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by davb 6y ago
I love these sorts of computing history anecdotes. Stories about the work people do or have done in the past, the companies... the daily slice of life stuff. It’s an oral history of a culture that sincerely hope we don’t lose.
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by davb 6y ago
Scrolling on that site lags so badly on Chrome on Android (Pixel 4a).
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by davb 6y ago
I think a bigger risk is a partnership with something Amazon Sidewalk, where it won't be the increasingly rare unencrypted suburban WiFi AP you need to worry about but rather your neighbours digital assistant, speaker, lightbulbs, etc.
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by davb 6y ago
To add some context to the side-note, for those unfamiliar with the story, the BBC used that word in an editorial/journalistic context, quoting the racial abuse a man suffered after being intentionally hit with a car while waiting on t
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by davb 6y ago
I just switched Linux distro last night (Ubuntu to Fedora) and downloaded the latest Thunderbird (v78). I thought the oversized, cartoonish UI was something inherited from the Gtk or Gnome version shipping with the new distro (which oddly d
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by davb 6y ago
I found the same. It would be useful if you could enable dark mode on all UI elements but the message pane.
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by davb 6y ago
Indeed, we have major issues with snap (doesn't work with $HOME on nfs, and auto updates with very few controls are a terrible idea on servers) so avoid anything dependent on it. Otherwise, I really like the concept.
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by davb 6y ago
I do wonder just how much TDF benefit from other open source software. If the developers of the software they depend upon for their build toolchain, libraries within their product, text editors, web stack, development machine OS, web browse
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by davb 6y ago
I've had similar results, using Fastmail with my .xyz domain.
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by davb 6y ago
You can generate QR codes using qrencode (available in most distros package repos), as follows: qrencode -o wifi.png "WIFI:T:WPA;S:<SSID>;P:<PASSWORD>;;"
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by davb 6y ago
And that downtime can even be avoided without resorting to k8s. A simple blue-green deployment (supported by DNS or load balancer) is often all that's needed. K8s only makes sense at near Google-scale, where you have a team dedicated t
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by davb 6y ago
Interesting to see from the docs that it seems to have been built by VMWare Pivotal, rather than an internal NHS(X) team.
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by davb 6y ago
Interesting to see from the documentation that it was contracted out to VMWare Pivotal Labs for development.
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by davb 6y ago
That's really smart! I'd maybe even reverse it, having: Host my-jump-host Hostname my-jump-host.mydomain.example User myuser Host my-jump-host-* User myuser ProxyCommand ssh my-jump-host nc $(echo %h
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by davb 6y ago
And in your ~/.ssh/config that's the ProxyJump directive. Adding a proper configuration for the bastion/jump host and for the target host means you can just to "ssh target". In my case, I usually do "ssh t
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by davb 6y ago
> As a somewhat tenuous comparison, should we stop saying "goodbye" because it used to mean "God be with ye" ... Thanks for a wonderful piece of trivia to start the week. I had no idea this was the source of the word,
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by davb 6y ago
I actually tried installing xubuntu-desktop first (and then plain old xfce) as I fancied switching back to them after a few years using Gnome. But you're definitely right that out-of-the-box, XFCE HiDPI support was lacking. Widgets (pa
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by davb 6y ago
So far, I'm very impressed with 20.04 on my personal laptop (a Thinkpad L390). HiDPI works better out-of-the-box (I didn't actually need to enable scaling manually, but did have to add a Chrome and Teams .desktop file with --force
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Amazon closes warehouses in France, tries to make US shoppers buy less(arstechnica.com)
2 points by davb 6y ago|0 comments
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by davb 6y ago
And with more detail, including the closure of five Amazon distribution centres in France: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/amazon-closes-wa...
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by davb 7y ago
Monzo does this too, on every app launch on Android. They say it's to attribute referral sources but, as someone who actively chose not to have a Facebook account, I hate that they initiate any request to Facebook from my device. I&#x2
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ABS programming language: the joy of shell scripting(abs-lang.org)
5 points by davb 7y ago|0 comments
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by davb 7y ago
I had terrible tearing with my default Ubuntu 19.04 install last week, too. I'm using an Intel integrated GPU. The solution was to create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf (and the directory, as it didn&#x
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by davb 7y ago
This is fair criticism. I've worked with Python for many years now, and one of the things that attracted me was that there was always a fsirly static "Pythonic" way to do things. The language has now grown so much that 80% of
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by davb 7y ago
I had a similar experience (also on Three) when 4G first rolled out. Blazing speed, low latency, low contention. Unfortunately as the technology became more mainstream, the speeds dropped and peak contention increased. A small scale roll-ou
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by davb 7y ago
My guess is that a tech player with a big ad spend is unhappy about YouTube tutorials teaching users to de-DRM their content or jailbreak their consumer devices.
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by davb 7y ago
Even that point varies regionally. Where I grew up, in Glasgow, it's really common to talk about primary school kids going off to high school or talk about which high school you attended.
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by davb 7y ago
True, but we don't know the next stage of their attack. Perhaps after compromising the target's machine the attackers would have to then engage in some social engineering.
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by davb 7y ago
I once read a theory that poor grammar, particularly with 419 scams, acts as a sort of gullibility filter where only the most susceptible targets will respond.
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by davb 7y ago
My main issue with ConEmu was output performance. Paging through files in Vim over SSH was painfully slow. I recently switched the wsltty [0] and after changing some display prefences (Font: Consolas 9pt, Theme: dracula, Cursor: blinking bl

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