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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Does it sleep? I was really happy with an earlier Dell XPS (which my daughter still uses), but my newer one is horrible. I always have to do a full shutdown, otherwise if I don't use it for a few days, the BIOS resets and once I even h
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Can you ask someone who is their customer to do a naive call to their tech support, and complain that they are getting an error when trying to access the website?
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Another nice thing with fuse is that I can let my users (devs) mount the backups with Borg, so that they can restore specific files that they need without asking me. And the mount can restrict which directories to expose, so they only see t
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
The paperwork isn't, alas.
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I find that cultures who keep things as taboo tend to create a vicious cycle of education problems. Education does not encourage, it exposes both the good and the bad. You learn the navigate the problem instead of being trapped by it. I los
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I've been self-hosting Zimbra for around 10 years, but if I were to start today I'd probably use Mailcow. I like having a good webmail. I have multiple work/personal domains and I like keeping them in separate tabs/conta
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Madison Square Garden Uses Facial Recognition to Ban Its Owner’s Enemies(nytimes.com)
184 points by mgbmtl 4y ago|139 comments
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
The upgrades from D8 to D9 to D10 are still somewhat of a pain because they do deprecate things and not all modules are compatible (let alone custom code). Not to mention that upgrades have no tangible benefits for site admins. They lose fe
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Yikes. A backup solution that was sold, but not configured (at all! not to mentioned non-tested backups), was a very frequent occurrence whenever I inherited clients (in the 2000-2010s, before AWS took over the world, or simple VM snapshots
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
While many large corporations declare record profits, I doubt that the person cleaning the toilets is really a major issue.
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Sure, but those other problems need funding.
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
To monitor for... corruption? From the point of view of the state, tax evasion these days is by far the highest priority.
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
There are indoor stairs for the flats on the third floor (the door is on the second floor, and each upper floor usually has their own stairs/entrance). The indoor stairs tend to be narrower and really a pain when you have a bike or a s
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I download old Pimsleur mp3s from TPB and listen to them when travelling. It's super repetitive, but I find it really useful to learn some quick basic conservation. If you can listen to them with a partner, it's even more efficien
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
There are nice improvements that make it worth it to upgrade, but yeah, and you can also just use a Linux distribution that provides support for older versions of PHP (such as Debian stable or the Sury packages). We upgrade our clients in w
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I think that's key, legislation. We rely on legislation one way or another. As geeks we're always trying to think of technical solutions, but over and over again, what guarantees our freedom are strong and robust democratic instit
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
That rant views freedom as purely individual, and not collective, or more likely the compromises in other to have both. It also doesn't explain the difference between CBDC with traditional debit/credit card systems, which do impos
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Just use IPv6, and all mobile users will have unique addresses (although they might rotate, and IP tracking is generally not very reliable, as other mentioned).
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
We don't need to convince everybody. Even just convincing 10% makes a huge difference in shifting the conversation, infrastructure, reducing energy usage, etc. I live in Montreal and winter cycling used to be a really hardcore thing. N
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
It's what we use, and what I find the be the less annoying solution, but there are two big show-stoppers to make it more user-friendly: - the default index on the sidebar doesn't handle sub-directories well ( https://git
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I can imagine it would be a useful alternative to having a bunch of group-chats for people who want to share baby/cat/travel photos. And I can disable it. Win-win.
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
On having to pay taxes specifically: in many countries it depends on the place of supply. Usually having a work visa implies that you are working for a local company. I lived 3 years in Eastern Europe, technically working for a foreign comp
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
The topic of timezones and jurisdiction does tend to come up often in my field. (jurisdiction: because of handling of personal data)
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
In the early COVID days, a friend got really sick and then in a comma for 4 weeks, followed by a few weeks where he couldn't talk. His wife, who also helped with running his business (small shop, 4 employees), tried to get access to th
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Presumably this is only the SQL backup? (you can backup almost everything else using a regular backup system) 20 minutes seems really long for running an SQL backup. How big is the database? Is the disk/storage fast? Have you tried rep
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Next thing you know, Uber Eats will be delivering weed. Oh wait.. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/uber-eats-cannabis-de...
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
As teenagers we protested encryption on DVDs around 1999. A dozen of our local 2600 meetup gathered in front of what is now a Best buy and handed out DeCSS flyers.
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California drivers can now sport digital license plates on their cars(npr.org)
7 points by mgbmtl 4y ago|13 comments
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I don't like explaining to people that "yes it can do sms, and signal is sort of sms but not really" etc. and the workflow when adding someone is different (waiting for approval or not).
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I for one welcome the change, because my phone does not have an SMS plan (data only) and the "send by SMS" is a bit confusing. A messaging app should have one clear behavior per interface. This was "maybe secure, maybe not&qu

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