backendanon

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by backendanon 3y ago
You're right, I forgot EC2 got that. When Lightsail gets it, I'll consider AWS as having it.
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by backendanon 3y ago
Your comment sounds convincing at the start but.. "The best thing you can do is enable automated updates, and rely on your cloud provider's console for accessing the server and disabling all remote access otherwise." 1) I&#x2
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by backendanon 3y ago
"the only thing that locking the root account gets you is assurance that if you ever bork the user you created in this guide (or sudo functionality as a whole) you'll have no way to recover without booting into another environment
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by backendanon 3y ago
Windows and Microsoft are the bureaucracy.
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by backendanon 3y ago
Agreed, I use KDE on both my desktop and personal laptop.
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Teams not supported in Firefox on Ubuntu(teams.live.com)
3 points by backendanon 3y ago|2 comments
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by backendanon 3y ago
Considering YouTube videos work just fine on Firefox on Linux, this seems very odd to me that Teams only works on Edge or Chrome. I clicked the install link for Edge on that page and read through about 75% of the licensing agreement and sai
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by backendanon 3y ago
I used to use PidGin for years. It has both IRC and XMPP. Thinking about using it again. I wonder also about the Freenode shenanigans in recent times and who was behind it. https://pidgin.im/posts/2021-06-irc-network-ch
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by backendanon 3y ago
The wording reminds me of something I'd expect to read from a marketing person hoping to avert losing customers to an open source protocol.
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by backendanon 3y ago
Tens of thousands of developers around the world have contributed to the Linux kernel. Even Microsoft contributes.
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by backendanon 3y ago
Agree. Makes me wonder if the author could be cleverly supporting a machine learning agenda by downplaying Stack Overflow.
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Ask HN: Why do web sites not place the cursor for input?
80 points by backendanon 3y ago|94 comments
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by backendanon 3y ago
"CLI and GUI are different languages" CLI and GUI are User Experience (UX) paradigms. I do agree the CLI is supremely critical to most software development efforts.
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by backendanon 3y ago
"Windows developers don't need to depend on UNIX culture." Need to? No. Microsoft seems to think the UNIX culture is very important to them and to their products and WSL has achieved wide success: https://learn.mic
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by backendanon 3y ago
"If you are using bash on Windows that just tells me that the software you build probably won't be integrated all that well with Windows ;)" Microsoft (you may have heard of them) seems to disagree: https://learn.m
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by backendanon 3y ago
That's correct, it works automatically and is great to fix windows (when I have to work on windows) so it has some functionality but even if all I used out of that was git, it's easy. Is it all one exe? No. Does it need to be? No.
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by backendanon 3y ago
I'm a Linux person but often at work due to decades of Gates's effective brainwashing I almost always have to use windows on the desktop. IBM was the only exception. That said, on windows, all I do is get this https://g
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by backendanon 3y ago
git...is difficult to install? What's difficult about apt-get install git?
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by backendanon 3y ago
I was shocked when I typed "pronounce McDonald's" into Google and the answer starts with, "muhk". Really? "muhk" instead of at least a "mack" or the more accurate one I use, "mic"?
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by backendanon 3y ago
Hard for me to say, I guess I feel better not using more memory than needed, I think my security surface may less than it would be with a lot of tabs open but don't hold me to that as researched opinion, it isn't, can't think
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by backendanon 3y ago
I'm old and I code for a living, I have maybe at most a dozen tabs open on any day. I can't imagine needing 80 but now I see why chrome has that new search tabs drop down.
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by backendanon 3y ago
As a Java developer I'm quite pleased, happy with Oracle's stewardship. Tired of the articles and commenters on articles that use FUD to smear Oracle. Guess Microsoft and Amazon are really worried about Oracle Cloud's rise, J
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by backendanon 3y ago
"a reverse proxy. The main advantage to this is that nginx can do TLS termination" I use Apache for the same purpose, works great, always has.
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by backendanon 3y ago
There's no performance penalty for NAT that I'm aware of, I'd like to hear more about this. IPv6 OTOH has enough privacy busting concerns that I personally will never use it on my home systems. Trying to use only IPv4 on a sm
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by backendanon 3y ago
I prefer https://www.whatsmyip.org/