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Rimintilon More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 StackOverflow survey

It’s more effort to deploy docker then to use App Services in Azure. Fortunately no need for a container environment. It adds an unnecessary complexity.

Rimintilon Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewer notifications

I’ve never seen this with old reddit nor 3rd party clients (which beyond possibly costing a nominal fee, I don’t know why you wouldn’t use sans some minor features like polls).

Rimintilon MS Office lifetime license for 91% off: Real or scam?

When the version of Office has a year in the name, it is a perpetual license anyway. Can’t speak to the discount.

Rimintilon Death to the death of poetry (2001)

I write poetry to express feelings.

I may share <5% of it to an individual. I never share any one poem with more than one individual.

How many poets simply don't share at all for personal reasons?

Rimintilon Staring into the abyss as a core life skill

> casting of all reality into doubt

Throwing one's reality into 'doubt' can cause you to significantly change your behavior, thoughts, ideas, etc. If those are largely negative to begin with and 'casting reality into doubt' (which is certainly one piece, if not the major piece of disassociation) in a safe place can improve and change your behavior for the better, it seems like a great idea to me.

https://psyche.co/ideas/when-reality-slips-through-your-fing...

Rimintilon France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school

Yes, there are roles that allow an admin or legal team to review all sorts of activity across M365. That’s not MSFT, though.

In the US, you should never expect privacy on company owned devices or services. The company may even be decrypting SSL sessions, revealing passwords in the clear (though they shouldn’t…).

Rimintilon DHS announces extension of Real ID full enforcement deadline

It’s more expensive than a Passport book or card. EDLs are only good for 5 years. US Passport is good for 10. WA EDL in 2024 will be $115. A US Passport Book is $130; a card is much cheaper.

Rimintilon DHS announces extension of Real ID full enforcement deadline

EDLs/EIDs are Real ID. Standard WA DLs are NOT Real ID compliant. Notice they’re marked with “Federal limits apply”. That means they’re no good for air travel if Real ID goes into effect.

Real IDs are good for land/sea travel for CA/MX.

https://www.dol.wa.gov/about/real-id-faq.html

Rimintilon DHS announces extension of Real ID full enforcement deadline

This isn’t as good of an idea as you may think. It is in the best interest of everyone to allow illegal aliens to be licensed and insured.

Washington state also charges a premium for Real ID. For those who don’t fly or cross from Canada to the US, Real ID is just a waste of money.

EDL in WA will be $115 for 5 years starting in 2024. A US Passport Book is $130 for 10 years (or a US Passport Card is $30 and good for domestic air travel and land/ground to CA and MX). Why would I bother with Real ID? I can’t even renew Real ID online or get it immediately after having my photo taken. While quicker than a Passport, it takes 2-3 weeks.

Rimintilon The Making of Dune II: The birth of the real-time strategy game

C&C has really dated controls today, too. The C&C remaster added a lot of modern QoL improvements.

Rimintilon Federal court requires Amazon to stop firing employees for protected activities

Incentives aren’t effective. It requires a personal want to get off of drugs.

But you’re right, these individuals certainly are getting disincentives.

Rimintilon VMware Fusion 13 – native support for Apple Silicon Macs

ARD works great via Safari (vnc://machine-name.tld). Thank you!

I can't believe Apple charges $80 for the ARD client in the App Store...

Rimintilon VMware Fusion 13 – native support for Apple Silicon Macs

Yes, an M2.

Rimintilon VMware Fusion 13 – native support for Apple Silicon Macs

With Fusion 13, I see no way of creating a macOS guest VM. It isn't in the VM options list. UTM will automagically connect to Apple's servers and download the latest version.

Problem with UTM is there is no copy/paste or file transfer between a macOS host and guest which is a huge barrier. I'm spoiled by Hyper-V enhanced sessions, I suppose.

Rimintilon VMware Fusion 13 – native support for Apple Silicon Macs

I had a hard time finding the free version. You need to register an account, but this should be a direct link to the download page:

https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/details?downloa...

Rimintilon NightWare helps disrupt nightmares for those with PTSD

Another therapy is a ganglion nerve block.

Rimintilon Ask HN: Is it me, or is SharePoint needlessly complicated and annoying?

