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by pwg 4y ago
> What bugs me is when this is applied to remote workers in a way that seems optimized for in-office environments. > For example IT enforces that your screen becomes locked after 15 minutes of inactivity If your OS is MS-Win, try play
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by pwg 4y ago
> Does FLAC preserve the exact bytestream of the CD tracks? (As an analogy, PNG is "lossless," but it won't natively preserve the metadata of a raw digital camera image.) No, but if that is the definition being used, neith
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by pwg 4y ago
> How do I get that power into my gadgets? Wires and the proper size plug tip. > There is no option for buying a bag of 1000 tips. Incorrect. You can buy the tips, but yes, buying 1000 different sized tips will be costly. I.e., examp
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by pwg 4y ago
> personal penalties for the exec teams. Yes, but the penalties have to be such that the exec does not simply view it as "cost of doing business" and mark it down as a business expense.
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by pwg 4y ago
Just download what you want to watch with yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp And never see another youtube ad (other than ads the creators directly include as part of the video stream itself).
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by pwg 4y ago
> If these bits are supposed to be as unpredictable as possible That isn't the purpose of the embedded headlines. They are to show that the canary file was not created and signed two years ago and only just now posted to the websit
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by pwg 4y ago
> since the articles don't link the others in the series: I wonder why so many websites do not do this (and it seems the effect is quite common with more traditional 'publishers' such as this one). "Linking" is o
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by pwg 4y ago
HN gives you the power to decide your own preferred width for reading, instead of imposing a given value upon you. By not mandating a predefined width, you have full power to view it in any width you choose, simply by either adjusting the
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by pwg 4y ago
Rsnapshot ( https://rsnapshot.org/ ) and/or just plain rsync to a Linux machine running an md RAID5 array with LVM2 above the md array for creating/resizing/dropping partitions.
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by pwg 4y ago
Just go to the main archive site: https://archive.ph/ and search the URL. If it is already archived, you'll be able to open the archive copy. If it is not, then you are given the option of causing it to be archived, an
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by pwg 4y ago
Because as @tredre3 indicates, the GPU that is integrated onboard the CPU chip of the laptop is given 800MB to use as its frame-buffer space. Leaving 15.2GB for the OS to utilize. All GPU's need memory to store the frame-buffer. For
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by pwg 4y ago
> but the whole SSD capacity shown by Windows is 930GB. Because the OS shows you drive capacity in power of two units, while the drive manufacturers advertise drive capacity in power of ten units. And the small difference in size betwee
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by pwg 4y ago
> As of the last month or so, What other major event also occurred over "the last month or so"? That "event" historically results in a significant up-tick in total numbers of sales (and resulting numbers of packages s
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by pwg 4y ago
This one works from local files (no native cloud storage): https://www.pwsafe.org/ If the local directory it uses is mapped (via appropriate means) to one of the above cloud providers (i.e., a "dropbox" style mapp
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by pwg 4y ago
The point of the XKCD is not that the method is "secure" in an absolute sense. It is that it is a method for which the large group of people who would choose "Password0!" as their password [1] can use to create a passwor
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by pwg 4y ago
Mutt: http://www.mutt.org/
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by pwg 4y ago
A no-cloud password manager: https://www.pwsafe.org/ - data stored locally on your machine. With a whole host of alternate, compatible, implementations: https://www.pwsafe.org/relatedprojects.shtml
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by pwg 4y ago
> in wintry implementations they don't allow pasting into a password field With Firefox, setting the "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled" about:config setting to false stops this dark pattern, allowing one to paste into fie
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by pwg 4y ago
It is not true for the United States. The cost varies based on the distance between the shipper and the receiver. Shipping from New York to New Jersey is much less expensive than from New York to San Francisco.
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by pwg 4y ago
A no-cloud password manager: https://www.pwsafe.org/ With a whole host of alternate, compatible, implementations: https://www.pwsafe.org/relatedprojects.shtml Allowing for self-hosting (and in a few instanc
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by pwg 4y ago
And my related pet-peeve, entry of credit card number comes before display of shipping and handling charges for the order. I've abandoned carts at sites that did not provide S/H before they wanted my credit card number.
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by pwg 4y ago
> Or does every team doing microservices silently expect that one day a data team will start querying for a massive number of records-by-ID from every service, and the veterans in each team plan for this load pattern accordingly? What te
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by pwg 4y ago
The GP comment about "easy to brute force" must be read in context with the remainder of the comment about "easy to brute force": "Relies on human adherence to password best practices to maintain sufficient entropy.
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by pwg 4y ago
> if those are their concerns? Likely because those are not their "real" concerns, but they can't legislate their "real" concerns (because those would be illegal due to other statutes). So they try an 'end-
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by pwg 4y ago
> Why is it that when these discussions come up the proponents for controlling other peoples behavior always bring these ridiculous over the top stawmen with obvious answers? Because if the proponents expressed their real reason, it woul
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by pwg 4y ago
> They actively block auto fill or cut & paste Firefox -- set the "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled" setting in about:config to 'false'. No more "actively blocking paste" by websites.
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by pwg 4y ago
> I've never had a website outright reject certain special characters, This is exceedingly common for US Banks. You'll find, usually only after pasting in the newly generated random password and clicking submit, that the &quot
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by pwg 4y ago
> if I have my own server, but use Gmail as client, would google still read my data? The answer here would be "yes", at least from the "is it possible" viewpoint. > If you have migrated away Never had to migrate aw
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by pwg 4y ago
From what I recall from their advertising push from that time-frame, they advertised heavily their providing (I think) 1GiB of email storage for free, at a time when the other email providers offered on the order of 1 or 2 or 5 MiB of free
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by pwg 4y ago
> Want a password manager? It's a SaaS now. No, not all of them. Here is a password manager that runs locally, no SaaS: https://www.pwsafe.org/index.shtml -- plus here is a long list of compatible alternate version

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