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by vtail 8y ago
Amazing guide! You have a typo - a second ‘chown’ in mail setup section should be ‘chmod’
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by vtail 8y ago
Moderators: We should probably link directly to the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html , the undeadly link is nothing other than a 1-paragraph reference linking to the same.
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by vtail 8y ago
In addition to the problems already mentioned (Google collecting more data, Google making ad blocking harder), let me share another issue I have with this: Google is becoming a de-facto gate keeper to your website, turning bots away. Do you
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by vtail 8y ago
I was half-joking, of course, and what I meant is that it’s an optimization problem with multiple dimensions and tons of trade-offs. E.g., - low power or performance? - ease of use vs. tunability? - closed vs. open-source? For the server OS
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by vtail 8y ago
You are opening a Pandora’s box :). There is truly no easy answer - too much depends on your budget, needs, OS of choice, etc. A good way to start is to follow a few subreddits, like r/datahoarder or r/homelab to get some inspirat
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by vtail 8y ago
Thinkpads are VERY well supported - pretty much everything works, except bluetooth and fingerprint reader. I just ordered a Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen as a replacement for aging Macbook to use as a main home machine. You can search NYC*BUG
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by vtail 8y ago
FWIW, I will be getting a highDPI (25x16) screen for my Thinkpad, and I think it's a worthy upgrade at ~$100. But Lenovo does give you a choice in case you would rather use 1080p.
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by vtail 8y ago
I do believe there is an increasing demand for privacy, so hopefully in 4-5 years, if I need to upgrade my machine, I would still have a reasonable choice.
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by vtail 8y ago
> since Lenovo has been caught in the past shipping laptops with spyware Are you referring to [1]? Since I will be installing OpenBSD on this machine, I won't be affected by it. I do have to trust their BIOS, though, and unfortunate
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by vtail 8y ago
> Emphasis added, because of course you don't need to, and most people don't. Apple themselves have been working at it and Mojave contains a bunch of new restrictions and brings more visibility to what software wants what. That
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by vtail 8y ago
You can argue it's not a fair comparison, 15" Macbook Pros have a 6-core CPUs and a standalone GPU, and a 13-inch Macbook Pro with 8th-gen Intel core i5 and 16GB (which can be configured at $1,999 before tax) is a better one - eit
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by vtail 8y ago
I configured ThinkPad using Employee Perks website at work (many places have something like this), and got a 27% discount from the list price, which is only 2% higher discount vs. the promotion they have been running recently (thinkx25 disc
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by vtail 8y ago
Sorry to hear about your troubles. When I was a consultant (and used Thinkpads heavily at work) they worked pretty reliably with a lot of abuse, although I agree that Windows is something that (for me personally) is hard to tolerate as an O
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by vtail 8y ago
Interesting - since I'm not on Windows, I didn't know about Alexa integration. On the other hand, Lenovo seems to use hardware components with good support by open-source drivers. Hopefully one day they (or someone else) will supp
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by vtail 8y ago
Well, that’s certainly up to debate - but please note the “consumer” qualifier there. I do believe that for an average non-experienced consumer, it offers better security over Windows (fewer viruses, App Store launched earlier, etc.) I shou
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by vtail 8y ago
If you stop for a minute to think about it, it's a very sad state of affairs that you need to buy a closed-source app for the most secure consumer operating system, and pay constant attention to its status, in hope to avoid (or det
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by vtail 8y ago
That makes sense. I realize in my use case, even if I have one device offline, e.g., working on a laptop on a flight, in most times I will be able to sync before I switch to another device, so it rarely creates a problem.
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by vtail 8y ago
Curious why you want a structure aware way ? My current setup (syncing between home and work laptops) is to auto-save files every few second in emacs, and "git pull; git commit -am `date`; git push" every few minutes in a cron. W
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by vtail 8y ago
There is a moral difference between providing information requested by government that already exists in the systems, and creating tools to assist in censoring information. I would feel the same way if Google were to develop an additional s
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by vtail 8y ago
The Russian word you are looking for might be "фарс", very similar meaning to "farce".
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by vtail 8y ago
Thanks! Stupid me - that disclaimer was right at the top of his blog.
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by vtail 8y ago
Thomas, could you please explain the reference to arch-competitor - I might have missed any reactions by Mozilla/MSFT(?). Thanks!
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by vtail 8y ago
Comment like yours is why I come to HN! Thank you - I was always interested in TRIZ (I’m from Russia originally) but didn’t know it to be applied anywhere outside of Russia. Out of curiosity, how did you learn about this? Quick ddg’ing foun
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by vtail 8y ago
Interestingly, I just checked their update history for iOS, and it seems the last real update was almost a year ago, and it was mostly bug fixes or other non-descriptive updates since then.
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by vtail 8y ago
Well, a lot of the flights from US East Coast to Europe or from US West Coast to Asia fly over water or unpopulated areas for substantial periods of time. Do you know a good way to check, for a particular flight route, how much of it would
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by vtail 8y ago
I haven’t watch the full video, but this paragraph from[1] summarizes the issue well: “Following Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012, Russian authorities have increasingly used vaguely-defined, anti-extremism laws to suppress
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by vtail 8y ago
Grandparent’s is a universal argument, that applies to other countries / situations as well. Russia, which is technically not a monarchy, have the same problem with hate speech law. For obvious reasons, it’s harder to give an example
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by vtail 8y ago
I'm wondering what is people's opinion on modern Scheme dialects like Racket vs. Common Lisp? It seems to be pretty stable, with active development community, and comes with batteries installed.
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by vtail 8y ago
Ah ok that make sense. Not sure how you measure conversion, but in our case (I’m in B2C ecommerce) both traffic and conversion often fluctuates, so if one is stable doesn’t mean that the other won’t move.
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by vtail 8y ago
The author seem to be implying conversion loss from pre/post which may be affected from many factors including seasonality - I’m wondering why didn’t he do an A/B for a radical design like that?

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