lovedswain

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by lovedswain 5y ago
Even if my machine won't boot afterwards?
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by lovedswain 5y ago
The 19.10 bump was to get some fresh base libraries to build something as I recall. I think it might have for Remmina. Otherwise totally agree with you, LTS is always preferable
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by lovedswain 5y ago
The bootloader was broken for this laptop model in 19.10 and I've been deferring going through the same pain upgrading to 20.04. Totally aware of the support situation and upgrade sequence, but an unsupported machine sure beats a brick
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by lovedswain 5y ago
Because I'm running it of course.
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by lovedswain 5y ago
Are there any known surprises coming from 19.10?
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by lovedswain 5y ago
It would probably only take a handful of engineers to mount a solid DoS attack by requesting approval for every shell script they write, home Ubuntu ISO they install, or neighbour's printer they fix to get this policy a little more sen
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by lovedswain 5y ago
This sounds like a needlessly strict interpretation of GDPR. Taken from the UK regulator's site: > The lawful bases for processing are set out in Article 6 of the UK GDPR. At least one of these must apply whenever you process person
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by lovedswain 5y ago
The biggest difficulty I've experienced is "librification", where some common code ends up in a little library, and soon that library is not so little any more, and not long after starts to look like half of every service. I
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by lovedswain 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
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by lovedswain 5y ago
Antithetical? High fees are all but a feature :)
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by lovedswain 5y ago
I dislike RMS' opinions, therefore.. the GPL is dead? A little bit of a leap there buddy. Cloud providers profiting from free software is an important issue, but it is largely orthogonal to the continuing need to protect free works in
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by lovedswain 5y ago
> Is there any technical reason why it is not supported? No familiarity with these devices, but there is at least a slim chance if it was an embedded device, they needed the flash or RAM for something else. Seen this happen elsewhere be
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by lovedswain 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPKGbg16ulU
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by lovedswain 5y ago
Put another way, you're about 38 times more likely to develop a blood clot than win the UK's national lottery.
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by lovedswain 5y ago
Gentle reminder when receiving something for free, it's useful to keep in mind what the other party is receiving from you in return, and in this case, from all your users through your consent. I'm not sure what CloudFlare gain fro
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by lovedswain 5y ago
The article is dated and somewhat misleading, > Since its introduction in 1973 and refinement in the 1970s and 80s, the model has become the de-facto standard for estimating the price of stock options The only contemporary use for BS by
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by lovedswain 5y ago
Seems we're both triggered by this emphasis on "_very_", or even use of that word at all. Obviously Iran has a variety of technical capabilities, such as evidenced by their national firewall and internal infrastructure, but a
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by lovedswain 5y ago
> Compared to 90% of the other nation-states out there Iran is a _very_ competent cyber-actor. . > Given your exposure in this geography can you name any of it's neighbors Saudi Arabia targetted at least Bezos' phone
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by lovedswain 5y ago
> _very_ competent cyber-actor Please elaborate on this. As someone with direct exposure to this area and in this geography, my experience could not be described this way at all. Let's not forget Iran's first "military sat
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by lovedswain 5y ago
It's a fabulous resource, I've already used it to identify unknown numbers sending me messages on Signal
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by lovedswain 5y ago
I guess a leak requires private data to be exposed, this is just a collection of public data.
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by lovedswain 5y ago
Running certain ML models in VMs Running CUDA in VMs Running transcoders in VMs Running <anything that needs a GPU> in VMs
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by lovedswain 5y ago
It instantiates multiple logical PCI adaptors for a single physical adaptor. The logical adaptors can then be mapped into VMs which can directly program a hardware-virtualized view of the graphics card. Intel has the same feature in their g
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by lovedswain 5y ago
In a similar vein, the alternative option for 7 was a cyclical dependency introduced since last restart
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by lovedswain 5y ago
The global outage drinking game: bad DNS config push - 1 shot routing loop - 2 shots third party advertising your routes - 3 shots power outage at data centre it turns out everything depends on despite decades and millions in engineering to
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by lovedswain 5y ago
This sounds like a once in a lifetime industrial swamp-draining opportunity.. what do you suppose the correspondence is between folk having a hard time turning up in one location in the morning, and folk with a variety of other square peg&#
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by lovedswain 5y ago
It could be nothing, but it seems like it should have been disclosed and the article author neatly avoided it. They're the CTO of something very financ-ey/crypto-ey oriented in the B2B payments space, although the site (adjoint.io
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by lovedswain 5y ago
K8s single noder and GKE user here, can confirm I wouldn't remotely even consider going back. Deploying an app takes 5-10 minutes at most first time around, new pushes <1 minute, and when there is ops bullshit involved, it is never
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by lovedswain 5y ago
> What value is added by using a separate VPC? Adding more mechanisms on top is pointless when the effort could be invested in, for example, automated auditing of SGs, which is vastly more potent from a hardening perspective than adding
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by lovedswain 5y ago
What value is added by using a separate VPC? Equivalent restrictions can more easily be done with security groups, including on the outbound networking

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