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breakall

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    Comment #48001981

    Yes! I want this for MainStage -- this would allow me to automate my weekly template setup for playing at my church. Each week before practicing I look up the songs in Planning Cen…

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    Comment #47127715

    Reap what you sow

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    Comment #37975568

    i love ublock origin and have used it for years. i recently migrated to macos and was disappointed to find that ublock origin doesn’t work with safari. what’s the best ad-blocking …

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    Comment #32287758

    comparing to self hosted pi-hole, this would allow you to take advantage of ad and other content blocking outside of your home wifi.

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    Comment #30780515

    I saw that post too and immediately ordered the iFlash Solo adapter. Coincidentally I had just run across an iPod video in a drawer that wouldn't boot up... it was about a 20 minut…

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    Comment #28118186

    May I also recommend this excellent video[1] from Hamilton made in 1949 that thoroughly explains how mechanical watches work. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL0_vOw6eCc

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    Comment #21577153

    Roundcube has come a long way, and they just released a huge update with a responsive design that works great on desktop and mobile!

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    Comment #21577126

    Should you host your own email server? Yes! It’s a really fun learning project. There are tons of resources out there to make it do-able, so go for it!

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    Comment #18588897

    Patreon sends a 1099-K if you get more than $20K in a year. https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/207099566-Will...

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    Comment #18459495

    Spam detection on my personal email server took a huge leap forward when I got Spamassassin correctly configured to use the DNS blocklists (URIBL, etc.). I had to set up a local DN…

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    Comment #17334899

    Personally I have to be careful of this....it’s easy for me to focus so much on the solution that the problem is never even clearly articulated to the developers (who may have a be…

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    Comment #17334155

    This reminds me of the hours I spend poring over the Allmusic Guide to Rock I had borrowed from the local library, tracing backwards from Van Halen, Nirvana, and Beastie Boys to di…

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    Comment #14839170

    This is the OneNote screen clipping tool. If you don't have Office, Win+Shift+S doesn't do anything. This is a super useful tool, but most often I paste into mspaint and mark up fr…

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    Comment #10203978

    Not sure I can advise on the best practice, but I know how NOT to do it: my buddy just told me that a family member spent untold hours digitizing decades of family photos and docum…

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    Comment #9874171

    Isn't their a fair distinction between an undocumented weakness ("back door") to which LEOs have access, and a provider providing a key ("front door") upon a lawful order, maintain…

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    Comment #9745142

    Nothing about these terms is "accurate". By that definition, Facebook is in the deep web. ...And in the dark web -- they now have a Tor-friendly Onion address!

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    Comment #9652584

    MobaXterm is also a nice product: http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/

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    Comment #9281249

    Run your own for a few bucks a month! Here's a guide to setting OpenVPN up on an Ubuntu machine: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...

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    Comment #9281238

    This helps when your password is lost along with thousands / millions of other passwords in a breach -- attackers would be trying to re-use passwords programmatically in bulk and w…

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    Comment #8936560

    I have this exact problem: a couple dozen 2.4 Ghz APs are visible to me. Actual throughput at a distance of 6 feet from a 2.4 Ghz router is 1 Mbps (tested with multiple APs). I swi…

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    Comment #8687053

    Digital Ocean has a great tutorial on setting up OpenVPN [1]. I've used this and gotten decent latency and good throughput over both broadband and LTE service using a small ($5/mon…

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    Comment #8478561

    > somewhat Due to the extremely narrow circumstances [1] under which the MAC address randomization is actually used, the feature may as well not exist. [1] http://blog.airtightnetw…

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    Comment #8338932

    My understanding is that any info retained by Home Depot or another retailer after you use Apple Pay could not be re-used elsewhere. As someone who has to cancel his cards once or …