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compuguy··on Fireball over US, Wednesday, April 17th 2019 around 02:57
As someone who lives in NoVA, I'm disappointed that I didn't see this. The Washington Post has an article about this as well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/04/17/large-mete...
compuguy··on Fireball over US, Wednesday, April 17th 2019 around 02:57
If you have lived in the Washington DC Metro area, NoVA means Northern Virginia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Virginia
compuguy··on How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 Not So Easy Steps
Satellite phones can be tracked..
compuguy··on eBay CEO Has a Stark Choice: Show Growth or Break Up Company
This is why most sellers don't ship to international addresses....
compuguy··on Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
Apparently he discards requests from DNS servers that don't send EDNS in their requests: https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680
compuguy··on Amazon's electricity rate discounts have pushed up utility costs
That links to the wrong Gainesville. Your looking for Gainesville, Virginia. The closest city to Gainesville is Haymarket, VA: https://www.electricitylocal.com/states/virginia/haymarket/
compuguy··on Librem 5 general development report
Agreed, that radio they link to will mostly work with AT&T, and maybe some T-Mobile coverage areas. Were going back to 2013!
compuguy··on Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lotus Notes system
Wow, those companies definitely are low-balling (especially for a senior position in the DC area). Were those positions ones that required a security clearance, though?
compuguy··on Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
They offered a version of Hipchat that could be hosted on perm (Hipchat Server/Data Center). Slack has never had a on perm product.
compuguy··on Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
To my knowledge no. That is going to be an issue for current users of Hipchat Server/Data Center.
compuguy··on Live tracking of Amtrak trains
Passenger trains in the US died off in the late 1960s because of automobiles and the Interstate Highway System (don't forget airplanes).
compuguy··on Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux
It supports ActiveSync, to my knowledge.
compuguy··on Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as ‘not secure’ starting in July
You can also use the good old EASY-RSA: https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa
compuguy··on What's in those mysterious cabinets?
In the Washington DC area, we have some on ramps that are metered (I-66 inside the beltway, and I-395) come to mind.
compuguy··on Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release
Ansible still doesn't support Python 3....
compuguy··on Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog
You actually can run a Ghost blog on your own server: https://docs.ghost.org/v1/docs/hosting
compuguy··on Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog
I wanted to try this, but apparently your Firefox extension is not version 58 compatible at the moment.
compuguy··on Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog
I do the same exact thing. It drives me crazy that I can't highlight on an article without causing either a post to twitter box or the font size changing (I'm looking at you NYT). On a random note, do you know what that special extension that allows a user to have 100+ tabs open. I have a family member that always keeps way to many tabs open (drives me nuts as well!).
compuguy··on The new microcode from Intel and AMD adds three new features
I swore that Intel had recalled the microcode updates because of issues (I've not had any of note)?

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3250297/microsoft-wind...

compuguy··on Penn Station Could Get Worse
I should point out that Penn Station (the terminal) is awful and falling apart. Honestly the station, the tracks below it, and the tunnels, all need work.
compuguy··on I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it
What your describing is called a Mantrap.
compuguy··on Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab
Last time I checked Jenkins is a modern CI product.
compuguy··on USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (2012)
The solution to fixing the dock issues (partially) is to swap out the wifi card. The Broadcom card puts out lots of interference (no issues with a Intel AC wireless card).
compuguy··on LineageOS for microG – Access Google services without closed software
Depends. I have a phone with LineageOS installed, and it only passes SafetyNet Basic Integrity. That's a nogo for Netflix or Android pay.
compuguy··on Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS
My biggest pet peeve with Amazon Logistics, is that some of the drivers just leave the package on the ground near the condo mailboxes, instead of walking down the stairs and leaving it at my front door.
compuguy··on ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25: Limited Edition ThinkPad Goes Retro
You could always just disable the discrete graphics card...
compuguy··on Ford disguised a man as a car seat to research self-driving
The local NBC channel (WRC-TV 4) covered it as well: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Driver-Dressed-Like-...
compuguy··on Ford disguised a man as a car seat to research self-driving
He's actually a pretty decent reporter in the Washington DC area. He covers transportation, including all the failures of WMATA (DC metro).
compuguy··on Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
Add Sametime to that list, ugh.
compuguy··on Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
Now if Atlassian would care for its self-hosted/on-prem products, I would believe that.
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