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by pietroalbini 10y ago
The Ubuntu images OVH ships (I assume they're the european provider) are bundled with an old, unpatched kernel and you need to install the one from the repos manually. Other than being unpatched/possibly insecure, it has a few fea
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
I guess the Canonical announce is the follow-up of the tweet the OVH owner sent a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11934459
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
Maybe the new containers feature in Firefox Nightly can be useful for you :)
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
But why should third party developers forced to use the engine Apple provides, instead of trying to innovate? The whole point of having different browsers is to have competition (which means better performance/new features), but curren
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Gandi security vulnerability: two factor authentication bypass(pietroalbini.org)
4 points by pietroalbini 10y ago|1 comments
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
Why using files is such an issue, if I can ask?
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
Some of the most popular static generators, such as Jekyll, are explicitly designed for blog posts.
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
Isn't https://www.getlektor.com what you're looking for?
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
You can store them on an external device you use for backups, or you can print them on the good old paper :)
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
If you, as an AOO contributor, prefer the Apache license and you want to contribute to that project is fine, that's your free choice :) What I'm worried about is the end user, the one who only knows "openoffice is the alterna
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
While in most big cities there's a good LTE coverage, in that area no major provider has an LTE network at all.
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
But the whole point of this is to remove some load from the mobile network, which is probably overloaded. Keep in mind that area isn't covered by LTE yet, and probably hasn't a robust mobile network like in the big cities.
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
Nope, the second factor is a password you must type in after inserting the sms code.
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Koding and GitLab: Contribute code faster(about.gitlab.com)
10 points by pietroalbini 10y ago|2 comments
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
The documentation of a lot of projects is really bad, I know, and something is needed to improve it. I think though the efforts spent on duplicating documentation on SO is just wasted: why don't you contribute back to the canonical o
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
My point is, why would you duplicate documentation both on the canonical source and in Stack Overflow? For example, Flask [1] has a great and complete documentation, but still someone is starting to duplicate it on SO Docs. Why are we was
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
What I'm most worried about is the duplication between the canonical documentation of a project and the StackOverflow one. As the author of an open-source project, I try my best to write a great documentation, and I would be a bit anno
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
Then host the auth server locally on your device. The great thing about the self-hosted sync server is, the storage and auth components are separated, and the storage one just stores encrypted blobs. If you want you can trust Mozilla with t
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
You can also use your own auth server if you want... Just host it on your machines and change the URL in about:config.
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
With Firefox, you can also self-host the sync server on your machines, which is totally awesome. https://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync-1.5.html
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
Yeah, Launchpad has not the greatest UX. In the last comment [1] on the bug, it's mentioned the release in which the fix was released. From its page [2] you can see all the details of it, including its diffs. [1] https://bug
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
That was for the official client, which was renamed to certbot. The CA name was never meant to be changed. https://github.com/certbot/certbot
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
On the newest images (FreeBSD, Debian 8 and Ubuntu 16.04) you aren't tied to the kernels they provide (and I think they ship the stock kernels by default in them, altough I haven't checked yet). I agree though on older images goin
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
That wouldn't work (even if you should do that anyway). The stock kernel is in a separate package.
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
Check out this post: http://www.sysadminworld.com/2012/how-to-switch-to-the-stand...
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
Even if in this case the changes they make are damaging the system security, the trademark policy doesn't say anything about security or updates: you just can't ship unapproved changes in an image called "Ubuntu", regard
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
As a customer I'm happy if Canonical enforces this, because it means cloud providers can't advertise as "Ubuntu" insecure images, as OVH is doing.
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
We don't even know what this 1€/instance is paid for: the only source we have is a tweet from the OVH founder. Maybe there was a discussion before, or maybe not, we're just speculating here. My guess is the price is for certi
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
Yes, you could rightfully do it, and the package mantainer would probably rename the package or just remove it.
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by pietroalbini 10y ago
AFAIK they must certify their images, which means they should offer a stock or a stock-like image approved by Canonical. Unfortunately the only source we currently have is that tweet, which isn't the clearest one.

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