cobbaut

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by cobbaut 3y ago
Phone books were local, as in the neighbouring couple hundred thousand people max, so about one in ten thousand less than current social media. And, at least here, they contained last name and one letter of the first name. No information on
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by cobbaut 3y ago
If it boots, then you (or the thief) needs to provide credentials. When not booted, the disk is encrypted so the thief cannot overwrite the /etc/shadow file.
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by cobbaut 3y ago
While the + is part of the RFC, many websites do not accept a +sign in an email address field.
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by cobbaut 3y ago
So many young people here :) We used to call these "copy-parties", because not a single person had a network capable computer. It was the late 80ies and besides a demo competition (or two) it was basically copying floppies and pla
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by cobbaut 3y ago
It is called the Slashdot effect :)
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by cobbaut 3y ago
>> Why won't you show me the street name? >I've been running into this a lot lately. No matter how much I zoom -- no street name. This is Mapping 101. Google Maps does this all over Belgium, showing hotels and restaurants
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by cobbaut 3y ago
>>> aptitude hold vim For a while, until I get over this. I've been teaching vim to hundreds of people and usually have about a dozen vim sessions open. So soon after Kevin, two names that are my heroes since the 90ies.
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by cobbaut 3y ago
That main ban is for purchasing alcoholic beverages. Adults in France can buy alcohol and serve it legally to their children. Same in Belgium, until 2010 it was even allowed to serve drinks to children in bars providing that adults where
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by cobbaut 3y ago
Bobby Fischer! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer
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by cobbaut 3y ago
>> Take my father, there is no way he could use a password manager...He has a notebook of passwords >Your father does use a password manager: a slow, very inconvenient one Writing down certain passwords can be very convenient . No
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by cobbaut 3y ago
> Does it make sense to also keep some decoy items, like an old MacBook in plain sight? I hope so. I always leave an old Macbook and iPhone in sight when leaving the house.
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by cobbaut 3y ago
Thanks.
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by cobbaut 3y ago
European here, I went to school from 8:20 till 16:05. You guys really have school starting at 10:00? Who takes care of the kids after parents go to work and before school starts?
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by cobbaut 3y ago
TIL, thanks.
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by cobbaut 3y ago
Betteridge's Law says no :) "Declarative: in normal Linux distro you configure the operating system with a sequence of commands, " No I pretty much can point and click the configuration of Debian XFCE.
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by cobbaut 3y ago
> stop searching internet for local hostname I type into the bar Yes, please. I have a separate address bar and search bar in Firefox, and it still insists on searching DDG for local hosts names when I type them in the address bar. Stop
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by cobbaut 3y ago
> Hetzner deleted my server just one week after my payment due date. Strange. I've been at least eight days late with a VPS payment at Hetzner (3 euro) and the server is still up.
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by cobbaut 3y ago
https://cobbaut.blogspot.com/ Sometimes hacker stuff, sometimes in Flemish, really succinct book reviews, a bit Lego, a bit Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Some rants with little thought since 2005 :-/
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by cobbaut 3y ago
Interesting, thanks.
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by cobbaut 3y ago
Thanks, and indeed. Some places do require an app and while there are alternatives, there may not be another choice in the future. But not today, most of my elderly neighbours also don't own a smartphone and yet they survive in this ci
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by cobbaut 3y ago
I do.
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by cobbaut 3y ago
When will Youtube allow me to set tags (or my mood). I like watching science and math video's in the morning, and music video's in the evening. Both are very distinct, yet Youtube will keep putting music video suggestions in the m
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by cobbaut 3y ago
It used to be 10-at-a-time. And you could game the system by moderating 'underrated' or 'overrated' which were never metamoderated iirc.
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by cobbaut 3y ago
Same (US-qwerty and BE-azerty). Which is easy on a blank keyboard.
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by cobbaut 3y ago
> I'm not paying for anything until they remove the "this is the bubble we have prepared for you" recommendation algorithm. Indeed, and what bothers me most is that it is "one" bubble. I wish there was a selectio
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by cobbaut 3y ago
> Since when have they focused 100% on just building great products and competing fairly? iirc They bought (or rather scammed) Internet Explorer from Spyglass. As they did with many of 'their' products back in the day (Windows
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by cobbaut 4y ago
I am old enough to have had years before Windows even existed. So I never switched to Windows, dodged a bullet there :)
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by cobbaut 4y ago
How many websites do you need to visit before being unique in the world? Say I follow AS Monaco football, then look for Lego Castle figurines and finally visit a forum on Alaskan Malamute dogs. The combination of these three websites is pre
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by cobbaut 4y ago
And yet men will not be able to tell the difference. I have a flat with white painted walls, or so I thought... until a woman told me they were cream, milk and eggshell :-/
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by cobbaut 4y ago
Not really 'exercising', but I take three hour walks with blind people every Friday. It makes them really happy, and it's good for my health (mental and physical).

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