kevwil

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by kevwil 4y ago
Why is "Guns" capitalized if the word is being used as a verb? Anybody else wonder for a moment what guns have a CPU architecture style? LOL Nobody else? Ok, carry on.
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by kevwil 4y ago
Because it solves 5 problems while creating 4 more in the most complicated way possible. Seriously. It makes some things better, no question, but it is very complicated for some (most) people and is very time-consuming.
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by kevwil 4y ago
I'm glad Fabric is still around. I used it at my previous company. I might even prefer it over the Ansible we use at my current company.
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by kevwil 4y ago
If there are truly only two full-scale web crawlers left, and they are Google (ew!) and Bing (ew!), then it's high time there were more options. I naively thought DDG was exactly that, with a 100% focus on privacy. The cake is a lie.
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by kevwil 4y ago
Do Not Track 2.0, basically. https://globalprivacycontrol.org/
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by kevwil 5y ago
"Oooo...yeahhhh, ummm...I'm gonna have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there." - Office Space UT is not the panacea and won't do your laundry for you, but well-tested code is better than sloppily- or un-tested
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by kevwil 5y ago
LOL - WaPo and Facebook slinging political mud, what a surprise! The real surprise is that anyone still trusts what social media and ancient media oligarchs say.
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by kevwil 5y ago
Seems obvious; like, did someone expect all the extra abstraction would make Go faster?
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by kevwil 5y ago
I'm struggling to find nuance in what seems like a black/white issue. If you buy the vehicle, you can do whatever the @#$% you want with it. If you can't do what you want, it's a subscription model and the maker is respo
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by kevwil 5y ago
I read this as "... bash (the shell) VPNs for fun and profit" and thought, "what a cursed title!". Now I get it. LOL
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by kevwil 5y ago
Thanks. A bit narrow for my tastes but I'm impressed by the semi-cursive italic idea. Clever. Giving it a try right now!
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by kevwil 5y ago
- While the effort to create fonts is not trivial and should be rewarded, this seems expensive. I've bought fonts before, but they were like $5-15, not $100. - It's fantastic to see the variety of human experience on display in th
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by kevwil 5y ago
| What is one single reason to use Firefox? Because f*ck monopolies?
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by kevwil 5y ago
As Chromium's monopoly approaches and passes critical mass, the likelihood of a nasty zero-day increases. I wouldn't go so far as to hope for a terrible hack, but humanity putting all its eggs in one basket like this is just beggi
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by kevwil 5y ago
Plural - lives and deaths - were they parallel, or ... chained?
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by kevwil 5y ago
Beware of paid, proprietary solutions to security problems claiming to be "the only passwordless solution offering seamless, mathematically unbreakable authentication that doesn’t require humans to come-up with, manage, memorize or inp
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by kevwil 5y ago
So if a "Standard Backup" contains all your files, but the machine cannot boot because the internal drive has failed, what is the plan forward? $4k for a new laptop and restore from the backup to the new machine? Kinda makes me gl
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by kevwil 5y ago
I tend to check out the BBC and Al Jazeera English. I'm usually looking for "Just the facts, ma'am." reporting and often find it there before other sources.
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by kevwil 5y ago
Expressing disagreement with someone's opinion with a single click is sooo easy though ...
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by kevwil 5y ago
I am American and can't help but wonder if this is a subtle British joke. This is just poor grammar based on how I was taught, so perhaps some Brits think it's cheeky to call it "American Style", like an American calling
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by kevwil 5y ago
I guess it's been about a generation since I implemented this as an easter-egg in a RESTful API service I built. It was quite the joke then, but now with IoT "smart" teapots and whatnot being so popular, it's not so funn
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by kevwil 5y ago
Yeah, I almost choked on my lunch when I read that. In addition to your well-said reasons, it just seems icky. In my not-so-humble opinion, Twitter (among others) has become a harmful echo chamber of dangerous ideas and hypocrisy. Requiring
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by kevwil 5y ago
"kind, microk8s, or k3s are replacements for Docker Desktop. False. Minikube is the only drop-in replacement. The other tools require a Linux distribution, which makes them a non-starter on macOS or Windows." False, kind can run o
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by kevwil 5y ago
Good. Sorry, Joe, but that was a bad move. Let me know when you start podcasting again. The turf war over the commercialization of podcasting reminds me of the Internet - designed to be free and open, destined to be walled off from free use
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by kevwil 5y ago
If I could go out and buy a Google-free Android phone today, I would. Now that I no longer trust Apple with privacy doesn't mean I trust Google. Even less so, actually. The alternative now is: no phone. Bye-bye Facebook and Instagram a
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by kevwil 5y ago
101% disagree. In my opinion, social media and comment sections are already a fire-hose of negativity without consequences. We don't need to enable passive-aggressive hate any further.
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by kevwil 5y ago
Given the severe drought and fire danger conditions in the southwest over the last decade or two, it's not surprising.
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by kevwil 5y ago
I just realized it's been years since I logged in to freenode. What have I become?
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by kevwil 5y ago
"violates our harmful and dangerous policy" is hysterical coming from a harmful and dangerous automated censorship engine.
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by kevwil 6y ago
Good for her. My phone, my rules. If a smartphone app is how the company wants to operate, that's fine, but they should provide the hardware.

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