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by iotku 5y ago
>Linode didn't offer private LANs between groups of servers. They did offer private IP addresses, but they had only a single LAN that was shared by every machine in each data center. >Lesson learned: when software says that you n
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by iotku 5y ago
>I'd love a ssh key management solution that doesn't drive me bonkers Kinda in the same boat here, taken a glance at Vault [1] but it seems like something that I'd probably spend more time figuring out than get benefit fro
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by iotku 5y ago
>Was the whole password to SSH key switch annoying at all for anyone else? Never was an issue for me because I'd always been using keys in the first place. I imagine it's less common for folks who don't manage servers, but
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by iotku 5y ago
>I am using WSL because I want games and Windows-only applications. Dual boot seems too inconvenient. Depends what you play obviously compatibility wise, but proton under Linux is getting extremely good. For a while gaming was my excuse
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by iotku 5y ago
I suspect given their emphasis on hashtags that was the primary transversal method. When I watched the video my fist thought was "ok but how are their bots determining what kind of video they're watching?" While maybe the bes
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by iotku 5y ago
You may also want to look into mosh [1] as it will handle dropouts and continue where ssh would just fail on its own. Also has local echo for points of high latency. Was a real life saver on some of the terrible sat connections of yesteryea
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by iotku 5y ago
I've used tesseract directly and there definitely is some footguns when it comes to PDFs and being sure not to re-compress them and lose quality. If you're looking to add a text layer to a PDF (for search purposes for instance) I
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by iotku 5y ago
Dev: "Anyone can use my code for any purpose including commercial purposes." $BigCorp: "I want to use to use Dev's code for commercial purposes as he has explicitly granted me the right to do so." Dev: "Wait, n
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by iotku 5y ago
>Are youtube shorts a failure? They seem to be immensely popular in terms of views/engagement. I just think that's only because "the algorithm" prioritizes shorts at the moment to try and push them and make folks even
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by iotku 5y ago
> Should you have the right to repair the CPU inside your machine? Sure, if a component in a CPU failed there shouldn't be any deliberate effort by the manufacturer to restrict it's replacement/repair (especially by entire
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by iotku 6y ago
Didn't appear to be on the advertising side of things (yet...), but I had a similar experience when renewing some free Azure credits (from Microsoft Dreamspark or whatever they're calling it now). I kinda figured it was just verif
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by iotku 6y ago
Here's another good example: https://youtu.be/ddWJatRxfz8 And again, set language to Japanese.
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by iotku 6y ago
>"what if we just dump everyone in the same room and hope it works" Yep, it's pretty abysmal for class settings. I know it's partly down to configuration/instructors but being shoved into a room by an instructor
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by iotku 6y ago
>You may as well be telling me how wonderful BitTorrent is for downloading Linux ISOs and to ignore that whole The Pirate Bay thing. The hash checks help validate that the ISO file is properly in tact and not corrupted in transit and the
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by iotku 6y ago
>You may as well say, "There's nothing wrong with Gab/Parler/Voat as long as you stay away from the political discussions". It's just a fundamentally different system than what you're comparing it to an
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by iotku 6y ago
>If it becomes the next Gab/Parler, normal people will avoid being associated with it. Matrix's policies are pretty well enough to keep them pretty far out of contention for such a comparison https://matrix.org/
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by iotku 6y ago
> The ZFS on Linux project has been renamed OpenZFS! Both Linux and FreeBSD are now supported from the same repository making all of the OpenZFS features available on both platforms. Previously it was called ZFS on Linux, but now ZFS dev
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by iotku 6y ago
In WA at least, it went from 3 (2?) -> 1 time over along with the other changes. (from 1TB -> 1.2TB) It's a LOT less wiggle room than it used to be. If you go over your cap once (probably near the end of the month where you won&#
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by iotku 6y ago
>I had to add $30 to my bill >It’s $25 to use their modem and router Honestly this is the biggest farce of the whole caps situation. Forcing people to overpay to rent their crappy modems because it's $5/month LESS than using
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by iotku 6y ago
The review embargo just lifted so there's some extra interest currently. That said it was announced months ago, so the seeing it on HN the first thought on my mind was PR campaign. To a certain extent that is the point of sites like HN
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by iotku 6y ago
I had someone create a spotify account on one of my emails with an old (clearly burnt) password as the the username. Why? I figure that's generally either for spamming or viewbotting (Re: likes, stars, etc) purposes especially on sites
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by iotku 6y ago
> Ardour felt kinda clunky, like if I moved wrong it would crash I'd say Ardour is one of the more mature(re: stable) open-source solutions on linux and has a fair bit of development effort behind it. Personally usability wise I nev
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by iotku 6y ago
>What does https have to do with getting exploited? It significantly helps to prevent MITM [1] (Man-in-the-middle) attacks. (without scary certificate warnings anyways) >If the web server is compromised, then it’ll inject the maliciou
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by iotku 6y ago
I haven't noticed that issue on Proxmox (been using zfs with it for approx. 6 months). Currently on zfs 0.8.4 (and I've done that previously). Are you using a distro supplied zfs (potentially old) or rolling something more bleedi
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by iotku 6y ago
>Hmm, if you get anxiety from closing and opening tabs, you should probably go offline for a while. You'll be able to go offline for a while thanks to RSS feeds. You can click one button to check for feed updates and know you'r
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by iotku 7y ago
>they're fearful to be perceived as a "Karen" for bitching on Twitter. On the other side of the equation sometimes I do want to complain for the sake of complaining without being harassed by some support account. Especiall
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by iotku 7y ago
>Its business model is to publish simple classic games, but with ads. Is this not precisely what Microsoft is doing? I haven't played game of solitaire since Windows 7 because I'm not going to watch a 15-30 second preroll video
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by iotku 7y ago
It's certainly not a typical PDF, but it's 1400 page physics textbook which seem to all be excessively large and unoptimized. Originally it was completely uncroped, and OCRing it seems to have grown it even larger. Not too familia
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by iotku 7y ago
Yeah, I threw a sizeable PDF (800MB textbook) at it and it's choking pretty hard compared to old Edge to the point where it's barely usable. Not a deal breaker for me because I don't have a touch screen and use an external PD
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by iotku 7y ago
Personally I'm just not a huge fan of java and the web interface was a bit on the annoying side, although it has a few more features like grabbing podcasts (which never really seemed to be implemented into other clients). As far as gon

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