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by wbkang 4y ago
I have spent a lot of time trying out backup solutions and I feel strongly enough to write this to stop others from using this. As other commenters mentioned, Duplicati is pretty unstable. I was never even able to finish the initial backups
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by wbkang 4y ago
YouTube is an acquisition and they killed Google videos.
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by wbkang 4y ago
> I'm trying to get my head around how I would know something is the old school way that should be replaced with an idiomatic Modern C++ equivalent without knowing what the old school thing is in the first place. I'd recommend
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by wbkang 4y ago
You can press cmd+. for Esc. Or, are you saying that's too much ;)
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by wbkang 5y ago
Yeah this threw me off so much that I wrote a blog about this: https://wbk.one/%2Farticle%2Fa463c360%2Fthe-ruby-tutorial-i-... It’s weird how not clear tutorials are about this.
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by wbkang 5y ago
How about just setting up a bastion host and then forwarding ports via SSH? It's much simpler than setting up a VPN.
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by wbkang 5y ago
This is a cool post thank you. I knew about ASTs but did not know how to build them easily for Python so the second half was very useful for me.
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by wbkang 5y ago
ProgramData is the global application storage. AppData has been there since at least XP. Local is intended to be specific to this computer whereas roaming is something that is user specific that can be available across machines. The closest
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by wbkang 5y ago
Oops, big mistake. I made it public now, thanks.
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Dirt-cheap Serverless Flask hosting on AWS(wbk.one)
15 points by wbkang 5y ago|5 comments
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by wbkang 5y ago
FYI, the original title says 80% of top 100 games.
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by wbkang 5y ago
Are you the author of the BatteryBar pro by any chance?
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by wbkang 5y ago
Isn't this the clipboard history? Did anyone verify this claim independently? It's incredibly hard to believe they would upload plain text for 'telemetry'.
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Backblaze Computer Backup Subscription Plan Price Increase(help.backblaze.com)
1 points by wbkang 5y ago|0 comments
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by wbkang 5y ago
It specifically calls out many the native integration features. What are you looking for in non electron apps that is missing in this version of app?
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by wbkang 5y ago
With each domain u2f generates a different key (conceptually) so this should be harder to track potentiality.
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by wbkang 5y ago
Yes, for example, in old C the type was implicitly int unless mentioned. "Long" means long int" ;)
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by wbkang 5y ago
Wait.. why is it significant that vscode has the sandbox disabled? Isn't executing (curated) arbitrary code part of its core functionality as an IDE? I am thinking extensions and ability to define tasks including arbitrary commands and
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by wbkang 6y ago
Recently I had the pleasure of learning Ruby and then suddenly Gradle started making sense. Things like having more than 1 way to do something, or the magic DSL syntax achieved by using the Ruby unary block syntax - it's a bit more und
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by wbkang 6y ago
Apple probably sold more a hundred million airpods by now. Sure, it's not the biggest problem but it would make a difference. Plus, they have a history of making less repairable products so I think it's stil good to try to convinc
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by wbkang 6y ago
This is unfortunately not true anymore. Both Tanium and crowdstrike run on Linux for example.
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by wbkang 6y ago
A huge number of devices today (mobile or not) have their disk encryption keys protected by secure boot or similar mechanism where the TPM vends the keys only when securely booted, and they are not breakable trivially. So I'd say the a
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by wbkang 6y ago
It's one of the data types apple health can collect. The headphones app probably asked for all possible types of healthkit data.
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by wbkang 6y ago
You are right, you encouraged me to look at it and the actual interface into fuse is here whic is at least understandable: https://github.com/johang/btfs/blob/master/src/btfs.cc#L968
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The Ruby Tutorial that I wish I had(wbk.one)
4 points by wbkang 6y ago|0 comments
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by wbkang 6y ago
Actually on Windows, 3 line scrolling is a configurable default in the control panel. On X/Linux, on the other hand, is where it's hard-coded to 1 line and there is no way to change it to 3 without having undesired side effects (s
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by wbkang 6y ago
vscode remote will actually perform better than vim over laggy ssh because the UI portion is completely local.
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by wbkang 7y ago
If a phishing website is using the Facebook logo to phish credentials, sure the website is infringing on the trademark.
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by wbkang 7y ago
No this is more of a 32bit issue.
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Lessons from Inheritance(wbk.one)
3 points by wbkang 7y ago|0 comments

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