moobot

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by moobot 16y ago
Some of us require more stability than the startup scene allows. Some of us also have wives that want to be able to afford decent living/eating conditions, and demand to be able to spend time with their spouses. Some of us also don't like
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by moobot 16y ago
I just got done interviewing for an SRE position, and while there were a few small "trivia" questions, most of it was about general Linux userland tools, and were mostly used as a lead-in to having me solve some sort of practical, real worl
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by moobot 16y ago
The benefits to me are all based around comfort. If using Dvorak isn't more comfortable for you in everyday usage, then there's no reason IMO to stick with it.
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by moobot 16y ago
I've found that using X11's highlight + middle-click paste has drastically reduced just about all of my reliance on using shortcuts for copy/paste, at least in any application that requires me to keep my hand on the mouse (like a browser) r
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by moobot 16y ago
It requires rooting/jailbreaking your phone and unlocking the bootloader, if you consider that an option. Otherwise, American carriers (except for T-Mobile) will freak out if you even mention running something other than what they put on t
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by moobot 16y ago
Except that shred is not guaranteed to work on many (most?) modern filesystems. From `man shred`: CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption: that the file system overwrites data in place. This is t
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by moobot 16y ago
It sounds as though the author uses OSX. Are there any tiling window managers that aren't limited to Linux/X11?
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by moobot 16y ago
It only does this for me on Windows. On Linux, I see the proper glyph.
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by moobot 16y ago
If I'm verifying the fingerprint of the server's certificate, is that not doing the same thing that the chain of trust would be doing?
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by moobot 16y ago
My biggest complaint with the SSL CA chain of trust is the way that self-signed certificates are (mis)handled. The connection is still an encrypted, "secure" connection to the server; it's the server's identity that is in question, and t
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by moobot 16y ago
Another user of Bitlbee here. It goes hand in hand with using irssi and a bouncer to maintain an always-on presence that I can take with me anywhere I go.
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by moobot 16y ago
I personally use ZNC and I love it.
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by moobot 16y ago
Not to mention that it will actually work better on Android with the ability to run in the background...