eliaspro

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by eliaspro 5y ago
I'm torn on this feature. In the one hand, an application should never be able to replace itself with "random code" to be executed. I want my systems to be immutable. I want my services to be run with the smallest set of priv
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by eliaspro 5y ago
I think the key difference is: being payed with a deadline or being payed with a purpose. The first might produce quick, but unsustainable or less perfect results, the latter might take more time but will provide significant benefits (in th
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by eliaspro 5y ago
You might like this one: https://www.openttd.org/
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by eliaspro 5y ago
On f-droid there's a dedicated Android app: https://f-droid.org/packages/info.metadude.android.rc3.sched...
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by eliaspro 5y ago
None of these are infectious with a doubling rate of 2.5-4 days.
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by eliaspro 5y ago
This looks like an interesting concept, but at no point did the press release mention the actual savings in terms of space requirements of such a system compared to a classical one - making it feel like the difference might be not that big
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by eliaspro 5y ago
systemd/udev immediately locks your sessions when a mouse jiggler is plugged in: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=7212...
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by eliaspro 5y ago
This longer article from the Tailscale project also does a really nice job of explaining the complexities of doing this properly: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
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by eliaspro 5y ago
Your write this like it'd be a bad thing? It's not only that others can grab your software for free, it's also the other way round - resulting in way fewer effort, cost, increased stability/quality etc for everyone.
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by eliaspro 5y ago
Should there ever be a web application that needs to run as root, it should be rewritten. All logic requiring root privileges should be moved into a separate system service with a minimal attack surface to which the web application delegate
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by eliaspro 5y ago
They just IPOed at Nasdaq and raked in €172.5 Million. This should hopefully help them to get a bit further towards production.
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by eliaspro 5y ago
That's like the /r/firstaidkit (Band from Sweden) seeing posts of companies trying to advertise their newest first-aid kit or people on /r/puppet believing they could find the next Jim Henson there.
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by eliaspro 5y ago
"Or France, Germany or Belgium, where at-home tests are ubiquitous and as cheap as a decent cappuccino." At least in Germany, you can get them even at most supermarkets for 0.8-1€. That'd be a quite cheap decent cappuccino. I
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by eliaspro 5y ago
Took them off my "don't buy" list when my smartphone broke and I immediately needed a replacement and the only reasonable one available at my local store was a Sony Xperia XZS. I still regret it to this day. Worst 499€ ever s
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by eliaspro 5y ago
I believe fancy typography has no place on a license plate. Germany designed the FE-Schrift especially for license plates which is hard to forge/easily (machine-) readable. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by eliaspro 5y ago
It's not clean, when it: - emits CO2, far more than any other fuel per unit of heat/energy gained - emits huge amounts of pollutants We have better alternatives and we should use them - despite the fossil fuel giants which would l
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by eliaspro 5y ago
Happy customer for more than 15 years. I used to run several root-servers and once they started their cloud-offering moved everything over there. Support was always great (although rarely needed), performance is fantastic, prices hard to be
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by eliaspro 5y ago
None of these claims sound reasonable, so I'd like to ask for some solid peer reviewed sources backing those.
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by eliaspro 5y ago
Bubbletea [1] for Go is quite polished [1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
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by eliaspro 5y ago
Geofabrik provides MapCompare for this... The differences between OSM and the rest are staggering! https://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/#14/41.8650/19.3868&num=4&mt0=...
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by eliaspro 5y ago
A family member who runs a landscaping business switched all his team's devices over to battery-based ones from Stihl and they're apparently really happy with no intention to ever go back. Can't speak for the specific details
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by eliaspro 5y ago
Looking at the license terms [1] this looks like another case of open-washing to me... [1] https://www.mapsforeurope.org/licence
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by eliaspro 5y ago
For Python I prefer pudb [1] which comes with built-in support for REPLs at breakpoints, such as iPython. [1] https://pythonrepo.com/repo/inducer-pudb-python-debugging-to...
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by eliaspro 5y ago
That's IMHO one of the fundamental ideas behind a UBI: have market forces work this out by disarming the currently skewed employer/employee power relation through a UBI where no one would be forced to take on the most-demeaning jo
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by eliaspro 5y ago
Why does it use "sudo" in the first place when systemd uses PolicyKit for proper fine-grained/action-specific privilege acquisition out-of-the-box?
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by eliaspro 5y ago
...if you see housing as a market and not as a fundamental right in a civilized society.
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by eliaspro 5y ago
I used exactly this phenomenon on my XPS13 to know when my Gentoo was in the "merge" phase of an ebuild (distinctive noise generated by copying a large amount of files).
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by eliaspro 5y ago
And during his lifetime, this money is locked away, only accessible by him, taken out of circulation and thereby not adding any worth against ever-growing inequality, supporting economic prosperity or tax-funded investments. This is just on
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by eliaspro 5y ago
One might have to take some news from China with a grain of salt, but in this case those news seem rather plausible. A society/political system, which doesn't prioritize the individual's freedom, but focuses on economic devel
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by eliaspro 5y ago
EMTs are trained in how to deal with gasoline leakage in accidents, now they're being trained how to handle high voltage systems. EVs have dedicated points to safely disconnect the HV system to allow for safe rescue operations, cutting

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