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Worked at a web property that took scrum, used it and found it lacking in certain cases for development. They Extend it And called the new creation beyond scrum, abbreviated as BS …

Southwest 1380 would like a word with you. Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 was a Boeing 737-700 that experienced an uncontained engine failure[a] in the left CFM56-7B engine after d…

If the person on the phone had said “Capone, Al” instead of “Uh…” he’d possibly not gone to jail. Even ill gotten gains are taxable and the theory of one crime at a time suggests t…

I would posit that the fee for tje airline ticket or the fuel and upkeep for your car is a transaction fee levied on cash transactions. Sure, the bill itself is untouched, but the …

If all you require a warm bodies to do menial tasks or low- to no-skilled labor? Sure, Pakistan and Africa will be happy to provide these. If you are trying to rebuild your high-te…

I think they store data in DXF. Should be pretty standard thus.

I‘ve been working with sweet home 3d a bit but then gave up on it after running into rendering issues. Found https://pcon-planner.com/en/?privat=530&page=126 instead which is windo…

For fun: This actually runs the Java Applet KVM viewer on a SuperMicro X7 board: https://github.com/ixs/kvm-cli/blob/master/kvm_x7.py 1. Downloads the data from the IPMI interface …

There are reasons for tools like https://github.com/ixs/kvm-cli . It seems like every operations team built their own version that logs into the web interfaces, downloads the java …

I was just fiddling around with a SuperMicro X8 IPMI the other day. The X8 IPMI stuff is terrible, e.g. the warning that your Java installation is outdated on opening the website e…

The distance from Paris to Berlin is longer than Berlin to Lviv in Ukraine. Something that is often forgotten it seems. The European Union has legitimate territorial security inter…

I previously used MiniKeepass which has been shut down. My grated to KyPass, which looks good on paper but syncing with Google Drive didn’t work in practice. Now using KeePassium P…

Much wider hardware support with OpenWRT. If the hardware is accessible and supports Linux, there is an OpenWRT target for it. There’s even a x86 and a raspberry target. If you’re …

What I find so baffling is that these experiences do not match my own at all . I've been running a non-profit ISP for about 23 years with a few friends. We've always been doing thi…

I appreciate the nuanced view. Let me add a bit of color though and point out where the "rumors" are wrong. Subscription management of RHEL has always been an issue. There were amp…

Uhm. That’s a nice straw man to support the “no true Scotsman” fallacy. Well done. :-) I did a bit of digging on Wikipedia. And based on the description in https://en.m.wikipedia.o…

There’s an argument to be made that the nazi Party never won an actual free election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hitler-was-not-voted... is a good example of the reaso…

Based on the comments here I did a quick look at Amazon and was surprised to not even see a single vacuum only robot from Evovacs. At least not prominently showcased. Why are there…

Yes. This is so important. Go on the internet, figure out who/which place near you is the predominant expert on that specific cancer and go there with your family member for a seco…

I would generally agree with everything you said. These steps will get you job offers and employment. But based on personal experience in Europe I do find that networking with recr…

It does not. There are myriad ways of extracting the TOTP seed from these apps... Or you just reverse engineer the setup/confirmation process and then you can generate/trigger your…

Last time I looked, ruffle did badger and similar videos well. But as soon as there was any interactivity, e.g. random game from Kongregate (e.g. https://www.kongregate.com/games/m…

This depends on the importance you assign to on-call. And that value is usually defined by the likelihood of incidents and the impact of these. If you constantly have incidents tha…

Personally I rarely drink anything, so not applicable to me. But I had seen a good attitude from a colleague once: If you want me to put my normal life on hold for on-call shifts, …

I fear you might underestimate the maintenance costs of forking. A nice anecdote I heard a long time ago was comparing the approach to custom engineering between SuSE and Red Hat. …