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by snuxoll 9y ago
Yes, I would run macOS - beyond my hardware issues and as much as I love open source desktops there's still too many software pains I have as well. Evolution has a terrible UI and does not play nicely with calendars on Exchange servers
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by snuxoll 9y ago
My W540 is absolute shit running Linux too, the thing randomly locks up and just running VMWare workstation causes the damned thing to heat up. The ThinkPad was once venerable brand, but I've lost all respect for it - at this point I&#
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by snuxoll 9y ago
Oh gosh, network admins might actually have to learn how to do their job, or, more likely, managers might have to learn how to listen to them? The horror!
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by snuxoll 9y ago
> Could you make a whitelist that, when faced with a site not on the whitelist, serves up a webpage that asks for the parent to enter a passphrase to add this site to the whitelist? I could, but it's a lot more work than just instal
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by snuxoll 9y ago
I hope any merger or purchase of Broadcom is thoroughly investigated, considering how much of the datacenter market and even consumer networking is reliant on them there's a lot of ways the entire industry could get messed up by the pu
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by snuxoll 9y ago
Makes it harder for my wife to introduce her to new things, if I used a whitelist she would have to pester me any time she wants to get her onto a new site and then there’s the PITA of dealing with CDN’s and other third party sources that c
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by snuxoll 9y ago
You should have a private CA setup if you're doing TLS inspection, I have one at home deployed through group policy/apple configurator profile to filter web traffic on any system my daughter is logged into (she's five and p
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by snuxoll 9y ago
> How much documentation are you required to give users? Ideally any diagnostic tools you have developed and schematics, the same things you should have available yourself as the OEM. Legislation like this isn't usually designed to
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by snuxoll 9y ago
How so? Apple already has detailed schematics, repair shops have been getting them through shady FTP servers for years - making them accessible at this point is the cost of putting them up for download. Hell, ANYBODY making consumer electro
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by snuxoll 9y ago
I haven't read the text of this bill, but the push for Right to Repair isn't that companies need to design their products differently - but they need to provide documentation and components so people other than the manufacturer ca
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by snuxoll 9y ago
Broken heart syndrome is real, elderly couples have been know to pass within fairly short time frames of each other even if all medical indications show they very well could have survived longer. Losing the one person you have shared so muc
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by snuxoll 9y ago
Nothing ever fills the loss of a loved one, it doesn’t matter if they’re a spouse, a parent, a child or a pet - a loved one is forever missing from your life. What I can say is with time things get better. No, time doesn’t heal all wounds -
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by snuxoll 9y ago
Fine, if they don't have any business reason for a native client they should just can the slack desktop app because it provides 0 benefits over the web app then. If you're going to do something do it right or don't do it at a
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by snuxoll 9y ago
And? I am absolutely tired of companies taking a giant dump on the experience of desktop applications. If you're going to make a desktop app make a damned desktop app, stop making everybody accept a terrible electron app because "
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by snuxoll 9y ago
PressReader on mobile is pretty decent, there are tons of free sample papers and magazines available you can give a try to get a feel for it to see if it's your thing or not. There's some annoying hiccups with the NYTimes replica
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by snuxoll 9y ago
The free replica edition is only included with a print subscription, you can subscribe to the replica edition directly [0] which also includes one standard NYTimes.com account however. If you have family members that you share (or would lik
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by snuxoll 9y ago
I ended up meeting in the middle. I have a Sunday-only subscription with the New York Times. I get a physical paper on Sunday and the rest of the week I have access to the replica edition included (which is the print edition, just available
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by snuxoll 9y ago
OpenID Connect is still not in any way comparable with traditional OpenID.
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by snuxoll 9y ago
Certainly possible, but now that the cat's out of the bag it may be possible to determine that such techniques were used depending on the specific case. If you had your computer worked on by Geek Squad and some time later find yourself
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by snuxoll 9y ago
> This is more akin to an electrician being called in to rewire the kitchen, seeing a locked basement door, picking the lock, and rifling through the boxes in the basement to find illicit materials. Which still produces admissible eviden
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by snuxoll 9y ago
> It also gives massive amounts of power to a non officer. It actually doesn't, which is why this is an INCREDIBLY stupid move by the FBI. Evidence submitted that was recovered by a private citizen of their own accord is admissible
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by snuxoll 9y ago
> The problem is getting paid to actively search for it. That sets up some perverse incentives. It doesn't just setup perverse incentives, it's a great way for the FBI to lose cases and have existing ones overturned now. If Gee
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by snuxoll 9y ago
Actually preparing and filing my annual tax return is indeed the single most annoying part of paying taxes, doubly so since I have an LLC I use when doing odd jobs. Business filings will never go away, but if I could just have the IRS autom
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by snuxoll 9y ago
You didn't remove rows, you had an unscheduled test of your restore procedures. I've done something similar before, forgot to disable autocommit in DataGrip and ran an UPDATE without a where clause - thankfully we take weekly full
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by snuxoll 9y ago
I've done it myself, I generally avoid it by using `shutdown -r` instead which will by default delay reboot for 1 minute (at least it does on CentOS/RHEL 7). It's annoying to wait the extra time, but having a period to backou
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by snuxoll 9y ago
Makes me realize how much I take quality of life features in modern servers for granted. We don't need to be physically present to reboot servers, eliminating the possibility (well, mostly) we will power down the wrong one like this -
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by snuxoll 9y ago
Requiring GPL’d software to function means your product is a derivative work, full stop as far as the spirit and letter of the license is concerned. Using it over a network instead of linking against it doesn’t change this, if you depend on
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by snuxoll 9y ago
MongoDB also makes their interpretation of the AGPL pretty well known - unfortunately it’s at odds with established interpretation of the normal GPL. Requiring GPL/AGPL software as a dependency even if you don’t link to it, but instead
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by snuxoll 9y ago
Sounds like San Francisco in a nutshell.
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by snuxoll 9y ago
Not all of the xpack features are free, security still requires a gold subscription with Elastic. In fact, there’s very little functionality in the xpac that DOESN’T require at least a gold subscription.

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