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by comprev 4y ago
In industries like tech which have a large percentage of non-neurotypical (not quite sure how to describe it - suggestions?) people, it's fairly common to have a "work" and "home" version of yourself. It's exh
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by comprev 4y ago
Hetzner has a remote console tool for "local" terminal access. I use it to enable/disable sshd during use.
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by comprev 4y ago
It’s the other way around - they decided NOT to make their websites adblocker-friendly. Deciding to make it _unfriendly_ would require extra work.
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by comprev 4y ago
Here in Ireland water (to domestic properties) is free - as I embarrassingly discovered when phoning them up to setup an account :) In theory, I could leave all the taps on 24/7, however that’s A) abuse of a free service, and B) a comp
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by comprev 4y ago
A laptop would consume significantly more power than an RPi.
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by comprev 4y ago
The explosion of containers where Debian is the default distribution for many “official” images has certainly accelerated the adoption of Debian and Ubuntu. Using AWS Amazon Linux is the only place there days I’d type “yum …”, and often bec
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by comprev 4y ago
This is a common problem in small dev teams which have one infra/devops, QA, DBA, etc, and I’ve certainly been in those shoes numerous times. You have to figure things out by yourself and rely on available resources for guidance. I of
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by comprev 4y ago
You're assuming the webdevs have authority to make the site "backwards compatible" with those who use adblockers. If revenue comes from ads, why would management give the green light?
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by comprev 4y ago
Perhaps enterprises who have those requirements are not the target customer base?
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by comprev 4y ago
I consider him equally important to people like Tim Berners-Lee for building the foundation of the web.
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by comprev 4y ago
In the Netherlands when a job requires a background check - for example working in fintech - the employer is only permitted to request information directly related to the industry, e.g. financial crimes. Unfortunately this does not avoid th
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by comprev 4y ago
Marketing boils down to one thing really - reputation. When scandals flare up (politics), a new product is launched or someone has an idea they want to realise, they rely on marketing to spin a positive outcome. How easy that task is depend
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by comprev 4y ago
Sounds similar to Keybase. A central platform which allowed the user to "verify" a few different platforms - Reddit, HackerNews, Twitter, etc. It got acquired and promptly nosedived.... with users leaving faster than rats from a
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by comprev 4y ago
Always assume your employer can view all activity on _their_ devices on which you work. Personally I have no issue with this as I use their equipment/infrastructure to do my job and have zero expectation of privacy.
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by comprev 4y ago
This snapshot doesn't circumvent the paywall
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by comprev 4y ago
NextDNS works for 95% of the web I visit. AdGuard iOS plugin works on Facebook's mobile web app for when I rarely use it.
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by comprev 4y ago
Fun fact: Over 50,000 procedural PHP5 files under zero revision control, without a non-production environment to test on, power one of the largest "grey area" e-commerce platforms currently online. The type of place where you can
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by comprev 4y ago
FreeBSD docs are my go-to example
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by comprev 4y ago
Cloudflare has an article on introducing specialist hardware to their stack [0] [0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/asics-at-the-edge/
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by comprev 4y ago
That's known as a blue-green deployment strategy and has been around since deployments began
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by comprev 4y ago
Get a bicycle :) Gyms are not for me either so I'm always out on two wheels
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by comprev 4y ago
I have worked with several small clients to migrate away from AWS/Azure instances onto dedicated hardware from Hetzner or IBM "Bare Metal" hardware. The question I ask first is: as a company, what is an acceptable downtime p
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by comprev 4y ago
MDMA isn't called the "love drug" for nothing. Raves are very friendly places and the chillout/smoking zones are full of interesting people.
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by comprev 4y ago
Look into something like HashiCorp's Vault for storing sensitive data. Trying to roll your own is asking for trouble!
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by comprev 4y ago
When friends ask me about Scotland and Brexit I tell them within our lifetime the Scots will split off a rejoin the EU. There is already a difference in terms of laws, currency and education. Every time Westminster shuts down another attem
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by comprev 4y ago
Before Brexit I felt British. After Brexit I felt European and my British passport now feels almost alien to me.
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by comprev 4y ago
You missed: - get existing clients to pay more
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by comprev 4y ago
It's not unreasonable to ask the candidate permission to either record the video interview, or at least have their camera on for 20s while a screenshot is taken.
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by comprev 4y ago
vb.ly is an example of this happening. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/oct/08/bitly-lib...
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by comprev 4y ago
My client recently moved from GitLab (self hosted - many teams had their own isolated server) to GitHub.com and managing access for the thousands of developers has been a small headache. We were encouraged to use our personal GitHub accoun

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