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by degrees57 4y ago
I have the Helm email appliance, and what it does _not_ come with is a webmail interface. (It does have Nextcloud, though). I put Cypht on a different box to access my Helm mail, and it was very useful. At the moment it is down because I d
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by degrees57 4y ago
Obviously no-one can predict the future, but a reasonable assumption (I think) is that a future AI will be able to de-anonymize supposedly anonymous posters to Kiwi Farms. If someone is posting terrible opinion to Kiwi Farms, why should th
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by degrees57 4y ago
Heh. My first paid programming job was RPG II, eight hours a day, five days a week, for two and a half years. :-D
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by degrees57 4y ago
Mildly interesting problem: law says email with financial information needs to be encrypted. Email goes from the Accounts Payable clerk to Verizon Accounts Receivable, but triggers the automatic encryption process. One needs to create a f
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by degrees57 4y ago
When I was a desktop tech, visiting a user with a problem, I carried a laser pointer with me. I could point to elements on the screen without getting my fingerprints on the glass and without invading the user's personal space. Laser
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by degrees57 4y ago
Why wasn't he charged? The FBI has a history of not prosecuting crimes if they think they are going to lose. 40 years ago it was a brag: "We've got a 100% success rate on convictions." James Comey would later call the
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by degrees57 4y ago
Right. I remember a friend trying to share the link, and the app on the phone said "No - this link cannot be shared." My friend took a screenshot on his phone and then posted it to a Discord server I'm on. I forget if it w
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by degrees57 4y ago
For me, it was 1 based index that makes sense to me. I started programming in FORTRAN, then COBOL, then (Lord help me) RPG II. All had 1 based arrays. I got paid to program in RPG II eight hours a day, five days a week, for two and a half
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by degrees57 4y ago
This recently changed. Firefox will turn it off for you, but the same keystroke does not turn it back on. In other words, it _used_ to be a toggle, but now it switches in one direction only. There is a fix; add in about:config an item &qu