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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taco Bell Programming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is great until your job outgrows a single computer or you want to have redundancy. Also, chains of bash tools don’t have the best error management when something chokes in one of the middle steps in the pipe. You can still leverage simple bash tools for a lot of the under the hood stuff, but you start needing something more to act as the glue petty quickly when you scale. KISS should still apply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Babe wake up, new VLC update just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The upgrade looks like a pain in the ass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Born from the tragedy of gun violence, this program teaches children how to stop a wound from bleeding out | CNN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any training needs to be tailored to age.

  Training for 5 year olds should be mostly about thinking about not putting themselves in danger, recognizing when somebody needs help, and getting help.

  As for high school age you can get certified as an EMT at 16, so high school age can handle this type of class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They had a big library, but not the user base. They were definitely not maintaining anywhere near the infrastructure and bandwidth of major streaming platforms. Netflix claims 260 million users. It’s not hard to get a giant catalog when you dont have to pay for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect that it’s because they are marketed to be as much of a tech gadget as transportation. An iPad on wheels. So they figure that they can slip in this crap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems legit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean Fxctory

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does harddrive failure work when there's multiple partitions?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the exact nature of the failure. Controller errors are usually a complete failure. Media failure (magnetic spots on the disk or failed cells in ssd) are often sporadic and only impact data stored in those spots.

  Regardless, drives rarely give you any warning. Look at any warning as a gift and get everything off and replace it ASAP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am the thing that goes *thump* 'Fuck!' in the night⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bonus for the toilet right there in the bathroom with no door.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pause? Not Canceled?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoops⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am old enough to remember when they only had manual screw drivers and thicker wood screws that needed to be pre-drilled and lubed with soap.

  Go buy a modern “cheap” wood screw. Not a deck screw. An actual wood screw. Pre-drill the correct size hole, including the countersink, and use the correct size manual Phillips screwdriver. You will never strip out the screws.

  Now take a 500 RPM impact driver that has almost enough torque to remove lug nuts, a worn or wrong size bit, and a thin shank screw that was only designed to hold down deck boards and the slightest slip or misalignment and have this photo.

  We all do it because it is fast/easy. Just understand that you are doing things the convenient way instead of the right way, and you have to expect the stuff to sometimes not work aa advertised because of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell tells remote workers that they won’t be eligible for promotion⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wondering how many employees don’t live near a Dell office? I guess that they are screwed.

  I assume that many teams are spread around the country, so even if you go to an office, you can’t in person collaborate with your team anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Musk is down -$49B YTD. That guy sure knows how to turn gold into horseshit.

  Not a solution, but you have to start somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not DNS⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fat fingering BGP config has nuked the internet quite a few times already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This flaw is not really that bad because it requires the attacker to already have total and complete control over the system already. For example, if they were able to steal the root password.

  This flaw just makes it easier for the attacker to hide and harder to evict them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I "ls -R | cat | grep print" ?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use find instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacker spins up 1 million virtual servers to illegally mine crypto⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  accounts of a subsidiary of one of the world’s largest e-commerce entities.

  How to say AWS without saying AWS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the hurdles to ARM is that you need to recompile and maintain a separate version of every piece of software for the different processors.

  This is a much easier task for a tightly controlled ecosystem like Mac than the tons of different suppliers Windows ecosystem. You can do some sort of emulation to run non-native stuff, but at the cost of the optimization that you were hoping to gain.

  Another OS variation also adds a big cost/burden to enterprise customers where they need to manage patches, security, etc.

  I would expect to see more inroads in non-corporate areas following Apple success, but not any sort of explosion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Clippy Key.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2875: 2024⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if Obama were eligible, I doubt that we could convince him to do it again.

  He seems way too happy with retirement to want to deal with the militant toddlers that sprung up after he left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AppleTV complete replacement opinions⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have had various sticks and Roku highest end models and then got the latest ATV with hard wire port that adds Dolby vision and high frame rate HDR. I have a 2022 high-end TV.

  The video quality is noticeably better. Not sure of older ATV, but this is clearly better than the top end Roku. Also, I’m not sure if it is the same on older tvs

  The other thing is that you want to hard wire if at all possible. Even the best wifi can’t touch the reliability of a wire

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enshitification won’t stop until the frogs realize that they are being boiled to death and jump out of the pot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Merry ChristmaX⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or he could go it operations where every day is “a bad day to stop sniffing glue” because you are the only thing keeping the house of cards up while dev and network squabble over who’s foot cannon broke shit this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this monstrosity?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Knock off version of the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile for guys with little weiners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roughly 31.75 meters⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The board is about 2 feet shorter in cold weather.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeking Advice to Ensure Robust Security for My Home Server Setup⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like your edge server is acting as a proxy for a media server on some other host on your LAN.

  You want to make sure that the media server software is setup securely, patched, and properly isolated from anything else in LAN should that become compromised. Proxy closes off a lot of attack vectors but not application vulnerabilities. The Lastpass hack happened because of some vulnerability in an employees home plex server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As far as we know, there are 0 Taco Bells on Mars.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you think will be the first fast food franchise on Mars?

  My guess is Subway. Don’t need to cook anything and all of the ingredients already have enough preservatives to make the journey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone give me advice on how to solve this T1-11 siding rot?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once it’s rotted, you need to replace. This will also give you the opportunity to look at the wood behind the siding as there’s a good chance that the rot goes deeper.

  You never want to have untreated wood touching concrete. Concrete will always wick water and rot the wood. When you replace the siding, leave a 3/8in gap between the wood and concrete. Seal the gap with caulk to keep water out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who makes those terrible sheet cake things that every Chinese buffet has?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Chinese cakes, desserts, etc use less sugar and are generally more bland than western recipes. It is a matter of different cultures having different tastes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slow internet speeds? It might be faster to use a pigeon.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Throughput is good, but the 4 day pings are a killer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lying in court is perjury, which is a criminal offense.

  That being said, making a mistake on something like a date is a valid defense. Trump immediately recanting gives him a good way to claim mistake.

  There’s more value to prosecution to make him seem deceptive and stupid than wasting more time with something like a super weak case for perjury. You also don’t want to give them more ways to draw out and delay the process.