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ThrashBeard

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    Comment #31311740

    Ah yes, the magic cloud where you don't need to lift a finger and everything is safe and works and everybody is having a good time! The only ways I have seen admin jobs disappearin…

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    Comment #31166965

    The way I understood "was only lightly documented" was they were blaming themselves like "we didn't put much work into it and didn't document it very well".

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    Comment #31165981

    Sound pretty standard for any company and not that bad. The flight thing sounded more like "don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity". Maybe it would make more …

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    Comment #31003703

    I've noticed that a few times with people pretending to care about open source but in reality they care mostly about the free as in free beer part. Not that long ago there was an a…

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    Comment #30788652

    > Mozilla with all its flaws is still a foundation Not exactly. There is a Mozilla Foundation and a Mozilla Corporation

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    Comment #30787839

    It's complicated because it is complicated. It's like saying a car is too complicated because I can't just swap the engine out without any prior knowledge. It's not designed for th…

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    Comment #30763851

    This, the fact that they keep increasing prices and that the phone is barely functional makes me feel that Librem is a failed project.

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    Comment #30685884

    I'd say it's the same in Lithuania. Basically everyone that studied something like computer science in the 90s were electrical engineers and the computer stuff was barebones, it wa…

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    Comment #30685616

    Really simple solutions. AWS itself has a Secrets Manager from which other authorized services can pull secrets. If it's an outside CI/CD platform then those usually also have a pl…

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    Comment #30685540

    Managed services don't save you from that. You still have to configure security groups to reach them and a lot of devs just use the easiest way and expose the thing to the internet…

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    Comment #30274727

    Define modern? RSYSLOG has existed for a long time and is probably the simplest solution for sending logs somewhere.

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    Comment #30116358

    If Reddit or Twitter seems a necessity to you then you have problems and you should start working on them before you go around telling what someone should be allowed to do.

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    Comment #29881705

    > Many Linux distro simply barrow binaries from "trusted" sources. The crappy ones maybe. Proper distros build everything from source.

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    Comment #29701102

    It seemed like DDG improved greatly a few years ago, I started using it and now it just seems like it's slipping again. Of course this is purely anecdotal, maybe it's just in my he…

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    Comment #29701049

    > I like duckduckgo’s interface and I feel they genuinely put a lot of effort to ensure people have a great experience using their search engine. Yeah, it seems like DDG is the onl…