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techcode

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About techcode

Senior Developer/Team Lead at one of the largest e-commerce websites in the world

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    Comment #48856469

    Yes - literally just pick the right Caddy (or similar) image with Let's Encrypt client included - and you can simply add a tag/label to your docker compose files for each of self h…

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    Comment #48800917

    > "By the time Yahoo stopped controlling webring.org in 2001, search engines had become good enough that web rings were no longer as useful." Given how those good (enough) search e…

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    Comment #48800826

    That description sounds like every New Years Eve in The Netherlands. Few days ago a law that forbids non professionals to set off fireworks started applying... We'll see if that ma…

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    Comment #48770695

    While I agree with you on ideally having a dumb TV - being able to install TailScale on your TV and then using your exit node in another country (to watch that other countries loca…

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    Comment #48418618

    Expat/kennismigrant here - it's same "ends up late and over budget" for literally every country (and private businesses). What Dutch government/politicians seems to be "ahead" comp…

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    Comment #48380936

    ADHD brain just recalled that similar concept was used for traffic jams being sent along FM radio signal. Not talking about stuff that would automatically change the FM station to …

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    Comment #48375009

    I recently learned that captions on BBC are teletext based (page 888) so I turned them on and got surprised that it's still working that way - especially considering I'm watching i…

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    Comment #48374855

    Considering you're mentioning guilders - was this the thing shown on TV back then https://nos.nl/teletekst ?

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    Comment #48320219

    If you're thinking about Linux/Gentoo - but don't want to spend a lot of time for maintaining/updating and most importantly not need time to fix stuff that broke because you didn't…

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    Comment #48319212

    Let me just leave it here... With Gentoo you get to choose SystemD or no SystemD ;)

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    Comment #48319200

    Again that reasoning falls apart because they offer free Windows version. So basically those academic/small companies are incentivised to switch to Windows (or use Wine/Proton) to …

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    Comment #48319120

    And for the things that aren't in official portage nor one of 100s of other repositories - you basically just drop an ebuild file (that LLM can do for you ) into your own local rep…

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    Comment #48319025

    Gentoo has pre built binaries for years now - you can be totally lazy about that ... And still benefit from packages/system being smaller/faster because they are not built to cater…

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    Comment #48318953

    And at the same time, at least for last few years - you can also get the same (same but different) experience/convenience of having binaries available. The Gentoo profiles mentione…

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    Comment #48307919

    I don't see how that particular line of thinking applies when: 1) They continue to have a free version for Windows 2) They continue to have a version for Linux I just can't see tha…

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    Comment #47948759

    I've seen/noticed this simply from being on a low carb (aka KETO) diet. Besides AI grossly over/under estimating values even when you give it a photo of the packaging with nutritio…

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    Comment #47930999

    How/what are you basing your "sweets/desert impacts my sleep more than a drink or two" on? I was waking up an hour or more before the alarm (so waking up Then after stopping alcoho…

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    Comment #47820377

    Since it was Dutch news and Dutch ship - I'm betting they used ~€5 Bluetooth tracker available in Action stores. Not sure how different it works from Apple/Samsung trackers. But my…

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    Comment #47797954

    I used to work for a GSM messaging gateway/SMSC. And seeing first hand how most of those SMS messages (2FA, password reset, bank transaction/balance ...etc) are usually routed (sur…

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    Comment #47788872

    In The Netherlands I wouldn't be able to login to any government or adjecent websites (e.g. portal of my local health center/GP, health insurance, retirement/pension insurance) wit…

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    Comment #47579901

    I didn't come across those narrow seats when we looked into solution for fitting two kids and an adult (grandma) in the back row. So we went for (especially in Europe) rather limit…

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    Comment #47552206

    1990-01: "At last, an assistant that follows your directions"

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    Comment #47301636

    Setup AdGuard-Home for both blocking ads and internal/split DNS, plus Caddy or another reverse proxy and buy (or recycle/reuse) a domain name so you can get SSL certificates throug…

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    Comment #47151531

    Can't answer if you should add them or not... But if you do - you would get some notifications from Google about that website/domain. I've only ever seen emails of the "There's an …

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    Comment #47058860

    Countries in Europe realized that if USA sanctions International Criminal Court judge - that judge suddenly loses access to their email/calendar/docs/etc because Microsoft/Google/e…