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by markstos 4y ago
I worked at a print newspaper. They have target word counts not because it’s a great metric because that’s literally the amount of space they have for article on the page. Same for magazines. There is a target number of pages in the issue.
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by markstos 4y ago
I found my Linode-hosted site was down this morning. I logged into the Linode console, rebooted and it came back up. Generally I've been very happy with Linode over several years.
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by markstos 4y ago
You are looking for a Yubikey and `ykman`. This is secure because the secret never leaves the hardware key. This is convenient because you launch a tool with a global keyboard shortcut and copy/paste the code. I use `yubikey-oath-dmenu
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by markstos 4y ago
I was a little surprised to see Bugzilla being chosen for a new project. I have historically not enjoyed using it. Maybe it's better now.
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by markstos 4y ago
WhatsApp may be sharing your contacts with Facebook to provide friend suggestions. Reference: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/117130
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by markstos 4y ago
I don't remember why I stopped using the shorter `egrep` and only use `grep -E`, but I suspect this was the reason. I used to work on a variety of BSD and Linux servers. I'm fine with this clean-up and simplification. Eventually,
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by markstos 4y ago
You've got a crystal ball here? Some people change their behavior when they learn they their current behaviors are contributing to significant harm and there is a viable alternative to reduce harm. We've got a choice about whether
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by markstos 4y ago
So do you still eat fish?
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by markstos 4y ago
Making friends is no small reward.
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After Google treated him that way, would he want it back, except to properly clean it out and migrate content?
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by markstos 4y ago
They don’t have to advertise that they are legal for road use to sell them to people intending to use them on the road. Another example: a number of e-bike suppliers sell parts that are explicitly described as not road-legal. People may buy
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by markstos 4y ago
You can hire one or more data privacy people whose whole job it is to track this. They get an inventory of all the systems and talk to the managers of every system, find the answers and document them. Meta is choosing not to know or pretend
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by markstos 4y ago
Every grocery trip is a vote.
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by markstos 4y ago
You could stop eating tuna today. For good measure, other fish too. Consumers are part of this story and have choices to make.
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by markstos 4y ago
My computer started rebooting when I went to the next room for a drink of water. Turned out there was a loose floorboard and a short in the power supply. The motion of standing up was enough to trigger the short.
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by markstos 4y ago
I’m curious how the performance of the new AdGuard extension has changed.
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by markstos 4y ago
Alexa, where you are stuck now?!
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by markstos 4y ago
The Reddit app is changing, too. My "Home" feed used to be only communities I follow, now it adds algorithmic content that I constantly have to say "less of this". It used to be only the "Popular" and "New
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by markstos 4y ago
Google did provide some advance warning that was coming. Also, accounts without MFA were also also causing harm. Some vulnerable populations also didn't realize how easily a non-MFA'ed account could be taken over remotely due to a
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by markstos 4y ago
My town now as "app-only" parking spots. (Maybe there's some fine print on the sign about another way to pay, but it's not clear from 10 feet away if so).
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by markstos 4y ago
It's a good letter. I'd like to see another letter drafted to other librarians recommending specific competing email providers that people who are MFA-challenged should use for anything important.
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by markstos 4y ago
Google only recently made MFA mandatory, so most of these impacted users didn't really opt into MFA, they just didn't opt-out by closing their Google account. Likely the first time they realized they might need a backup option wou
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by markstos 4y ago
For vegetarians or vegans browsing the site, it's not clear if they should even bother to install the app, because there's no clarification of whether the app has a single idea of what "good food" is. One of the examples
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by markstos 4y ago
It was easy to share public links to values hosted on the file system in 1995 with Apache. It remains easy today with Nginx and other web servers. Syncing filesystems across networks with rsync has worked well for years. If you are consider
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by markstos 4y ago
Fair. The project could do a better job of explaining what benefit is it has over the file system API.
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by markstos 4y ago
For personal use, I’ve had good luck storing things in files. Then when I need those those things, I read the files.
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by markstos 4y ago
Because there's also a known danger of mental health challenges with astronauts and that risk must be weight against potential bear attacks.
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by markstos 4y ago
We can hope for the future where TV companies are printing bicycles on their boxes.
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by markstos 4y ago
There’s a parallel with unpaid internships at elite institutions. Who can afford an unpaid internship?
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by markstos 4y ago
I’ve been using Wayland for over a year with screen sharing, photo editing, video production. Definitely less Jane resizing windows with Wayland.

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