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ripa

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    Comment #41598435

    Yep, a lot of these policies seem to come from some random person scrolling through a list of supported options and arbitrarily making up values that are enforced on people. One of…

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    Comment #33614127

    I guess each to their own. I want to stage my commit with regular commands, and then have the staging area work with (diff, add/remove etc). I don't care for an interactive tool, I…

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    Comment #33613935

    What is the argument against having a staging area? The Git staging area is crucial in my mind.

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    Comment #32761715

    With noise cancellation I find I never have to crank up the volume above low-medium. This is great as I also try to avoid damaging my hearing more. The iPhone also has a widget in …

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    Comment #29912387

    there was also the WiFi name where it would disable the iPhone's WiFi. https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/20/ios-bug-network-name-di...

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    Comment #21558920

    Firefox for Mac has been more or less unusable up until the most recent release where they actually started using the Core Animation libraries in macOS. Now it won’t drain all the …

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    Comment #19932850

    You can also run in on-demand mode and exclude your home WiFi, which is what I do. Then you'll be connected to the VPN at all times except when you're on the home WiFi.

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    Comment #19427480

    If the value rises considerably in a few years for you to make a decent profit, then its mostly a headache (and operating costs, wear and tear etc) to have tenants .

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    Comment #19243265

    Yep, Algo uses the same approach. It's generating device configuration profiles with the necessary settings. I'm generating mine in the same way but slightly different to allow tog…

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    Comment #19242301

    On macOS/iOS you can configure the built-in VPN clients to use "on-demand" mode, which wont allow traffic before the VPN connection is established. The only way to configure this h…

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    Comment #17061764

    Courtesy of FreeBSD’s SIGIFO https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=siginfo&sektion=3&...

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    Comment #13476470

    On a very high level ZFS main thing compared to APFS is currently data integrity features such as checksums of the data to detect bit rot (silent corruption) and the ability to aut…

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    Comment #12212622

    bup is focused on backups. Would you say that noms is useful as a backup utility? Do you have any mechanisms for securing integrity, specifically repairing the store in case of inc…

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    Comment #10527861

    Similar quirks in the Python example. Opening the file should ideally be done with a "with" statement to close the file automatically at the end. But in the Ruby example the author…

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    Comment #10322885

    Looks interesting for the niche purpose! I certainly can think of a couple of use cases. But I don't understand why the build script is written in Python? I think that either you s…

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    Comment #8823383

    I see, thanks for the explanation! As written in the other response, hopefully we'll see an EFI upgrade fixing it soon.

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    Comment #8823381

    I see, thanks for the explanation! Hopefully we'll see an EFI upgrade fixing it soon.

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    Comment #8823181

    Maybe I'm missing something, but if an attacker can update the firmware without Apple's RSA key, then Apple (or you self) should be able to flash it in the same way the attacker di…

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    Comment #7372460

    This is a known method for fixing this type of problem where the solder has been damaged due to excess heat and/or improper cooling from the start. It's also known that this is mos…