of the 3 currently governing parties made up the coalition that first decided to end nuclear back in 2001. The later conservative Merkel government just first extended reactor life-times just to go back on its word and shorten them again
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
Exiting nuclear was once according to then-current public sentiment. Problem is, all governments in the last 30 years have been populist power-hungry careerists without any regard for longer-term science-based policy. They just did what see
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by awaythrow98765 3y ago
Currently mostly coal (mostly lignite) with a little imported LNG for base load and peaks. Wind and solar if available. Rest is imported nuclear, coal and other power from neighboring countries. Longer term, a switch to 100% renewables is p