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by rietta 7y ago
Pottery Barn, owned by Williams-Sonoma, is a weird mention. They sell household goods from mall stores and their online catalog. There exposure to GDPR should be pretty minimal. Ship the product and don't sell your customer list and ba
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by rietta 7y ago
Yeah, some things can sync over the network but it is not the backup. One can suppose that such would compete with iCloud. My approach has been since I have to change the iPhone and iPad anyway, might as well charge them from the computer w
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by rietta 7y ago
Back the iPhone and iPad to the Mac via iTunes. Backup the Mac encrypted to any available NAS or USB drive with Time Machine. For offsite, backup Mac to Backblaze for $50/yr.
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Git Protection from Repository Attacks in 15 Minutes(rietta.com)
3 points by rietta 7y ago|0 comments
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by rietta 7y ago
Not saying its right, but they have so many fingerprints of non-criminals. Anyone who has served in the US military has their biometrics and fingerprints on file. Jobs with children (teachers, daycare workers, church child care people) can
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Are You Accidentally Storing Private Data in Plain Text?(rietta.com)
4 points by rietta 7y ago|0 comments
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by rietta 7y ago
I tried unsuccessfully to get a usb Xbox controller to work with this game recently on ubuntu. Never found a workaround to get it to be recognized as a controller or keyboard. I do love this game though!
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by rietta 8y ago
Agreed. That was exactly who I thought the headline was referring to.
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by rietta 8y ago
Which is why you have to use other protocols and key authentication. Whatever the current equivalent of Cram-MD5 or just plain public key HMACS. I wrote about this 15 years ago in April 2004 - https://rietta.com/blog/20
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by rietta 8y ago
In 20 years of being a "member", I would say that American Express has had the best customer service of any bank I've ever dealt with. It has been painless even when traveling and when I have had to rent a car I've alway
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by rietta 8y ago
Longer. I used it once around 2006 to pay for an academic conference that the university was reimbursing me for. Looking back, the university making me pay registration during one of the most cash strapped points in my life was crazy.
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by rietta 8y ago
This is it. I picked "U.S. computer hardware, software, and cloud computing purchases made directly from select providers." As a software development company, this choice represents a meaningful discount on some of our biggest ong
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by rietta 8y ago
This is a HUGE deal for heavily used electronics that tend to fail around the end of the warranty. Amex has paid money back to me for major repairs on the last two MacBook Pros and they paid me the cost of replacing an iPhone 6s when the he
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by rietta 8y ago
I want to know what sort of extended warranty insurance they will provide. There was no mention of this in the presentation today. They mentioned giving 3% cash back on anything bought from Apple. Right now American Express is giving me 3%
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by rietta 8y ago
I have to admit that this was a bigger challenge that I wish I had paid attention to before buying. I have gotten used to it after about a week though. A little more scrolling that I like but not unusable. For my hardcore coding work I almo
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by rietta 8y ago
I went the with Dell XPS 13 for this refresh cycle. Typing on it now. Running Ubuntu 18.04 and its a great little machine. I can even use my already owned Apple USB-C to HDMI/USB adapter when giving presentations. I had switched in 201
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by rietta 8y ago
I used to use Qmail! But not since about 2005 when I finally converted to Postfix if memory serves.
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by rietta 8y ago
Oh I agree on the layers. I'm all about the defense in depth.
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by rietta 8y ago
The risk is not completely unmitigated in that they generate random database, user, and passwords automatically. These are not the 'appname' password your security-clueless developer chose. The question is what is the risk that Po
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by rietta 8y ago
Honestly, I pain for the days of 90s UI. They were so much clearer and usable even with significantly less pixel density than we have today.
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by rietta 8y ago
Geez. This is the truth. Applying A/B tested mobile design fads from consumer app to data driven for-professional-use software is leading us in a very bad direction.
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by rietta 8y ago
"For high emissions, Atlanta's climate in 2080 will feel most like today's climate near Saraland, Alabama." If I'm still around at 98 years old, I'll be inside in the air conditioning.
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by rietta 8y ago
updated mosaic.png seemed to not be a good long term name. On my local I changed it to "Moon 50,000 Image Composite by A James McCarthy 2019.png"
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by rietta 8y ago
Thanks! And now I'm sharing back out as well.
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by rietta 8y ago
I have a fond place for QBasic. I started to teach myself programming (as a 14 year old in the 90s) with GW Basic because my dad's older computer had disks and a manual. I quickly learned that if I upgraded to DOS 5 I could get QBasic
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by rietta 8y ago
Maybe I'm responding to a more direct personal experience of "so you're just consulting then". Anyway, this is not a problem I have not overcome in my own business. There are some very huge consulting companies in the At
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by rietta 8y ago
That is a great book! I totally need to re-read it again.
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by rietta 8y ago
That's one dream. That is the pathway to a self-funded startup which is a different type of business. There are also excellent resources to help learn how to do customer discovery and product development in that path.
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by rietta 8y ago
I have misgivings about "consultant." In the Metro Atlanta area that almost universally means a solo person with the possible unstated thought that he/she is living off his/her spouses income. It's harder to get pla
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by rietta 8y ago
You should avoid being a "freelancer" at all costs. Do not let others use that term to label you and to downplay your worth and professional service rates. Create a services company, with a brand, and with a mission. Look at promo

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