That MVP is either dealing with a VERY large environment or is just flat out wrong (I've never seen a farm with that many databases, and I've worked multi-TB farms).

Rimintilon Ask HN: Is it me, or is SharePoint needlessly complicated and annoying?

The old publishing model you’re referring to is now legacy. You no longer manipulate CSS/HTML/JS directly.

Rimintilon World of Tomorrow by Don Hertzfeldt [video]

(Lowercasing title to follow HN guidelines)

I find this video fascinating in how many topics Don is able to cover in just over 16 minutes, from time travel [paradoxes], to classism, romance, loss, thoughts about life and death, and the elimination of the human race. Combine this with the innocence of explaining factual details to a child who doesn't understand any of the concepts -- and an almost heartbreaking ending.

Rimintilon Moon Disaster

> Journalism has sure fallen on hard times over the last 40 years

Consider watching Frontline on PBS. While not the same format, the journalism is well done.

Rimintilon ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

Self-publishing isn't free, and usually requires guidance from a professional resource to do properly without your book being lost in the chaff. You may get a higher percentage of return, but haven spoken to a fellow community member who has done self-publishing and writing for a major publisher, they commented they would never do self-publishing again.

My books are both in eBook format and paperback. ~400-500 hundred pages in length. The hundreds of hours spent writing the book/taking screenshots, formatting, does not pay off, at least for technical books.

Creating technical books is purely for the notoriety, possibly job prospects, etc., IME. I've had wonderful community feedback which is certainly a self-esteem boost (maybe ego, which isn't necessarily a good thing :)), but it is only going to buy me a few cups of coffee at Starbucks.

Rimintilon ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service

> The relationship between physical book checkouts and author/publisher revenue is less direct

Indeed. The publisher charges universities etc. a one time lump sum to purchase N copies of a book. The author gets next to nothing.

Source: am an author of technical books. Royalties will buy me a few cardboard boxes.

Rimintilon Amsterdam looks incredibly realistic in the new Call of Duty

Correct. And available for Windows, but not Xbox.

Rimintilon Blip: A tool for seeing your internet latency

HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0 use TCP as the transport, so not only do you have the TCP overhead, but you have the HTTP overhead. There is additional overhead if using HTTPS.

traceroute on UN*X uses UDP by default. There is no overhead when using UDP.

ICMP Echo, I'm not sure about, but I don't believe it has overhead, but as I said, it is a depriortized and possibly rate-limited by routers.

Rimintilon Beginning May 3, 2023, U.S. travelers flying within US will need 'RealID'

States like Washington will issue drivers licenses to illegal aliens. The Federal government doesn't like this.

But it's in everyone's interest that people get licensed, legal status or otherwise.

Rimintilon Blip: A tool for seeing your internet latency

This isn't measuring "Internet" latency but rather HTTP with all it's overhead, right?

When you connect to your favorite MMO, etc., it's doubtful that you're using the HTTP protocol to do so.

Still useful, but for one of many "Internet"-based scenarios.

Rimintilon Blip: A tool for seeing your internet latency

ICMP echo requests are often rate-limited and/or deprioritized traffic on most major routers. If forwarded _through_ the router, it'll be on the slow path (software-based handling of packets) -- if forwarded _to_ the router, it'll often be on the control plane which is backed by a typically fairly slow CPU.

Ping/tracert will give you a _general_ idea of what is going on, but it is not something to definitively answer a question (i.e., a tracert may have an asymmetrical path -- travel one route to the destination, but the return packets travel another route, which you'll never see).

Rimintilon The latest OpenSSL vulns were added fairly recently

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreSSL

Adoption is the default for a few BSDs, OpenSSH on Windows, macOS.

From a usage standpoint, you're probably correct (I honestly don't know) -- I only use it to generate web server certificates.

Rimintilon The latest OpenSSL vulns were added fairly recently

It has! It's on every iDevice out there.

Apple uses LibreSSL, not OpenSSL.

    @Ytterbium ~ % uname -a

    Darwin Ytterbium.local 22.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.1.0: Sun Oct  9 20:15:52 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8792.41.9~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T8112 arm64

    @Ytterbium ~ % openssl version

    LibreSSL 3.3.6