tom_alexander

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by tom_alexander 4d ago
https://www.facebook.com/twonks/posts/great-job-/13130659843...
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by tom_alexander 6d ago
I use twine for the same reason. Dirt cheap. Lasts forever. Doesn't leave residue on your cables. The downside is I end up cutting the twine when I need to use the cable but a couple inches of twine in insignificant.
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by tom_alexander 10d ago
Relevant comic expressing the same idea: https://www.facebook.com/twonks/posts/great-job-/13130659843...
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by tom_alexander 10d ago
Good suggestion! Fixed.
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by tom_alexander 10d ago
I have my own domain. I've been asked for my email, to which I replied "myname@foo.example" and they replied "myname@foo.example.com?". edit: Changed domain based on ButlerianJihad's suggestion
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by tom_alexander 14d ago
> who the author is The article has the author listed at the top. If you click on it, you'll see which university he works for. With his name and university, you can Google to find his wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia
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by tom_alexander 16d ago
> If not for NAT, we'd all need a firewall You still need a firewall regardless of NAT. Otherwise, every time you take your computer outside of your home, you're no longer protected. Any attacker or compromised device on your h
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by tom_alexander 17d ago
> being able to run different applications over Tor, VPN or plain internet simultaneously, the ability to isolate non-safe binaries and being able to backup your VMs easily. These are all possible using light containers. For example, on
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by tom_alexander 22d ago
Because freedom isn't free! But in all seriousness, "free as in freedom" seems fine to me but it is replacing the already unambiguous "free as in speech". You're still stuck with the sometimes-confusing "f
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by tom_alexander 22d ago
> seeing how much of my old third-party config I can replace with builtins There are projects that seek to do just that. I'd recommend taking a look at them to get an idea of whats possible with an almost-entirely-vanilla emacs setu
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by tom_alexander 22d ago
This is why I prefer "gratis" vs "libre" instead of "free as in speech" vs "free as in beer". gratis/libre are clear and succinct. As for an actual answer: parties, weddings.
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by tom_alexander 2mo ago
> Or maybe you pipe into xargs and pray your filenames don’t have spaces: > find . -name '*.log' | xargs rm No need for prayer: find . -name '*.log' -print0 | xargs --null rm That uses null as a delimiter
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by tom_alexander 2mo ago
In my case, I am a very senior member of my team so 25-50% of each day is spent helping and/or teaching teammates. In situations like that, it is useful to be deeply familiar with the tools that your teammates are using so you can tell
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by tom_alexander 3mo ago
They're referring to the partnership between GrapheneOS and Motorola: https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at...
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by tom_alexander 4mo ago
It's at the end on the conclusion slide @24:40: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se8E_SUlU3w&t=1480
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by tom_alexander 4mo ago
My area has a net-metering plan available, so you can send any surplus out to the grid to offset energy pulled from the grid, essentially treating the grid like a large battery. That can extend the 8 hours into full 24-hour coverage with en
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by tom_alexander 4mo ago
With enough solar panels it is!
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by tom_alexander 4mo ago
Not necessarily. I was spending ~$150/month on vultr's kubernetes hosting. I spent $5k building out a pretty awesome 1U server and I put it in a colo that costs me $50/month. Next year I will break even financially and everyt
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by tom_alexander 4mo ago
It has. For example, PirateFi back in 2025: https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/pirate... The FBI were seeking victims for ~8 "games" earlier this year: https://forms.fb
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by tom_alexander 4mo ago
FWIW I'm one of those people. I have an old rotting pixelbook that I installed Linux on back-in-the-day thanks to Mr. Chromebox. It was a huge improvement over chromeos but I'd never buy a chromebook to install Linux on it again b
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by tom_alexander 4mo ago
Was there? I see 14 comments, of which only 3 have any value at all which are: fanf finding an irrelevant bug, oliverpool explaining the use of LetsEncrypt staging, and hexadecimal suggesting setting up expiration alerts. The rest is: -
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by tom_alexander 4mo ago
Do you honestly think stackghost doesn't know what the "D" stood for? They were making a point, not seeking information. My answer directly responded to the point they were making.
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by tom_alexander 4mo ago
That's more of a historical artifact. The BSDs started as just "BSD": a set of patches for AT&T Unix that were _distributed_ by Berkeley. Eventually the patches became complete enough to be an entire operating system. _Th
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by tom_alexander 4mo ago
I think the author was suggesting "wait a week" as a one-time wait for fixes to be written and patches distributed for these specific prematurely-disclosed vulnerabilities, not an on-going suggestion for delaying all updates. But
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by tom_alexander 5mo ago
"I really wish I was eating in an airport" - literally no one ever. Airports are expensive, loud, and uncomfortable.
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by tom_alexander 5mo ago
In that situation, the multiplexing wouldn't be handled in the terminal. You'd use something like tmux or screen. Seems irrelevant to the discussion about terminals.
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by tom_alexander 5mo ago
> tab-complete, history Those would be handled by your shell, not your terminal, right? > multiplexing If you have a good window manager, then there is no reason to have a bespoke multiplexing implementation in your terminal. I can st
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by tom_alexander 5mo ago
Perhaps as a web client for the remote desktop on the BMC chips?
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by tom_alexander 5mo ago
I was able to reproduce it using that script in my PS1 when `GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=1` which triggers a call to `git ls-files`. Without that, it seems to be just calling `git rev-parse` which does not execute fsmonitor. I was also able
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by tom_alexander 5mo ago
> any competently set up shell PS1 will tell you that I certainly hope your shell is not running `git` commands automatically for you. If so, that is a RCE vulnerability since you could extract a tarball/zip that you don't expe

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