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by jlgaddis 6y ago
m-net.arbornet.org or some such? Why do I remember that and why does it sound familiar? (And after writing the above, my next thought was "Jennie? Jennie Garth? Describe her." -- yes, I'm odd.) -- EDIT: Oh, cool, it still e
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Just within the last 7-10 days or so, I added a task to my "to-do" list to upgrade my personal account to GitLab's lowest cost ($48/year) tier. I don't actually need any of the features from that tier but I absolute
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Take a look at Oracle's "CentOS to Oracle Linux" (and other similar) scripts to see how they work and what they do (sorry, I don't have a link handy as I'm on a mobile device at the moment). If memory serves, the pr
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i've got more than 16 "right-sized" VMs on the VMware cluster in my homelab. Between the other half-dozen physical servers, there's probably another 40+ "OS instances". Besides, I've had a RHEL developer a
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
It's the same next door in Indiana (my home state) as well, although there are a few other exceptions, not just licensed radio amateurs (law enforcement, emergency services, journalists, etc.)
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In 1994, as a teenager, dial-up Internet was a long-distance phone call and, unfortunately, was off-limits for me at the time anyways. After racking up a bunch of monthly phone bills of several hundreds of dollars each, the extra phone exte
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
FTA, FWIW: > The precise locations of Parler users inside the building can be difficult to place. The coordinates do not reveal which floors they are on ... the coordinates themselves are only accurate up to an approximate distance of 1
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Not at the moment. I was just starting towards a migration from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8 when Red Hat made their announcement so I put that on hold and decided to stick with 7 for now. In about six months or so, I'll look at which of these
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
My main laptop is still an ~7-year-old ThinkPad W530. I pretty much maxed it out when I bought it: quad-core i7-3740QM, 32 GB of RAM, a pair of Samsung 850 Pro SSDs (RAID1), Nvidia something 2GB, FHD screen, etc. I was thinking about upgrad
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Are you aware that they added telemetry a while back?
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> They opted to TELL people about it which is a good indicator. Aren't they based in California which, if I remember correctly, as a law requiring them to notify the victims of a data breach? Would they still have chosen to in t
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
I've been running the Unifi controller on a Raspberry Pi 2 for four or five years now with no problems that I can recall. After the initial installation and configuration was done, I've probably only logged into it a handful of ti
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I know, right!? John Wayne Gacy [0] has a bad reputation and isn't well-liked either, just because he " assaulted and murdered at least 33 young men and boys. " No one ever talks about all the good things that he did, like br
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:49:07. The even more shocking news is that half of HN had apparently never seen or never heard of a "dynamic web page" before!
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
As pritambaral mentioned, they can make some minor changes to the server that are just enough to cause the client to no longer work. This isn't exactly unheard of when it comes to Microsoft. I mean, you don't have to go far to
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
And "MariaDB" was named after another of his daughters. If memory serves, he also has a son (whose name I can't remember) after which he named some other piece of software (which I also can't remember). All of this is al
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
On the other hand, I've pronounced /etc as "etsy" ("slash etsy", usually) for, I dunno, 25 years or more. NFI where I first heard it pronounced like that, though.
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
It means he's old. <gd&r>
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Yep, it seems like 90% or more of "their" products are simply open-source code with a web-based front-end that they've slapped on (which is why I refuse to give them any money).
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> On top of that, several vendors were exploited VMware and Microsoft. I haven't really kept up on the latest news about this hack so perhaps I missed an "official announcement" but I had assumed that both Microsoft and
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
You shouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions! To be clear, I'm about as far from "right wing" as one can get. I wasn't aware that standing up for the First Amendment rights of others was a partisan issue, though
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
If the very light gray color of your comment is any indication, folks here didn't like what you said. I certainly don't think that HN should ban you because of it, though.
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> When we or a real security researcher request a CVE for a real problem as an organization it often takes weeks till we get it, we released some security updates without a CVE, because we didn't want to wait so long. From your po
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> ... why are CVEs that are just packages of software being accepted to the CVE database anyways? Ultimately, because there are now a few hundred [0] CNAs [1] which are "authorized to assign CVE IDs" and, AFAICT, there is not
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
I RTFA.
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There was a similar article on TorrentFreak a week ago about a copyright owner who filed a lawsuit against YouTube over repeated copyright violations. It seems they slipped up and made a little mistake, though! > YouTube Class Action: S
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I don't imagine they deliberately intended to facilitate all the snooping and tracking that's happening nowadays -- think about how old SS7 is, how "closed" telco networks were at the time, and how the Internet and VoIP
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> ... but lack establishing one of those TLD for the use case I mention. Presumably, they didn't establish one because 1) that's outside of the scope of the BRs and 2) that's someone else's job, not theirs. Regardle
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Not knowing what changelog.com is, I was wondering the same thing... from the header of the page, I could tell that there's a blog, a podcast, and a newsletter. Without some additional insight that I don't have, it does seem that
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> Offtopic but related question: is there any TLD for which a first-level wildcard is allowed in SSL certs? Nope (unless you own "an entire gTLD"). From the CA/Browser Forum's Baseline Requirements (v1.7.3) [0] (wit

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