castillar76

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by castillar76 5mo ago
The former happens a lot when people try to block specific commands for sudo, instead of taking a "permit these only" approach. If your sudoers file says you can access "all these commands but not cat", the site points o
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by castillar76 5mo ago
I doubt we'll see it, but one thing I'd really like is for them to release cleaner drivers or specs for the hardware in Intel Macs . Now that they're committed to removing Intel support from the OS, it would be really nice n
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by castillar76 5mo ago
Yep, I concur: this explains a bizarre behavior I’ve noted in my Mac laptops for ages now. I have a tendency to just suspend them without rebooting for ages, especially the work one that doesn’t leave my office as frequently. Periodically,
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by castillar76 6mo ago
That’s fair! There were a couple comments that used similar language; I didn’t mean to call you out. Yours was the first I saw with it, so I hit reply. Thanks for clarifying.
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by castillar76 6mo ago
> The point of communication between engineers is usually to establish a mutual understanding... I tried to let this pass in the discussion, I really did, but since it came up in various other replies I felt like I just couldn't. We
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by castillar76 8mo ago
Many companies miss how important this is, too: they get caught up in "but if they buy it second-hand, they're not buying our new stuff!". When people buy the stuff second-hand, though, they become Bose fans — that means when
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by castillar76 11mo ago
Genuinely saddened by this. I had Dr. Newby for a Linux admin class in college in the late 90s and it was one of the courses that got me interested in systems administration. I remember him as patient, kind, and enthusiastic about open-sour
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by castillar76 11mo ago
Agreed, and it’s not just the hardware keyboard (on which I could comfortably have written an entire novel) that I miss. It had just enough access to email that I could reply to things when necessary, even if it required a bit of typing (so
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by castillar76 11mo ago
Side note that not remembering it has nothing to do with memory deterioration. Neurons that fire together wire together: if you haven’t used that particular piece of information in a while, your brain gradually clears out links to it to mak
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by castillar76 1y ago
> (That's usually used to justify 'And that's why I don't need to spend time looking into the actual details and just give up') Just FWIW, giving up wasn't my point at all. I'm just not particularly opt
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by castillar76 1y ago
Yeah, call me overly cynical but I'm waiting for this cycle to play out: - CA bans face-masks for law-enforcement - White House issues executive order requiring face-mask use for all federal law enforcement - Both are placed on hold pe
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by castillar76 1y ago
Interestingly, it has held up quite well, too: outside of the occasional bit of old tech sticking out here and there, the whole thing could be set in 2025 with a minimum of updating. The problem the MacGuffin solves, the methods for conduct
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by castillar76 1y ago
sigh Is it that time of the year again that we start publishing these? Boy, how time flies... Too frequently, what people (and clearly the author of this piece) mean when they say "tougher grading" is just a return to forcible b
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by castillar76 1y ago
Note that Quakers never rejected the possibility of being killed for their beliefs, just the choice of killing others for them. Pacifism does not equate to passivism, after all: it simply means that they reject the notion of visiting viol
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by castillar76 1y ago
That Friend speaks my mind. :) In seriousness, I agree — it's always odd to see Quakerism discussed in other contexts, as well as running into other Quakers in other contexts outside of things like /r/quakerism or such. I do
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by castillar76 1y ago
I was puzzled by that, too: I'm always mystified when people share their entire screen on a Zoom call instead of just the one window they need to show me. Zoom even makes it easy to change out what you're sharing (add / subtr
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by castillar76 1y ago
The only place I'm insistent about source-code is things like this that need access to a ton of my data at all times. An app that only has access to the data I choose to share with it, I'm more willing to give-and-take on the show
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by castillar76 1y ago
I'm aware this is old-man-shakes-fist-at-cloud territory, but I don't want an AI-based AI browser with AI integration to AI the AI in all the AIs. I want a freaking browser . If I want to leverage AI features, I'll use a s
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by castillar76 1y ago
I'm experimenting with moving to Zen, but finding it frustrating. I think I can get around the containers-vs-workspaces-as-separate-things shift, but the last time I tried it I found it really opinionated and you lose a lot of the cust
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by castillar76 1y ago
A music history prof in college described this as "the ultimate raised middle-finger to the audience — Beethoven at his most I'm-writing-for-me-only."
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by castillar76 1y ago
I was genuinely taken aback by visiting a restaurant website last night that was only served over HTTP. (Attempting to hit it with HTTPS generated a cert error because their shared provider didn't have a cert for it.) These days, I&#x2
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by castillar76 1y ago
You're not wrong: there's definitely evidence, for instance, of savvy attackers watching the CT logs for things like newly-instantiated WordPress servers and then attacking them before the admins have set the initial password on t
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by castillar76 1y ago
Oh definitely, but her point was she didn’t want the ACME client having the rights to frob the webserver — I figured that meant restart-rights too. :)
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by castillar76 1y ago
They’ve been making it harder and harder to serve things over HTTP-only for a while now. Steps like marking HTTP with big “NOT SECURE” labels and trying to auto-push to HTTP have been pretty effective. (With the exception of certain context
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by castillar76 1y ago
Fortunately that’s only needed if you’re using the DNS validation method — necessary if you’re getting wildcards (but…eek, wildcards). For HTTP-01, no DNS changes are needed unless you want to add CAA records to block out other CAs.
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by castillar76 1y ago
Having my ACME client munge my webserver configs to obtain a cert was one of the supreme annoyances about using them — it felt severely constraining on how I structured my configs, and even though it’s a blip, I hated the double restart req
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by castillar76 1y ago
You can also permanently change your default to LE — acme.sh actually has instructions for doing so in their wiki. I rather liked using ZeroSSL for a long time (perhaps just out of knee-jerk resistance to the “Just drink the Koolaid^W^W^Wus
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by castillar76 1y ago
Whoof — this brought back memories of endlessly typing things like... kkk kik kik k,k k,k jjj juj juj jmj jmj hhh hyh hyh hnh hnh ...on a lovely, bangy, ink-scented IBM Selectric in typing class. Which at the time felt like a meaningless ex
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by castillar76 1y ago
This is a fascinating finding! As someone with a neurodivergent brain (and kids with it as well), I'm wondering if this has something to do with the greater degree of anxiety in neurodivergent brains, which often have trouble processin
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by castillar76 2y ago
Yep! And indeed, this is Who Gives A Crap. I've been really impressed with their product. I do still intend to buy bidets for the house to cut down on TP use overall, but theirs is pretty darn environmentally friendly for the product t

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