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dozzie

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About dozzie

Sysadmin/programmer, or more precisely, builder of tools for administrators.

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    Comment #17695527

    > Please don't go into attack mode here. [...] > Edit: it looks like we've already had to warn you about not being a bully on Hacker News. Moreover, it looks like you've been posti…

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    Comment #17692773

    > "It is a valid tool to quickly and comprehensibly build a network of devices. Visit wiki and documentation to know more about the PJON Standard". If this is a wall of words that …

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    Comment #17692742

    Of course it doesn't need to be audio nor video. It doesn't change the fact that you used a term that has more than one meaning without providing any context in which to interpret …

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    Comment #17692682

    That's a big surprise, I thoguht it's about sending audio and video somehow.

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    Comment #17692678

    > Ciao dozzie, I have omitted "implementation" from the title because I thought that was obvious enough. It seems not. Keep the proper terminology. If you omit words left and right…

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    Comment #17692510

    Protocol cannot be open source . It can have a full specification published. A protocol does not have a source code, it's something that its implementation can have. Also, what the…

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    Comment #17686769

    So basically you're using an overcomplicated chroot as nothing more than chroot.

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    Comment #17683686

    Yes, I've seen. Even more unwieldy than OpenSSL's one, and you need whole Hashicorp's thing, too.

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    Comment #17683370

    If only there was a certificate authority management tool that was convenient to use from command line and through an API, so it could be made into a company-wide service. There is…

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    Comment #17680805

    > And unless you're aggressively tracking your distro's package releases you'd better hope that the new libdep doesn't introduce any breaking bugs. Or use a distribution that does …

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    Comment #17675798

    >> Those were never necessary for operational purposes. If you were selling your users to get Google's analytics, that's a different matter. > What about simple session cookies? Yo…

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    Comment #17675271

    > Are you including cookie banners, Those were never necessary for operational purposes. If you were selling your users to get Google's analytics, that's a different matter. > priv…

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    Comment #17672331

    > The BEAM is a preemptive VM. The BEAM Book shared by armitron disagrees: https://happi.github.io/theBeamBook/#_scheduling_non_preempt... Though an Erlang programmer never sees th…

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    Comment #17657843

    > Samsung stopped making drivers for their MFCs so I needed to toss a perfectly working laser MFC because it stopped working with Linux, just like that. Erm... The old drivers stop…

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    Comment #17640818

    Why? Because you want somebody to be able to censor out your whole website without notifying you and without giving you any meaningful way to protest (CA revoking your certificate …

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    Comment #17640219

    Vacation is not about having less work. Vacation is about doing something different than you do usually, on a different schedule and probably with no big expectations to meet. Help…

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    Comment #17639083

    My guess is that it's because learning a different paradigm is difficult and you don't see its benefits until you're proficient with it. It's like learning functional or logic prog…

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    Comment #17637885

    So you have discovered how we were using chroot for decades. Congratulations.

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    Comment #17602054

    That's not disrespecting HTTP standard. That's the consequence of using HTTP in place of a proper RPC protocol.

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    Comment #17591072

    > All those things sound like antipatterns to me. If your application is supposed to fetch HTTPS pages then there should be an integration test for that [...] It's not something to…

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    Comment #17589370

    Sure I can remember. Checking libraries the binary uses ("why this cURL fails on HTTPs? oh, it's linked against GnuTLS, that explains everything"), injecting your own library, inte…

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    Comment #17589248

    > I doubt anyone can answer this for you, but why shouldn't it be [popular in the industry at the moment]? Its build system is poor if you want to rebuild the binary from the same …

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    Comment #17583631

    My company-supplied Dell Latitude 7480, running Debian stable with its stock kernel: > - M2 SSD requires changing some BIOS preferences to work on Linux No BIOS fiddling, except fo…

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    Comment #17582210

    I know you'd happily bash PHP author for such an incomprehensible error message, but it's not his own message, but something that comes from Yacc/Bison, when the next parsed token …

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