drakonka

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   by drakonka 5y ago

   I'd start with checking whether the town already has something like a community Facebook or Nextdoor space.
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   by drakonka 5y ago

   I like to donate to The Good Food Institute, The Nonhuman Rights Project, and Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
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   by drakonka 5y ago

   I think I see what you mean, it's just that to me the language of orcs, elves, or other fantasy concepts is necessarily any more relatable or compelling than the language of code, technology, and corporations in a modern (or futuristic
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   by drakonka 5y ago

   Well, I'll keep you in mind as the year ticks over, in case knowing there's one totally random Internet stranger thinking about you can provide some tiny semblance of loneliness relief :)
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   by drakonka 5y ago

   I went through a few different phases in my education: First, in my home country, were 6-day school weeks and hours of evening study. I remember a very specific instance of sitting at my desk at home with a light on when I was 8 or 9 years
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   by drakonka 5y ago

   I'm alone, but not lonely. A cup of tea and my cats make for a cozy end to the year.
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   by drakonka 5y ago

   Oh wow, I think the possibilities of working modern technology into fiction in interesting ways are endless. The only thing is, you'll need to decide how accurate the story needs to be. You COULD do a fully historically accurate portra
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   by drakonka 5y ago

   Happy New Year! I do not do "resolutions", but my plan is as always to keep learning and growing as a developer. Also to do even more writing! Including my fiction, which has been picking up steam. Like you, I hope to consume less
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   by drakonka 5y ago

   Thank you. I read that Google Voice only provides US numbers, which I have a sneaking suspicion might become a problem for me if my address is not in the US. Coupled with not really wanting to be locked in to Google for another service, I d
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    I've never even heard of Google Voice and now feel like I've been living under a rock. Could you elaborate on how you use this? For example: * Do you use the same Google Voice number as your actual Google account phone number, or
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    That's not how it works. We have employee protections that are intended to prevent exploitation. If those are failing, there is definitely something wrong with that.
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    I didn't _think_ GA provided a mechanism for a site owner to target a user in real time based on their gender though. I just assumed everyone got the same popup regardless of gender.
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    Yeah, that was weird. What do their cookie policies have to do with helping women find a career at Northvolt? A quick search for related keywords on their privacy policy page reveals nothing on the topic. That aside, I'm really excited
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    A readership is not a requirement for a blog, on your own domain or elsewhere. If you are looking for a platform that will magically throw thousands of views your way just by nature of you existing there, I think you'll be disappointed
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    I have yet to read the whole article, but I got too excited when I got to these parts[0] and had to write a quick comment first. This concept as described reminded me immediately of a book I read as a teenager, called Divided Kingdom by Rup
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    I have considered it and can imagine myself moving for short bursts to different parts of the country. I have cats, so I can't go full nomad and don't want to uproot them too much, but I can totally imagine moving between a couple
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    This is a good question. I have to admit, it only recently occurred to me that my own domain is not by default completely secure from theft. I have focused on "how secure is email-provider-x", or "hosting-company-y", but
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    "It's simply a fact that people become incredibly irrational when it comes to compensation, and the minute you lay it out in the open, you open up a huge surface area for conflict." I have had the opposite experience. It can
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    There isn't really any set testing methodology I am married to, other than writing tests for behaviour I want to ensure (both at function and public API level). Go makes that really intuitive. I usually write a test right after impleme
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    I like quite a few languages and don't actively hate any, but my favorite has to be Go. It is just such a pleasure to write, and the excellent test tooling makes it almost feel like a crime to not write tests during development. I&#x27
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    I wonder how high the chance is of the master password itself having been reused, and of one of _those_ password sets getting compromised. Although I'd expect most people using a password manager would not be likely to reuse a master p
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    This article claims LastPass has responded to their request for comment: https://www.howtogeek.com/776450/lastpass-says-it-didnt-leak ... "LastPass investigated recent reports of blocked login attempts and determin
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    I am surprised that LastPass have not yet addressed this. Even if it isn't a widespread incident, the fact that this is being reported by multiple people seems worrying enough for a password manager to respond promptly.
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    Just a sidenote to clarify that the last version of 1Password to allow local vaults is 1Password 7. They are not supported in any 1Password versions going forward. Although from what I understand the company was gauging interest and open to
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    I'm curious: how much do you end up spending on coffee while at the coffee shop, and in how many hours? I find sitting in a coffee shop with a laptop comes with the expectation that you'll keep buying coffee, food, _something_ at
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    I don't feel like a good enough writer to share my pseudonym yet. It isn't a huge secret, but not something I actively link to. Maybe when I reach some kind of minimum personal threshold of success I'll be more open with my w
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    I am not religious, but do feel spiritual in that I believe there is something bigger than us, and that we are part of a bigger, yet-unexplained whole that we reconnect with at some point. It is more of a "It's a comforting though
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    To get into a password manager account, you require a secret and your master password. It is a potential point of failure, but less of one than what I tended to do without a password manager: reuse the same passwords across different sites.
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    I have one: I self-publish science fiction on the side. Although it isn't consistently $500 per month yet. Sometimes it is a bit more, other times less. The income goes up as I build up my backlist, but usually it is a spurt in the mon
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    by drakonka 5y ago

    Thanks for sharing. I couldn't help but have an instinctive reaction of envy when I read the last part of your comment. The country I'm from is currently under Russian occupation for trying to get closer to the EU, and here you ar