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by pch00 2y ago
> I hope big internet companies boycott the UK So at least there's a potential bright side for people in the UK :-)
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by pch00 2y ago
ShutUp10 might be what you're after: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
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by pch00 3y ago
> So I guess what this really means is someone at a big corporation making Linux distros should audit their full dependency tree. This is it precisely. When you're paying Redhat for an "enterprise" Linux then that guarant
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by pch00 3y ago
If you live in the EEA you'll soon be able to get a de-crapified Windows 11 direct from Microsoft: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/europeans-can-soon-s...
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by pch00 3y ago
Reminds me of the "householdresponse.com" domain quite a few people in the UK have been exposed to at one time or another... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-gov-keeps-...
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by pch00 3y ago
> Industry: don’t treat your systems like pets. The industry has this narrative because it suits their desire to sell higher-margined cloud services. However in the real world, especially in academia as cks is, the reality is that many
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by pch00 3y ago
So basically, the current iteration of the AVP is the Apple Newton: you can kind of see where the product could lead to but right now it's held back by the realities of current technology.
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by pch00 3y ago
So much this. My inbuilt desire for perfectionism occasionally leads me to believe I can create "the perfect system!" using tools like Obsidian, etc but what actually happens is that I spend a large amount of time working on the
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by pch00 3y ago
Oh god I wish someone from Apple would read this; I only buy iPhones for the software, I couldn't care less what the case looks like and would take rugged over fancy any day. My favourite ever iphone was the plastic-bodied 5C, never fe
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by pch00 3y ago
A possible reason: if you're already a RHEL shop, you're happy with your RHEL support contract and you train up all your folks to be RHCE, then Cockpit is the "supported" web admin tool. Second: webmin also has a patchy
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by pch00 3y ago
dmarcian have a free "personal" tier: https://dmarcian.com/pricing/
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by pch00 3y ago
Were they expecting lots of cracked backs perhaps? https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/23/iphone-15-pro-max-back-glass-...
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by pch00 3y ago
In that case can I please have my 1st gen Nest Hub back on the pre-Fuchsia OS please? Ever since the "upgrade" it's been more laggy and requires semi-regular power cycles, as if there's a memory leak somewhere.
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by pch00 3y ago
Massive condolences to the families of those involved :( I wonder, what happens to OceanGate as a company now? They've lost the CEO who I suppose bore the ultimate responsibility but are other executives on the hook here? Would a full
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by pch00 3y ago
> Are you sure about that? I couldn't activate 2FA in my Google account for years because they didn't enable the option without giving a phone number first. Just checked, and yes, no phone or email recovery methods configured.
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by pch00 3y ago
Microsoft "consumer" (live.com, etc) accounts are like this. They have a whole set of advanced, secure options like security keys, TOTP, etc but they force you to have either an email or SMS recovery option configured :( Google o
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by pch00 4y ago
Silverblue doesn't get a lot of press but it makes a really solid desktop OS.
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by pch00 4y ago
> I still own a iPad 3 with the same, old, software stack from 2013. It still works, I can do things. I just don't expect todays developers to make a herculean effort so that I can run their apps on my old device. The fact that &quo
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by pch00 4y ago
Yes, Solaris was doing "containers" in the mainstream before Linux but pointing that out as a response to articles like these misses the point of how and why Docker exploded; it was Docker's UI, the user experience and Docker
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by pch00 4y ago
Another very satisfied Wipr user here - it just works.
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by pch00 4y ago
> In fact, the influence went the other way. Purchasing Doubleclick sealed Google's fate, and their mindset came to permeate Google, turning it into what it is now. This has always been my view. Google died in 2007, the thing that&
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by pch00 4y ago
What's the "AI" component? Not being arsey - genuinely interested, but couldn't find anything on the website.
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by pch00 4y ago
I've started wondering recently if we're starting to see a slow, gradual rejection of online shopping and going back to physical stores. I was in my local chain record store recently and physical albums seem to be back, especially
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by pch00 4y ago
LTT recently did a video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c
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by pch00 4y ago
> You can see their server and client code here: https://github.com/bitwarden But in the case of the mobile apps, downloaded from their respective platform's app store, how can you guarantee the code you see on gith
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by pch00 4y ago
since going teetotal a few years ago I can't stand the smell or taste of beer any more. Even walking past a pub sometimes I find the smell revolting I've had the same issue with cigarette smoke since I quit ~20 years ago. The s
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by pch00 4y ago
Title doesn't match, it's ripped from the first paragraph which really doesn't encompass the theme of the article. Yes, in hindsight it came off more clickbaity than intended. The article did raise a theme of frustration I
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LaTeX Makes Me Angry(jmtd.net)
67 points by pch00 4y ago|100 comments
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by pch00 4y ago
I use (& recommend) mxtoolbox's email health check: https://mxtoolbox.com/emailhealth Not affiliated at all, just a happy user.
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by pch00 5y ago
Not to mention the Fuchsia logo looks very much like the Fedora Linux logo.

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