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bringtheaction

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About bringtheaction

“Beauty is our business.” ―Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Thanks for dropping by. While you are here, why not check out my submissions? They rarely get any attention but in my opinion the things I submit are quite interesting and if more people saw them that would make me happy :)

Recent public activity

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    Comment #16858416

    Gandi user here. After I read your comment I tried to enable this but it doesn't work. When I change whois privacy to enabled and press save it just says "Unable to update the cont…

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    Comment #16779598

    > If you want to control your narrative, maybe don't post thoughtlessly and publicly. I am not posting thoughtlessly. What I am saying is that there is just a million ways that any…

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    Comment #16778788

    Everyone can make stupid mistakes, and the amount of repercussions that you can end up with can be really small or really big regardless of the actual significance of what you said…

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    Comment #16778708

    You are talking about incognito mode / private browsing right? When I open an incognito tab and search for “latex”, the entire first page of results is still all about LaTeX for me…

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    Comment #16778598

    > If someone feels consequences of an offensive 2007 tweet, just delete it. Platforms should be required to make it easy to delete content. “Just delete it”. Except have you ever p…

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    Comment #16749541

    What a bunch of disgusting comments in that thread.

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    Comment #16744909

    > I'm trying to bypass the blockade altogether, disproving its utility Nothing good can come from this. Your employer will not applaud you for this. You could end up getting fired …

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    Comment #16718156

    > The IRR Netname is actually still APNIC-LABS too. This is consistent with information on the page. > 1.1.1.1 is a partnership between Cloudflare and APNIC.

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    Comment #16718011

    Does quad9 offer encrypted DNS?

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    Comment #16715151

    > Please don't install PeerTube for production on a small device behind a low bandwidth connection (example: a Raspberry PI behind your ADSL link) because it could slow down the fe…

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    Comment #16715009

    Thanks, was about to ask what made them switch.

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    Comment #16712932

    > There are other tools out there that can be used to convert a Markdown into slides or PDF For example Pandoc which I personally enjoy

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    Comment #16708384

    That’s fine by me. I don’t care who specifically is hosting my encrypted files as long as they are just one of several nodes in a distributed network.

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    Comment #16708355

    Sure but I don’t want to own the storage drives myself. Also I want it to be simple as Dropbox. I have other things to do than to dick around with storage and syncing and all that …

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    Comment #16707979

    You can have a blockchain without miners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-stake Now I agree that a lot of ideas for how blockchain will be used are just unnecessary and stup…

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    Comment #16705939

    I didn’t even know that dark matter was anything more than theoretical.

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    Comment #16705817

    And the icon.

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    Comment #16700184

    > To detect data from your torrent client we provide a magnet link to a fake file. The magnet contains an http url of a controlled by us tracker which archives the information comi…

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    Comment #16700159

    > text content analysis The solution to that is to use memes and bad grammar. I am not kidding. Keep your messages really brief and have a community of people that talk in a very s…

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    Comment #16696653

    Would rather store percentages in single bytes, so let 0xFF / 0xFF = 100%. 0x81 / 0xFF = 129 / 255 ~= 50.59%

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    Comment #16696623

    Can someone explain to me why they went for static getDerivedStateFromProps(nextProps, prevState) Instead of getDerivedStateFromProps(nextProps) Was it to prevent people from mutat…

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    Comment #16696586

    “Stripes and no stars” in reference to Stars and Stripes? Nah, “no stars” sounds negative. “Stars and Stripe checkout”?

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    Comment #16684135

    Facebook will definitely get this site taken down quickly. There is something called the Trademark Clearinghouse and registrars work together with them. http://www.trademark-cleari…

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    Comment #16679182

    I just feel at home with FreeBSD. I mean it’s not perfect. That’s why I run FreeBSD on some and not all of my computers and instead run Linux on the rest (and also macOS on one of …

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    Comment #16679110

    > Unless all of the communication between the frontend part and the native tooling is done via sockets. Admittedly I have not developed any Electron apps, but I have developed seri…