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sildur··on I got pwned by my cloud costs
> That dedicated server you have to manage (ensure security, install the software you need, keep it updated and secure etc). It’s not for everyone.

apt install unattended-upgrades. And Hetzner's firewall.

sildur··on Welcome to C-- (2008)
You could also go to Settings, Keyboards, and uncheck Smart Punctuation.
sildur··on Architect behind Googleplex now says it's 'dangerous' to work at posh offices
> That said, plenty of Google's some 144,000 employees appear to be just fine with the on-site luxuries their employer provides.

Well, of course they are. Those who weren’t “just fine” already left. But it’s not about how fine they feel, it’s about how healthy it is.

To me, that paragraph looks weirdly like backpedaling.

sildur··on G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1, 2022
I’m on hetzner. My IP address was in some dnsrbl lists. I appealed and got my ip clean. Now I can send emails to gmail and outlook and they arrive successfully. I don’t see where all this fuss comes. You set up your server according to google and you are good to go. That’s all.
sildur··on G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1, 2022
Nah, that’s FUD. I had a pretty easy time setting it up myself. You only have to setup SPF, DKIM and DMARC. Which is pretty easy by itself. You even have online services to check that you have set it up everything correctly.
sildur··on Forced to sell chipless ink cartridges, Canon tells customers how to bypass DRM
I use WPS for that.
sildur··on Imap-backup: Backup Gmail or other IMAP accounts to disk
I’ve successfully used imapsync (https://imapsync.lamiral.info/)
sildur··on My First Impressions of Web3
They already exist, and work. IPFS, for example.
sildur··on My First Impressions of Web3
That probably would not happen in a first world country.
sildur··on A curated list of warez and piracy links
What I did was to ignore the initial letter, and nothing happened. Over the years I’ve found that not engaging is usually the best defense.
sildur··on A curated list of warez and piracy links
Same as Spain. So using Usenet is completely legal.
sildur··on All New Cars Sold in EU to Be Fitted with Data Recording 'Black Box'
The original source of this heap of trash disguised as article is summit.news. I think that should be enough.
sildur··on Nebulosity is now open-source and free
I tried to, but I didn’t find a list of projects that went open source, so I had to go by my memory. Which may have some kind of survivorship bias, as I maybe forgot those projects which went open source, but failed.
sildur··on Nebulosity is now open-source and free
Yeah, like OpenOffice, or Blender, or Java, or UQM.
sildur··on A tracking device made by Apple is showing up in suspected crimes
> I was there to find out if there was a way to find and disable the Airtag without buying an Apple product. It turns out there is no way, you are literally forced to pay Apple money to get someone to stop stalking you.

Apple made an android app to track AirTags. It was news everywhere a few weeks ago:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.trac...

sildur··on OsmAnd 4.1 adds inital support for Android Auto
They do import data. I can see it all over Europe. But sometimes the imported data is misaligned, or lacks information.
sildur··on Deploy a Gmail-like email server in 30 (ish) minutes
Yeah, me too. My life was basically set up and forget. Except for that time I upgraded my instance and the upgrade came with an unexpected and unwanted IP change. Unfortunately it seemed like the new IP has been used for spam and I had to spend some time clearing my IP status. But eventually everyone understood and my IP is clear and shiny now.
sildur··on Best practices for writing code comments
> I don’t know any IDE or editor that makes it easy to search though git commit message and source code at the same time.

Any editor from Jetbrains with the GitToolbox plugin does that.

sildur··on Apple added an orange dot that’s a showstopper for live visuals
I mean, I’d take advantage of that program. If it’s already installed then it probably has the permissions granted. So I’d only have to run it before recording audio.
sildur··on Apple added an orange dot that’s a showstopper for live visuals
Then I’d simply call this program before recording audio.
sildur··on India defuses its population bomb: fertility falls to two children per woman
> When famine struck, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson initially refused to deliver food aid, citing the country’s high birth rate.

I hope there is more context with that statement, because it sounds downright evil.

sildur··on BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
With QubesOS. I just tried adding a keyboard and it simply showed me a pop up saying a USB keyboard has been attached. It won’t work until I attach it to a qube.
sildur··on Assange judge is 40-year ‘good friend’ of minister who orchestrated his arrest
Mainstream media was a thing way before it being co-opted by the far-right. And I really dislike the idea of having to update my vocabulary because a pack of morons decided to abuse the term.
sildur··on Jndi: An irresponsibly bad logging library
> This is enterprise level thinking.

An enterprise-level app must be like a slum built on a minefield, then.

sildur··on Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí works
If you try to sleep with your eyes partially closed, you’ll start to hallucinate the things in front of you. Things become shapes, and then completely different things. It’s pretty interesting.
sildur··on Assange judge is 40-year ‘good friend’ of minister who orchestrated his arrest
Yes, it’s “prejudging”.
sildur··on Gravitational waves should permanently distort space-time
> They stretch and compress space along axes perpendicular to the direction of propagation.

Is it possible to compress space?

sildur··on Is “KAX17” performing de-anonymization Attacks against Tor Users?
I use tor to update my machines, to generate noise, mostly.
sildur··on Bank transfers as a payment method
Revolut offers free SEPA instant payments.
sildur··on You can't download this image
And now you can't download that image.
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