placatedmayhem

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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
"The West" refers to everything west of the Appalachian Mountains or the Mississippi River. It comes from the early eras of the USA when those portions of the country were unexplored and perceived to be "wild". This is
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
EFF offers certbot in a Docker image, which is what I've been using for years: https://eff-certbot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html#al...
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
Teams is not free. It's been bundled for free with certain enterprise contracts. Here's list pricing for Teams: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/compare-micr...
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
Offering a product for free or a significant discount with another product where a company has a substantial portion of that market to get a foothold and kill off competition in the free-/cheap-product's market is called "bun
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
I have all 3 of the major consoles since their respective launches and a well-spec'd gaming machine from 2019. In the year I've had the Steam Deck, I've played more games on it than all other systems in my house combined. Sec
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
Every time I have to interact with a "captive portal", I'm annoyed at the hack implemented through DNS hijacking, rather than implementing and extending 802.1X and/or another layer-2 authentication scheme. The idea seems
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
"Meaningless" isn't accurate at this point. Media doesn't get nearly as severely downgraded (if at all), so the user experience of using an RCS chat is better than SMS/MMS. There are still disparities, though, that
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
As a peer post of yours pointed out, NIST changed guidance to discourage password changes years ago: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#memorizedsecr...
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
Is allowing direct install from internet (like how most desktop applications work) also required by the DMA? Or are all developers of independent apps going to be required to publish their app to some app store?
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
Apple has made opening non-notarized apps a huge pain. First, it was a setting in system preferences to allow unsigned apps. Then, that option was removed and it was the a are-you-sure-you-want-to-open-this dialog on every first run of a ne
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
There's a bypass, but it's not officially documented fwict. Some tech news outlets have reported on it, though. Here's a Microsoft answers post documenting it: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider&
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
Have you tried any straight herbal teas? Some herbals are mixed with traditional tea leaves, so you have to read the contents to differentiate. I've run into this with mint teas -- some are straight peppermint leaves, others mix in bla
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
I believe (but could be wrong) that common carriers are still allowed to discontinue service from abusive users, and unsolicited robocallers have been classified as abusive.
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Belgium plans temporary ban on use of Ozempic for weight loss(reuters.com)
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
The 400 feet AGL rule has nothing to do with the FAA's definition of publicly navigable airspace. FAA considers anything above "blades of grass" to be subject to under their authority. There's some question about what ma
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
It feels like the "for enthusiasts" branding is really just marketing for those less in the know who want to get something because it's targeted at experts. Somewhat similar to the now-prolific superficial "pro" bra
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
Same. Any time I'm asked a question like "How can I better understand Linux?" by someone new, I tell the person asking to do LFS and to take the time to understand it. Even some long-time system admins and software devs would
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
"Premises" is plural of "premise". While it is usually plural in this context, singular usage isn't wrong. Further, since the meaning is conveyed, the usage is, ahem, "perfectly cromulent".
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37404413
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
The FAQ link is not reflected in the actual BSL text, nor is the content of the FAQ included: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hashicorp/terraform/main/L...
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
I just checked a LAANC interface (Aloft Air Control) for 1 Hacker Way. Flights up to 250 ft AGL can be authorized in there. It's just inside KPAO controlled space, but that does not mean flights can't be authorized -- authorizatio
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
I'm subject to a moratorium on AGPL software at work. Some legal departments forbid or highly restrict use of AGPL licenses. They are concerned the licenses' viral nature causing problems for their software products. Not that I ag
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
> 2) Apple not being trapped in the “if we can’t sell a billion of them then why even bother?” mindset that so many other companies get trapped in, often because they’re not bursting at the seams with cash, talent, and runway. I feel lik
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
Agreed. Puppet Bolt has been better to me than Ansible, especially around Playbook YAML vs the Puppet DSL. Puppet seemed to fall out of the limelight when Ansible made it big, then Bolt got little love.
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
Exactly. These outcomes are the results of the algorithms and their tuning, whether intentional or not. Humans are responsible for it and can tune it differently, to a different result. However, these new tunings may reduce engagement or ot
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
Both things can, and I think are, true. I see it as reduced competition in both cases, corporate consolidation making companies huge and large copyright timelines. The long timelines stifle new creative works by keeping other, especially sm
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by placatedmayhem 3y ago
As I understand it, Apple's subscriptions represent the subscriptions themselves, not just the payment behind the subscription. So cancelling through the subscription interface on iOS actually handles the cancellation of the subscripti
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by placatedmayhem 4y ago
I suspect "GPT" is being used by the poster as a generic term for LLM-based AI. It's becoming a generic trademark, similar to "kleenex" and "google" (search). I've seen it used this way elsewhere.
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by placatedmayhem 4y ago
I put Fedora on my 2012 MBP Retina. I made a USB key, iirc with the Fedora USB image tool, then plugged the USB key into the MBP and held the Option key as I powered it on. USB key shows up as a bootable option.
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by placatedmayhem 4y ago
> But it's difficult to have much sympathy for companies that invested large sums of money into SVB without doing their due-diligence What due diligence would a bank customer do that would uncover the sort of escalating risk profile

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