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by cmg 3y ago
If you're not rebuilding the desktop every other day you're really missing out!
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by cmg 4y ago
Before anyone looks up and emails that relative, please note that it's been attempted already: https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=75314#p753...
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by cmg 4y ago
I took the Shinkansen on my last trip to Japan in 2016 and I didn't see any smoking cars, but there were closed-off smoking rooms available on the train with really good ventilation systems.
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by cmg 4y ago
One of the first things I did in my new position was to add ncdu (and mysqltuner) to our Ansible playbooks. It's that useful for me - I probably use it every other day at least.
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by cmg 4y ago
[2007] but also timeless advice, at least while our UIs still follow the same general paradigms. It's important to note that Aza Raskin is the son of Jef Raskin, who wrote a lot about interfaces (including a book called The Humane Inte
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by cmg 4y ago
For what it's worth, I use Mailplane on an M1 MacBook Air (8GB) with 2 Gmail tabs and a calendar tab without noticeable issues. Unfortunately the developers weren't able to get Google to work with them on a policy change that impa
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by cmg 4y ago
I had 6 servers out of about 50 go down, all in Dallas/Atlanta even though most servers are in Newark. IPv6 connectivity seemed to remain up for all of them, though.
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by cmg 4y ago
This is fine if you're not concerned about metadata (date, recipients, subject).
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by cmg 4y ago
Remote Apple Events are pretty fantastic. Back in 2002/2003, I wrote an AppleScript Studio application (with a little bit of Objective-C) that let you control iTunes on another machine. It seemed like absolute magic at the time to me a
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by cmg 4y ago
> Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start
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by cmg 4y ago
I have this one aliased to mkcd, but yours saves an extra character. I like it!
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The FBI Forced a Suspect to Unlock Amazon’s Encrypted App Wickr with Their Face(forbes.com)
30 points by cmg 4y ago|13 comments
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by cmg 4y ago
It was very much performative anti racism. All the right words, none of the actions.
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by cmg 4y ago
I explained a little elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32121332
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by cmg 4y ago
Hi Zhama, I’m not able to fully respond to your comments right now but I read and appreciate them even if I don’t fully agree. And thank you for what you do at CTL. My post was general, not specific to CTL.
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by cmg 4y ago
I’m glad to hear that. There is a place for these hotlines and I have a lot of respect for the folks who volunteer at them - I hope it didn’t come off differently. My comments weren’t meant to be blanket “everything is like this” but rather
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by cmg 4y ago
I’m not particularly interested in having to defend myself on this forum, on a completely unrelated post. heartbreak will likely respond, and that’s fine, but it’s very interesting that they decided to look into my (public) associations her
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by cmg 4y ago
I'm on the EB but I don't get paid for that. Why?
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by cmg 4y ago
I'm so sorry to hear about your brother, Jamie. I hope he can find the support he needs. This is too common of a story.
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by cmg 4y ago
I'm hesitant to answer this because a lot of what I'd have to say can't be corroborated except for people who work or worked there. I'll summarize, with the understanding that I left a month after the 2020 election (I ga
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by cmg 4y ago
I have experience in this field: I ran technology for one of the only hotlines in the US that didn't engage in non-consensual active rescue [0] [1]. I've written about this a little on this site in the past, when Crisis Text Line
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by cmg 4y ago
Along these lines, someone else mentioned that Tiktok embeds direct tracking into URLs already. Twitter recently started adding a 't=' param to their share links [0] as well, and I can only guess that it's some kind of simila
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by cmg 4y ago
> try to expire old pbfids (and risk breaking "legitimate" links) Or encode some versioning scheme, and keep trying various versions until one comes up with a valid link. If we can think of these things in seconds, so can the e
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by cmg 4y ago
In November of 2020, Apple's OCSP responder became slow/unavailable for a bit. As a result, Mac apps were either not loading or taking a very long time to load because trustd was trying to connect on app launches and connecting bu
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by cmg 4y ago
I'm using Duolingo to learn Russian because my spouse is Russian and I want to communicate better with his family (especially his grandmother, who speaks less English than I do Russian). After nearly a year, I can help set up for dinne
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by cmg 4y ago
Nope. It’s some kind of restaurant. She’s drinking a tea or juice or something like that from a glass with a straw
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by cmg 4y ago
It was an 802 area code in this case, but I think it’s pretty clear now that these scammers have multiple personas and numbers to work with.
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by cmg 4y ago
I've gotten a few in the last couple months, with a US cellular number that I've had for over 20 years. At least two are "I missed you at the gym today!" via text and another was from a Vermont area code via WhatsApp to
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by cmg 4y ago
Exactly. Technical measures are important, but if someone wants to play a game or do something that's been banned on Apple's stores and finds a site that claims to have an installer (which is actually malware) with instructions to
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by cmg 4y ago
> It's really hard to be better than Twitter. It is, but right now people don't care as much about privacy as features and community. It's not what people who focus on openness or privacy want, but it's the reality. W

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