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by kdtsh 4y ago
I can only hope that an employer seriously using this in an interview is looking at how someone codes, not necessarily that they get a result in 3 hours; I can also only hope that they explain this to the interviewee. At best, assuming no p
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by kdtsh 4y ago
My older colleagues use: Rgds, [Name] For years I’ve used: Thanks, [Name] Regardless of whether there’s a request or not, it’s simple, notionally pleasant, and no one actually cares. I’ve though of signing off with just a name but I feel li
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by kdtsh 4y ago
Well, no, that just shows it’s obvious which side they’re not on. The Red and Blue are two very large tents.
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by kdtsh 5y ago
I’ve wondered for a while, how does mutt work for HTML-formatted email and other MIME types? I compose my own emails with plain text, but plenty of my colleagues as well as the various mailing lists, official emails, and other services that
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Pressing the power button five times in quick succession does the same - another handy trick.
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by kdtsh 5y ago
They are in the business of building a web browser, and Firefox is a good web browser (I would say an excellent web browser). Their direction and trajectory is concerning, but they have clearly not sunk below an ‘acceptable bar’.
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by kdtsh 5y ago
This sounds like a neat arrangement. How do you go about this when you’re on the go? - do you have an app on your phone which support unlocking your password-store using a smart card, or do you just not manage passwords/MFA except on y
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Bingo. Someone might hear ‘no tracking’ and think ‘privacy’, and they might be right in making the connection, but DDG never promises not to save some details about your searches. They just don’t serve up ads which are based on your brows
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Regardless of what you think about this possible course of action, this is totally disingenuous. It’s like saying that 40 years ago removing some businesses from the yellow pages didn’t mean you couldn’t still call them - that’s technically
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by kdtsh 5y ago
It took about a year for me to fully switch. Even now, I haven’t deleted my Gmail address - I just forward everything to my new address at my domain, and whenever anything appears in my Gmail address which I would like to switch over I make
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by kdtsh 5y ago
And what a tool of last resort it is. It may be much easier (and most of the time I would generally prefer) to use Python for scripting purposes, but Bash is a) almost always available and b) widely portable. If you manage any servers where
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Slackware will work when you install everything, and this is the recommended approach - select all package sets during installation. Beyond that, it’s what you make of it. In your case, you could probably make do without lilo/elilo if
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by kdtsh 5y ago
slackpkg :-) the OS is considered stable so you don’t generally get new major versions of software, but security and bug fixes are delivered regularly.
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by kdtsh 5y ago
One of the last entries in the -current changelog before the 15.0 release was the following: Wed Feb 2 04:17:39 UTC 2022 fortune -m "I will be finished tomorrow" fortunes2 a/kernel-generic-5.15.19-x86_64-1.txz: Upgrad
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by kdtsh 5y ago
The Arch Wiki is a treasure, I used it when setting up Slackware on a MacBook Pro because it had the most comprehensive description of the caveats and gotchas for the laptop of anywhere on the WWW.
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by kdtsh 5y ago
The biggest one for me is that the mental model for maintaining your system is tiny. As a system it is easy to inspect how it works - you can trace the entire boot process along with a finger, the init system is excruciatingly simple, the p
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Slackware 15.0(slackware.com)
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Sublime Text is a commercial text editor. I used it during university, but it honestly just feels weird now to consider daily-driving a non-free (as in freedom and free beer, honesty mainly free beer) text editor when there are so many free
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by kdtsh 5y ago
By the time I deactivated my account all I had in my newsfeed were posts from groups I joined when I was a teenager and the occasional news channel post. Friends had steadily dropped off over the years, which made it very easy to pull the p
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Joe Rohan routinely invites frauds onto his program to lie about COVID-19. Whatever Fauci says is irrelevant here - you’re the one who brought him up, I couldn’t care less. Rest your case, we’re clearly not going to see eye to eye.
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Your first link appears to be the mouthpiece for Matt Taibbi. I don’t know anything about him, and I appreciate independent investigative journalism, but I hope you expose yourself to more than his work. His substack clearly has an editoria
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by kdtsh 5y ago
I’m interested - pass on a source.
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by kdtsh 5y ago
Censorship is the suppression of speech. Neither Neil Young nor Joni Mitchell are advocating for this. ‘Extortion’ is a concept in criminal law. Unless Rogan takes them or Spotify to court, it’s entirely moot whether this is extortion - but
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by kdtsh 5y ago
In this respect the ‘US government informational position’ appears to be substantially correct. It really makes counter cultural sentiments seem silly if the _cannot_ come to the same conclusions about public health outcomes as government o
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by kdtsh 5y ago
I’m stumped, tell me who said this quote. As for questioning authority: the notion that COVID is more harmful to the elderly than the young is generally true - but then a line is drawn through some alchemy from this to the notion that COVID
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by kdtsh 5y ago
It wasn’t my intention to lump these two things together and treat them as one in the same. I know that legality and morality are two entirely separate concepts. I just happen to believe he is acting morally within the bounds of law, while
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by kdtsh 5y ago
You and other people have said that he is being pro-government, pro-authoritarian, doing the bidding of the powerful, etc. - without qualification. But I just don’t see what exactly taking an active stance against misinformation concerning
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by kdtsh 5y ago
This however is a business dispute. Zappa vs Gore, as well as the rest of the sick legacy of PMRC, was absolutely an issue of government overreach and real censorship. If this particular case should ever require a senate hearing then I’ll b
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by kdtsh 5y ago
That’s not censorship.
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by kdtsh 5y ago
> I don't think anyone is saying Neil Young or Joni Mitchell shouldn't be allowed to do this. The GP of your post says that this censorship. Another person who replied to me earlier said that this is immoral and possibly illega

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