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by drbawb 3y ago
As far as I'm aware it's mostly a hack to avoid UAC elevation. If your goal is to get Chrome onto as many computers as possible: you have to be able to install without admin privs. (Also, even if the user can elevate themselves,
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by drbawb 3y ago
>Imagine how annoying it would be on a laptop? >That would be an absolutely brain dead way of working. For starters: the experience I want on my laptop is not the same as the experience I want on my desktop. I have two monitors at hom
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by drbawb 3y ago
>There's a weird interaction with BIOS power on. The boot display drivers I have freak out if they aren't the active display and fail. I solve this by switching the KVM before I turn the computer on. After everything is booted
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by drbawb 3y ago
> An OS isn't large. Your spotify/slack/browser instance is of comparable size. A fairly recent Windows 11 Pro image is ~26GB unpacked and 141k dirents. After finishing OOBE it's already running like >100 processes
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by drbawb 3y ago
The second I read "shared block cache" my brain went to containers. If you want data colocated on the same filesystem, then put it on the same filesystem. VMs suck, nobody spins up a whole fabricated IBM-compatible PC and gaslight
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by drbawb 3y ago
On my system the root account is primarily for upgrades, but also storage administration! ZFS snapshots protects me against silly mistakes like strange permutations of `rm -rf ~/` in day to day operations. Not having root all the time
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by drbawb 3y ago
I tried to setup a Gentoo system for fun last weekend. (Crazy idea of a "fun weekend," I know.) I got to selecting a profile and wondered why there was no `systemd-hardened` profile. I was googling to try and understand what the h
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by drbawb 3y ago
jOOQ was one of the first times in my career where I (a junior, at the time) went to bat and convinced my company to shell out for a commercially licensed library. Our application was basically nothing but complex queries; getting our ORM
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by drbawb 3y ago
>I guess you need a beefier cable/pins in the US, as you're drawing more current at a lower voltage. No, we just accept slow-as-piss kettles.[1] (Our plugs aren't great, either, it's pretty common for a spark to jump
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by drbawb 3y ago
Every time I have used an ORM I end up supplementing or replacing it with a "query DSL" like jOOQ, Linq, Arel, Ecto, diesel, etc. I seem to have the opposite problem of OP: I don't often find myself wanting to hydrate some co
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by drbawb 3y ago
>Then there'd actually be a reason to get gilded up ... I have to imagine reddit has already thought of this and come up with some justification for why it won't work - because the proposed strategy is just so incredibly lazy.
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by drbawb 3y ago
>if I were to run a web forum then I must provide an API or data dump to download the posts created by the users It's implicitly provided by hosting the forum, blog, etc. at a publicly accessible URL. HTTP is an API, HTML is a data
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by drbawb 3y ago
>Then you have those types who put their machine into hibernate/sleep with 100+ Chrome tabs open and never do a full boot ritual. I would never suspend to RAM or disk, far too error-prone in my experience. (Plus serializing out 128G
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by drbawb 3y ago
>Moderation will be extremely important to prevent low-effort memes and content regurgitation and the like from saturating your main channels This idea more or less surfaces in the book "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell", where in the n
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by drbawb 3y ago
>Something as simple as Win+Shift+S is an amazing improvement Just now I hit that chord once to try the feature out , it came up but I hit "escape" to cancel the interaction. Now, typing the chord a second time, Windows no long
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by drbawb 3y ago
>you realize that there's a wide range of solutions with some spectrum of a fit to your situation I ran into this the other day and it's made me very leery about using chatGPT for learning things I don't already know. I mo
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by drbawb 3y ago
It's not actually contradictory at all when you consider the root of the issue is about power asymmetry between individual creators and the corporations. Copyright terms were lobbied for, and primarily benefit the large corporations. T
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by drbawb 3y ago
I have this same issue. Not an IKEA chair, but it is a similarly cheap office chair from some big box store. It only affects my external monitors connected to my TB3 adapter. I figured out the cause pretty quick, mostly because I assumed m
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by drbawb 3y ago
>"Thinking realistically, every software I use with the notable exception of Windows and DaVinci Resolve switched to a subscription model. If Microsoft doesn't do that and pushes its OneDrive and 365 subs via the task bar every
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by drbawb 4y ago
EUI64 means that random space is effectively reduced to just 48-bits of real entropy, <40 bits if you start making assumptions about device vendors. For example maybe the attacker has a VMWare exploit: enumerating that OUI (00:50:56) lea
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by drbawb 4y ago
I feel like it's not just Mac OS. I bought an iPad Mini 6, my first Apple device since an iPhone 4S. I am frankly astounded at how buggy the OS is, how annoying gestural based UX is, etc. These are just from memory: 1. Holding the &quo
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by drbawb 4y ago
It's a tradeoff based on convenience. I use Linux, Windows, Android, and iOS on a daily basis; using some combination of SyncThing, OneDrive, Google Workspaces, and iCloud. Getting an offline-first PW manager to work correctly and cons
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by drbawb 4y ago
Not sure if this would help, but I recently learned about a product called iMazing[1] that lets you browse and edit iTunes backups. You can't access the whole filesystem of a running iDevice with it, but you can access the whole file
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by drbawb 4y ago
The problem is that a stream cipher is going to have some per-object uniqueness (a salt, IV, etc.), so by design even if you feed it related input blocks you will get different output blocks. This is, of course, antithetical to deduplicatio
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by drbawb 4y ago
> . . . as long as only TLS (no application-level encryption) is being used. Therein lies the rub: the payload itself is protected by an encryption scheme where the keys are intentionally being withheld by either party. In the case of Ap
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by drbawb 4y ago
>The abandoned plan was perceptual hashing, which should return the same hash for very similar photos . . . Is there any proof they actually abandoned this? NeuralHash seems alive and well in iOS 16[1]. Supposedly the rest of the machine
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by drbawb 4y ago
>Microsoft tries to compete with Apple’s integrated hardware-software experience with their Surface line, but in the context of general wide-spread Windows usage, that’s really more like vanity hardware. What I fail to understand is how
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by drbawb 4y ago
It's honestly getting hard for me to justify having a more powerful PC. I have a Threadripper build (3960x) with a 2080 Super, along with 2x 3.5" drives, 2x SATA SSDs, and 3x NVMe drives. The thing draws like 200-250W at idle. Clo
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by drbawb 4y ago
Yes, I have Arch on a ZFS root pool. rEFInd + ZFSBootMenu to boot it. The only thing I don't use ZFS for is a Windows (gaming) VM. I tried numerous different setups to keep the NTFS disk image on a zpool, but it's ultimately prett
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by drbawb 4y ago
I have a similar experience, though only now am I faced with the existential crisis that "2013" is going to be "a decade ago" in a few months. My Arch Linux install started life as a VMWare Workstation image. It made it

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