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linuxydaveon Facebook ad click numbers are inconsistent with other analytics

It does actually matter because you're paying for the clicks. I, for one, sure as hell don't want to be paying for bullshit clicks even if I still make a profit.

linuxydaveon Law to target aggressive fundraising by charities

Haha, cynical but true. Reminds me of this: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Free-State-govt-We-pa... (R40m is ~$3,211,291)

linuxydaveon Law to target aggressive fundraising by charities

I'm in the wrong job... :p

linuxydaveon Law to target aggressive fundraising by charities

>:(

linuxydaveon Ask HN: How do I keep child porn out of my site?

Well, to clarify (seeing how I can't edit my post) - if I was in OP's position that's what my concern would be. As I live in the UK I'd have to be careful about hosting things like BDSM pictures as the porn laws here are rather retarded.

linuxydaveon Law to target aggressive fundraising by charities

yeah, it gets frustrating when you're bombarded with calls by them as well as those PPI/whatever robocalls.

I've cancelled my donations to several charities because of their harassment and their pushiness makes me wonder if they are actually using their money on the people they're claiming to help :/

linuxydaveon Ask HN: How do I keep child porn out of my site?

Images of BDSM is illegal in some countries, like the UK, IIRC.

linuxydaveon “Systemd should not default to using time{1,2,3,4}.google.com”

Colour me shocked as well...

linuxydaveon Lies Employers Use to Get You to Work with Them

Hah, #1, #4, and #5 happened at my very first job. I was young and naive.

linuxydaveon Ask HN: Company got acquired, new contract seems oppressive

Yeah, it does sound weird but it does happen in the UK :)

linuxydaveon “Thank You” in Hindi and English Mean Very Different Things

>But once "thank you" is said, most people awkwardly respond with "ah", because there's no phrase in the language for "you're welcome".

In London I've noticed that instead of saying, "you're welcome" people prefer to say "no worries", which is far more casual. I don't know why that phrase started to be used but if I had to give a guess I'd say that it was out of awkwardness because there wasn't a less formal/personal response to use.

linuxydaveon Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]

Mysterious Cities of Gold? Damn, twp, you just hit me hard in the nostalgia :)

linuxydaveon My first job burnout

Happened to me a few years back but I caught it early on and quit before it became really fucking bad. Still, it's not a 'pit' I'd like to fall into again.

linuxydaveon Ask HN: How do I get my first contracting client?

http://www.jobsite.co.uk/ Are you focusing on dev or ops? Don't really know how in-demand devs are right now but sysadmin/devops guys (esp with cloud and automation experience) are. If you want to go the contracting route then the contracts are on-site so you aren't competing with people in India, etc. Also, if you go through a recruiter (highly recommended) then by law you'll have to join an umbrella company or start your own limited company (not a sole proprietary)

linuxydaveon Ask HN: How do I get my first contracting client?

For me it's http://www.jobsite.co.uk. The contracts are onsite, normally 3-6 months, sometimes rolling. Devs are popular with digital media agencies because the projects are short term. However, I don't know how in-demand devs are. Sysadmins/devops with automation and cloud experience are though.

If you use a recruiter then under UK law you have to sign up with an umbrella agency or run your own limited company as they aren't allowed to work with sole proprietors.

linuxydaveon Ask HN: How do I get my first contracting client?

What city are you in? It really depends on your location. For example, I'm in London and when I started contracting I simply uploaded my CV to a job site and my phone exploded with calls from recruiters because the demand for contractors here is so high.

linuxydaveon Grepping logs is terrible

It is a direct rival to Splunk :) They do very similar things however IMHO Splunk is the better solution right now. There are LaaS companies that use ELK if you need a cloud solution - Loggly is the first one that springs to mind and I think another is LogSene.

linuxydaveon Grepping logs is terrible

ELK stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. The whole stack is opensource :)

linuxydaveon How Beats by Dre played you like a fool

I really hope not, it's a pair of headphones. It's not like you're plugging in a new type of RAM.

linuxydaveon Ask HN: How do you do home security?

Many people did leave the country - there was a large diaspora in the 2000s to Canada, NZ, Australia, and the UK. Many others wanted to but couldn't because they couldn't get visas or they simply couldn't afford it.

I was only able to move the UK because I found out I could get a British passport (so I did) plus my company paid for most of the relocation.

linuxydaveon Ask HN: How do you do home security?

Okay, here's the deal. Overall SA has a really big crime problem but it's not a complete warzone. It is heavily dependant on where you live. For example, Cape Town is statistically safer than Johannesburg and the area I lived in Cape Town is statistically safer than the areas around it - there are only a few break-ins a month and hell, my childhood home has only been broken into once and that was because someone opened up a 'troubled youth' centre a few streets away.

However, I don't want to diminish what others have experienced - I just want to put it into perspective. It is still a dangerous country to live in. Even though I lived in a 'safe' area I had to travel through 'unsafe' areas to get to friends, family, and work. On top of this the judicial system is a shambles due to corruption and incompetence. Apathy and burnout is extremely common in the police so they don't really care anymore because why should they? They bust their balls off investigating, arresting, etc only to have the court case thrown out because, for example, important court documents go missing and no one is arsed enough to investigate why :/

linuxydaveon Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware

Skype? :p

linuxydaveon Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware

>Filling in forms to tick boxes so that everyone can go home happy pretending there's security going on, when really their network is a leaky sieve.

I saw a DefCon video where the guys were talking about something similar. Lots of small banks in the US use 3rd party services for their banking software. One of them had horrendous security and so some hackers made off with several million dollars before anyone found out.

linuxydaveon Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware

Huh?

linuxydaveon Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware

While I've never worked in banking/financial environments I do know of people who have; they often had two workstations (one for the 'public' network, the other for the systems) and weren't allowed to use software like Synergy to share the keyboard and mouse. I guess not every company does stuff like that, though.

linuxydaveon Systemd can now pull and update container images from the Internet

Yeah :(

linuxydaveon Systemd can now pull and update container images from the Internet

>When the big debate about systemd was going on, I couldn't really care less.

>Now, I'm just not so sure.

You're starting to see what the original opponents feared a long time ago. It doesn't look like the feature creep is going to end any time soon, although I wonder if there will be a breaking point when even the fanboys say, "Hang on, this is a bit much..."

linuxydaveon Systemd can now pull and update container images from the Internet

I'm seriously considering it. The fact that Digital Ocean offers FreeBSD means I get to try it out beforehand which is a bonus.

linuxydaveon Code rot and why I picked OpenBSD

Haha, yeah I was thinking the same thing. SA, like most countries, is too diverse to be able to make such blanket statements.

linuxydaveon Code rot and why I picked OpenBSD

Is the joke too subtle? Oh well.