grumpy-cowboy

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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
HDD (Hype Driven Development). Like projects using Microservices, Serverless, NoSQL, CQRS, Hadoop, [add your preferred hype here]... technologies for no good reason.
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
You _rent_ cable service. He _bought_ a book. Not the same thing.
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
There is a lot of "fake" workstations: everything is so clean! No Fritos bag, no Coke bottles, no paper, no trash, ... just clean desks! Fake! lol :D
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
Electron apps on my Librem 5?? Filling up RAM and draining the battery at the speed of light? No thanks.
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
They will not be able to force their crap in my future Librem 5 phone.
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
You can fix security bugs without forcing your users to upgrade entire OS.
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
If a company X doesn't want to support something, then they should open it (source code, hardware specs, ...) so someone else can continue to support it. Always having to trash something that is working fine is stupid. For example, I h
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
Mosaic -> Netscape -> Firefox -> Chrome -> Firefox IE only if it's REALLY required by badly designed products/sites.
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on PR concerns.
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by grumpy-cowboy 8y ago
I have a Dell Precision M4800 laptop (32GM RAM, I7, SSD, ...) I bought in october 2014. It's a beast! I run Linux (Mint) on it and it's really fast even if we are 5 years later. I'm a software engineer. I run many VMs, Docker
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by grumpy-cowboy 8y ago
100% decentralization is an utopia. But with the Fediverse, we have the best of the both worlds: most people will register to a "centralized" instance like mastodon.social and people who want will be able to run their own instance
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by grumpy-cowboy 8y ago
I'm in the process to move out mass-surveillance social sites like FB, Twitter, Google, ... I'm about to install my own Matrix and ActivityPub nodes (Mastodon, Pleroma, PeerTube, ...) on a cheap VPS. I also have my own email domai
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by grumpy-cowboy 8y ago
Fax machine -> fax machine : secure And fax machines are easy to use. Securing document exchange by email is a PITA for 99.9% users. Explain to your mother how to use PGP/GPG to encrypt the email she have to send to financial instit
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by grumpy-cowboy 8y ago
Add a RSS feed please ;)
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by grumpy-cowboy 8y ago
Start your own freelancer/consultant business. Businesses will pay you a lot of money for your knowledge and wisdom. This is what I did 9 years ago (I'm 43 now) and I never looked back. My ex-employer said that if I want to have a
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by grumpy-cowboy 8y ago
Yes. Endless story. What I see in many of my clients projects (I'm a freelancer, 23+ years in IT) is a return to some kind of "monolith" applications. They surfed on the "everything must be Google-scalable..." trend
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by grumpy-cowboy 8y ago
I'm in the process to move Google and Facebook out of my life (to many privacy abuses). I now have my own email/domain (paid Fastmail account). This is a long process because I have my GMail email since the beginning of Gmail serv
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by grumpy-cowboy 8y ago
Lets ban Bell Canada. Here the list of Bell's subsidiaries to ban : - Bell Canada - Bell Media - Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (37.5%) - Bell Mobility - Bell Aliant - Virgin Mobile Canada - Bell Internet - Bel
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by grumpy-cowboy 8y ago
If security fixes can take months, then it's not suitable for any use (especially on servers).