stuartd

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   by stuartd 4y ago

   Seems your tweet was posted about the time the post was made? dug looks like it will be very useful, thank you
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   by stuartd 5y ago

   The basic paid plan is pretty cheap and lets you use your_subdomain_name.ngrok.com as the address.
3. 123.▲
   by stuartd 5y ago

   Oh yes. Very much so. Hey, it’s better than FAT-32!
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   by stuartd 5y ago

   Been running Windows Server as my desktop dev environment since NT4. Back then it was so the dev environment was the same as the server environment, that’s pretty much fixed now so it’s just to avoid all this horrible store nonsense. Can’t
5. 125.▲
   by stuartd 5y ago

   Should it be? I imagine the number of people who use Regedit is less than one per cent, and those people really don’t care what it looks like? (yes, RegEdit is a terrible UX but for me familiarity makes me less likely to make mistakes in a
6. 126.▲
   by stuartd 5y ago

   Loss of familiarity - “where’s my cheese gone?!” - seems likely
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   by stuartd 5y ago

   Me too, on my work PC which must be nearly 10 years old by now. I don’t get why people run an app that bundles a browser when they can run the app _in_ a browser? I must be missing something (only use teams with an external partner, and not
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   by stuartd 5y ago

   Outlook 97 was the last decent version (and I think the last version to fully support Lookout, whose ability to index public folders before people thought ACLs were necessary resulted in some interesting discoveries). Then again I have (rea
9. 129.▲
   by stuartd 5y ago

   > his English term Datalogy never really caught on though Perhaps because no one had any idea about how it would be pronounced?
10. 130.▲
    by stuartd 5y ago

    > Drivers can't do any of [these] even while their vehicle isn't moving. The government will revise The Highway Code to explain that being stationary on the road, such as at traffic lights or in the middle of traffic jams, stil
11. 131.▲
    by stuartd 5y ago

    No, I don’t. Bought exactly one thing from Amazon in the last 18 months literally because I could not get it anywhere else (and I searched for a week before I gave up and bought my mechanical backlit Mac keyboard from the devil)
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    by stuartd 5y ago

    I learned this technique the first time I actually worked with a real DBA many years ago and have used it ever since: one thing I like about it is that is mitigates the ‘fear factor’ of production changes, as (topically) ‘fear is the mind k
13. 133.▲
    by stuartd 5y ago

    Does that allow you to set up a new PC as an exact copy of the old one? Because Time Machine does just that, and I’d really like to find the Windows equivalent.
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    by stuartd 5y ago

    Backblaze is great, but it’s not a replacement for time machine (and I use both). Being able to buy a new Mac and make it into an exact copy of the old Mac by using time machine is amazing - I’ve done it a few times over the years, and it s
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    by stuartd 5y ago

    You can set iOS Safari to default to reader mode for all websites in Safari/Website settings/Reader/All websites Then for sites you don’t want to use reader mode in, you turn ‘User reader automatically’ off in the site settin
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    by stuartd 5y ago

    Perhaps not common, but certainly still in use: The Queen’s Duck - https://bwiggs.com/notebook/queens-duck/
17. 137.▲
    by stuartd 5y ago

    As a long-time Nightly build user as my main browser (since Phoenix 0.4 or so), I'm used to things breaking. So set my UA to this to see if anything happens: > Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:93.0) Gecko/2
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    by stuartd 5y ago

    Everyone: “don’t kill your customers!” Google: “plenty more where they came from”
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    by stuartd 5y ago

    Definitely agree. Blocked ads since 2003 or so, when they started going crazy. I even remember the name of the site I used for CSS ad blocking - https://www.gozer.org/mozilla/ad_blocking/
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    by stuartd 5y ago

    If the $1,000,000 specialist machine you absolutely rely on needs XP or 9x, which is very often the case in medical or industrial scenarios, that's not an option. What you _can_ do is use an alternative to the built-in (un-updateable)
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    by stuartd 5y ago

    Containers are 1000 times better than profiles!
22. 142.▲
    by stuartd 5y ago

    The ampersand symbol is a ligature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographic_ligature
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    The last thing I think I got from SO was an implementation of the Boyer-Moore Algorithm for a byte searcher. I think retyping it would have probably introduced bugs: and as it worked on a test case I had to hand and could verify (finding th
24. 144.▲
    by stuartd 6y ago

    > End-to-end encryption poses an unacceptable risk to user safety
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    archive.org link - https://web.archive.org/web/20210129191423/https://learn.rob... And for the “what is communism” article referred to below: https://web.archive.org/web/202010212108
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    UK pumps still have a hole which you can push a little rod through to lock the pump on.
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    For me, Proudhon [0] said it best, 180 years ago (did a bit of tidying, e.g. de-capitalization, paragraphing): > To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated,
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    This is the story as I read it the other day: https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-internet-domain-owner-who-fo...
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    I don’t see that in the parent comment, though, to which my misguided reply has been heavily downvoted? I guess I need to learn more about this. Edit: or just stay out of it.
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    by stuartd 6y ago

    Ok sorry, please forgive my misunderstanding, it sounds like you’re saying Cloudflare is a ‘malicious DNS resolver’, but I guess I’m wrong there as well? I opted into DoH when it became available in Nightly (though not in the US), am I bein