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I'm fond our our privacy policy and it has served us quite well. I've been an owner since late 2016--a mutual friend let me know Luke was interested in selling and I had been a cus…

Prgmr.com owner here. While that copy is old, and our pricing reflects the hardware we run on today, the quip has now been updated to: "You get $5/month of support," which is the p…

You might be interested in Andrew Stone's CocoaCon mailing list, whose members have regular in-person gatherings to get help, show off projects, or talk shop. http://lists.cocoacon…

lobste.rs sysadmin here. Would you be willing to email me a screenshot or the error message you get accessing lobste.rs and having it blocked by Blue Coat?

We do customer support over IRC, on Freenode and OFTC. Particularly with the availability of web clients on Freenode, casual IRC users can reach us with minimal hassle while long-t…

I visited Weirdstuff earlier this year looking for parts to mount a vertical PDU. I found spare 45U l-brackets and a u-bracket I'm pretty sure was designed for the problem I was so…

We use Yubikey for our production systems and yes: every operator has two keys that have been configured and registered in our access database. We decided though not to make our ba…

Correct. It's the ability to share documents and conversation snippets provided by vendors, as well as curating and summarizing the significant amount of information available. I'v…

Here is where I asked to join: https://twitter.com/prgmrcom/status/949023633581592576 Following up to @scaleway on Twitter in the same manner would hopefully work out. I've sent yo…

You can manage your VPS over SSH using our management console.[1] Since most of our users access their VPS using SSH, it's nice to use the same protocol for powering a machine off …

Prgmr.com has been participating on the Slack channel this article mentions. Being able to share notes gleaned from reaching out to vendors and sort through the information and mit…

I'm sorry to read this. I've watched the single board computer space slowly lose ethernet; the connector is too large. I'd love a board with two built-in ethernet connectors so I c…

I was told it was to avoid changing my DNS when I spun up a new server. With the load balancer being $50/month; that was the pitch that put me off Rackspace.

They'll make a modest proposal that they can replace the Kansas City Federal Bank. Missouri has too many federal reserve banks anyway.

From reading the text, it seems like those folk wishing they had been alive in 1776. (The year of the Declaration of Independence of the United States from Great Britain, which the…

My comment is based on the single report substantiating the larger story in the article. I think you ask a reasonable question. Maybe the particular contractor had an axe to grind.…

One salient detail that's a bit difficult to pick out of the article: Hampton Creek gave cash to contractors with instructions to use that cash to purchase Just Mayo. However, they…

I'm not able to locate any information on the "rash of high-profile staff resignations." Is anyone able to fill in some context here?

AT&T. Doing it with gmail wouldn't solve the problem I have that causes me to want to send SMS messages in the first place, so that's out.

Given that this exploit happens during capability negotiation (or whatever SSH calls that part of the protocol), it also cannot be mitigated via pledge[2], which is where OpenBSD h…

I've tried using the gateway published there to send an SMS message to my phone, but my wireless service provider won't accept messages from my email server.

The closest thing I think of given your example is how the --help flag in git displays the manpage instead of an option summary. Is that the sort of thing you have in mind?

How does your project differ from rendering an rst document in to a manpage?

Your appeal to think about it operationally helped me understand. I have to answer questions like the ones you pose whenever something odd pops up in the logs. Thank you.