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Would you be comfortable sharing some of the recruitment firms that you worked with? I'm a Real Live Human gearing up to reenter the job market, and I've been getting pitches for t…

Malware was absolutely used to sell botnet access in the 90s, millions of Windows machines were used for DDoS and as anonymous proxies

"Unlimited" has always been a lie. There is no free lunch. There are always limits. I've had to unwind "unlimited" within startups that oversold. I've been bit by ISPs, storage pro…

I know this snarky, I'm sorry ahead of time. But I don't know how else to make this point... The fact that the people running r/progamming don't know not to wait until April 2 to p…

GitLab is about to tank in quality hard. Completely new leadership team in the last 6 months, IYKYK Give it 1-2 years, feature quantity will take precedence over feature quality

> Devex for 3 people is so much more important than ux for the 30M users. I think they were being sarcastic, and you might agree more than you realize.

Microsoft is now largely a public cloud company, also supporting a very healthy suite of B2B productivity tools. Which makes the B2C ad stuff they shove into Windows all the more i…

One thing I was found interesting about Dreamcast piracy was that everyone was burning them onto 700 MB CD-Rs. But the retail games were actually pressed onto 1GB GD-ROMs: https://…

For pirating games: PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, for sure For straight up modding: definitely the Xbox. The 007 and Mechwarrior bugs blew everything wide open, and the fact that it was jus…

Just recently dealt with this for a big Ticketmaster event. The Apple ID has to match the email address on the Ticketmaster account, or the ticket will show as Void in the Apple Wa…

It's up for "pre-registration". But I'll gladly give this a shot with a sideload.

I had a lot of _ideas_ in my 20s. I fully spec'd out "On the Way" with a buddy of mine. Picking up beer close to your destination? Gas close to your departure point? The inverse? W…

Honestly, I'm shocked you got OpenBSD running on a laptop at all. I've tried running it both on bare metal x86 hardware and in a Hyper-V VM on two different boxes, and spent hours …

Upside though? I was helping a more software-oriented buddy get a PC build up and running that'd been half-finished by some kid he paid to put it together. The GUI on the EFI confi…

I'm actually mostly in your camp here. But it's complicated with AI. What if someone gave you a binary and the source code, but not a compiler? Maybe not even a language spec? Or w…

+1 for the HUZBZB-1. I waxed more poetically about my setup already[1], but I've had that little guy for over 4 years, it was plug-and-play on day 1, and I've never had a single is…

I put HAOS on an RPi4, plugged in a Zigbee/Z-Wave adapter, and never looked back. It runs 15ish Sengled RGB bulbs wonderfully, I've got all sorts of lights macro'd and timer'd (e.g…

> It’s unmatched on Android. I have great respect for the iOS security model. Seriously a marvel and best-in-class accomplishment. But this is flatly not true. If you really care, …

I factually agree with what you're saying, but I don't think it really changes the practical outcome of the situation: a private organization is available for-hire to arbitrarily r…

Honestly, there's plenty of tools out there that can do the same thing. The important crux of the counterpoint to this article is "if you ship your database, it's now the API" and …

Yeah, I've been getting regular therapy for years, that's all a part of it. I allude to it in the links, but I've gone hard on going into the gym, building better routines, etc. I'…

I've shared my experience in being diagnosed as ADHD as an adult already[1][2], but in this context, the net is that I fought even the concept of going on any kind of medication fo…

I'm not OP, but when someone is a repeat offender of some petty crimes, and they're assessed to be mentally ill and/or addicted to drugs, they should be given a choice: help or jai…

I assume you're talking about near (fka byuu)? Heartbreaking...such an unbelievably intelligent and insightful person. I had the pleasure of getting a couple direct replies from th…

I used to use DupeGuru which has some photo-specific dupe detection where you can fuzzy match image dupes based on content: https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net/ But I switched over t…