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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Thanks for the detailed response. I'll mention it to our SaaS partners.
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Question: I work on a OSS CRM that historically relied on a CMS (Drupal/WordPress) for authentication. Now we're looking to make it more standalone, which means coding our own login etc, and eventually things like SSO, LDAP, etc W
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
The server was setup to use ftp.ca.debian.org, which currently resolves to 207.210.46.249, and the whois for that mentions Rogers.
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I think my weirdest experience was a server that was jammed on "apt update". I looked up the IP using whois.. and it belonged to Rogers.
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Yes but.. we have municipal wifi, public libraries, etc, most of which are fortunately not running on Rogers (although admittedly they probably don't have much redundancy in place, here in Montreal, buses use Telus and city wifi is oft
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
systemd then :) but such comparisons will always have shortcomings. For what it's worth, screensharing works fine for me. I use it with Zoom and Mattermost (webrtc). Are you on an old version? I'm on 1.18 I think (Debian 11) Scree
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
It's funny how they made an article about 4 short comments between 2 devs. People sure like to hate on change. Rather odd for a forum about disruptive startups. Might be worth thinking about where Wayland was 5 years ago, and where it
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I have a Phillips Hue dimmable on the ceiling. I can set it to warm, and also dim in the evening (or if I notice that my balding forehead is glowing too much during a video call) :-) I had floaters if the light source was in my field of vis
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
As a kid I remember being hypnotized by the visuals, and having no clue what it was about. As a teen, Tron (and Hackers!) had a huge influence. At the time, there were few people I could identify with. They made me more curious about bullet
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
No - but I think at some point, you or your customers will see benefits in IPv6, or your clients may require it by policy (some of mine do). No rush, just saying, it takes time, may as well start with bits and pieces now. As a provider, the
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Sooner or later, you will have to support IPv6. May as well slowly start testing bits and pieces, and avoid doing it in a rush later on.
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I don't know if I'm using anything fancy, but Firefox currently is running 20 processes on my computer. According to pstree: 3*[Isolated Web Co───28*[{Isolated Web Co}]] 3*[Isolated Web Co───29*[{Isolated Web Co}]] 2
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Debian popcon can be interesting: - https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=vim - https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=neovim - https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=nano (nano for
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Our FOSS community uses it, and we're quite happy. We were on IRC before, maybe 20 users, and now we have hundreds of active users on Mattermost. Our biggest struggle is with support within our community. Helping someone is nice, but o
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I'm a native French speaker and when speaking English, I just say "Office" because LibreOffice sounds weird. And for similar reasons, I never say "I used The Gimp". I do very much appreciate both projects. Naming is
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Following this logic, they should also ban free parking, or indicate how much goes to subsidizing parking. Otherwise public transit is clearly at a disadvantage. Public transit users are subsidizing free parking.
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I have so many weird power problems with my current XPS, I would not recommend Dell, especially a less repairable model. My current XPS (2 years old) doesn't hibernate well, and the BIOS will lose UEFI/disk settings if I forget to
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Or see it the other way around: if you have a SaaS, don't underestimate resellers. My company has its own product, but we also provide white-label services to other companies. We're terrible at marketing, and some of our partners
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Both are equally bad, for different reasons. As a user, one might be more worried of having their identity tied to their Facebook account (and therefore advertising/tracking), than about their government spying on them. Having worked w
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
My VoIP provider offers this (voip.ms) and I love it. I rarely listen to voicemail anymore (not that I get many, but say, some voicemail from kids school, or a client who didn't get the memo not to call me). And less errors because I&#
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Examples: - University labs, where they hire full time staff (not just students) to support ongoing projects. - Non-profits, who usually handle lots of data, or political parties (usually crazy and fast-paced, but can be fun) I work in a s
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
My theory is that we tend to use feet for height because that's what our parents used. These days or driving license displays only cm, and rarely hear younger folks use feet (my 15yo looks at me weird when I do). Same for 24h time, but
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We never got good at recycling plastic. Some states are trying a new approach(npr.org)
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company "a "dot-com dead pool" that chronicled troubled and failing companies in a unique and abrasive manner" It was a nice counter-weigh to corporate PR-spea
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
I like the concept of shepherding, not leading. Being on the sidelines, encouraging people to take the lead, but bring them back on track when necessary.
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Yep, I see this in small shops of older friends. Some just close shop, or sell their business for almost nothing. Although there are ways to exit profitability from a co-op, I don't expect much. If it survives, I'll be happy. We&#
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
Whether it's a hostile board takeover, or a bad hire in a CxO position (or even any regular employee with influence), those risks exist everywhere. Actually, I think a co-op is better protected. A co-op should have founding principles,
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
The articles is a bit dramatic, but if, say, over 40s, folks with kids or elderly parents, they tend to avoid the risks. If I have to isolate a few days, and then my kids too, even if we're not worried for our health, it's a major
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
For (2), in Canada/Quebec, Lion Electric produces electric buses and urban trucks: https://thelionelectric.com/en I don't follow closely, but they recently opened an assembly plant in Illinois. Not trucks, but Mon
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by mgbmtl 4y ago
The novel thing here is the proposal to use 60 GHz for wifi, and that can be a challenge because it will bounce a lot on surfaces, so NIST developed tools to help optimise potential installations. Wifi is already pretty common on lamp posts

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