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I used to use SyncThing, then Dropbox, then iCloud. But then I just caved and paid for Obsidian Sync and it is the best money spent aside from Claude. I don't have to tinker with w…

> People are kinda stupid when it comes to eating meat. The current scale of meat consumption [1] is just mind boggling. Yet even this comment has to be a throwaway because people …

And their timeframe is pre-COVID and the worst possible time during COVID, when people were just trying to figure out how to work and live and not catch some deadly virus. 2020 was…

As a non-judgemental sidekick. It helps with flesh out a random thought, it helps me understand a random coding problem, it helps me see why a vuln exists in a particularly difficu…

That's not my point suggesting CISSP. The book I recommended takes the reader through the different OSI layers for networking and security, a basic intro to threat modeling, and ot…

Security is mutli-faceted, so it's hard to know where to start. I like to help people begin by getting them to learn the fundamentals. A lot of security training is changing your m…

https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home It appears to be down, saying "Website temporarily unavailable". But it's intermittent for other employees at my company so it might be …

40 is a great time. In fact, I went down a similar path. Now that you've done your share of sysadmins, SRE and software developer, you can see how things can fail. That's the heart…

You're only going to get anecdotes and opinions. Given the inputs you stated, I am full CF because I don't want to manage state files, and I want some more advanced things like Del…

> I still can't really figure out what a container is. If you mean this in a general sense... One use case at Unbounce (where I worked in infrastructure) was to encapsulate the run…

Duo: https://duo.com Super easy to setup and use. About $1/user/month, so fairly cheap.

Hmm, I'm replying to a comment... Oh well. :) > you'll get paid more than you need to survive - so don't be an idiot with your money. Adding to this is something to consider: You w…

~ is for one character. If you have a word you want in caps, do gUw. For lowercase, it's guw.

That'd be quite witty of them. Polly would normally map to being a parrot, repeating whatever was told to it.

Ledger cli. Intimidating at first, but everything is in a text file so it's super portable.

I do understand capitalism, the point I made was that sometimes I don't have to like it. Scalping included. I don't need to prove my knowledge to you by pointing out lots of capita…

I grok capitalism and even like it. But there are times where it is difficult to like it. In this case, people rushed to buy this product for the sole purpose of reselling it for 8…

Threatstack will do that. Their agent runs on your machine as a kernel mod and will alert you to any libs being used (e.g. openssl, libcurl) whose version matches a known CVE.

This killed one of our main webapps, but since the site was hosted on AWS, I provisioned an ACM certificate (free) in about 5 minutes and manually applied it to the ELB listener. C…

To separate the marketing website (www.) with the webapp (app.). It allows you to scale one independently of the other, and you can have different codebase and deployment workflows…

I use them indirectly like I use design patterns. I'm not thinking "Oh, I'm using 3rd NF" or "I'm using Singleton" at work. Instead, when designing databases I'm thinking about rem…

I got the chance to play with Holus last month during one of H+'s open houses. The unit itself is pretty neat and the holograms (yes, they are just Pepper's Ghost) is of good resol…

> I'm not entirely sure that subtly influencing people to be nicer to each other is a bad thing This would be a subjective opinion. The ends do not justify the means. I agree with …

To answer the title: it's never OK to manipulate users. Let's look no further than the dictionary to see why. Here is the OED definition (3rd entry): manipulate: To manage, control…