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by pppp 9mo ago
>>NATO would be dissolved... This plays right into Putin's hands including everything else Trump has been doing to bring down the USA.
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by pppp 1y ago
Anyone else think those inductor windings look sloppy like they were done by hand instead of a machine?
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by pppp 1y ago
Sorry, after the Tegna deal they will own all three stations in my market. Essentially, the viewpoints we see will be determined by one man.
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by pppp 1y ago
Nexstar, who initially threaten to pull Kimmel's show from all (200) of its stations and started this ball rolling, owns ALL THREE OF OUR LOCAL network affiliate stations. All 3 in one market. Remember when this was illegal?
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by pppp 1y ago
Is there a way to hide the colored tab group buttons so they can only be seen in the List-all-tabs drop-down?
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by pppp 3y ago
Where I live (in the USA), they are still building new gas stations. Are they expecting the government to bail them out? What kind of business person sees the impending end of fossil-fuel cars and builds a gas station?
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by pppp 3y ago
Is there anything compelling in Windows 11 that would make me want to switch from Windows 10?
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by pppp 5y ago
Getting a malware warning from virustotal.com on the download.
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by pppp 6y ago
I tried to go to their site to look up a drug that my spouse takes - you can't look up prices without signing up and you have to give them your phone number...NOPE!
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by pppp 7y ago
Liquid soaps are a poor choice from an environmental/cost standpoint. Most of the soap goes down the drain and is wasted. Bar soap stays on your hands and last many times longer.
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by pppp 7y ago
Oh yeah, I'm going to download a script from a website I've never heard of and pipe it into shell without review. Even if 99 percent of the time nothing benign is happening, why get people used to doing this?
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by pppp 9y ago
Adafruit makes a nice ruler for a reasonable price: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1554 as did eevBlog: https://www.eevblog.com/projects/uruler/
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by pppp 10y ago
FYI, we're a long time Linux shop (mostly Ubuntu server) and are slowing moving away from it because I don't like the direction it is going (systemd, etc). I've got more than half of our systems on FreeBSD/OpenBSD now.
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by pppp 10y ago
It's gotten much easier to both upgrade and to install software. Example: To apply security patches: freebsd-update fetch freebsd-update install To upgrade to a new version of the operating system: freebsd-update -r 11.
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by pppp 11y ago
If police really thought this was a bomb, why didn't they evacuate the school and call the bomb squad? Their motives are suspect.
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by pppp 11y ago
If police really thought this was a bomb, why didn't they evacuate the school and call the bomb squad? Their motives are suspect.
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by pppp 11y ago
nvlc - a ncurses vlc videolan media player built into vlc. nvlc is just a script supplied with vlc: #! /bin/sh exec /usr/bin/vlc -I "ncurses" "$@"
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by pppp 11y ago
Title is inaccurate - the important part at the end was cut off: "- Ex-employees" Accusation is presented as fact. This would be a better title: "Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals - say ex-employees"
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by pppp 11y ago
Many ISP's including my own in the U.S. don't allow running servers from home, especially SMTP.
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by pppp 11y ago
I wouldn't say the init scripts on OpenBSD are complex: # cat smtpd #!/bin/sh # # $OpenBSD: smtpd,v 1.4 2012/10/26 06:51:59 ajacoutot Exp $ daemon="/usr/sbin/smtpd" . /etc/rc.d&#x2
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by pppp 11y ago
And it accepts power from.....a lightning connector. Seems like an expensive way to stand your phone up.
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by pppp 11y ago
6. No client-side encryption 7. Deceptive advertising. Telling their customers that they encrypt data enroute and at rest without telling them that they use a single common password for every customer.
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by pppp 12y ago
Zenni seems to be moving away from Acetate frames to plastic which aren't nearly as nice.
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by pppp 12y ago
Amazon has a history of creating web applications (I'm thinking about their MP3 cloud drive) and then seemingly abandoning all further development. Either they have small teams of developers that move from project to project, or it is
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Yubico Executive caught astroturfing on Amazon product review
5 points by pppp 12y ago|2 comments
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by pppp 12y ago
Here's my theory (step-by-step): 1. Truecrypt is a gigantic pain-in-the-side for US intelligence agencies. 2. Intelligence agencies brainstorm about the best way to deal with the situation. 3. Taking over and tampering with the current
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by pppp 13y ago
Bazqux Put it on the list - it's got 4 votes already
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by pppp 13y ago
Duplicate post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6509437
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by pppp 13y ago
Anyone considering doing business with Dwolla should read up on how they treated their customer TradeHill. (Google it). The internet has a long memory.
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by pppp 13y ago
I am more than willing to give FastMail twenty USD per year, so it is not expensive in that regard, but it is expense for what you get. 1GB of space? Give me a break. All of the tiers need to shift down a notch while keeping the price the s

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