steve_rambo

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by steve_rambo 2y ago
This is crazy to read. I live in what you consider a highly authoritarian and non-free society and can't imagine something like this happening here. Lower paid jobs are even more privileged in some ways: for example, in many companies
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
Don't, there are many smaller email providers that will take that load off your shoulders for a small fee. I've been using purelymail and have had good experience with it, and heard good things about migadu and fastmail. The latte
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
> ChatGPT consumes 25 times more energy than Google > ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
I've also used phones which haven't received any updates for years without any obvious problems. Just maintaining basic digital hygiene like you do. In theory, one could use a zero-day in a web browser (like the recent libwebp vul
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
https://www.bram.us/2022/01/11/yaml-the-norway-problem/
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
I wish we would rather get rid of Dockerfile in favor of what something like buildah does: https://github.com/containers/buildah/blob/main/examples/lig... Since Dockerfile is a rather limited and (I
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
ECC is fully supported by consumer AMD processors (at least Ryzen 7000, and I think earlier ones too). You need to pick a matching motherboard, most boards from ASRock will do. And you need to find unbuffered ECC RAM, this is more difficult
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
What was the difference between CPU and video card vendors (if you can talk about that at all)?
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
aerc sometimes breaks on non-compliant email because the author of the header parser refuses to introduce kludges to handle broken email. When it happens, the mail in question simply doesn't show up in the list. I fully understand that
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
Another discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40231332
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
For what's it worth, the page is unreadable without JavaScript disabled on an overclocked desktop 7900X. I think it's the slowest one by far among all the crap I've seen in two decades of browsing the web.
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
Use a better token. YubiKey is the most popular one, not the best one by a long shot. My (cheaper) alternative supports 300 resident keys per each hardware key.
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
iptables has been with us for more than 20 years and is only now being replaced (pretty slowly I might add). The old rules are still supported through iptables-nft, you can just import them and forget nft exists. Distributions I prefer have
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
I had a chuckle at this being a "non-issue". Where I am from, you'll get a severe beating (or worse) if you refused to provide the authentication credential, whatever it might be. It's like we're living on different
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
btrfs does reserve some space for exactly this issue, although it might not always be enough. https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-filesystem.html > GlobalReserve is an artificial and internal emergency
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
about:config → media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.enabled → false
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
Multi-master replication out of the box. Very useful, very occasionally.
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
Somewhat related: if someone whose technical proficiency you don't hold in high regard needs to perform a limited number of administrative actions on a network-connected Linux machine (like restarting a specific service or installing u
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
You don't need annotations for descriptions, they get picked up from javadoc-style comments which you should have anyway. Same with asp.net.
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
Are you sure you haven't visited hacker news by mistake? Hardware overclocking requires a decent amount of knowledge, most of it obtainable only through months of trial and error, and a lot of tuning to push dozens of often conflicti
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by steve_rambo 2y ago
I can't speak for Gnutella, but BitTorrent remains as popular as ever. Every non-technical acquaintance of mine is at least familiar with it, except for those over 70 years old. Most keep on using it. Flash-in-the-pan streaming platfor
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by steve_rambo 3y ago
Do you mean runtime type checking? Coming from compiled type safe languages, it was difficult to wrap my head around full type erasure too. Your name would have definitely helped.
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by steve_rambo 3y ago
The most developed countries should show us an example then. I am not Argentinian or from South America at all, but we have the same problems. As long as an average American keeps their consumption levels at more than 10× of ours, I am not
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by steve_rambo 3y ago
I worked on a project with "forced typescript" and poor code review practices (since fixed). It ended up with overuse of `any` and all the same problems you run into in a pure JS codebase. I had to fix most of that which was a mas
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by steve_rambo 3y ago
Telegram manages just fine, and looks the same on all platforms. I even ran it on FreeBSD for a few weeks with no issues. Their desktop client is developed pretty much by one person in C++ with Qt. It's really feature rich these days a
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by steve_rambo 3y ago
Wine requires no more installation than Electron. There are lots of "pirated" releases for macOS/Linux with a bundled copy of Wine (sometimes with third party patches or some libraries swapped out).
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by steve_rambo 3y ago
Why not, maybe we can get the original meaning of the term hacker back at some point.
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by steve_rambo 3y ago
Right click on the back button and you'll get the full navigation history. Or long tap if you're on a touchscreen.
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by steve_rambo 3y ago
Arch has a very similar package format and is 21 years old. Alpine is more than 18. They haven't accrued much cruft in that time. One could argue they have worse support for things like cross-compilation, but many (most?) of us don&#x2

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