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The former happens a lot when people try to block specific commands for sudo, instead of taking a "permit these only" approach. If your sudoers file says you can access "all these …

I doubt we'll see it, but one thing I'd really like is for them to release cleaner drivers or specs for the hardware in Intel Macs . Now that they're committed to removing Intel su…

Yep, I concur: this explains a bizarre behavior I’ve noted in my Mac laptops for ages now. I have a tendency to just suspend them without rebooting for ages, especially the work on…

That’s fair! There were a couple comments that used similar language; I didn’t mean to call you out. Yours was the first I saw with it, so I hit reply. Thanks for clarifying.

> The point of communication between engineers is usually to establish a mutual understanding... I tried to let this pass in the discussion, I really did, but since it came up in v…

Many companies miss how important this is, too: they get caught up in "but if they buy it second-hand, they're not buying our new stuff!". When people buy the stuff second-hand, th…

Genuinely saddened by this. I had Dr. Newby for a Linux admin class in college in the late 90s and it was one of the courses that got me interested in systems administration. I rem…

Agreed, and it’s not just the hardware keyboard (on which I could comfortably have written an entire novel) that I miss. It had just enough access to email that I could reply to th…

Side note that not remembering it has nothing to do with memory deterioration. Neurons that fire together wire together: if you haven’t used that particular piece of information in…

> (That's usually used to justify 'And that's why I don't need to spend time looking into the actual details and just give up') Just FWIW, giving up wasn't my point at all. I'm jus…

Yeah, call me overly cynical but I'm waiting for this cycle to play out: - CA bans face-masks for law-enforcement - White House issues executive order requiring face-mask use for a…

Interestingly, it has held up quite well, too: outside of the occasional bit of old tech sticking out here and there, the whole thing could be set in 2025 with a minimum of updatin…

sigh Is it that time of the year again that we start publishing these? Boy, how time flies... Too frequently, what people (and clearly the author of this piece) mean when they say …

Note that Quakers never rejected the possibility of being killed for their beliefs, just the choice of killing others for them. Pacifism does not equate to passivism, after all: it…

That Friend speaks my mind. :) In seriousness, I agree — it's always odd to see Quakerism discussed in other contexts, as well as running into other Quakers in other contexts outsi…

I was puzzled by that, too: I'm always mystified when people share their entire screen on a Zoom call instead of just the one window they need to show me. Zoom even makes it easy t…

The only place I'm insistent about source-code is things like this that need access to a ton of my data at all times. An app that only has access to the data I choose to share with…

I'm aware this is old-man-shakes-fist-at-cloud territory, but I don't want an AI-based AI browser with AI integration to AI the AI in all the AIs. I want a freaking browser . If I …

I'm experimenting with moving to Zen, but finding it frustrating. I think I can get around the containers-vs-workspaces-as-separate-things shift, but the last time I tried it I fou…

A music history prof in college described this as "the ultimate raised middle-finger to the audience — Beethoven at his most I'm-writing-for-me-only."

I was genuinely taken aback by visiting a restaurant website last night that was only served over HTTP. (Attempting to hit it with HTTPS generated a cert error because their shared…

You're not wrong: there's definitely evidence, for instance, of savvy attackers watching the CT logs for things like newly-instantiated WordPress servers and then attacking them be…

Oh definitely, but her point was she didn’t want the ACME client having the rights to frob the webserver — I figured that meant restart-rights too. :)

They’ve been making it harder and harder to serve things over HTTP-only for a while now. Steps like marking HTTP with big “NOT SECURE” labels and trying to auto-push to HTTP have b…

Fortunately that’s only needed if you’re using the DNS validation method — necessary if you’re getting wildcards (but…eek, wildcards). For HTTP-01, no DNS changes are needed unless…