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by the_biot 4y ago
I have run an ISP network, and I feel their pain. But if they sell it as unlimited and have no fair use policy, they need to honor their contract. The part of the T&C they point to just says they can terminate any contract for any reaso
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by the_biot 4y ago
When I get spam from a local-ish company I always send an abuse mail to their ISP or email provider. Sometimes it's ignored and I keep getting spam from that particular bunch of shitheads. So I set up my .forward to bounce spam from th
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by the_biot 4y ago
Possibly, but then 1) it won't require much in the way of maintenance or replacement parts, being a really low end EV, and 2) I suspect everything but the chassis is bog standard stuff you can get anywhere. This isn't going to be
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by the_biot 4y ago
Are you kidding? It's made his entire career , right up into 10 Downing Street.
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by the_biot 4y ago
> We are rushing towards a future where all of our food, water and energy is grown/harvested/generated/distributed by AI-driven machines. The number of people on the planet who will know how those AIs actually work will be
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by the_biot 4y ago
I would caution against applying a label like "Narcissistic Personality Disorder". That is a clinical term, only applied after diagnosis by a qualified professional. You have not met "Rick", nor had a chance to examine h
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by the_biot 4y ago
I always hate to see it as well, when companies degrade their product for the tiniest bit of extra profit. It's the classic one-less-olive-in-airline-meal story. Remember when a Big Mac was actually a big burger? It's a very small
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by the_biot 4y ago
I've never had the misfortune to work with somebody like that, or indeed let myself become like that, but I've seen this in open source projects. One got forked after years of misery, another eventually became obsolete technology-
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by the_biot 4y ago
> Maybe I could keep that battery in my house and use it to store solar electricity most of the time. That's utopian. These things weigh a ton, you'd need a forklift.
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by the_biot 4y ago
You walk along major roads, railways, rivers and under bridges checking for manholes. They have the owners' names on them. If it's the name of a telco, there's fiber in there.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Multiple locations, coordinated roughly at the same time: that's boyscout level hard. You need a map and a watch, is all. You don't need power tools, just a cutter. This is fiberglass coated in something like PVC. A knife will d
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by the_biot 4y ago
You're right, no racism. I'm used to such statements including some hatred towards specifically white men, but they didn't go there. Sorry.
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by the_biot 4y ago
That is utterly horrifying. It's so nakedly racist and sexist, and proudly so. I comfort myself with the idea that such rabid hatred isn't sustainable in the long run. People mellow out, society mellows out and becomes ever more
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by the_biot 4y ago
The everyday buffoonery is not very relevant in the long run, it's the broad strokes that make it into the history books. - GWB invaded Iraq under false pretenses, and ruined the place for generations. - Obama got Obamacare through con
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by the_biot 4y ago
It's right there in the announcement, albeit coated in tech-startup babble: they're out of money.
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by the_biot 4y ago
I'm not surprised at either OVH's or paypal's behavior. OVH has been on my shitlist (and email blocklist) for years, because of their tolerance of spammers on their network; abuse notifications are ignored. As for Paypal, the
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by the_biot 4y ago
The hard facts are literally in the last few paragraphs of this long article: "Tzi, the father [...] told Reuters he regrets that his children had gone to work. The family needed any income it could get at the time, he added, but is no
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by the_biot 4y ago
I agree that this is absolutely your manager's problem to fix, but going to them is risky. If you've got a bad manager on your hands, they may just take it to mean you should be fired, and that will solve the problem.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Before signing any legal document, you should have a lawyer read it. If that is not an option, you absolutely must thoroughly read and understand it yourself, as best you can. Don't sign if any of it seems iffy, or you're unsure
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by the_biot 4y ago
Having once been that manager, let me just add that there is a price to pay: all the corporate BS normally reserved for a whole team now lands on one person's shoulders. Combined with some personal stuff, this broke me. When you come a
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by the_biot 4y ago
You can actually just do without the keywords: it's easy to figure out what is intended since class will never reach 100, and code will never go under 100. Will make this more intuitive to use since there's nothing to remember. I&
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by the_biot 4y ago
Firefox's marketshare is hardly the point here. As bob1029 said, there's no earthly reason why you wouldn't just build a standards-based site and have it work on any modern browser.
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by the_biot 4y ago
That's a pretty one-sided view of Sun in their prime. They were also horrendously overpriced, and when Linux came along their overpriced hardware and software was obsolete. They were much too late to wake up to that, and climb down fro
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by the_biot 4y ago
Oh, I don't know. They've been like this for decades, at some point buying anything from Oracle, or believing anything they say, is just a laughable idea.
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by the_biot 4y ago
None of this is news, you can read about all of this in analysis pieces on the war in Ukraine, in many news sources. I understand that this guy is a Russian dissident of some sort, but to take this breathless tone is a bit much. As always,
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by the_biot 4y ago
Last release was 13 years ago, and it was archaic even then.
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by the_biot 4y ago
That is only the case because of the relayd step, which is optional. The Let's Encrypt certificate stuff is indeed a complication that wasn't always there, but is expected now. Other than that, any old Apache or Nginx basic config
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by the_biot 4y ago
Not a super fan of JSON, not least because it has no comments, but that was totally the right call on his part. We'd have a ton of semi-de-facto crap to parse out of comments by now.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Yikes, didn't know Onyx was that bad about their GPL requirements. Even worse, judging by [0] they're just hiding behind a wall of silence when asked awkward questions about it. I'm gonna go ahead and guess their customer sup
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by the_biot 4y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, because you're right. This tool is literally a wrapper around that.

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