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by rietta 9mo ago
We are loosing so many of the legends. I don't distinctly watching the Chronicles when it first aired - was too young, not in the right market - but as a computer history nerd watching the videos on the Internet has been eye opening. I
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by rietta 10mo ago
Interesting. The model picked Trixie as the name for Debian 18, which is actually the name of Debian 13 which is a current release in 2025.
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by rietta 10mo ago
Very succinct, I agree. I honestly have never heard anyone—even those executing it poorly—try to frame Servant Leadership the way the original author did here (the "curling parent" analogy). I have certainly seen people fail badly
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by rietta 10mo ago
I think the author is significantly straw-manning the concept of servant leadership. The short take presented in the article doesn't match my lived experience with this style, both in secular and faith-based circles. The core idea is a
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by rietta 10mo ago
It was 2017 that I decided to go all in ensuring that my main work computers were built from parts sourced via the local Micro Center. The real eye-opening situation is even if I have a top line most expensive MacBook Pro or most expensive
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by rietta 10mo ago
I too am very sad. This has been my brand of ram for a long time. I’m also more of a software guy than hardware, but I appreciate being able to have high-performance gaming class systems for my work. It runs circles around much of the stuff
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by rietta 10mo ago
This sucks! I know more about software than hardware. Crucial is the only ram I have bought for decades now. As a practical matter does this mean one needs to buy DDR5 ram now from MicroCenter for a build planned for next year? I just put 1
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by rietta 1y ago
My informal use of private missed the mark in a strict legalistic sense. We are on the same page about email left on the server being subject to subpoena. For everyone else, unless you use POP3 to download your email to your own personal de
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by rietta 1y ago
The practical short answer is yes, yes it will. It is not privileged communication. It is not considered private since you have left it on a third party server. It is discoverable via legal process to the third parties that retain the chat
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by rietta 1y ago
I have started to come around to thinking that as a practical matter as an individuL, making sure things actually make it into an actual bona fide landfill and ate buried is the most ecologically friendly thing we can do. All the other alte
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by rietta 1y ago
We use grocery bags as trash bags for the small bathroom bins. Also to contain poopy diapers for sanitation purposes. The thicker plastic bags Kroger has uses for their pickup service are harder to use for this. Also are not being reused si
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by rietta 1y ago
I HATE short form videos with an abiding passion. As a user, my preference is long form YouTube videos I can listen to while my hands are busy with the dishes, dog walks, etc. I am ventured more into podcasts because even such videos are pa
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by rietta 1y ago
Yells at cloud with visions of Windows 98 menu slide out animations stuttering on the barely good enough for the new OS pc! ;-p
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by rietta 1y ago
I am confused. How can they be the first when there is an existing record? So fastest time but not first? An absolutely awe inspiring accomplishment!
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by rietta 1y ago
I personally think the plain text howtos and forums of 1996-2002 were way easier to follow than the video links that come up these days.
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by rietta 1y ago
I still play Solitaire on my computer sometimes ;-p
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by rietta 1y ago
I suppose we do not know what she looked like, but Moses had a Kushite wife and was criticized for it. "Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman." (N
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by rietta 1y ago
Indeed. Regular interaction in the region at minimum went from well from modern day Lebanon and down through Ethiopia (Kush). In the biblical timeline Moses had a Kushite wife. I have read a compelling account that links biblical Moses wit
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by rietta 1y ago
The article states that 'his genetic affinity is similar to the ancestry appearing in Anatolia and the Levant during the Neolithic and Bronze Age.' As a layperson, I don't think we would find this particularly shocking. It&#x
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by rietta 1y ago
And being permanently barred from possessing firearms in the USA.
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by rietta 1y ago
A major plot of my fictional book is going to be the resurrection of data from a DVD recovered from an archaeological site in from the ancient North American period (from the pov of the characters). It is a significant challenge fraught wit
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by rietta 1y ago
Data not continuously copied is lost. Ironically the most future proof media is becoming increasingly rare. Those gold layer dvds may last well into the future but the readers will not be available.
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by rietta 1y ago
Hard. I am slowly writing a book set in the future where we are a “digital dark age” where little to nothing is known about our time tentatively called Professor Bitrot.
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by rietta 1y ago
If the software written in a one year period of time for $100k is an asset then I, as a small business owner, can go to the local credit union and take out a loan on favorable terms with the that asset as collateral. No, of course not! They
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by rietta 1y ago
I am writing my member of Congress right now. --- I'm writing to express my urgent concern regarding the negative impact of the 2022 Section 174 tax code changes on small businesses like mine. As owner of Rietta, Inc., a small cybersec
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by rietta 1y ago
This US tax code change directly impacted my small business in a very real way that was directly felt by my household. In the past, it was a big boon for us and helped me afford to pay for some open source work and experimental things that
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by rietta 1y ago
Thousands is probably hyperbole, but there are many, many! One that I find regular use for when copy+paste does not work because I am either connected to a terminal emulation, vm, or something of the like is typeitforme. It takes the conten
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by rietta 1y ago
Fair point, but I only had limited HN commenting time budgeted, not getting a video set up to test this idea. I did confirm that the overlay feature exists via the official ffmpeg documentation.
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by rietta 1y ago
I never found bash scripting disagreeable. I have thousands of scripts for both work and my everyday computer usage. I keep a ~/bin folder in my path where I place useful scripts that I have written for my own use. One thing that keeps
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by rietta 1y ago
Wow, you are not wrong. I just asked Gemini "how can I use ffmpeg to apply a lower third image to a video?" and it gave a very detailed explanation of using an overlay filter. Have not tested its answer yet but on its face it look

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