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by spondyl 6y ago
Having actually run through spantaleev's matrix-docker-ansible-deploy twice in the past, and run the Matrix bridge stack for a few months each time, this is interesting. Eventually I would have some bridges get out of sync (ie I respon
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by spondyl 6y ago
See also: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html > I wrote this document in 2004, explaining the approach to privilege separation that xscreensaver has taken since 1991. Of course, the people doing needless
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by spondyl 6y ago
I guess Drew never got the memo
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by spondyl 6y ago
What I hope for: Someone with plenty of experience who chooses to invest in interesting people problems and tries to coordinate towards a future that is shared across silos What I usually expect: Someone with plenty of experience who choose
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by spondyl 6y ago
On a side note, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of this blog theme the author has going. It has a kind of homey feel thanks to the owl and the little + symbols in the background wallpaper
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by spondyl 6y ago
An interesting excerpt from a recent Fox News interview with Parler's Chief Policy Officer[1]: Just watching a Fox News interview with the Parler Chief Policy Officer and she said "People seem to want [tech companies] to 'mod
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by spondyl 6y ago
Hmm, just to try and understand your view a little better, it sounds by that logic that toy makers should also provide technical schematics when they sell toys so that consumers could add or fix elements of what they bought?
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by spondyl 6y ago
* Sentiment regarding Slack will continue to decline regarding performance and increased micro outages. Perhaps a niche, light weight competitor slowly picks up steam * Kubernetes/overengineering fatigue continues. Perhaps we see some
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by spondyl 6y ago
Maybe I'm just doing something wrong but the two times I've used Logseq, I've managed to horribly destroy a page by breaking some special formatting which has made me back away in horror, thinking I could accidentally break m
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NZ government issues Covid-19 PSA “remix” for summer music festivals [video](youtube.com)
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by spondyl 6y ago
> considering Todoist have a Windows app but not a Linux one Todoist does have a Linux app, although it's effectively an electron wrapper around the web app. Having said that, I don't think this is unique to the linux version t
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by spondyl 6y ago
Ah, so there is! The "showdead" option. I had assumed the flagging worked on the level of editing the comment permanently for some reason rather than just hiding it
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by spondyl 6y ago
In a similar but less urgent vein, if you're having a quiet holiday much like myself but could do with a(n asynchronous) chat, feel free to send anything through to the email listed on my profile. Likewise, I'm sure other HNers ma
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by spondyl 6y ago
Here's an internet archive link to the original thread: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304102718/https://www.loung...
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by spondyl 6y ago
Ticketmaster is another NZ case that suuucks: https://help.ticketmaster.co.nz/hc/en-nz/requests/new They link to a Zendesk instance but the actual form doesn't seem to render at all hence no ticket can b
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by spondyl 6y ago
I saw the comment got flagged. Would you be able to share the gist of what it said for those of us who were late to the party?
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by spondyl 6y ago
There's a book called Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft by Zachary, G. Pascal The book itself is pretty interesting but there's one line in there about how Dave Cutler alwa
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I am lonely will anyone speak to me(en.wikipedia.org)
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The irony of this sort of stuff is that I've gone back to a number of services over the years where I cancelled and deleted my account but never to a service that made it hard to leave. Looking at you, New York Times
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by spondyl 6y ago
This somewhat reminds me of an old employer who had both proclaimed their belief in offsetting carbon emissions while also having a partnership in place with BP, I believe it was, where you could get a discount off your SaaS subscription by
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by spondyl 6y ago
I mean, they could have but it was in the press due to the installer operating as root to bypass the regular protections so it was damaging from a PR perspective https://www.csoonline.com/article/3535789/weakness-i
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by spondyl 6y ago
Ah yeah, one feature Zoom had was the multi-person grid view which Meet has nowadays but before, Meet would only show primarily the presented content or one speaker at a time
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by spondyl 6y ago
From what I remember, when remote working during the pandemic first started due to lockdowns, Zoom blew up because it was quite literally one click and you're in a call. The initial installer would do some funky stuff in the ground I b
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by spondyl 6y ago
If anyone was confused like I was as to what form the beta access page is talking about, it loads a script from Marketo which most any content blocker by default will stop from loading. In my case, I had to toggle off Firefox's Enchanc
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by spondyl 6y ago
Some enterprises may not be able to, such as those that block SSH ports, including the alternative non-22 port that Github hosts. Yes, that can also include enterprises who contribute to open source on Github yet block port 22 network wide.
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You'd be surprised honestly
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by spondyl 6y ago
I'd love to know if you have any tips on your images like were they preprocessed or scaled down? They're really well done and still high quality despite loading quick?
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Gang members robbing and assaulting people using Discord to buy drugs(stuff.co.nz)
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In the particular case I mentioned above, it seemed the recommended avenue was to do sign in on the backend so you could mock it out. Sounds fine on paper but in our case, we called out to multiple backends, with no unifying gateway that tr
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by spondyl 6y ago
While I understood absolutely none of the lower half of your about page, it's always great to see a fellow Aucklander here on HN!

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