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by castillar76 2y ago
The toilet paper we buy now comes in individually-wrapped (paper wrapping) rolls, and several rolls in every box are wrapped in bright red paper. Those rolls have the suggestion printed on them that you put them towards the bottom of the pi
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by castillar76 2y ago
I could see that — having worked for a large network vendor in the past, there are some things that just don't lend themselves to any kind of pricing without some kind of scoping discussion. :) Much like cloud users with k8s, though, I
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by castillar76 2y ago
Even just the pricing component would be lovely — I'm so tired of the "call us to discuss license cost" for anything larger than "absurdly tiny". You don't need to make it penny-accurate, even: I just need a
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by castillar76 2y ago
Yep. I’ve tried to avoid it but for groups where less technical people need to be able to edit pages and contribute content, WP continues to be the go-to solution. The last time around I tried to avoid it but after trying everything I could
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by castillar76 2y ago
Yep, it makes a perfect second-person plural —- my Latin teacher always made us conjugate verbs as “I, you, he/she/it, we, y’all, they”. And then constructions like “laudate, omnes” became “all y’all, SING!”
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by castillar76 2y ago
Don't get me wrong: I don't object to the existence of non-profit/funded CAs like Let's Encrypt! The work they've been doing on making HTTPS the norm is excellent. I just worry about a future in which the only opt
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by castillar76 2y ago
There have been proposals about shortening much further: in fact, the long-standing practice in the PKI community is that renewing certificates every 7 days is short enough that no revocation service is necessary at all. However, trying to
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by castillar76 2y ago
> (and still PAY FOR CERTS!) People seem to be under the misapprehension that Let's Encrypt / ZeroSSL certificates are "free". They are not — it's that the consumer is not the one paying the bill . It costs tens
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by castillar76 2y ago
Yep, definitely agree. I've started a couple sites recently and quickly found that while I was happy just generating them with an SSG and slapping them up online, as soon as I wanted to collaborate with others the SSG had to go right
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by castillar76 2y ago
> They were paid $10 for the one hour of questioning as well as bonus money for points they’d racked up during the experiment. If they answered questions incorrectly, they lost real money and may have felt a pang of — you guessed it — re
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by castillar76 2y ago
As someone who went through this with a child and Acadia’s competitor UHS, yes. Yes, they do. The number of parents in our support group who fought in court to get their kids or relatives out of one of these hospitals only to be presented w
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by castillar76 3y ago
I should add: while there were market issues, a significant amount of the failure of MD as a format lies with Sony, who have a long track record of laboring under the misapprehension that consumers would rather buy proprietary formats tha
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by castillar76 3y ago
Minidiscs were a great tech—-we had a couple recorders in the early 2000s, mostly for recording my wife’s recitals. They were a huge step up from DAT in terms of easy, tiny personal digital recording and playback. Couple things killed them,
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by castillar76 3y ago
First shop I worked at in 1998 was hosting dozens of websites using all BSDi —-it was the first thing I really managed as a sysadmin. Such a pleasure to run! Everything very sanely laid out, it was easy to compile the extra tools we needed,
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by castillar76 3y ago
Watched this come and go at a previous employer and the toxicity it generated was staggering. It’s especially awful when you work on a small team of bright, functional people who are all doing well: no matter what, management says someone h
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by castillar76 3y ago
It’s awesome that that was agreed to up-front! As COVID eased, a friend who works for a local software shop was worried about the fights they’d have over remote vs. in-office, as they’d had a super-strong in-office culture before. The compa
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by castillar76 3y ago
I’ve had similar experiences in other subreddits, yep. Not so much things being removed, though. Instead I ask nicely for help with learning something and get fried with “you’re doing this all wrong, lrn2notsuck noob” responses, or I spend
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by castillar76 3y ago
Yes, but many of the magicians performing will happily invite you if you email them. That’s how my wife and I got to go when we lived in LA! My wife tried her hardest to stump the magic piano and even being a doctorate in music she couldn’t
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by castillar76 3y ago
This is great! Some friends of mine and I still run a MOO from our college days, and having it exposed to the Internet feels like a dicey proposition these days, even as much as I’ve tried to harden it. I may move it to a Tailscale/Zer
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by castillar76 4y ago
For a lot of comedy shows, they’ve started using locking Faraday-cage bags, and I like that system a lot more. Your phone stays with you, it’s just locked in a bag to block signal. Those bags (without the lock) are pretty cheap, too—I’m thi
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by castillar76 4y ago
The really interesting part of this is what else is tied to that CA. If it’s just Puppet, it’s bad enough; internal PKIs have a habit of metastasizing into lots of other places, though, precisely because everything internal trusts them. W
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by castillar76 4y ago
> Yeah, Cisco licensing is (and always has been) ‘complicated’. Some of this, too, is due to Cisco’s longevity in the market, the sheer number of product lines they’ve gone through, and the number of companies they’ve absorbed. You buy a
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by castillar76 4y ago
For something like this, I’d look at a small cloud instance running at Hetzner or similar. You can run Pihole on that so you don’t have to reflect your traffic through your home Internet connection. You can then use something like ZeroTier
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by castillar76 4y ago
Edge still uses the Microsoft root store; Microsoft’s program has been going through some updates recently and they paused processing of new applications while sorting processes. I would guess their application is in but is still under revi
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by castillar76 4y ago
This predated a lot of the responsible-disclosure culture that exists now, so there was a lot of “find vuln, post right away for the credits” going on. Couple that with a lot of tool research that was important but also felt very grey-hat,
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by castillar76 4y ago
I hear you and am right with you—-I recently spent the weekend trimming out Safari on my iPad from 500 tabs (mostly from HN articles) down to 20, and I’m already back up to about 75. And yep, super-frustrating to feel like there’s all these
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by castillar76 4y ago
I did a bunch of research on this before leaving my last job, as we were in the same lousy spot. The top 3 contenders at the time were Xwiki ( https://www.xwiki.org ), Bookstack ( https://www.bookstackapp.com/ ), an
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by castillar76 4y ago
I worked for Cisco for a long time: the integration of acquisitions in large companies (at least there) involves a calculus of size vs. current profits vs. complexity of integration. A company like Meraki or WebEx that’s making a lot of mon
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by castillar76 4y ago
Having talked with PKI folks at the first three of those, no: there is considerable weight at Google and Apple at least that non-public certificates do NOT belong in the public PKI. There’s reasonable evidence to be had that many of the pro
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by castillar76 4y ago
> No perl, no python, no bash, no gui, no nothing. If you want any of that stuff, you've got to install it yourself. This is a really important point, and an argument in favor of BSD’s central model. Watching various Linux distros t

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