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by snksnk 3y ago
> zfs is for when you want RAID and snapshots but are prepared to have it blow up every now and then. > "professional Sysadmin"
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by snksnk 5y ago
Yes, and to be more subtle also see e.g. UMBRAGE in Vault7 [1]. CIA has impersonated Kaspersky Labs, and other agencies/countries do the same. [1] https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
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by snksnk 5y ago
I moved my domains last year from Gandi to Porkbun, very happy customer.
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by snksnk 5y ago
Why not use TeX/LaTeX instead and also include a link to the code?
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by snksnk 8y ago
> Yeah, as somebody who has run their own mail server for years, #1 is a huge concern. Perhaps relay the email out via your ISP account? I do that and it works well. > Having email just down for a couple days while you wait for new ha
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by snksnk 8y ago
No music is the best option, so you can continue work and notice it instantly when someone joins or if you are connected. With hold music you always need to turn the volume down to avoid the loud low quality music. It also makes having con
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by snksnk 8y ago
The main story here is the decrease in EBIT margin (i.e., operating margin) and the development of the monetization metrics.
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by snksnk 9y ago
An email provider that is not blacklisted and allows relay. I currently use my ISP for that. Taken from my smtpd.conf: table secrets { mylogin = [email]@ziggo.nl:[pass] } accept tagged DKIM for any relay via tls+auth://mylog
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by snksnk 9y ago
Just relay it out via a trusted host, in addition to setting up DKIM, SPF, etc.; that solved all the problems for me. My email server is working excellent for many years now (OpenBSD, OpenSMTPD, dovecot) with Rainloop as web-based frontend.
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by snksnk 9y ago
Don't blame Excel if your processes suck. Excel is a tool, namely a Swiss army knife to edit and present data that is commonly used in business. It can be very powerful if you know what you are doing.
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by snksnk 9y ago
But as clearly indicated in the text, dr. Tannenbaum does not have a problem with how things worked out: > I don't mind, of course, and was not expecting any kind of payment since that is not required. There isn't even any sugg
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by snksnk 9y ago
What do you use for CalDAV and CardDAV? I only found Nextcloud to be working well.
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by snksnk 9y ago
Is 'dark UX patterns' the new meme for something that has already been around for >15 years? <insert bold red marquee here>
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by snksnk 9y ago
Do not rely on Google and its services if your public beliefs / opinions do not align with the establishment, are politically incorrect in even the slightest degree, or if you value your privacy. There are good alternatives (preferably
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by snksnk 9y ago
Optimization backed by comparative statics. These reads are so satisfying. Thank you for submitting.
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by snksnk 10y ago
A couple of comments. The share price is _not_ supposed to drop after an IPO. The insiders still have a lock-up of 6 months, so a lower price would be bad for them. Moreover, the investors in the IPO also want some upside. In the end, the I
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by snksnk 10y ago
And I would recommend MobaXterm, definitely also worth to try. http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
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by snksnk 10y ago
This article is related to no-limit heads-up, which requires a very different style of play than no-limit full ring. Full ring would be significantly more difficult to beat by AI. So the title leaves out some very important information. I a
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by snksnk 10y ago
This saga started with "Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, officials say". Then we got "Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical grid security, of
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by snksnk 10y ago
The problem is not the first mover advantage of Facebook, but that people do not understand logical fallacies, that they erroneously believe that most media is impartial, and that they are unaware of confirmation bias. Logical fallacies sho
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by snksnk 10y ago
This! NewsBlur is awesome. For newsletters: http://blog.newsblur.com/post/146752875548/newsletters-in-yo... NewsBlur even has support for Twitter: http://blog.newsblur.com/post/145256277160&#
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by snksnk 10y ago
> Unfortunately, everyone (you, your family, that egg on Twitter, most pundits, and at least one organization purporting to be doing exit polling) has no fucking idea how exit polls are conducted and why those initial figures are a steam
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by snksnk 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSYXt3Xu3xI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iigNHgUGjYA Here are two lectures on this. Very interesting, although far beyond what I can grasp.
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by snksnk 10y ago
This was before the UX people took over the web and desktop. I blame the introduction of smartphones, which was when the public at large finally came online. To appeal to this group, a lot of interfaces and websites got redesigned, losing a
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by snksnk 11y ago
Open source alternative to Yubikey (but with some features missing, such as NFC): https://www.nitrokey.com/
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by snksnk 11y ago
Agreed, OpenBSD is rock solid; it just works, with well thought out defaults and excellent drivers for devices that are supported. I only wish they would port hammer faster..
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by snksnk 11y ago
> http://www.his.com/~z/gibbon.html > http://www.his.com/~z/passage.html As a side note, see these two links for some quotes and passages from Gibbon's magnum opus. The whole work (incl
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by snksnk 11y ago
This is the Internet, whose users tend to be highly innovative. If your business model is built on serving (good) content with ads and people don't like ads, then you will have a problem. It is a pity for some, but inherent to the Inte
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by snksnk 11y ago
> We would like to thank the LibreSSL team for their great work and their incredibly quick response, and Red Hat Product Security for promptly assigning CVE-IDs to these issues. > Patch: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub&#x2F
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by snksnk 11y ago
Also happy 20th birthday OpenBSD! The other email from Theo today: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=144515087006177 and/or http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/225844 .

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