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by mgbmtl 5y ago
I agree with the author that it's hard to generalize use-cases, and make it easy to use. It looks like a really nice solution for solo tracking. I freelanced a few years and now work in a small consulting/hosting co-op. We have to
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
I feel like the audio might not be stellar, and nothing worse than being on calls with bad audio.
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
I helped manage dedicated servers in colo for a small company for a few years, and I don't have very good memories about it. We had a cabinets with inter-connected machines, so we had our own routers, load balancers, two uplinks, etc.
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Hamilton youth charged after $46M in cryptocurrency stolen from U.S. resident(cbc.ca)
6 points by mgbmtl 5y ago|0 comments
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
I feel like engineering is used in the very broad sense, but books/blogs by Tom Limoncelli (et al) helped me a lot in the past in better planning and structuring the systems I worked with. https://everythingsysadmin.com&#x2F
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
On the other hand, when using "Tree Style Tab", it looks much nicer without borders (old TST screenshots have borders, but my current version does not).
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
CiviCRM is made for nonprofits. It can be overkill for simple requirements, but you can turn off most of the clutter. There is a low-cost SaaS hosting for $10/month ( https://civicrm.org/spark ). Full disclosure: I am a
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
Just curious, when doing email sync, is spam/noize a problem? (I don't want to spend more time cleaning up mail)
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
I don't know for op, but I assume cash means debit, where the fees are very low. Tangentially, I was happy to be able to use debit to buy a new car. Had to phone my credit union to tell them to raise the limit on the day of the transac
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
It would be nice to back that up a bit more. I'm genuinely curious. For what it's worth, some of the startup checks are to see whether the user is on a public wifi with a captive portal, and talk to a Mozilla service rather than G
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
This will be an unpopular opinion here, but for developers, telemetry is a really useful way to make decisions about the direction of a project. Otherwise if it's just on a whim of the lead dev, that often does not scale. And we'v
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
On IPv6, I like using 2600::1. Short and easy to remember thanks to the classic 2600 zine (named after the Captain Crunch cereal whistle which emitted the 2600hz tone for payphones). I wonder if someone at Sprint is a fan.
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
We might then agree that "the protection of rights is subjective and temporal". I think the basic argument still holds: such topics should be debated :)
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
You're raising interesting questions. It's a hard topic, but I think it's inevitable that we will have to tackle some of those questions. Sometimes we want to avoid a debate because we don't know the solution, but a good
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
All rights subjective and temporal. Just take the question of freedom of speech, and how that evolves in time, how it varies between countries (even between allied countries, such as the US and Canada). One could argue that the desire for a
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
Conpanies like Nissan have reliable EVs that have been there for a while (the Leaf). However they make more profit selling petrol-powered SUVs, so the dealers don't promote them. When I tried to buy my Leaf, the sales guy tried to get
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
Yeah, accents can be difficult. Personality too. I grew up in a bilingual en/fr environment. I mostly read in English and watch TV in English. Half of my ex partners are Anglo. And yet, on calls where I'm the only non-native speak
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
It's more like "this is how Linux fixes it". And then because operating systems share a lot of the same principles, you can see whether a Windows solution exists, or if Linux is a better fit.
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
This looks nice. So many solutions only have half-baked or over-complicated solutions for calendars. Zimbra was nice, until they were sold and stopped being FOSS. Does Modoboa support sharing of calendars? (so that I can see if my colleague
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
I run my own small-company mail server with 10 high-use accounts (using Zimbra, but it's mostly dead, so looking for alternatives). We lease small /29 blocks from OVH for our various services. Haven't had many issues in the p
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
Not all governments are inefficient, and not all types of public housing are cheap. See Vienna. It can work. Where I live (Montreal), a very common model is housing cooperatives. Funds help build or buy property, then gets converted to hous
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
You're in luck. Many European countries and Canada have taxed plastic bags for a few years, so you can explore the results those experiments. For example, Montreal (and many other canadian cities) started taxing plastic bags in 2018. T
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
Considering billionaires are going to space for fun, I think there's enough capital.
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
A bot should do it. Because sometimes people throw a tantrum, so it's easier to just ignore a PR. Or a maintainer might post a quick reply, only to be bitten later on. I love and live by open source, but the drama can be exhausting.
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
I think that, worst case, you could have a /boot partition on ext4, and then / could be NTFS. Although at that point maybe it's best to have just the /home running on NTFS. I'm not too familiar with how EFI handles
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Juniper Breach Mystery Starts to Clear with New Details on Hackers and U.S. Role(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by mgbmtl 5y ago|0 comments
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
Yep one more reason to hate Bell. You have to haggle regularly, their sales people lie and do tricks, they constantly break their own contracts. It's a full time job.
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
That symmetrical 1gbps probably had a 50 GB monthly quota. If you haggle, you can get unlimited for $55/month, two year contract, without TV etc. But yeah, I stick with Teksavvy. Only have Bell for a secondary house, where they removed
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
It's worth it. Montreal and it's surrounding cities neglected the river and canals, which supported local industry and transport, then used to dump toxic soils from digging the subway, or dumping untreated sewer water. After much
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by mgbmtl 5y ago
A lot of developers pay for their IDE (PHPStorm, for example). And a lot of software accept donations. I don't think people think money is evil, but to accept it, you need to be able to receive it, and that might be too much overhead f

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