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The Practice of Change – How I survived being interested in everything(practiceofchange.org)
5 points by sn 6y ago|1 comments
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by sn 6y ago
I don't believe you clicked on any of the articles. They "harvest facts," but also provide references to the source material. See for example: https://www.allsides.com/story/pennsylvania-and-nevada-certi.
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by sn 6y ago
https://www.allsides.com/about is trying to combat exactly this issue. I'm surprised they weren't referenced in the original article.
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by sn 6y ago
This media bias chart may be of interest: https://www.adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart-2... Reuters and AP are rated similarly there. Granted that you need to read the websites methodology to determine whether
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Diffspeak – Blindly Viewing Diffs(prgmr.com)
1 points by sn 6y ago|0 comments
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by sn 6y ago
Not a bad idea. When do you plan to add a privacy policy?
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by sn 6y ago
We repartition it because we're adding partitions. We have one kickstart file that we use regardless of medium type. For SSDs, we overprovision and leave unused space at the end. Some brands of SSDs were failing before we did that. We
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by sn 6y ago
The sfdisk is because as part of our kickstart file we only create the first partition. After removing the disk from the raid we repartition it. I don't see why this couldn't fix up a RAID device generated by the debian installer.
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by sn 6y ago
Brave appears to be currently ad based, so no not the same. I guess the micropayment model failed, maybe because it used bitcoin? https://brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/
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by sn 6y ago
There is another discussion which may be worth having: why was this feature enabled by default without considering how the software is used? What process was missing? Is this still a problem, and if so is it pervasive to Linux kernel develo
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by sn 6y ago
I added https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prgmrcom/ansible-role-mdad... for you. Apologies I haven't gotten to your PR's yet, but there is a ticket now in our internal development queue to review and merge th
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by sn 6y ago
I don't know Debian's specific history, but having participated in volunteer organizations, getting everyone to agree on how to spend money can be tricky. Personally I'd love to be making more open source contributions as wel
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by sn 6y ago
I think I would like to see mozilla do is act as a micropayments service provider to websites based on aggregated browsing history, and take a small service fee for it. I already use firefox. There's no other company right now I would
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by sn 6y ago
This blog post has been changed to clarify the context for why daemonization is in use (the service is very old, meaning it predates systemd) and also gives an even more simple sample program that illustrates the underlying issue without us
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by sn 6y ago
I put in our privacy policy that customers will be notified if majority ownership changes, but had not considered advance notification of the ownership change. Such a clause might work as long as it's part of the sale contract to adjus
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by sn 6y ago
One thing we couldn't figure out from the documentation is encrypted root with serial console: https://prgmr.com/blog/openbsd/2020/05/08/openbsd-encrypted-... I have gotten it on someone's
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by sn 6y ago
It's not a summary by number of words, but it if someone doesn't want to read the article, it's what I want them to be aware of. It's frustrating the number of silly things you can do at the command line that persist for
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by sn 6y ago
TL;DR - we'd like someone to add warnings to ifconfig etc. if no netmask is supplied. I could do it but don't have the time.
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by sn 6y ago
prgmr.com has updated it's openbsd installer version to 6.7. We were a bit surprised to see "Fixed softraid(4) CRYPTO volumes on 4K-sector disks" in the release notes. We don't have any 4k logical sector drives but for s
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Full Disk Encryption with OpenBSD and a Serial Console(prgmr.com)
3 points by sn 6y ago|0 comments
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by sn 6y ago
To my best knowledge, I and lsc are the only people associated with prgmr.com who post semi-regularly on HN. lsc isn't involved much beyond having a minor stake in the company. lsc set up the Safeway divider advertisements. It was pr
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by sn 6y ago
Python is totally possible with a screen reader; the screen reader just needs to read out punctuation. It's easier with a self voicing application like emacs.
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by sn 6y ago
Maybe it's not programming without sight that's hard, but working with sighted programmers who use tools that aren't compatible with screen readers.
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by sn 6y ago
My company (prgmr.com) gave a presentation about hiring our first blind engineer at SCALE last year: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/presentations/accid... https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by sn 7y ago
justworks is a PEO and their PEO certification is currently suspended. https://www.irs.gov/tax-professionals/cpeo-public-listings https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/suspended-cpeos.pdf
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by sn 7y ago
I saw that it's legally possible to form an association health plan. I don't think there are very many of them, or if there are, they are not public organizations.
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by sn 7y ago
https://www.takecommandhealth.com/ is an existing option for an ICHRA or QSEHRA. I am not clear what savvy is offering that isn't offered by them. A professional employment organization (PEO) is required to get group r
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by sn 7y ago
For a while prgmr gave out complimentary service with no end date and that was a mistake. It's much better to do a year at a time so that you aren't stuck trying to figure out what to do if the account contacts stop responding.
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by sn 7y ago
Regions like for TV and movies. IE, they sold a drive in Asia and someone sold it to us. We do a warranty check and are told that we can't get a warranty for that drive because we're in the US. It's worth doing a warranty che
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by sn 7y ago
We stopped buying drives from Amazon when we got drives for "the wrong region" and couldn't RMA them. NewEgg is a bit better, but don't buy refurbished drives. Provantage is another reputable vendor that usually has dece

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