cybervegan

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by cybervegan 2y ago
This wouldn't work in a situation where not everyone agrees to abide by the arbitrary rule of using toothpaste (or whatever) in as specific order. In a computer's memory, or storage media, the ordering is intrinsic, but in your ba
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by cybervegan 2y ago
First experienced in 1989 on Xenix grep, later more on SunOS (5 I think) in the early 90's, then Linux in the mid 90's.
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by cybervegan 2y ago
Boy is crowdstrike's software going to get seriously fuzz tested now. All their vulns will be on public display in the next week or so.
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by cybervegan 2y ago
Yeah I saw that too - I'm sure they meant gerManium, but it's cool to think I could turn my geranium plant into a transistor! Of course, it would be a PNP transistor - Pink N Pretty.
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by cybervegan 2y ago
There's a lot of responsibility there resting on your superiors because they weren't following "best practises". Sure you fucked up, but if they had backups, it wouldn't have been such a disaster, and if you had a D
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by cybervegan 2y ago
I left a decently paid managed service 3rd line linux/foss admin position in 2019 to do projects with a friend. The pandemic happened, and things changed and got weird. I did a stint as a contractor again for nearly a year, doing desks
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by cybervegan 2y ago
Any reason why "Pp" is missing from the typeface sampler?
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by cybervegan 3y ago
I actually used that a bit at the time, but it the web was too young and browsers and HTML were too immature to support it well.
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by cybervegan 3y ago
Looks like he's done some interesting stuff, but: Some of his views I can't stand: No gun control; No freedom from religion; Contradictory views like "Government must not adopt policies that are offensive to any religion&qu
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by cybervegan 3y ago
Welcome to the fold... though I bring my own nuances. Backstory: I'm a late-diagnosed Aspie, 56 in a couple of weeks, only diagnosed in my mid 40's. Had a small number of long-term relationships, and had trouble understanding why
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by cybervegan 3y ago
I was wondering when someone would cite this: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... But since nobody else seems to have done so, I will. Globally, names don't follow any common
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by cybervegan 4y ago
"... to 750 KB for the largest capacity Zip disk." I think they meant "750 MB".
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by cybervegan 4y ago
Sorry dude, it says exactly the opposite of what you wrote.
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by cybervegan 4y ago
Pity it's only available as a tarball or .flatpak. I've never got flatpak to work before, and it doesn't work this time either. :-(
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by cybervegan 4y ago
This little eggcorn in the article made me chuckle "little to know" (should be "little to no").
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by cybervegan 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | UK Remote | Part-time Tech: Linux, FreeBSD, Python, BASH, Shell, GOLANG, C/C++, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Perl, PHP, HTML, Apache, NGINX, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NAGIOS... Email: andy [dot] darcy [dot] jewell [at] gmail [dot] co
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by cybervegan 4y ago
Please, denizens of HackerNews, I hate to beg, but we really need all the help we can get to bring this amazing resource to the people of Telford (in the UK). If you can help - even with a small donation - we would really appreciate it. I
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Telford Makerspace needs your help with our crowdfunder please(crowdfunder.co.uk)
1 points by cybervegan 4y ago|1 comments
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by cybervegan 4y ago
I do - it makes me read at about 1/10th the speed I normally do. Hate it.
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by cybervegan 4y ago
Me too, I find it absolutely terrible. I read it at about 10% of the speed I usually read. In the sample I saw, I could read the plain version in a few seconds, but I just couldn't make any headway with the highlighted version. I'
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by cybervegan 4y ago
No, you're not. I can't even read it. I can read colour-coded (i.e. syntax highlighted) text perfectly well though. This just completely shorts out my reading - might as well be hieroglyphics to me.
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by cybervegan 4y ago
This simply doesn't work for me. Maybe it's because I'm Autistic, but I can't even read text highlighted in this way. A friend posted up a side-by side example, and I couldn't read the first line in the time it
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by cybervegan 5y ago
That's so unethical - and Alan Sugar is held up as an example of a business genius?
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by cybervegan 5y ago
There's a lot of good advice in that, but some of it would be too regimented for me, and I've never been able to handle too many social activities in a short period of time.
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by cybervegan 5y ago
What I have found works, is joining a group (club, volunteers group, sports team or whatever sparks your interest), and going as regularly as your schedule allows. In particular, help people out and do nice things like bring cookies or
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by cybervegan 5y ago
As an autistic person (and I'm not suggesting OP is also an aspie), I can say that all the advice that amounts to "just put yourself out there" is worse than useless; you only see things the way you do because those interacti
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by cybervegan 5y ago
That's great, but it seems to ignore the fact that lack of communication during difficult manoeuvres (like getting the website back online) is often seen as a critical failure by the client to not keep them updated on progress. Sometim
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by cybervegan 5y ago
As an autistic person, I think this is a useful lesson for the neurotypical population on what we go through in daily life. Zoom fatigue seems to be very much like the social fatigue aspies tend to experience - where non-verbal cues are scr
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by cybervegan 5y ago
OP's URL doesn't work for me, but the article is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57176858
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by cybervegan 5y ago
Wow - such negative responses. Seems like bitterness or jealousy to me. Makerspaces aren't primarily about tools but more about community and skill sharing for the good of the local community. We do things together and at my lo

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