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by trelane 2y ago
If you're opposed to fast and cheap, I have great news for you about the cost and pace of construction in the US.
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by trelane 2y ago
I meant more the overall system than the system changes in design doc itself. The new bits of the system one at least has a little control over.
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by trelane 2y ago
> This is why they pay so high. Ah, ah, ah. This is why they pay so high so far.
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by trelane 2y ago
If
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by trelane 2y ago
That, and to comply with bureaucratic requirements. And commenting on others' docs, to "show leadership." I long for design docs that are worth more than their cost.
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by trelane 2y ago
What if I told you these are their "true metrics?"
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by trelane 2y ago
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/how-set-ad-blocking-our-app "How to set up ad blocking in our app" Dated May 27, 2021 I would guess it started with something like this: they serve DNS to prevent DNS leaks wh
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by trelane 2y ago
> I don't know if it's easily configurable in the app, though. I just discovered it by accident the other day. It's super easy. See "DNS content blockers" at https://mullvad.net/de/help/
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by trelane 2y ago
There are settings to help with that, though. https://mullvad.net/en/blog/aiding-to-break-habits-gambling-... https://mullvad.net/en/blog/how-were-knocking-down-ads-and-t... It's no
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by trelane 2y ago
For me, (one of) the moments was when there figured out how to do remote attestation of the server to check that what it was running was what you expected, so you could check its privacy yourself. Rather a neat subversion of the common co
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by trelane 2y ago
Who is "we" here? What is your approach for more seasoned folks?
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by trelane 2y ago
> The reason those orgs use O365 is that there isn't a better option with the same ROI and staffing requirements. It because a defacto standard because no one offered anything better. As you pointed out once the goal posts shifted,
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by trelane 2y ago
> It's not really about open source versus priority, it's about open source quality, which quite frankly isn't there. ... > Show me an open source O365 equivalent that scales to the 10,000 seats in my org. ... > Now
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by trelane 2y ago
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-online/ You're welcome.
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by trelane 2y ago
For me, it's being able to do much, much more than the "standard" editor keys, and the (mostly) coherence. And the ability to easily add more to do what I want.
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by trelane 3y ago
You mean "not chrome?"
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by trelane 3y ago
"Pay for it with your face?" At a burger joint?! As an occasional connoisseur of Nickelodeon's You Can't Do That on Television back in the day, I can only state that I hear the obvious punchline / catchphrase reso
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by trelane 3y ago
And failing in weird abd obscure ways if your browser is slightly outside the mainstream. Like if it's SeaMonkey.
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by trelane 3y ago
> Some people just need simple mail facilities, not a Rube Goldberg 'ribbonware' cube. Fortunately for those people, mutt still exists.
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by trelane 3y ago
> What product isn’t filled with adware or telemetry now? Linux and BSD come readily to mind.
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by trelane 3y ago
> Not sure why would I need online service that can cut me off at any point with no recourse But both of those can cut you off at any point with no recourse. Read the EULA carefully. The only one that can't is LibreOffice.
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by trelane 3y ago
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928173
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by trelane 3y ago
It matters when there One Dominant Vendor. In that case, when format errors and other small errors arise, the reaction depends. If it's the dominant vendor's software, then the user considers the other either normal or in their en
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by trelane 3y ago
The phrase is, "nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft." It's descended from the same phrase, applied to IBM, when they were the power.
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by trelane 3y ago
I've seen this discussed a fair bit, and always the recommendation is to use wire guard and expose ssh only to the "local network" e.g. https://bugs.gentoo.org/928134#c38 First, I don't see how this work
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by trelane 3y ago
Looking at new stories with skepticism is always warranted. As you point out, the original sources provided just that. Immediately quashing them as "misinformation" is not legitimate in a free society. That the report was true m
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by trelane 3y ago
"There sure was disinfo being peddled during that saga, but not from the Democrats." Good one. Please pull my other leg. Update: if it's sincerely not clear why the precious comment about "not from the Democrats" wa
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by trelane 3y ago
They do. All the time. It seems to only be news when they support Trump or are against the Democratic presidential candidate, though. https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2024/01/foreign-interferenc... https:&#x
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by trelane 3y ago
> One must wonder why almost all foreign interests opposed to the United States maintaining our superpower status - the Russians, the PRC - are opposed to a particular candidate (President Joe Biden). They're not. Your perception is
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by trelane 3y ago
Maybe one could create a department to maintain veracity in the public sphere. Some sort of ministry of truth.

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