grumpy-cowboy

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by grumpy-cowboy 2y ago
_Useless complexity_ (aka everything must be a service@scale even if it's not necessary at all) keeps cyber security companies in business.
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by grumpy-cowboy 2y ago
A newcomer with a Vertx backpack (vertx.com) ;)
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by grumpy-cowboy 2y ago
If I need to make some research for a project, I keep my findings on my computer (publicly available knowledge, facts, ..). BUT I keep all my new ideas, thinking, todos, agenda, ... offline (analog) to prevent AI tools reading them and send
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by grumpy-cowboy 2y ago
What about legal media files? In addition to be a software engineer I'm a DJ... I have near 1 TB of LEGAL music (mostly FLAC or high bitrate music files) on my OneDrive (easier because I use Virtual DJ). Yes I know it's not Google
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by grumpy-cowboy 3y ago
For MANY things a simple text files (txt, tsv, gnu recutils, ...) is required. Using the filesystem (folder, links, ..) to organize them. I started moving back all my things/KB to simple text files and stop using all apps/web apps
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by grumpy-cowboy 5y ago
Nice a password manager taking 1GB of RAM and 20% of CPU.
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by grumpy-cowboy 5y ago
Because nothing's free.
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by grumpy-cowboy 5y ago
This is the MOST important reason no one talk about.
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by grumpy-cowboy 5y ago
What is the environmental cost of such useless technology (production, maintenance, end of life,...)?
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by grumpy-cowboy 5y ago
By definition, all ads are unsolicited.
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by grumpy-cowboy 5y ago
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) web console : really slow and take HUGE amount of memory
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by grumpy-cowboy 5y ago
s/more fragmented IRC networks/more decentralized IRC networks
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by grumpy-cowboy 6y ago
Why a new browser? Use Firefox
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by grumpy-cowboy 6y ago
How to write unmaintainable code? Easy : write a project based on the latest "saveur du jour" JS framework.
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by grumpy-cowboy 6y ago
Because it's simple, straight to the point, doesn't have any distracting images, perfectly aligned, light, ...
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by grumpy-cowboy 6y ago
My client use paid GitHub services for the new projects they work on. But we (devs) really hate it because it slow us at lot (can't push/pull, Github Actions not working, "crash" our CI/CD server, ...) because of in
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by grumpy-cowboy 6y ago
Exactly. My own domain is on Fastmail. I have an alias for every sites I have account in (Amazon, eBay, Pocket, ...). If I got spammed using an address I know exactly where it came from, advise the sir and create another alias.
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
Another great console tool to view/manipulate/process/... tabular data is Visidata ( http://visidata.org/ ).
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
Text files are king! I store every single byte I can in text files. Examples: - Tabular data : TSV (almost all Un*x/GNU tools handle this out of the box) - Simple "records" : GNU Recutils format (https:/&#x2F
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
Why not? Not everything have to be dumb proof/easy. For example, Suckless softwares like DWM ( https://dwm.suckless.org/ ). Extract: "Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless to
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
Tired of all this ads. I understand that some level of Ads is required (nothing's free!). But this becoming ridiculous (and I'm not talking about personal data mining). Instead of just whining about that, I decided to move away fr
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
Yes, the "CSV road to hell": - comma separated, nothing escaped (crash when 1 column contains a comma) - comma separated, quotes around all elements, quotes not escaped - comma separated, double-quotes around all elements, double-
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
Hint for Dell: just ensure that your hardware works perfectly in Linux (drivers) and please don't add any ^(bloat|crap)ware[s]?$ to it. I have a Dell Precision 7530 laptop with an I5 CPU, 64GB of RAM, AMD GPU, 3 SSD M2 drives... I inst
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
Thanks for pointing to recfiles. I didn't know about that. It's a pretty simple "DB" format. I like it (and I'll use it).
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
Rapid data entry and Web app/site/page cannot be put in the same sentence.
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
If I pay for a product (on-premise), it's not your business what I do with it. If I use the free hosted service (ex: gitlab.com), then this is the price to pay for a free service (within legal rules like GDPR). BTW, it's too late
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
It depends who is your target audience. For me, TUI interfaces (Text UI like Weechat, Neomutt, Cmus, ...) are beautiful and easy to use. They are straight to the point, keyboard based, extremely fast, low on resource usage, ... I'm so
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
Additional information... I use almost exclusively plain text files. If I need formatting to produce things like HTML, PDF, ... I use Markdown or LaTeX. For images/audio, I use lossless file formats (ex: TIFF, FLAC, WAV, SVG). If I nee
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
All my personal knowledge/information/research are structured using the File System Infobase Manager method as described by Douglas Barone : http://dougist.com/2009/08/file-system-infobase-manager/
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by grumpy-cowboy 7y ago
Why? What is wrong about having a product dedicated to elitists? Not everything have to be accessible to everyone and it's a good thing. :)

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