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by abridgett 10mo ago
I'll just leave this little NSA intercepting Cisco products reminder here: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
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by abridgett 1y ago
The hazard perception test was a great addition in my opinion. (Basically a video plays and you have to press a button when something dangerous has happened). I passed my driving test 30+ years ago and then took the HPT as part of a motorcy
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by abridgett 1y ago
If a president flaps his arms on one side of the planet does this cause a hurricane of chaos on the other side of the world? And everywhere else.
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by abridgett 1y ago
This sounds reasonable. However there was a study showing major economic benefits if was free. These benefits came from more people implementing it, time saved by all those additional users, removal of licensing hassle.
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by abridgett 2y ago
Their "paint" advert wasn't bad either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ut_2GWIm4 though it can't compete with the music.
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by abridgett 2y ago
It's a sad indictment that it took all this effort, in 2019, to convince a world "leader" that climate change was real.
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by abridgett 2y ago
I wish companies were more environmentally conscious and stopped churning out swag. It's such a waste. Much of it you would never have bought, most is low quality. We don't need it.
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by abridgett 2y ago
I've asked them: a) _what_ details may have been involved. Currently the criminals know more than we do. b) why EBT had any data if Wise stopped working with then in 2023. I'd except there to be a fairly strong obligation (probab
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by abridgett 2y ago
I still remember playing Quake on Linux - with the X display being displayed on a different computer over the network. The different computer was running HP-UX (HP's Unix) on a PA-RISC chip.
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by abridgett 2y ago
I'm not sure it can replace non-trivial setups - sudo/doas looks set to stay. e.g when you need to restrict a set of users to run only certain applications with certain other users. sudo can do this (even if the config format can
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by abridgett 3y ago
No major spoilers that I noticed. Really recommend reading the books, each was pretty mind blowing to me in a different way. The best kind of sci-fi - that which makes you think and wonder.
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by abridgett 3y ago
I've only seen this behaviour once. Someone very publicly shouted at and then privately apologised to. Needless to say the shouter lost any respect I had for them - firstly for blaming without facts, secondly for being so pathetic they
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by abridgett 3y ago
Google weather desperately needs this whenever it reports weather from "The Sun" (awful awful "newspaper"). Today: "Brits to bask in 20C sun" (that's 68F) Yesterday: "Yellow thunderstorm warning..set
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by abridgett 3y ago
It's even worse - under RIP act not only can you be "forced" to reveal any passwords: - the onus is on _you_ to "prove" that you don't know it or have forgotten it - you can be told not to reveal that you'
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by abridgett 3y ago
No doubt this will lead to complaints that foreigners are coming over stealing our secrets _and_ our jobs at the same time :-)
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by abridgett 4y ago
IIRC they did something related a long time ago when you could get a 8 CPU box which was physically restricted to 6 CPUs purely so that it didn't fit into the "can have 8 CPU" Oracle license. About 2/3rds of the servers
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by abridgett 4y ago
GeForce Now was/is great. Bethesda though (amongst others) have lost a formerly loyal fan due to pulling their games. Why? I own the games, I paid for them. If I had my old PC still I could play them just the same. Presumably so that i
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by abridgett 4y ago
Might want to change the subtitles from "that was sick" to "that was disgusting" just to prevent anyone misinterpreting that (unintentionally or otherwise) as "sick" is slang for "excellent" in some p
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by abridgett 4y ago
It's particularly silly when you consider the number of offices and timezones. Not only is a large amount of interaction via video call, when on site there'll be a shortage of rooms and the sound quality is usually pretty dire.
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by abridgett 4y ago
I think there's a better idea: how should you become a better you. Attempting to be 100x better "than the rest" strikes me as a _very_ unhealthy approach. To paraphrase an answer I read somewhere else: "The best way to b
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by abridgett 4y ago
What's worked for me: - Try and become a child again (when I didn't have these worries/frustration). Concentrate on what's in my control. Don't worry about things outside my control. - Stop reading the news. A famil
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by abridgett 4y ago
You comparison with building bridges without adequate testing is unfair. It's about increasing control, not giving permission to lower quality. In terms of rollout it's more like releasing new drugs - initially it's very smal
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by abridgett 4y ago
I did this in two different houses and it does depend on if you have bad culprits. By far the worst for me was a Zanussi washer/dryer with an on/off that went "clunk/click" and popped in/out - but would still u
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by abridgett 4y ago
I wonder what systems the ISP has in place to avoid such networks becoming sthe source of DDoS attacks. Given the generally dire security of home routers (and understandably low security of most home networks/users) it feels a little l
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by abridgett 4y ago
Some of these are pasting over product weaknesses: - inability to change private channels to public "as you might accidentally reveal secret info". Yes, but that's _my_ decision, not Slacks. - more than 1 or 2 active threads
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by abridgett 4y ago
A public speaking & confidence course really helped me to _slow down_ - mostly whilst speaking but also whilst coding. I take my time to explain what I'm thinking and why. This has made me less nervous in interviews (and subsequen
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by abridgett 5y ago
How does this compare with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X2x ? x2x is over 25 years old. I'm sure UC is more streamlined, however the basic premise is the same. I did actually use x2x for a while (but normally jus
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by abridgett 5y ago
Whenever a google search shows up an Arch Linux wiki page I know the contents are going to be detailed and technical. I don't use the distribution itself, however this level of excellence has given it a place in my heart. Thank you to
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Winter on Fire – Ukraine's fight for freedom (2015)
6 points by abridgett 5y ago|0 comments
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by abridgett 5y ago
I've been really enjoying https://www.youtube.com/c/ArjanCodes and frequently watch one over my lunch break. He covers a lot of programming principles and good practice with realistic examples (i.e. _not_ "cl

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