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by njt 4mo ago
I recently placed some PDF files for some nontechnical people on Dropbox. To avoid confusing them with the long complicated Dropbox URL, I even created a shortened link for them to use (think https://event.myorg.test ). Almost no
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by njt 8mo ago
I've been self-hosting my email for a little over 2 decades. The basic setup has more or less stayed the same, but there's some more extra components around it you have to know now (spam filtering and SPF/DKIM/DMARC come
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by njt 9mo ago
> Zojirushi water boiler Purchased this last month and really regret not buying it years earlier (we got the 5L CV-DCC50 model). It's amazing how we never worry about boiling water anymore (apart from large pots of water for cooking
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by njt 1y ago
Just wanted to chime in on my beancount workflow, which you may also want to check out. I also use vim, and I use it a bit to edit my beancount files, but I mostly use fava, a most excellent web interface for beancount. In addition to havin
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by njt 2y ago
I've been running VPSs with them for the last 9 years. Never had a problem. And unlike Digital Ocean, they allow you to mount your own ISOs and fully support the BSDs. Unless someone buys them out in the future and platform decay[1] ha
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by njt 2y ago
Totally agree. I was there two weeks ago. The tour guide took us through a route that bypassed the longer lines and through some underground areas—culminating in an entrance that completely blew my mind. I never realized how huge the interi
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by njt 2y ago
On a slightly related note, Michael W. Lucas[1] is working on an upcoming book entitled "Run Your Own Mail Server", that will be published shortly (there's a Kickstarter campaign as well[2]). I attended his tutorial and talk
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by njt 2y ago
Both Subversion[1] and CVS[2] had keyword substitution, which replaced those tags with useful information like the commit id, author, date, etc. They were very useful when you were looking at a source file, to see what version of that file
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by njt 3y ago
scdoc is a great tool. It's written by Drew DeVault (sourcehut) and works great, I've used it in a couple of projects. Here's the blog entry[1] where he talks about the rationale for writing the tool. The page mentions that i
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My 1FA Is Probably Better Than Your MFA(clearops.substack.com)
4 points by njt 3y ago|0 comments
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by njt 3y ago
> someone complained about NTP issues with traffic passing through TATA and they were told to make their devices stratum 0 or something Not saying your summary of that thread is wrong, I just wanted to expand a bit to maybe clarify:
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by njt 3y ago
I've been an erstwhile FreeBSD user since v2.x (ca. December 1996), running FreeBSD on my own machines since v4.x (ca 2001), and started using it as my primary laptop/desktop daily driver since v5.3 (ca. November 2004). Prior to t
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by njt 3y ago
Perl was removed from FreeBSD base more than 2 decades ago: https://bsd.slashdot.org/story/02/05/14/0015234/freebsd-perl... And this was the right move. It meant that the version of Perl was decoupl
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by njt 4y ago
Happy user of git-bug for several years here, it’s a great tool, and the author is very receptive about bug fixes and adding new features. Probably my favorite is the built in TUI interface, that feature rocks. I don’t recommend it for larg
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by njt 4y ago
My relatives found this out the hard way last week, they made a low-calorie cake which was sweetened with xylitol, which their dog got into -- they left it on the kitchen table for a few minutes to cool and he managed to jump on and gavone
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by njt 4y ago
I spent some time evaluating all the available dotfile managers a few months ago and settled on chezmoi: https://www.chezmoi.io/ I had initially been turned off when I first encountered it, because it seemed overkill for (w
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by njt 4y ago
Thimbleweed Park was a great game. Lots of great in-jokes, a useful help/hint system, and the classic old-school adventure game look/feel that I played as a kid and since longed for. I’ve long awaited more stuff from Ron Gilbert s
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by njt 5y ago
Very sorry to hear of his passing. Sven Guckes was one of the kind souls on Usenet in the 90s who went out of his way to happily help people with their tech setups. I especially learned quite a lot about Vim and Zsh from him and his rc file
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by njt 5y ago
> be sure to store the hash type as well so that you can change it later if needed Thanks for sharing this, I'd been doing this on my own for my own stuff (eg. foo.txt-xxh32-ea79e094), but it's good to know someone else has tho
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by njt 5y ago
GeoNames ( http://www.geonames.org/ ) offers a downloadable database of cities with more than 15k population and their time zones. They list aliases as well. That's what Zeitzono uses. Just use that. (You don't hav
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by njt 5y ago
I wrote a console based tool based on a similar idea, it shows city-based timezones: https://zeitzono.org/ Unlike hTime, Zeitzono (currently) doesn't offer any meeting suggestion times, it's up to you to figure ou
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by njt 5y ago
> Bunch of straw questions, I don't care to answer them. Answer your own pointless questions. By "straw question", you are implying that I replaced your argument with a false one. In the upstream comments, you agreed that
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by njt 5y ago
And old. See the many comments and articles posted in this thread to that effect.
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by njt 5y ago
> these things still do not seem to get adopted If I understand your comment correctly, the reason you are using an old, insecure, and broken tool is because the secure replacement is not as widely used? Are you looking for some specific
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by njt 5y ago
> GPG exists, and no one has really proposed good solutions [...] > if you're going to complain please work towards solving the issue Perhaps because you are asking the wrong question: "PGP/GPG is old, broken, and insec
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by njt 5y ago
I wrote a similar tool based on the idea of choosing cities and "shifting" the time: https://zeitzono.org/
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by njt 6y ago
You can check out download stats stats for Urwid on PyPI Stats [1], that should give you a decent idea of its popularity. Also check out the list of applications built with Urwid [2]. Probably the two most popular applications that use Urwi
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by njt 6y ago
I have a family member that worked for Hertz during the time of this move. After a lot of consideration and soul searching, they decided not to move down because both his family and his wife’s family were in the North East U.S. and they had
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by njt 7y ago
> Which plugins for Python coding are universally agreed on as "must haves" Preferably just one, or two at most. I wrote Python in Vim for about 15 years before finding python-mode[0] about 4 years ago and I now find it absolut
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by njt 8y ago
> I just upgraded my home server from 11.1 to 11.2, now I have to do it again? You don't have to do anything. As with other software, FreeBSD supports multiple releases. 11.2 is still a supported version, and 11.x will be supported

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