zyberzero

I bought a cheap HP Microserver with four 4 TB spinning disks that I placed at a relatives house ~1000 km from where I live. I do nightly replication to the off-site location, with an account on the receiving end that only has enough permissions to create snapshots and receive data, so even if that ssh key somehow got out in the wild things could not be deleted from the remote store. I hope :)

Clarification: Remote end also uses ZFS, so I can use cheap replication with encryption

It's legal in Sweden to record secretly as long as you are one of the parties in the recording.

Yes. And the keyboard bindings are also localized, so in Excel in Swedish on would press CTRL-F to make the text bold (F is for "fetstil") and to find one would press CTRL-B, logically for "sök".

(for unaware users, those are exchanged between Excel in English and in Swedish. In english CTRL-F for find, CTRL-B for bold. )

Nice looking screen! Is there a way to run it without the subscription though? Or any alternative? The 32" was a bit too pricey for me, but the 13" was more wallet-friendly (899 EUR excl VAT)

I do something like that, but use pandoc to get whatever format they ask for. It's not always nice looking, but it's seldom me who is initiating the contact (ie they already have an interest in me, and they need a resume "for the process").

I once rage quitted a process. We had a few interviews, and then difficult take home test à la leet code (I spent 4-5 hours on them).

Then the hiring manager came back, "all looks good! I need you to interview with the team, the CEO, the other team" and what not.

I declined and said that I'm not spending 10 hrs in a process you asked me for (as in I didn't apply, they reached out to me). I got an angry email saying "what do you mean? We have only met with you for two hours?". I pointed out that it takes time to do the tests, then nothing more than crickets from the company. Not even a thanks for your time.

I cancelled my Prime account some years ago (I moved to a country where Amazon wasn't available), and I don't remember it being thaaaat difficult. However, I wanted to cancel an Adobe subscription - there you have dark patterns... I am never touching any Adobe product again.

There is still plenty of parts to get, the Swedish government took over the spare parts so some parts are sold by Orion [0]. I have yet not failed to get a spare part that I need for my Saab 9-5 -04.

[0] = https://webshop.saabparts.com/

Edit: Missed a very important not in the last sentence.

I backed their crowdfunding campaign back in the day. Due to $REASON I didn't test all of them when I got them, but when I got around to it two out of four were broken (the broken ones had USB-C). Their support didn't help at all (why should they? but they could have offered me keys for a better price...)

With that said, I had a Yubikey Neo die for me as well (NFC still worked, USB totally dead) - Yubikey offered me a new key for a discount.

I remember 15 years or so; a friend and I figured out that DNS got through my friends cellular connection even though the data limit were reached. We tested and set up a socks-over-dns-proxy back then and it worked! We loled and then never did anything more than that unfortunately (or it depends, we´d most likely be detected if we continued to use that, eh, solution).

You're kind of on it. > One of workers the grabs a message, processes it and then deletes it. If I understood it correctly, in SQS, a message can only be handled by one worker, while SNS can have several workers processing the same message (let's say one worker ingesting the message for system A and another worker to ingest the same message in system B).

You're not the only one. I still drive a 2005 Saab 9-5, but the station wagon. It is really comfortable to drive compared to other cars (I've driven mostly new Volvos, especially V40 and XC40 and I prefer the Saab any time).

I'm Swedish though, and my mom used to work at Saab back in the day when I grew up (as most of the people in that town did then).

Thank you!

Facebook do have presence in Sweden, in Luleå. Amazon also have precence. Microsoft have bought some areal in Sweden. Google, however does not have any data centers (to my knowledge) here but they do have in Finland (one of our neighbouring countries).

Does not work in Sweden either. Neither on Bahnhof nor Telia as ISP.

TIL. Thank you for this!

We had the same! Our towers leaked water as well (not sure if a feature or a bug in the lab, there was a non-trivial amount of duct tape involved), so you really needed to take "external forces" into consideration.

And here is one [0] from another reputable news source that says more or less the opposite.

I think it's too early to call out a "winner strategy" - I think there will be a new wave when the different countries opens up - but that's my guess, and hey - I program computers on a daily basis, as far away as you probably can get from this kind of science.

(and yeah, I am a Swede)

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-si...

A mirror is here: http://archive.is/yEIJT

I think that's due to pressure from a number of fintech-companies such as revolut, monzo, transferwise, and what not. They focus on exactly just that, lower exchange rates and simpler money transfers.

I've been looking in to doing so myself; but then the hassle (for me) is all test based communication. How can you keep your personal cell number a secret, while having access to texts? (I need to give my phone number to a number of companies so that they can text me)

I would tend to disagree, in a way. On a USB-C port there is USB, there might be display port and there might be thunderbolt. But only if I have the correct cable (sure, then it is a TB3 cable, not a USB-C cable). But explain that to the average Joe? Everything I connect to a USB-A port kind of works, if I add the driver.

Not everything I connect to a USB-C port works.

Never heard of it, but it sounds really usable.

Thanks for the tip!

If you like Wintergatans marble machine, checkout Martins second build, the marble machine X! It is amazing to follow the work.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLLYkE3G1HED6rW-bkliH...

I wrote some shell scripts a while back [0] for almost this purpose. I have a backup MX that does not run any Web services, but I wanted TLS anyway for the SMTP.

It uses the let's encrypt client (certbot) and nsupdate so I can use any RFC2136 compatible DNS server, in my case, Bind. This has been running on the backup MX since I wrote it, without any hickups so far.

This can also be used for. Internal services, since you do not expose anything to the internal machine.

[0] https://github.com/zyberzero/certbot-rfc2136

You can read more here[0], unfortunately it is in Swedish, and not that much. More or less, the editor in chief of the journal denies to comment. The charges are suspected data breaches, suspected instigation of data breaches and unauthorized disclosure of personal data.

[0] https://omni.se/medhelp-polisanmaler-tidning-efter-avslojand...

We're running our ERP on an AS/400. That is nowhere near to die in the foreseeable future.

I was actually trying to learn RPG mentioned in the article last week, a blast from the past!

No no, it's resting!

Just for the fun of it; what do you consider many short jobs? What do you consider a short job?

Enter Solokeys [0]. They support U2F out of the box, and they say OpenPGP (can be used for SSH) is in the works.

I've yet to receive mine, so I don't know if they work or not..

[0] https://solokeys.com