mgbmtl

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by mgbmtl 21d ago
Most of the forums I participated in, in the past, ended up dying because of a very persistent troll or two. Some of them I knew in person. They were just so arrogant and thought they were doing the right thing. The communities died. A heal
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by mgbmtl 1mo ago
I run scripts on my servers on an hourly basis to check which are the top 25 IPs visiting the server (aggregated by /24). If anyone in those top 25 IPs are from China, Vietnam, etc, or from Alibaba/Amazon/etc, the /24 ge
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by mgbmtl 6mo ago
I have a really long passphrase in keepassxc. I often try to type it, fail 50% of the time, display the password, fix the typo. I would not use a long passphrase otherwise. (I understand there are other risks, such as having spyware that is
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by mgbmtl 8mo ago
We have EU clients that now force us to use BBB (big blue button) for security reasons. It's not perfect, but good enough, and Zoom/Hangouts/Teams all have their quirks. We decided to adopt it where I work, and cut a few paid
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by mgbmtl 9mo ago
Donations only get you so far. Take a mid-sized project, that needs $500k per year (a few devs, very modestly paid, zero expenses). It's a lot of money. It requires a huge user base. Say you have 500k users, and 5% donate $25 per year
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by mgbmtl 9mo ago
I for one, am grateful to Mozilla for still being around, pushing for an open web. Their documentation is excellent, the improvements and roadmap for Thunderbird made me finally adopt it, and I appreciate their privacy-friendlier translatio
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by mgbmtl 2y ago
The sync would stall and I'd have to go retry, or it would fail with no error clear message. In the end, I had no idea what had really synched correctly. The app was unhappy if I deleted a photo too quickly. With Syncthing, I sync to a
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by mgbmtl 2y ago
My device is not rooted, but I use Syncthing as well. I mainly sync my photos and my TOTP tokens (Aegis). The rest I don't care about. I used Nextcloud sync in the past, but found it unreliable.
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by mgbmtl 2y ago
I'm all for competition, but smaller players would have been completely blocked by Privacy Shield, whereas they cannot block CloudFlare completely without breaking a lot of other sites. And CloudFlare went to court. Most companies woul
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by mgbmtl 2y ago
ICQ was a way of texting friends so that you could go party. At least for me, and I'm a nerd. I remember even "normal" friends were using IRC as a way to hookup. Cell phones were not very common. Looking at my non-nerd 17 yea
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by mgbmtl 2y ago
I like icinga's model, which can run a small agent on the server, but it doesn't run as root. I grant specific sudo rules for checks that need elevated permissions. I find it easier to write custom checks for things where I don&#x
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Inscora raises $2M to help cyber insurance brokers sell policies and assess risk(betakit.com)
3 points by mgbmtl 2y ago|0 comments
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by mgbmtl 2y ago
I mean, sure, you could blame the climate crisis on the petrol companies that have doubled production in Alberta in the past 10 years, or you suspect "eco-terrorists" which, as far as I know, is a Maxime Bernier conspiracy theory
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by mgbmtl 2y ago
The Crunchlabs agent seems to be based off the Arduino Agent, so I'm surprised they don't support Linux. My teenager never had any issues with using Linux since the age of 10 (old laptop with Firefox and Minecraft), and never used
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by mgbmtl 2y ago
Cuba rarely stamps passports to avoid those problems. They give you a piece of paper with a stamp, that you return on your way out.
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by mgbmtl 2y ago
That's an odd reference to DEI. I'd say the negative consequences of authoritarian regimes is that they suppress freedom, and therefore art and technological innovation. China is authoritarian, but also has a huge political system
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They Used Resume Spammers to Apply for 120 Jobs. Chaos Ensued(businessinsider.com)
18 points by mgbmtl 2y ago|5 comments
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by mgbmtl 2y ago
More like Feeld, imo :) (Feeld also lets you skip a profile, and get back to it later)
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
This may be terrible advice, but as a freelancer, getting sued by a company will cost them a minimum of $20k in legal fees just to get started. Unless you really messed up in bad faith, I would assume that most people will attempt to resolv
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
It's easier to maneuver, way easier to turn.
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Seems OK to me? Coal mining has been steadily declining, but oil/gas production keeps increasing (at least in the US/Canada).
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Looks neat, but I tend to get way too distracted by graphical interfaces. I assume it's really a question of personal preference. CLIs are faster to use, but have a bigger learning curve. (we will probably not solve that debate here, b
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
I'm surprised that you didn't mention the role of petrol in Alberta and hydro power in Quebec. They play a key role to sustaining the economy and social services. It's not just that though. People are definitely less risk-tak
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
What's the endpoint? Why did it provide personal information? Why wasn't it throttled? Many things don't matter at a small scale, but they do at 15M-scale. Trello users are about to get bombarded by phishing attempts and spam
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
This would be awesome. I wish it at least worked on Safari iOS. (Firefox seems unlikely: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553738 ) We have a web app that does QR scanning for event badges, using a JS library, bu
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Isn't that a usability vs security trade-off? Asking naively as a non-expert here. In some systems, a password reset lets you bypass MFA. On Gitlab, however, you might be able to reset the password, but it will not let you bypass MFA
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
Yeah I have an account on that Mastodon server and even logged-in, that page shows popular (rage-bait) content regardless of my personal preferences. It filtered by language but not region (so it was mostly content from another continent).
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
I guess it depends if the government recognizes the marriage date that is declared, or the date that they process it (if the marriage was not in front of an official). Divorce date can be pretty random, since it's rarely done live by a
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
I guess like "comrade", any kind of imposed social norm becomes an object of satire?
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by mgbmtl 3y ago
I was being cynical, but I think it's a safe assumption. Visa/MC guidelines are usually the reason for bans on sex-related content elsewhere. I really doubt they have morals here. They just want to drive engagement/revenue, l

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