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by folkhack 7y ago
Yeah - as someone who's ran their own git server back in the day with gitolite... 100% agree that GitLab is an easier/quicker solution. Also it's fully featured and WAY simpler to setup on your run-of-the-mill VPS. Personally
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by folkhack 7y ago
Just offering an anecdotal experience to counter, not saying you or your experience is wrong... I've used pgloader multiple times because I'm a huge Postgres evangelist for that exact use case multiple times without issue. Honestl
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by folkhack 7y ago
I sorta disagree here - it's neigh impossible to argue but I definitely feel like it didn't take a visionary in 2005 to predict that the web would be the next transport/distribution layer for software. My argument: I was in
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by folkhack 7y ago
Absolutely... I've been wondering why the FAANGs don't just take education into their own hands and do this. The problem is when people talk down about it, which trust me is real. Wanting to make software that works great for peop
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by folkhack 7y ago
> catch, there is no other way right now, but there should be! Depends on your field... I've self-learned myself into a 6-figure career because programming, web, automation, Linux/UNIX, etc. resources have always been freely av
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by folkhack 7y ago
This is a slippery slope logical fallacy that translates the value of college (an incumbent business) to the value of teachers (a person entity)... that's a poor translation and not a "logical conclusion". In good faith, I be
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by folkhack 7y ago
> I would definitely raise a red flag at the idea that all college professors are "experts" in the field they're teaching Real-world: they're often not... or at least in my anecdotal experience. I had professors who w
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by folkhack 7y ago
> Also don't fall into the trap that schools have your best individual interests in mind. But can ya blame 18yr old kids/their families who are idealist believing that they do? I mean I say this having FELL for the trap! I mean
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by folkhack 7y ago
> Unlike America professors are paid lower than the industry and those who can't get jobs in Industry become professors and treat students like slaves Just sharing experiences, I was in-industry at the time of my education which c
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by folkhack 7y ago
Warning: I'm a salty dropout from an incredibly bad Computer Science program at a private Iowa school. > The main value of college, he said, is to be found in proving discipline by completing “annoying homework assignments” and in h
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by folkhack 7y ago
Yep! As-such a lot of people like myself only solder in well-ventilated areas and/or use fume extractors, ie: https://www.amazon.com/Hakko-FA400-04-Bench-ESD-Safe-Absorbe...
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by folkhack 7y ago
As someone on the other side of the game: this is incredibly effective and can be near-impossible for me to figure out you're feeding me BS data. I have also done this as an anti-botting tactic myself though and it can get pretty compl
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by folkhack 7y ago
Reading this was lovely. I strive for the majority of these goals. Unless it's an incredibly simple "one-task" sorta deal I avoid the SPA approach like the plague.
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by folkhack 7y ago
This is insanely concerning... Here's what we're looking at: * An application with an unknown developer/development team * Running on completely non-verified devices with questionable security * As the "preferred method&
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by folkhack 7y ago
Auth0 for complex stuff is pretty outstanding in my experience! It's nice to get sane and reliable OAUTH as a service... I've rolled a lot of different custom authentication solutions for small apps with a handful of users all the
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by folkhack 7y ago
In my time on HN I've seen everything political get flagged almost immediately which takes politics out of the discussion here. I don't think it's banned in the rules, but it may as well be because nothing ever really sees th
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by folkhack 7y ago
100% - it's a dark pattern and you know exactly why they're doing it: cash money from advertisers. The internet is slowly being turned into a corporate power grab and it's only getting worse YOY =|
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by folkhack 7y ago
> much in the same way that nobody will see my hacky Python scripts in 30 years (with any luck) LOTS of us have seen legacy systems long outlast their intended lifespan. I've seen this in enterprise settings, web development, small
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by folkhack 7y ago
Dude. Absolutely not true. HR is not your friend and will never be - it's simply a conflict of interests. I've been the idealist before that tried going to HR as a last-ditch effort to make stuff work and lemme tell ya: it's
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by folkhack 7y ago
As a lower-tech method I would try just setting up a super low TX power/RX gain on a spoofed access point (same SSID, credentials, MAC, etc.) on my ALFA USB adapter and wave it around as an RF scanning device watching for connected cli
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by folkhack 7y ago
Windows 10 is/was the slap in the face it took to finally migrate all of my development workflow to Linux, and my Adobe workflow to OSX.
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by folkhack 7y ago
Second this... As someone who's a very small start-up the GitLab CI/CD pipelines are SO much more simple/manageable vs. anything I've ever done with Jenkins. I self-host GitLab on Linode with a single runner in the cloud
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by folkhack 7y ago
PCI environment for a household name ecommerce application with millions of users. Also we didn't use stock Ubuntu - I/we had to get it to not phone-home... it was just extra layers of "we shouldn't have to do this"
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by folkhack 7y ago
I still consider originating IP address to be a leak - what about private intranets, processing-only infrastructure etc? Not everything is a traditional public-hosting model. In the screenshot posted you can see the following data is being
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by folkhack 7y ago
For sure, but in the case of Debian/Ubuntu the configuration to make Debian a bit more friendly is not difficult at all... ie: Enabling non-free and installing sudo gets you most of the way there for the majority of users.
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by folkhack 7y ago
As someone who's worked heavily with both Debian and Ubuntu - they do. There are differences between them but I am 100% confident that I can do everything that an Ubuntu system can, especially if we're talking about infrastructure
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by folkhack 7y ago
> I don't think anyone uses a Canonical distro and is genuinely upset or surprised about this particular benign case. I've had to use Ubuntu in an environment with high security needs/regulations. I've had to disable
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by folkhack 7y ago
> Alternatively: Why not let the people actually making the distros decide what and what not to throw in them? I'll argue that utilization of Linux comes with certain "expectations" which is why so many of us decide to use
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by folkhack 7y ago
I find features like this to be useful as well - as long as I've opted-in. This is not a "sane default" - this is telemetry enabled out-of-box which is something that I'm vehemently against with Linux.
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by folkhack 7y ago
This isn't even an idealist "purists" thing - this is a "I don't want my distro leaking telemetry" thing.

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