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by mdekkers 10y ago
Is there a place where Dumb TVs still exist? I just bought a no-brand 55" TV at a local supermarket (Spain) for €450. The saleslady was at pains to explain that this wasn't a "smart tv" and "didn't have Inter
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by mdekkers 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14175261
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by mdekkers 10y ago
a literal RPC-based backdoor into the enforceability of the GPL Oh, I didn't hear that one before - any more info?
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Thank you for putting this argument across so succinctly and with such good research behind it. Everytime I hear the arguments in favor of systemd, I wonder when these people actually come down from their ivory towers to do some real life w
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by mdekkers 10y ago
this looks interesting. I have been looking to replace ubuntu as my weapon of choice for servers for some time now. I am hesitant of the rolling release idea though. I like the idea that my servers remain in a specific state, but remain u
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by mdekkers 10y ago
I worked with BigIP for a few years, and I believe that the real value is in the support contracts, and the peace of mind that gives to enterprise execs. failover (local or global) as well as state sync is all do-able with linux or bsd, but
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Of course, but that is chargeable work.
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by mdekkers 10y ago
I mean who in their right mind would write a 27 line init script when they could write a 7 line systemd unit? That is a gross and asinine misrepresentation of the impact of systemd.
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Icelandic language at risk; robots, computers can't grasp it(hosted2.ap.org)
17 points by mdekkers 10y ago|3 comments
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Sloterdijk’s sphero-immunological thoughts ..... eh? ....
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by mdekkers 10y ago
crypto offloading isn't hard, and can be done on the NIC if you want/need: https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/10/03/server-encryption-fp...
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Drupal used to run Whitehouse.gov for a long time...
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Does F5 do any special secret sauce that can't be replicated with an equally powerful set of hardware and a good HAProxy config? Not unless you think "extract a lot of money from clueless execs" is secret sauce. That, and s
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Ironically, the site appears down (I am redirected to google)
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by mdekkers 10y ago
it's a nightmare for sysadmins Many times this.
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by mdekkers 10y ago
To properly allow the Googlebot to crawl your site, you usually combine checking googlebot with an IP whois lookup. This is also what Google recommends.
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by mdekkers 10y ago
I must be a crayfish....
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Don't they also have some kind of recommendation engine? I bet that takes a bit more data and processing (who watched what, did they finish, maybe even more like what kind of scenes did they stop watching, or watched again, etc)
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Love your articles. Thanks for taking the time and effort to write it up and put it online.
920.
by mdekkers 10y ago
You know that whales DISAPPEAR underwater for hours at a time Just like the stuff that relies on Docker
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Docker's status seems entirely driven by me-too cool kids cargo-culting the bejeezus out of it because they heard it can run their nodejs react app better. :thumbsup:
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by mdekkers 10y ago
I've never met senior people who couldn't understand the naming difference between the open source version of a thing and the enterprise-branded version. Here is an old saying: "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" -
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Well said. I don't recall the guy ever engaging in any answers that don't give him the opportunity to spout more marketing rubbish though.
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Termux on Android OMG that is AWESOME
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by mdekkers 10y ago
what do you use instead of MSOffice?
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by mdekkers 10y ago
...a formal category in the United States on forms Ah, USA Forms. That well-known global standard.
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by mdekkers 10y ago
This is just too easy to reverse: Are you implying that your fragile mental state is going to fall apart when exposed to the idea of generally using gender-specific language? :)
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by mdekkers 10y ago
I have a real issue with Docker Marketing Speak bullshit. "Democratizing containers"? When were they not democratic? What were they before? Tyrannical? or - gasp - communist? And now they are going to ADVANCE THE SOFTWARE CONTA
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by mdekkers 10y ago
Seems like it's just going to create tons of confusion. When was the whole Docker circus not confusing?
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by mdekkers 10y ago
"do not track" in Firefox or Chrome. Completely ignored pretty much everywhere...

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