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by buro9 2y ago
I abandon 1 in 10 captchas recently. They're becoming so abstract and confusing, few are on sites that I critically need to persevere with. Of the ones I do, I need to regenerate about a third as I'm slightly colour blind, but app
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by buro9 2y ago
I love this. Except to use tailscale you do need to bring in a while OIDC authentication provider. It's all small and aimed at avoiding scale until the very first step, when suddenly only the big complex thing is acceptable. I still ju
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by buro9 2y ago
I store the raw input in my database, but run it through bluemonday before rendering it. Simples. https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday
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by buro9 2y ago
This makes a great, capable, burner phone for traveling to high risk countries. The low price, decent performance, small package is perfect for travel and you wouldn't have to worry if it was lost or stolen if you only load up minimal
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by buro9 2y ago
Including all location metadata associated to that?
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by buro9 2y ago
I received a HDD only last year where the SMART status immediately reported a failure for status 22, and it led me to https://www.backblaze.com/blog/smart-22-is-a-gas-gas-gas/ It's an immediate "return t
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Smart 22 Is a Gas, Gas, Gas (2015)(backblaze.com)
3 points by buro9 2y ago|0 comments
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by buro9 2y ago
I'm really glad to see `bluemonday` in such company, but I'm also really happy to hand over the reigns to a group of engineers that can focus on OSS. I am the author of https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemond
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by buro9 2y ago
There are a lot of species that may be misinterpreted as a shrub, i.e. a Hazel tree https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/br... is dense, and forms many smaller straighter branches shooting up in pa
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by buro9 2y ago
I wouldn't mind if Microsoft didn't keep breaking Windows PIN and Windows Hello. Enabled it on a private PC but a different account (a work one) owns the Office license, and now Windows knows that there is an account that owns the
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by buro9 2y ago
> and I would very strongly doubt any new claims made And I would very strongly doubt the word of a People Team member as the conclusive evidence of any lying. People Team are there to reduce the liability for the company, the company in
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by buro9 2y ago
Is it a web service? Can you put a proxy in front of the old, to allow you to observe, and potentially duplicate (to the new, whilst testing) all requests that go to the old system? If you're migrating data, can you take counts of thin
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Translate Datadog Metrics into OTLP(grafana.com)
74 points by buro9 2y ago|10 comments
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by buro9 2y ago
The problem with wikis is similar to the problem with forums... it's not that they do not work really well, they do, but it's that the cost of running a single wiki or forum in terms of operational overhead and hosting costs is si
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by buro9 2y ago
The companies will scrape and internalise the "customer asked for this" requests... and slowly turn the latter into the former, or just their own tool as the scraper. No, easier to just ask a simple question: Does the company resp
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by buro9 2y ago
> it's really stunning just how few things actually make it which echoes my experience in the music industry, and what I've seen of VCs in tech, and small businesses in my town. very, very, few things are successful, and even f
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by buro9 2y ago
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/enable-c... this works surprisingly well to prevent an app from going too far into folders it should not access. It's a bit opaque though, not as simple as
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by buro9 2y ago
Well I'd hope that's a property of a specific meeting and not all meetings, but team weeklies where those not present want to catch up, and the recording is only going to those regular attendees (members of a specific Google Group
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by buro9 2y ago
If Meet did "autorecord" combined with "autoshare recording with recipients" (specifically including Google Group recipients)... then it would be perfect. As it is, we're gradually shifting more things to Zoom where
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by buro9 2y ago
I'd seen these online and thought they were neat, but today I got to witness someone using one and it blew my mind how comprehensively they were taking notes, acting on them, editing, and keeping their thinking organised. I've own
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ReMarkable(remarkable.com)
4 points by buro9 2y ago|3 comments
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by buro9 2y ago
> How do those of you who feel so strongly about this ad get through daily life? Whilst I didn't feel a great deal watching the video, this statement is very presumptive. Reversed: How does one get through daily life _not_ feeling s
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by buro9 2y ago
I mean, you can just read up on Gov information on it: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/research-repor... (similar reports are published by the EU, UK, and other governments) "Apple is reportedly usin
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by buro9 2y ago
I liked Google pay, until I found myself randomly in some experiment group and it just didn't work one day. I discovered this in the shop, and of course I wasn't carrying physical cards because I'd been duped into thinking th
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by buro9 2y ago
It's also caused by the idea that housing should be an asset to make someone else money, rather than solely a place in which a person/family can live. This leads to the AirBnB culture, the landlord culture, and compounds inequalit
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Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams(djmag.com)
357 points by buro9 3y ago|408 comments
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by buro9 3y ago
Had it in Plex for a while, it does demand a huge library to be really useful though. Also this announcement really buries the big Spotify change https://djmag.com/news/spotify-officially-demonetises-all-tr... in which
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by buro9 3y ago
who says that person exists? could well be a persona created for this purpose, with a team behind the persona
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by buro9 3y ago
I can only share my own numbers: 90K sent, 97.12% delivered, 103.11% clicked (presumably some clicked more than once? or some older emails still being clicked?) I do not track "opened" / "viewed" as that is not impo
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by buro9 3y ago
Well this is, at least, better than Gartner Driven Development which has been observed at several startups. Whereby a startup begins to care about their placement on the Magic Quadrant, and start adding very poor imitations of features mere

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