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Sysadmin at a high school.
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discreditable··on Password expiration is dead, long live passwords
I'm sure they are, but I think predictability is slightly less bad than being distributed across every single service they've ever used. There's only so much I can do about people not giving a crap.
discreditable··on Password expiration is dead, long live passwords
I still expire passwords on a yearly basis for the sole reason that users have complained to me that it stops them from using the password they use for everything else.
discreditable··on Americans who fled the country to escape their student debt
Is the average American buying a new car or new to them car every 4 years? Last I checked, new car loan terms are 3-5 years.
discreditable··on Cloudflare CTO: “If we did [take on GitHub] what features would you like?”
Cloudgit has more buzzword power.
discreditable··on Switch from Chrome to Firefox
The different apps do the same thing and end up competing for resources.
discreditable··on Switch from Chrome to Firefox
You should only use one blocker at a time. Like antivirus apps, more is not better.
discreditable··on Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
Chrome MSI and chrome EXE installers work a little differently. The MSI installer by default installs to the program files directory. I've seen the EXE installer often installed to the local user profile. to convert a regular install to Enterprise you would probably have to uninstall the local version and then install the MSI.

ADM templates are something Firefox is sorely lacking at the moment. I remember reading that it is on the road map but that does not help out much. Nevertheless, I installed both chrome and Firefox and my organization. I like Firefox and use it myself, but sadly it's just not as easy to administer as chrome.

discreditable··on Antergos Linux Project Ends
It's cool but we run Linux in VMs. The VMs can complete a reboot in less than 20s. It's fast enough that it doesn't register on uptime monitors. Live patching adds complexity for not a lot of benefit.

Not to mention that if you're trying to be rebootless you have to worry about running services holding old versions of libraries in memory. Sure there's checkrestart/needrestart, but when reboots are so fast it doesn't matter much.

discreditable··on Notifying administrators about unhashed password storage
My domain of 800+ users had one unhashed user. It was an account I created for testing something then suspended over two years ago. It never completed the first logon. I have many newer users that have not completed a first logon, yet their passwords are (apparently) hashed.

They said users created through admin console are affected. The might explain my nearly zero count. I've used GAM to automate creation for a very long time. We are a high school school so we churn about 1/4 of our user count every year.

discreditable··on Android developers can now force app updates
A lot of apps (games in particular) already do this by downloading a bunch of resources on first launch. It sounds like Google is giving them a proper way to do it.
discreditable··on Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kids’ jewelry from US marketplace
A while back I bought habanero seeds on Amazon. They sprouted and did well, but they put out regular sweet peppers. I've bought catnip seeds that were fine. Anymore, I only buy seeds from the store though.
discreditable··on Windows gets a new terminal
Download the drivers you need then do a clean install of Windows from Microsoft (not Lenovo) media. OEMs are bad about loading systems with garbage.
discreditable··on 'One Ring' Phone Scam
I've given them the "I'm not interested" line. They always still try to make their sale despite me repeating it. The worst ones are the guys going around trying to sell steaks or to look at your power bill to "save you money". There are also people around here that will give you a sob story about why they need the money to mow your lawn. I've lived in a few neighborhoods around here and it's always the same. If I want you over you probably can text me, so I just ignore the door.
discreditable··on 'One Ring' Phone Scam
The Pixel phones have integrated call screening in the dialer too.
discreditable··on Much of the “science” used in design is bullshit (2014)
It wouldn't be an android release without Google making random nonsensical to the status bar.
discreditable··on Android updates are getting slower and slower, despite Google's best efforts
As long as OEMs can customize the OS, upgrades will suck. OEMs have proven time and time again they do not care about upgrades.
discreditable··on Credit cards automatically providing updated card info to subscribing merchants
Unless you are a big company, PCI-DSS is "verified" by self-assessment. They can say whatever they want.
discreditable··on Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta
If you enable resistFingerprinting, Firefox reports a "standard" user agent. Without that, your Nightly user agent probably makes you trivial to track.
discreditable··on 58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere
You can use 3-digit hex colors in CSS too.

#eee = #eeeeee #abc = #aabbcc

It's not very precise, but can be convenient short hand.

discreditable··on 58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere
Are you sure you don't have the meanings reversed? REM is the one that ignores nesting. EM doesn't, so on a simple site it's easier to use correctly.
discreditable··on 58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere
Agreed, but OP isn't serving minified content.

I brought up rem vs em because the difference is subtle and if you're byte shaving it's "free" bytes.

discreditable··on 58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere
It's 61 bytes because you're using two spaces instead of tabs! :^)

You can shave off 2 more bytes by using em instead of rem. In your use case they are functionally the same. Rem is em relative to the root element. Your <main> pretty much is the root element.

discreditable··on Intel VISA Exploit Gives Access to Computer’s Entire Data, Researchers Show
The Management Engine firmware blob for a non-vPro device is just under 2MB. For a vPro device it's 7MB. To me this hints that the functionality is not there rather than neutered. Of course, no one outside of Intel really knows.
discreditable··on FTC Seeks to Examine the Privacy Practices of U.S. Broadband Providers
That broadband map isn't very good. At my old place it said I could get fiber for several years before I actually could. Checking my current place it looks like it still incorrectly says I can get fiber. I'm in a major urban area.
discreditable··on Chromium: Improve support for Nintendo Switch gamepads
If the Switch used a modern webkit/blink and kept it up to date that would close some of the popular jailbreak methods.
discreditable··on Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
The desktop sync client is probably the way to go then.
discreditable··on Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Google+ Picasa albums
Exporting is easy. On desktop you can select photos and download a zip. You can also download them with Google Backup and Sync if you enable the option to show photos in Google Drive.
discreditable··on 24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)
Some bands still refuse to be available on streaming (ex: Tool). Some will never be on streaming.
discreditable··on America’s Cities Are Running on Software from the ’80s
This article makes me wonder what nightmares await those who have to maintain today's software at 30 years old.
discreditable··on Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default
My web filter blocks ads, but ublock is better. It blocks off-campus and handles first-party ads. It also hides ad content frames better than dns-level blocking does. It's also easy for users to turn off when some site doesn't agree with it. My network level ad filtering has to be simple to avoid breakage since it's harder to work around.
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