drnick1

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by drnick1 7mo ago
> I have 25 Mbps up. 10 Mbps down. Have had it for years. It's fine. This is dog slow, you can't even stream Youtube at 4K resolution with that. Downloading a reasonably recent game would also take close to an entire day. Not e
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> We offer Login with Google and Login with Facebook on our apps. This has the nefarious side effect of allowing Google or Facebook to track people across the Internet and apps. Webmasters like you are, often for no imperative reason, co
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Run your own email server, and give Google the middle finger. Letting Google own your email, and freely spy on your communications is insane. I think this incident clearly demonstrates that you cannot leave critical infrastructure like this
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by drnick1 7mo ago
One could argue that the IRGC, much like Hamas, purposely builds military headquarters and other facilities near hospitals, schools, and civilian infrastructure precisely to use civilians as human shields.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
No idea, but it's safe to say that Iran has lost most of their navy and air force already. It's harder to tell how many launchers, missiles, and drones Iran has left however, as it is deliberately hiding and conserving munitions f
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Software-on-wheels under the control of a foreign nation, what could go wrong?
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by drnick1 7mo ago
I don't bother with virtualization, and use the machine at the edge of my network as router, email server, Web server, DNS server, and countless or other things such as hostapd. An x86 mini PC can run all this without breaking a sweat;
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Permanently disarming Iran, and creating conditions favorable to the fall of the Islamist terrorist regime that has been bullying the Mideast since 1979.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> System uptime is a consideration whenever I need my computer for something immediately, but my choice of Debian is not only about that. Maybe you should try Arch on one of your machines. I have a lot of experience with both Debian and
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> This could be an argument for investing in more reliable/higher capacity public transit systems though. Public transit is impractical outside of big urban centers. And even there, it's nearly always a nasty experience. This i
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by drnick1 7mo ago
I think that you will find that many people think that we ought to solve the 50 year old problem in the Mideast once and for all. Now that the Russians are busy, that Venezuela is down, that Syria has fallen, and that the Chinese are mindin
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> Oil is still underpriced wrt to its environmental cost. This may well be true, but we still haven't found a better fuel. Sure, we have electric cars, but they are still too expensive for the masses, or impractical, e.g. for apartm
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by drnick1 7mo ago
This is true, but you may be missing out on performance and compatibility improvements from recent ("bleeding edge") drivers. You need recent hardware for this to be relevant. Generally speaking, you don't need rock-solid sta
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Are your games installed on a standard Linux partition, e.g. ext4? Proton struggles to launch games from NTFS volumes and can silently fail.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> I generally have no issues with Easy Anti-Cheat games like Arc Raiders, but obviously anything that requires secure boot attestation like Arena Breakout Infinite won’t play. I’ve not bothered to try setting up full secure boot as the
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Exactly, 5% isn't much, but it's enough to compel developers to make sure their game runs well through Proton, which is all is necessary these days. Ports aren't really worth it, especially if they aren't going to be as
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by drnick1 7mo ago
I wonder who the "other" are? Gentoo users hiding in plain sight?
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by drnick1 7mo ago
These are good choices, also consider Arch if you want the most agency over what goes into your system. That being said, you can also build a very minimal system with Debian from the command line with the arch-install-scripts. It's jus
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> So Debian is a no because it ships with KDE? I don't think this is a problem at all. I tend to install Debian from the command line (Arch-style), but from what I remember GNOME is the default DE. DEs are largely a matter of opinio
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by drnick1 7mo ago
The bigger problem I see here is browser security and Javascript as a whole. Browsers should not be allowed to extract and send such vast amounts of information in the first place, especially without the user's consent. At most, they s
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by drnick1 7mo ago
The Iranians themselves have already done that. A remaining option is to turn the lights off next.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Ostensibly, it wasn't unnecessary to those who started it.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
I know this is April 1, but you should really run your own DNS server.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
I filter the vast majority of adware such as doubleclick.net right at the DNS level. Not that I would use the app anyway... It's shocking how many third party connections an average website opens. It's particularly true for news w
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> In the last few days I had the choice of use the app or drive 20 mins each way plus park, walk and possibly queue. It's rather shocking that this government service, whatever it may be, isn't accessible through a normal brows
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by drnick1 7mo ago
This, but fortunately I don't find the Pixel screen offensive, and so I use Graphene on a Pixel.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
It was a genuine question, and while you reiterate the author's point about this being "bad security practice," neither you nor the author explain why this is the case. I don't believe physical separation really buys you
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Yes, this is a well-known pitfall. It's important not to bind containers to 0.0.0.0 for this reason, unless they are actually intended to be public.
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by drnick1 7mo ago
Apps obviously gather data. In fact, on common phone operating systems, they tend to have access to an insane amount of information, including what other apps are used, hardware identifiers, information related to Google/Apple accounts
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by drnick1 7mo ago
> They are particularly good at generating ideas. I think it's the opposite. People have ideas and know what they want to do. If I need to write something, I provide some bullet points and instructions, and Claude does the rest. I t

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