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by cloudsec9 3mo ago
First, a disclaimer - I don't like the idea of 82-0 philosophically, as it supposes that perfection is the goal; sports like life are imperfect, and even the best teams go through bad stretches. :) That said, I see the appeal, so: ther
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by cloudsec9 7mo ago
It's a clickbait title (aren't they all?), but the premise is weird too -- because I don't see anything preventing the use of a RaspPi -- the offhand remark is that their has to be "redundancy"... but I'm going
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by cloudsec9 1y ago
"The basics are simple" ... hrm. I think the concepts of how Twitter works is simple; but during their "fail whale" days, they had to reinvent things on the fly to achieve scale and reliability. Twitter used to have lo
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
Okay, I understand what you are trying to say, but some of what you are using as examples doesn't support your argument. Games, unless they are simple single player games, need the network. Scientific sims and math research are best se
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
I run many programs at the same time AND run VMs; as long as you have enough memory, this shouldn't be an issue.
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
Another operating system that deserves mention for 286 class machines is Coherent. This was an Unix like OS you could buy for $99, and it had all of the various Unix utilities and came with a HUGE manual to help you learn it. They had a 386
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
At our school, the "computer" teachers were often teachers who were specialists in other areas that had some interest in computers, and weren't very ... security aware. They all had admin/root user access, and they'
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
At one time I was a big advocate for Unix/Linux on the desktop, but I think that ship has mostly sailed. But, it seems that FUD about what it is capable of is still actively here, which is good to know. With frameworks and libraries, t
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
This is a broken mindset, that you should be able to take an app and use it for 5+ years. When computers were in their infancy, and systems were only updated every 4-6 years, it might have made sense, but this doesn't in our modern sof
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
I'd disagree that OS/2 was "worthless garbage", as MS would keep using it for several generations for their server/LAN OS. I'd argue that OS/2 2.x was pretty much a ground-up re-write, as OS/2 1.x had
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
By the time OS/2 came out, IBM wasn't a serious competitor for most OEMs -- they were high end, so were mostly competing with the likes of Compaq. The big issue that no one is mentioning is that OS/2 needed 8MB of RAM to run
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
Slight correction - there were some Borland tools for OS/2, but after the split MS stopped putting out new tools; but IBM did have some interesting compiler stuff too.
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
More to the point, FDIC insurance covers a BANK failure; but in this instance it wasn't the bank that failed. It doesn't even seem it was Yotta that had the issue, but rather their transaction company, Synapse. Now if Synapse had
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
If it was fully disclosed that this was "gambling", then I might agree. But it seems that it was more positioned as "a safe investment with okay returns and a lottery chance at winning above average returns". Gamblers do
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
Such studies sometimes ask about the outlets; for some reason conservatives feel Fox news isn't the MSM, while CNN and MSNBC are . Asked about their "non-MSM" outlet, suddenly it is VERY trustworthy. And these stats hold f
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
I think this isn't true; it might be that people might not read an eight-part expose on a topic, but they do resonate with many people, some of whom may even pay or choose to subscribe based on it. To pick up your McD's analogy, I
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
I understand your frustration, but how does the software manage students that are behind versus students that are way ahead? Like I'd imagine this would be deeper learning for a kid that's ahead, where they can really deep-dive a
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
As someone who has taught in formal and informal settings, the promise of EdTech was amazing, but the delivery has not really been that good. To me, a lot of the companies in the space seem to be more concerned with how to maximize dollars
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
It's disappointing. I'm sure the rationale at the time was that it was an under-powered and obsolete machine, but many schools in Ontario were far behind and having these machines go to other places would have been helpful. But th
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
C64s and not PETs? We had some PETs at one time during my school journey, but C64s would have meant playing games after getting our assignments done!
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
> sole supplier > free market I'm sensing some contradiction in that. Pricing and packaging parts in a way that ensures its cheaper to buy a different phone is the opposite of a free market. Breaking your screen or wearing out yo
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
For a service that needs to be available to the outside world, I'd say a VPS is often the better practical solution. Many home ISPs don't allow hosting of E-mail (SMTP) or traffic through to 80/443 (HTTP/S), so you have
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by cloudsec9 2y ago
If supply chain was the issue, surely they could have worked to create a more local source for things; but it seems like a flavour of corruption to use slower and inferior machines instead of trying to leverage the best of both. My feeling
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by cloudsec9 3y ago
Your comment doesn't seem consistent, so I'm not sure if it's just disorganized or actually false. You state that non-US healthcare "wouldn't have paid for this either", but later you mention "need to trav
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A Little Footbridge in MPLS(twitter.com)
2 points by cloudsec9 3y ago|0 comments
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by cloudsec9 3y ago
https://cloudsec9.ca/theJourney/ Over a hundred posts, focusing on Cloud, Kubernetes learning and Security.
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by cloudsec9 3y ago
The ICON was the first computer that I used that had a multi-user interface. Teachers were not trained well and "computer security" was not something that had yet seriously entered our language. While programming them for class wa
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by cloudsec9 3y ago
Well, I don't think that the student population will shrink by 95%; there are still lots of people who can get loans who think it's worth investing in their kids. And while there are a few higher-ed for-profits out there, most Uni
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by cloudsec9 3y ago
While I agree with this in principle, I think many/most employers are looking for some kind of accredited proof. Even certifications can be gamed, so completing even a short program still does have value.
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by cloudsec9 3y ago
The value of education to some isn't knowledge, it's how that contributes to your ability to do or get a job, and that is sad. Having a well-rounded and whole person isn't seen as valuable, when it actually really is. The aut

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