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I run scripts on my servers on an hourly basis to check which are the top 25 IPs visiting the server (aggregated by /24). If anyone in those top 25 IPs are from China, Vietnam, etc…

I have a really long passphrase in keepassxc. I often try to type it, fail 50% of the time, display the password, fix the typo. I would not use a long passphrase otherwise. (I unde…

We have EU clients that now force us to use BBB (big blue button) for security reasons. It's not perfect, but good enough, and Zoom/Hangouts/Teams all have their quirks. We decided…

Donations only get you so far. Take a mid-sized project, that needs $500k per year (a few devs, very modestly paid, zero expenses). It's a lot of money. It requires a huge user bas…

I for one, am grateful to Mozilla for still being around, pushing for an open web. Their documentation is excellent, the improvements and roadmap for Thunderbird made me finally ad…

The sync would stall and I'd have to go retry, or it would fail with no error clear message. In the end, I had no idea what had really synched correctly. The app was unhappy if I d…

My device is not rooted, but I use Syncthing as well. I mainly sync my photos and my TOTP tokens (Aegis). The rest I don't care about. I used Nextcloud sync in the past, but found …

I'm all for competition, but smaller players would have been completely blocked by Privacy Shield, whereas they cannot block CloudFlare completely without breaking a lot of other s…

ICQ was a way of texting friends so that you could go party. At least for me, and I'm a nerd. I remember even "normal" friends were using IRC as a way to hookup. Cell phones were n…

I like icinga's model, which can run a small agent on the server, but it doesn't run as root. I grant specific sudo rules for checks that need elevated permissions. I find it easie…

I mean, sure, you could blame the climate crisis on the petrol companies that have doubled production in Alberta in the past 10 years, or you suspect "eco-terrorists" which, as far…

The Crunchlabs agent seems to be based off the Arduino Agent, so I'm surprised they don't support Linux. My teenager never had any issues with using Linux since the age of 10 (old …

Cuba rarely stamps passports to avoid those problems. They give you a piece of paper with a stamp, that you return on your way out.

That's an odd reference to DEI. I'd say the negative consequences of authoritarian regimes is that they suppress freedom, and therefore art and technological innovation. China is a…

More like Feeld, imo :) (Feeld also lets you skip a profile, and get back to it later)

This may be terrible advice, but as a freelancer, getting sued by a company will cost them a minimum of $20k in legal fees just to get started. Unless you really messed up in bad f…

It's easier to maneuver, way easier to turn.

Seems OK to me? Coal mining has been steadily declining, but oil/gas production keeps increasing (at least in the US/Canada).

Looks neat, but I tend to get way too distracted by graphical interfaces. I assume it's really a question of personal preference. CLIs are faster to use, but have a bigger learning…

I'm surprised that you didn't mention the role of petrol in Alberta and hydro power in Quebec. They play a key role to sustaining the economy and social services. It's not just tha…

What's the endpoint? Why did it provide personal information? Why wasn't it throttled? Many things don't matter at a small scale, but they do at 15M-scale. Trello users are about t…