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by francis-io 1y ago
Worth mentioning Jess Frazelle was running desktop applications in docker a while ago. Not a full desktop, but also quicker to rebuild individual apps. https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk... h
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by francis-io 2y ago
As someone who is also introverted and looking to start a business in the next few months, this is something I'm going to seriously consider. When I'm on the consuming end of a service, I would always rather help my self than inte
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by francis-io 2y ago
I love the over-the-back-of-the-neck earbuds, specifically the ones from OnePlus that turn off if you use the magnet to turn them off. I don't think they are popular, so I've ordered a few for when they eventually stop getting mad
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by francis-io 2y ago
Unfortunate naming... https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/nonce
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by francis-io 2y ago
Not a dev, but as a DevOps engineer, I use LLMs for a few types of work: 1. A starting point for a problem I've no experience with - "How do I set up replication on a database". I won't follow it blindly, but it gives me
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by francis-io 2y ago
The author might have confused a few things, I don't think direnv and Nix are related. I've used direnv for years without touching Nix.
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by francis-io 2y ago
Wouldn't a small script that lets you toggle between a QWERTY layout and a custom layout solve this problem?
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by francis-io 2y ago
"Additional safeguards have been introduced – notably, in the most recent round of amendments, a 'triple-lock' authorization process for surveillance of parliamentarians ..." Thank god, I'm glad the politicians that
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by francis-io 3y ago
I use Firefox and ublock origin. I also have a Youtube premium account. When I change my firefox useragent to windows/chrome my load times go from 5-10 seconds to under 1.
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by francis-io 4y ago
A little hyperbolic. Here's[0] a 64 page party manifesto from 2019. [0] https://www.conservatives.com/our-plan/conservative-party-ma... From the manifesto front page[1] they talk about immigration, the NHS and inv
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by francis-io 4y ago
Looks like they recently made up: "UK Labour Party is pro-Israel again, says chair of its visiting friendship group" "After antisemitism drove Jews away in Corbyn era, MP Steve McCabe says opposition party has returned to tra
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by francis-io 4y ago
JIT cutlery and crockery.
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by francis-io 4y ago
Isn't this the exact problem? How can websites stay afloat unless you pay for it in one way or another? I guess the choice is buy the product or be the product. I've been paying for Kagi for 8 months and it's been fine for me
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by francis-io 4y ago
How are "real thanks" and "thanks of the week" different?
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by francis-io 4y ago
It's already passed the commons unfortunately.
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by francis-io 4y ago
This was one of the few times I emailed my MP, Peter Gibson. I laid out all the reasons why backdooring encryption was a bad idea. I got a response (on very nice thick, embossed paper and green ink) telling me he agrees with me that protect
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by francis-io 4y ago
I use the app Pocket Cast and listen to podcasts in sped up form. Current stats: * Listened for 27 days 9 hours, * Manual Skipping: Saved 17 hours, * Increased speed: Saved 31 days 21 hours, * Auto trim silence: Saved 6 days 14 hours
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by francis-io 4y ago
I guess it would all depend on the scale. For my home servers which just run personal things (like a kanban board as a todo list) I just use watchtower[0]. This requires mounting the docker socket into this container, which is not ideal. In
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by francis-io 4y ago
Hey, are you ok? Society is just made up of individual people. I've found that when I get offline and out of big cities, people actually do care a lot. Try not to confuse everyone dealing with their own problems with a lack of care. If
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by francis-io 4y ago
Not a doctor, but remember that most vitamins and minerals (and hormones[0]) can be used to supplement a diet low in those things. Ideally everyone would get enough from food, but it seems like most people don't. Vitamin D is important
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by francis-io 4y ago
For me, the value of Ubuntu is the community support around it. I'd love this project to take off and become mainstream.
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by francis-io 4y ago
I was mainly talking about here where I live, the UK, but I expect a lot of people here are American. It seems like the CDC made this claim. > CDC chief Rochelle Walensky said earlier this week that “vaccinated people do not carry the vi
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by francis-io 4y ago
Step 0 needs to be rebuilding trust in scientists. Anyone with half a brain and a memory that can go all the way back to 2020 remembers the lies told to the world. When major health officials tell you that a covid vaccine will stop you catc
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by francis-io 4y ago
The problem with the idea (for me) of letting people live with the consequences is that in the UK, I'm forced to pay a good chunk of tax (I think it's about 1/5th) on a failing health system. Rough "napkin" math on
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by francis-io 4y ago
One place I worked, it was common practice to email something semi embarrassing into a public slack channel from the unlocked pc.
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by francis-io 4y ago
Seems a little harsh. We all overlook things like this. Things like storage are so reliable we expect them to always be available. When you lay it out like you did, it does sound silly.
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by francis-io 4y ago
Would be great if the images had a unique name so I could save them without having to rename them.
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by francis-io 4y ago
This really does look great. It makes a lot of the common things I want to do with a Makefile really easy. The big problem I find is changing process in a big team is hard. One of the great things is make is usually installed on most develo
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by francis-io 4y ago
It's nice to be able to run the same commands locally as you do in CI. Having the deployment logic outside of the pipeline specific format will allow you to do this. Make is great because its usually installed everywhere. The downside
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by francis-io 4y ago
I think the assumption is that the developers already manage deploying as well, but it's manual.

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