witrak

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by witrak 4y ago
Really? What country do you live in?
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by witrak 4y ago
Next example of spreading costs of defense of interests of a small number of benefactors trying to enforce a business model they prefer over all parties involved in the support of infrastructure used by exactly these benefactors.
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by witrak 4y ago
If this "VPN" is under the control of an entity collecting information about users wherever it can what's the sense of the service. "VPN" (in fact the term should be "virtual internet access network") mak
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by witrak 4y ago
> [...] that's a terrible reason to abandon IMAP and force people to use Outlook. It's so terrible a reason it's hard to imagine that was their only one. Strange... IMAP isn't the opposite of Outlook. And using IMAP-b
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by witrak 4y ago
>I ended up uploading the file to Google Drive and using it's client. It works pretty flawlessly. Besides my general distrust of Google, the real source of my headache is the ransomware attack. Thus such a simple schema is unsatisfa
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by witrak 4y ago
>I see nobody's mentioned TOTP support yet. Thank you very much for your remark! I always am in trouble when I have to dig through terrible KeePass "documentation" and never found a remark about it.
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by witrak 4y ago
>KeePassXC is probably the closest to ideal. Well, "the closest", but not ideal, unfortunately, what I realized when they decided to abandon support for windows7 forcing me to maintain the KeePass database in VMs by hand... :-
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by witrak 4y ago
>Finally, you get to syncing, and the friction is bigger than you expect. It is not enough to set up a LAN folder; your solution needs to be able to resolve conflicts if you ever use more than one device simultaneously, otherwise you run
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by witrak 4y ago
>I think it's highly unfortunate it became the "de-facto 'modern' standard". Perhaps you're right. Perhaps. However, the most important consequence of bash creation and dissemination is that there is a de-
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by witrak 4y ago
>I've been playing with this on Linux. Short question: does it grab Tab keystroke or allow to use it in shell normally? Lack of shell Tab expansion was the second reason I never accepted MC in Linux even though I was a fan of NC. Th
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by witrak 4y ago
>Free VPN... Can we trust them? Paid VPN are paid. Paid VPNs are paid. Can we trust them more?
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by witrak 4y ago
AFAIR when SQL was introduced there were rumors that IBM decided to use SQL for its name because there was another language called Sequel. So they used an acronym (full name was Structured Query Language).
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by witrak 4y ago
Article in the second statement refers to the efficiency of natural plants' way of food production: "This process, however, is very inefficient, with only about 1% of the energy found in sunlight ending up in the plant." So
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by witrak 4y ago
Short question: how these bubbles can be kept in the proper place? Did the proponents consider the effect of light pressure? Such a bubble is a classic solar sail, right?
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by witrak 4y ago
Yeah, it's very probable! Sorry, I couldn't restrain myself :-)
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by witrak 5y ago
Correction: IoT != IOT
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by witrak 5y ago
Perhaps I'm wrong but for the Internet of Things, I always use the IoT acronym. And IOT != IOT...
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by witrak 5y ago
As a response, I refer to the opinion written by Yuval Noah Harari: Why Vladimir Putin has already lost this war https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/28/vladim...
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by witrak 5y ago
Such arguments seem to be rather strange. How would you react to similar propaganda about temporary Americans based on the number of monuments of South generals and politicians from the Civil War period? They still weren't removed ever
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by witrak 5y ago
The whole publishing business is effectively a service of providing content created by the author to final users. And because of the uneven power of authors and publishers, the latter is able to grab almost 100% of the price paid by people.
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by witrak 5y ago
BS. Such language is not only practically impossible but utterly superfluous. Only under the occupation of Russia the Russian language could be enforced as a common language (as it has been attempted - de facto if not de iure - till the
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by witrak 5y ago
You can have any opinion about this action but the matter of fact is that ANYTHING done to make living in Russia more difficult helps to fight their imperial attitude.
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by witrak 5y ago
It doesn't matter how difficult the change of Russia's government can be for Russians. Nobody else can do it. And history teaches us that nothing except very strong and overwhelming rage can induce heavily indoctrinated, brainwash
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by witrak 5y ago
Strange: reading your comment I expected after the first line that you try to remind us of the annexation by Germany of part Czechoslovakia BEFORE WWII.
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by witrak 5y ago
I can't interpret your statements as anything else than oversimplified (almost to a primitive level) criticism of the attempt of civilized countries to stop a barbaric attack being openly continuation of earlier attack not treated appr
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by witrak 5y ago
Strange text. I would say it is anti-European.
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by witrak 5y ago
Well, interpretation or background may be biased. But nobody tries to hide pure facts...
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by witrak 5y ago
> Russia is not the USSR or China and it is certainly not North Korea - it is an authoritarian country, but nowhere near the level of dictatorial control where they can completely ignore their populace. You are extremely, even naively op
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by witrak 5y ago
It seems you don't fully understand what are sanctions against big countries, in this case, one of the superpowers, that committed full-scale invasion of another one, especially in Europe. Such an attack isn't something comparable
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by witrak 5y ago
Say openly "I don't care about Ukraine"!

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