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by kijin 5y ago
Yeah, the hosting company is usually the weakest link. I use 2FA on any web admin UI that supports it, but who knows how well it will hold up against a determined social engineering attack on the CS department?
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by kijin 5y ago
> you're locked out with no hope of getting back in. Fortunately, most VPS and dedicated server hosts have a side channel that allows you to regain access when needed. It might be an automated dashboard feature to reset the root pas
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by kijin 5y ago
> All fun and games until you find yourself on travelling in Asia Leave a cheap droplet running somewhere, whitelist its IP, and SSH through it. I'm in Asia and I do exactly that with my U.S.-based servers. Actually, I've block
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by kijin 5y ago
There's a huge generational gap. Most of the lawmakers and corporate board members are in their 50s and above. Most of the men who feel that their female peers have been more successful in life, on the other hand, are in their 20s as y
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by kijin 5y ago
If they're cheap for you, they're cheap for spammers, too.
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by kijin 5y ago
Which redirects to bing.com, proving that they really have no use for the .bing TLD other than to prevent someone else from grabbing it.
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by kijin 5y ago
A great social life doesn't require tons of friends or stereotypical social activities. Any circle of friends and/or family whom you are happy to be around is more than enough, even if it's only one person! So cherish what re
908.
by kijin 5y ago
Server and other (virtual) infrastructure management for nonprofits, lifestyle businesses, and hobby sites that have grown too big for managed hosting but don't bring in enough revenue to hire a full-time sysadmin. It's a narrow n
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by kijin 5y ago
So... in other words, encryption with a key greater than 256 bits is forbidden unless you use one of the state-sanctioned (read: backdoored) algorithms. Neat.
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by kijin 5y ago
Ad revenue is obviously the motive. Nobody is denying that. The argument they actually present to the user, though, is about security. Both in politics and in online business, security is an extremely convenient excuse for forcing people to
911.
by kijin 5y ago
Apple requires all apps to be installed through the App Store. Google requires all in-app payments to go through Google Play. The obvious reason for these requirements is that it's profitable for them. But how do they justify it to the
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by kijin 5y ago
The risk/benefit calculation depends on where you live and/or plan to travel. I fear I'm beginning to forget what life was like before Covid, but IIRC people used to travel quite a lot. For example, Japanese encephalitis is r
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by kijin 5y ago
Tales told around the bonfire in stone-age villages, about that one time Uncle Steve took down a wooly mammoth all on his own, or the mystic forest your great-grandfather came across when he was lost in the snowstorm but couldn't find
914.
by kijin 5y ago
Many novels are told from a first-person point of view, mimicking a testimony. Moby Dick. The Great Gatsby. To Kill a Mockingbird. The Handmaid's Tale. The narrators are far from ungrounded voices coming from the middle of nowhere as t
915.
by kijin 5y ago
Fair point, I'm fine with either. One of the great things about adaptations and remakes -- as long as they don't do it too often -- is that we get to see different interpretations of the source material.
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by kijin 5y ago
Why focus on the last 40 years as opposed to the last 4, 400 or 40000 years? Anyone can pick two convenient points on the timeline and argue that things got worse over that period, but larger trends are harder to overlook. Stock prices have
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by kijin 5y ago
The film sure looks like Avatar. The 7-volume manga series, on the other hand, feels more like Dune, especially after the second or third book. It goes much deeper into the ecological and political history of Nausicaa's world, shoving
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by kijin 5y ago
IMO .me is one of the safer ccTLDs. It's from a fairly stable country that hasn't been keen to hike up the prices or impose restrictions on who can have their domains so far; it's not often associated with spam; and it's
919.
by kijin 5y ago
Clint Eastwood is 11 years older than Miyazaki and still directs movies. I wouldn't be surprised if Miyazaki comes back for yet another movie in a few years! On the other hand, Ghibli owns a bunch of highly valuable IP. When it comes t
920.
by kijin 5y ago
Oh, the joys of middle-endian notation. But who are we to laugh at them, the American date notation (M-D-Y) is just as weird.
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by kijin 5y ago
The edges of the habitable area should be treated as if they were hills getting gradually steeper. The direction of gravity won't be perpendicular to the curvature of the hull, but who says you need to stick to the hull? Even on Earth,
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by kijin 5y ago
Priorities might change when you need all that oxygen simply to survive.
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by kijin 5y ago
That sounds like what they did with the modules of the International Space Station, only bigger. :)
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by kijin 5y ago
If VPS/cloud costs too much for you, try renting dedicated (bare metal) servers. There are lots of options out there, from tiny RPi-type boards all the way to multi-CPU behemoths. You don't need to bear the upfront cost, you'
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by kijin 5y ago
Disk is cheap. RAM is cheap. Man-hours are not. Distros are maintained by people, who are often volunteers. You are asking them to do extra work (i.e. porting the same patch to multiple versions of the same library) so that someone else can
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by kijin 5y ago
So, patch two dozen copies of slightly different versions of the same library included in all those programs, instead of patching just one?
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by kijin 5y ago
It's not just about disk space, though. Distros assume responsibility for fixing major bugs and security vulnerabilities in the packages they ship. Old versions often contain bugs and vulnerabilities that new versions don't. Distr
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by kijin 5y ago
Distance of 70 feet or 7,000 miles?
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by kijin 5y ago
When the climate turns against you, efficiency is the one trait that helps you survive with limited resources. The big heavy dinos didn't have that. Nor did the Neanderthals. The problem with efficiency is that when you have more than
930.
by kijin 5y ago
They may be lousy coders, but they're quite good at carrying data as per RFC 1149.

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