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by scrapheap 2y ago
We leave backing up of the VMs themselves to our infrastructure team, but we also make sure that we have logical backups of our databases, so worst case we can restore our databases to a known point. Our local files can either be pulled fro
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by scrapheap 2y ago
Personally I'd avoid metal tools for cleaning it out as if you're not careful you can damage the socket. I just cut a thin slither off a bamboo skewer and use that - you can get a pack of 100 skewers for next to nothing at the su
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by scrapheap 2y ago
I think you need to elaborate on how you actually see the zero knowledge proof of this sort of information working. I would say that you can rule out browsing history as I'm pretty certain that most large advertising companies have a b
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by scrapheap 2y ago
It would depend a lot on the device, but open sourcing it would at least make it easier to move some devices to existing community supported projects (e.g. openWRT, DD-WRT, Rockbox). When that happens then there usually an improvement in b
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by scrapheap 2y ago
A Kanban board for reading. I do a similar thing a with a spreadsheet. If you keep track of the number of entries you have in each column then you can even plot a cumulative flow diagram - seeing it plotted out helps me realize when I'
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by scrapheap 2y ago
That animated background really makes the site hard to read :(
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by scrapheap 2y ago
> My experience is that a decent number of people still use RSA keys most of the time, but I don't feel like I have nearly enough of a sample size to conclude anything significant from that. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of
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by scrapheap 2y ago
I've been using OpenAPI for quite a while now and I find it quite easy to work with. Sure there were quite a few things that were hard to do in version 2 (a.k.a. swagger), but most of them were fixed in version 3. You're right tha
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by scrapheap 2y ago
Maybe if everyone on your team naturally uses systemd timers, but if they instinctively reach for cron then it's UX will be far superior for them.
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by scrapheap 2y ago
Useful things to consider when using Cron: * Do you know where it's going to send any output? If you're not certain then add a MAILTO entry at the start of the crontab to make it explicit * Do your jobs require additional environm
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by scrapheap 2y ago
Ironically the more you strip out the unnecessary layers of abstractions and frameworks the less likely you are to need to use a debugger to trace code as once you know the bug exists you can just see the cause in the source code - bugs you
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by scrapheap 2y ago
Fully agree. As I end up pointing out too many times in my day job - a problem has a minimum level of complexity that you can't go below and still solve the problem. Using a low code platform still requires you to do all the hard wor
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by scrapheap 2y ago
Learning and building are two complementary activities and saying you should concentrate on one more than the other doesn't feel like good advice. If you're not learning then you can't build well and if you're not build
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by scrapheap 2y ago
I used to have a similar problem, so I decided to move to go through my bookmarks every couple of months and delete any that I haven't used since I last checked them. I now have about 20 bookmarks that get used regularly and anything
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by scrapheap 2y ago
Varnish is one of those tools that has a very specific purpose (a highly configurable reverse caching proxy that is crazily fast). Most of the time I don't need it - but those places I have had to use it, it's made the difference
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by scrapheap 2y ago
I suspect that if the current trend in dropping the 3.5mm headphone jack continues then I'll have to move to USB-C headphones or at least an adapter.
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by scrapheap 2y ago
It's disappointing seeing the slow decline in the number of devices that include a 3.5mm headphone jack. Personally I don't want any hassle from my headphones, I just want to plug them in and use them.
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by scrapheap 2y ago
Pretty much, they're usually based on shared secrets and the current time. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_one-time_password and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC-based_one
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by scrapheap 2y ago
The worst bit is where it's happening because neither side wants to just sit down discuss what's actually required and how to provide it securely.
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by scrapheap 2y ago
I suspect that one of the main reasons is that people read it and think they have to adopt all of it. Personally I still recommend it to people but with the caveat that they need to think about what aspects from it they adopt and which don&
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by scrapheap 2y ago
If one of our less technical colleagues need to contribute they usually use the editing options in the GitLab project - they're already used to the interfaces as we make a lot of use of their issue boards. As a bonus most of them also
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by scrapheap 2y ago
We use a git repository full of markdown files for out team's documentation and it works really well for us. Benefits include: * It's really simple for people to use and update. * Everyone can keep a copy locally on their own mach
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by scrapheap 2y ago
Surely, important bugs are ones that make it into production and impact your service - so any solution that catches bugs and stop them making it into production aren't catching the important ones. Your point about automated testing onl
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by scrapheap 2y ago
I have a better understanding on where you're coming from now, with your main experience of Perl being later version 4 and early version 5 of the language - things have significantly improved since then and it's a lot easier to wr
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by scrapheap 2y ago
Like most programming languages Perl is fine, but there are things in it that could be better. Yes you can make a mess in it, but you can do that in any language. P.S. Why did you write a blogging system in a language you obviously hate? :
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by scrapheap 2y ago
It might not be an environmental cause - if people are genetically more susceptible to those cancers when aged between 20s and their 40s then a lot of people in the older age ranges would have already died from them before the year 2000 and
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by scrapheap 2y ago
A few things that I find don't get considered when contemplating backup procedures are: 1. How long should you keep backups for - is the content of your backup covered by privacy laws that require you to not have copies of it after a c
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by scrapheap 2y ago
Just wait till your company depends on restoring that backup :D
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by scrapheap 2y ago
I've used Go quite a bit for personal projects recently and I've been impressed with a lot of it - but the bit that's really stands out to me is the effort that goes into their standard libraries. They seem to contain most o
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by scrapheap 2y ago
There's "gotchas" with every encryption scheme - in fact whenever TLS uses any Public Key encryption scheme it'll pair it with a Symmetric Key encryption scheme. So you could say that by your definition no Public Key en

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