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Location: Vermont, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, React, VueJS, Laravel, WordPress, Linux (LAMP/Nginx) LinkedIn: https://www.linke…

Ha! I had one of those in the late 90's. My father had it first and I inherited it when he passed. A couple of months after he bought it, I bought a 1985 LTD, which was basically a…

I was working at a web design company a little after windows XP went EoL. One site had a member on thier board who kept raising a stink because the redesigned site didn't work righ…

Yacht ( https://yacht.sh/ ) is good too if anything about Portainer upsets you.

Back before flexible web layouts or modals were a thing, we went through a phase of opening a new browser window for some content, and locking the size. Sometimes we'd want to open…

Most every cPanel based hosting company, including the large ones, will offer a product with LiteSpeed. It's sometimes re-branded, but it's there. The main benefit is that it's a d…

I worked at a place in the late 90s that had a mix of older actual Apple Macs and newer Power Computing towers. One night some water line in the ceiling went and almost all of the …

My wife has a similar problem with the iMac supplied wireless mouse. She'll go to click-drag something and catch the power switch, which is on the underside of the mouse, on the mo…

“I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I…

I grew up in the strange time where the cars we got as "hand me downs" had 8-track players. At a yard sale we found an 8-track to cassette adapter, and then put one of those casset…

Magic was probably the first instance of where I learned that sometimes it's ok to not try to "solve" games or put too much thought into being competitive. I'm not sure how my frie…

Doom barely ran on 386s and lower 486s, so running at all on a 286, let alone better than most any 386, is pretty impressive to me.

Many, many years ago I was at a company where a manager (M1) wanted full root access to all of the internal servers (mostly file/web servers, router/firewall and the mail server). …

If you're in the US, contact your state attorney general. This is a widespread, known issue that a few are building cases about. They have back channels to facilitate getting the a…

I've done sub-sub-contract work for a few government and military orgs where standard procedure would be I would be mailed a thumb drive of what should just be images and word docs…

And I don't remember ANY virus outbreak and downfall of society in the early 2000's either. This show is so unrealistic.

I am not surprised at all. Maybe 7 years ago I got called in to clean up a website "hack" where the site had a bunch of malicious JS on it. Site was hosted on GoDaddy. Pulled the s…

I went through the same thing ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34031217 ), and just finally got the last piece, WhatsApp, unblocked a couple of days ago. My situation was uni…

There's $20-30 looper pedals on Amazon and Ali Express that do the job just fine. Most any USB audio interface will have an "instrument" input/mode that will allow you to plug dire…

I remember seeing one of the first Pentium's, it was either a 60 or 66mhz, but it was STUPIDLY fast. Way faster than any 486 we had at the time. We were just watching someone play …

We had a place booked on Airbnb near the end of the summer. Had a deposit paid, and the overall price was a bit steep, but needed to stay in the city at that time. Three weeks out …

I was hoping to write up a TellHN about something similar once my situation was resolved, but the same thing happened to me at the end of November. My Facebook account has MFA and …

It's using ffmpeg. It's limited by the CPU/GPU on the server. You can adjust the options to have it encode faster or higher quality.

Not just getting lucky, but being ready to get lucky. If they didn't have the company or the product already, bumping into the former manager wouldn't be enough. And I think I've j…

It. Just. Happened.