throwawayninja

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by throwawayninja 5y ago
My college uses 1.1.1.1 as their iis administration endpoint, I was told the reason was "nobody would guess it so it reduces the number of dumb kids guessing the edu\Administrator domain password". Around the time cloudflare start
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
good riddance!
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Small question: what, in your opinion, is the definition of "better experience"? On one hand you can hide the hardware from users and make a limited form of success simple and easy (see windows + mac). On the other extreme you can
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
I second this thought, open source is all about figuring things out yourself and promoting individual independence. Designing documentation as if a group of engineers are suddenly required to give their time to some "newb 'custome
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
The telemetry is an interesting reminder; I wonder how difficult it would be to modify/reverse-engineer W11 to spit out garbage telemetry? Gigabytes and gigabytes of the stuff, just give MS the same garbage they give us.
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Your defense there is to file depreciation of the asset for the 363 days you used it; you could even steal devices to farm tax credits which can offset your regular income tax this way!
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Linked article mentions wax, as does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron : Speculative uses include as a candlestick holder (wax was found inside two examples); dice; survey instruments for estimating
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
My 8-second take: I imagine candles weren't all that standardized, and obviously a candelabra can only hold one size. If this was used to hold candles it has the advantage of being small, versatile (12 diameters), but the pins will ens
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
Arch user here who's slapped the Pantheon desktop on top of it; I don't use it often, mostly an i3 guy, but when I do it's beautiful and I love the work Elementary OS has put into it. All I need to add are those dancing icons
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
I expect OP is young (as am I) and our biggest threat is that we often don't know what the wise investment is. My personal strategy is to invest in: Skills > Tools > Relationships > Knowledge > Cash for rainy day > Stock
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
I left my first job for that reason, management had a complete inability to progress from "it works" to "it works well".
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
I would like to register the security issue: "import os; os.system('cat /etc/shadow')" demonstrates that without a kernel to check permissions (and without a user ID to be checked against), all filesystem safet
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
I absolutely love doing this, usually in the other direction: external USB3-or-better hard drive which can boot by itself or be loaded into QEMU on linux/window/macos. Excellent way to treat operating systems like browser tabs.
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
We found the Arch Linux developer XD "All hail rolling releases, why haven't you updated yet? I published it 15 minutes ago!"
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
I find the profanity nicely limited and appropriate; if the comment had gone on to curse institutions in general / not share a constructive anecdote that's where I'd call it inappropriate.
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
I have anecdata of the opposite: my ThinkPad T590 cannot install windows with the .iso from microsoft, you need hardware drivers for the NVMe SSD off another disk during the install. I think windows and linux are about equal in terms of har
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
I love Arch, and have always considered Debian + debian derivatives to be subpar because of packages + community issues. I need to go check out Debian rolling, never knew that existed. Could be a useful hybrid for coworkers who believe roll
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by throwawayninja 5y ago
No, it never even had a resizable terminal until early win 10. Unix terminals are an economic powerhouse in themselves and binutils like sed/awk/grep (which windows never had and you need to modify windows to have these tools).