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by davesmylie 4y ago
free tier aws ec2 t2.micro should be able to handle that load
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by davesmylie 5y ago
I guess the main thing is not so much to move off gmail or that protonmail is better, but to not have your email be dependent on Gmail. Ie dont be joe.bloggs@gmail.com or have anything important tied to that account but rather have a Joe@bl
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by davesmylie 5y ago
The other thing you should be doing is _not_ using the gmail.com domain for your email - at least for account sign-ups to important services. Buy a cheap domain and use that with your gmail account. All the convenience of gmail, but if the
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by davesmylie 5y ago
https://archive.ph/bJxj8
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by davesmylie 5y ago
https://archive.ph/IyI0a
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by davesmylie 5y ago
Not true any more - UTM has guest tools, shared folders etc for windows 11. The previous version of UTM was no good for Windows 11 at least, but the current version installs 11 fine with no need for registry hacks, and everything pretty muc
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by davesmylie 5y ago
I'm not about the echo chamber part, but the HN I first started using was great because of it's tech news and the contributors thoughts/experience with tech news. I'm not sure if it's just because of the pandemic, o
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by davesmylie 5y ago
https://archive.md/TK3Ch
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by davesmylie 5y ago
well, until your neighbours set up an open wifi network, or a house member / guest sets up a temporary wifi hotspot with no password. Most TV's will lock on any open wifi network given the chance - and that's all it takes to
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by davesmylie 5y ago
Not sure what's available in your part of the world, but in the antipodes we have a brand Veon sold by our Walmart equivilent. Picture is more than acceptable, absolutely no smarts at all and the sound is shite - all this equates to an
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by davesmylie 5y ago
One problem with relying on toothpaste, is that for many children, the parents are not good at parenting and don't provide tooth brushes/ toothpaste or enforce regular tooth brushing (and from experience, my teens/twenty some
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by davesmylie 5y ago
to play devils advocate, they've also been trying to kill torrents for almost 20 years now, with very little to actually show for their efforts. The most impactful thing that I've seen was the rise of netflix and the ease of getti
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by davesmylie 5y ago
Typically I can't find any reliable stats on the spot, but I recall the reduction in photosynthesis from ordinary heavy cloud cover alone can be up to 85% - with most photosynthesis happening whilst there is only light (or even no) clo
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by davesmylie 5y ago
> It's the digital infrastructure you now have in place that is terrifying. If you don't understand how, once these tools are built, they will be abused, I don't know what to tell you, my friend. I can almost guarantee the
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by davesmylie 5y ago
personally given the option between spending 14 days in a fully catered quarantine hotel room, versus spending 14 days in the comfort of my own house with a big backyard, my home office, my workshop and music instruments etc, with only the
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by davesmylie 5y ago
apologies. I meant travelers from other states, but my point still stands - it's a temporary measure that impacts only a small set of people who travel from another state, who would ordinarily be in dedicated quarantine facility Instea
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by davesmylie 5y ago
You are being deliberately (maliciously?) misleading and scare mongering here. This only applies to specific people in home quarantine and only for a short period of time - 14 days. i.e people that have returned to the country from oversea
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by davesmylie 5y ago
i was just wondering/thinking if this was a viable path. Create a 5Gb (or whatever the default storage allocation is) file from /dev/zero and max out iCloud.
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by davesmylie 5y ago
It's easy enough for someone with basic tech skills to do this sure. Onlyfans depends on joe average being able to do this (and not being scared off at the mention of the word "crypto") I think crypto is about 5 - 10 years aw
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by davesmylie 5y ago
I dont think it uses/sees your personal credentials - the login is done via your browser and tokens passed back to the app
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by davesmylie 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma Or did you miss the sarcasm tag?
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by davesmylie 5y ago
Back in my day, we'd write our webpages such that they would load on mobile with requiring the user to enable javascript... And we liked it that way!
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by davesmylie 5y ago
blue or green masking tape works great - dirt cheap and designed to pull off cleanly. I've had some on my macbook camera for going on 8 years now - pulls off for zoom calls and then goes straight back on.
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by davesmylie 5y ago
> The mobile version of Reddit is deliberately broken in order to force you to use the app. fyi - if you use old reddit, the mobile site is fine - I've never seen a subreddit blocked or threads truncated. new reddit is a pile of ste
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by davesmylie 5y ago
I'm not sure that this can be claimed as a universal truth. Lockdowns completely stamped out covid entirely in countries such as Australia and New Zealand remarkably quickly. Transmission since then has been only due to failure in quar
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by davesmylie 6y ago
This is the real story here. There's already tons of instances of devices becoming worthless because some remote service coming to an end. (Like all remote services eventually must). There should be more regulations around this
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by davesmylie 6y ago
The guy is posting on (or owns) celticnz.co.nz - proponents of a somewhat racist theory that the Maori weren't the original inhabitants of New Zealand, but rather it was previously settled by Celts a thousand years earlier. The evidenc
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by davesmylie 6y ago
Twenty years ago I worked for a company that had in the past paid their contractors by LOC count. Turns out if you base the pay on that ... why create a function and call it repeatedly when you can just copy and paste the same code block ov
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by davesmylie 6y ago
Years back I used to run a similar service (dudmail) which I eventually shutdown due to the time sink (and the unbelievable pain of trying to handle unicode in a million different languages correctly) I was definitely a lot younger and naiv
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by davesmylie 6y ago
depending on the podcast - there will often be (unofficial) comments somewhere. try looking on reddit - eg reddit.com/r/dancarlin

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