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Liked the product. The developer's blog post sounds they feel burned out and not appreciated. Might be due to their take it or leave it attitude.

Participated in beta testing for a few computer games. Did some localized translation for these games. Looked for work.

From the article here https://archive.ph/bUsFH#selection-1451.0-1451.314 "At least two of the ships suspected of causing damage appear to have dragged their anchors 100 miles or mo…

Show me that it can scale then we'll see. So many announcements and promises are based on little tiny demonstrations on a lab bench.

All my cameras use wired access to a dedicated VLAN with no access to any other compute/IOT devices. I tried to pick a vendor that keeps the video camera footage in my country but …

I am getting used to good products becoming worse for reasons that are never explained. As long as I am not seeing ads in the interface this is still better than forgetting a passw…

Broken pagination for me too

Not associated with any Canadian government initiative.

Users who paid for the game are not happy about the addition of in game micro transactions

Best quote from the article "It doesn’t sound like they needed him as much as he needed them." Bears don't need people, just leave them alone.

They would be more relevant if the hostile or snarky users were effectively quietened.

It's back up!

This article indicates that data migrations could be done by or assisted by AI. Having done a number of them I am skeptical as most of the time I end up working with crufty stuff t…

Long overdue and not accompanied by any explanation of why their staff use Titan Keys to authenticate but you can be anyone from a Gmail address.

I migrated to 2FS as I wanted to keep my MFA secrets separate from my BitWarden passwords. It does require some technical knowledge but the how to was thorough and is found here ht…

Anticipated as soon as the buyout was approved. It's so long VmWare, hello Proxmox for me

Keeping my Dell hardware which is no longer supported by VmWare Esxi and moving to Proxmox. Goals: easier backups and better ups integration

I have been using this for years with my cloud provider and this is a rock solid application. My only wish is that the logging could have a sweet spot in the middle where it is not…

Yes, looking backwards PL/SQL code looks and acts like an API to the data. At Oracle conferences they will tell you that keeping your business logic in stored procedures means you …

I am constantly contacted by recruiters who just want to talk about their latest thing. An email won't do, it has to be some of my valuable time. You cannot deal with them unless y…

It is the best database if you are a bank, military or very large company who is already using it. Even in large government departments where I do contract work no one, absolutely …

Certainly agree that the Raspberry Pi's SD card is unsuitable as a boot device if you have any issues with power failures or voltage regulation. You can boot from a USB but by the …

I have twenty years in IT doing contracting and LinkedIn has been a great source of work. However the signal to noise ratio is getting worse and I no longer read the posts due to a…

Looks like click bait. Nowhere is there a clear link to how this drive will cut a Mars transit to 45 days (not the 5 days the title here states). Nuclear drives in space could solv…