jlgaddis

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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Worse, it comes from advertising!
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Yep. Launched YouTube app on the Roku and was prompted to sign in. Opened browser on PC, entered "activation code" from YouTube app, after entering my Google account username on the login page, it presented me with the reassuring
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
I don't suppose you've committed to donating at least a small portion of your profits to the Ghost open source project? Ghost is released under the MIT License so, obviously, you don't have to, but I (personally) wouldn&#x2
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> Also, as mentioned below, this is for temporary environments where you read more than you edit. It might be more convenient to just do a one-time setup of something like "bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you ssh&qu
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
If you're going to lecture others on correctness, you should probably make damn sure that you've got every little detail exactly right yourself (since, apparently, anything less than absolute perfection is completely unacceptable)
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
To be honest, though, if they did provide all the details, they'd criticized for "overwhelming" users with too much information -- most of which would probably be useless to the majority of users who either wouldn't (car
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Some companies (and even some individuals) are of the opinion that, since they are "good" or "smart" or spend $x amount for "security", they aren't going to get compromised. Even worse are the ones who sti
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Yep. It supports several "integrations" [0], but I typically just send notifications (to my mobile devices) from shell and Python scripts running on my machines -- they even have examples on their front page . It supports acknowl
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
I don't think it's fair to attribute this to IBM. An outcome like this was expected as far back as 2014 -- it just took longer than most of us expected. As I've said before, CentOS hasn't been a "community" ent
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> Thanks, for all the fish, CentOS. The city of Tuttle, Oklahoma is grateful. Oh man, I had completely forgotten about that (although I suspect most people have by now)... since reading your comment, though, I have been sitting here gi
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> If you work in an industry or corporation that is highly security conscious, i.e. that prizes risk mitigation over using the cutting edge or getting to market first above all else, then you won't be able to use nightlies. >
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
The .edu I used to work at had a site license for RHEL (and Satellite servers) 15+ years or so ago. I believe we were one of the first 10 or so, but I don't remember exactly when it started.
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> There has to be a nonzero number of CentOS users that contributed to the project ... Not really. Just TRY to "contribute" to CentOS. You can't . CentOS hasn't been a "community" enterprise operating s
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> Debian and Ubuntu, which offer five years of Long Term Support are the next best thing available, and that's already kind of tight for long-term deployments of self-hosted, old-fashioned business software. Remember that, in Ubun
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Even better, IMO, would be if all targets were also proxies and a client could choose -- at "query time" -- any combination of (proxy, target) that they prefer. If you wanted to go a step further, you can even allow "chaining
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Thanks, I sure did. I've copied it to the "Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol" [0] thread that it was intended for, but it's too late to delete it from this one. -- [0]: https:/&#x
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Even better, IMO, would be if all targets were also proxies and a client could choose -- at "query time" -- any combination of (proxy, target) that they prefer. If you wanted to go a step further, you can even allow "chaini
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> ... where DNS props would just fail ... What's a "DNS prop"?
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> I believe they saw weird traffic from their DHCP server, ... That makes sense. When the cable modem issued a DHCP request, the CMTS would have been configured to insert some additional information (a "circuit-id") into the
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
https://bugs.debian.org/972134
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
You may be interested in the discussion on bug #972134 [0]. -- [0]: https://bugs.debian.org/972134
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
The difference is that, with this TV, you are the one in control -- not the manufacturer.
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> As opposed to? As opposed to the IP addresses that your DHCP server told you about.
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> ... and the response to that is hardcoding a set of known good DNS servers which we can rely on. Netgear, at one point, also decided that hard-coding an IP address (for NTP, not DNS) was the best solution [0]. -- [0]: https:/&#
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
My ~4-year-old workstation -- with a pair of 8C/16T Xeons, 128 GB of RAM, and NVMe storage in a PCIe slot (not to mention everything else) -- boots into and runs FreeDOS just fine. Additionally, over the last several years, I've u
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Fortunately, HN has a feature to allow you to do that without polluting threads with useless comments: just click on the "timestamp" of the comment (next to the username) and then click on "favorite". In the future, you
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Just wait until systemd-notesd comes along and shows us all the One True Way(TM) of taking notes!
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
They're accessible via IMAP. For me, at least, that makes them quite easy to export or $whatever with.

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