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Is that why GitHub is always down?

Sacramento Fry’s off Northgate was my go-to store circa ’98. Whenever a friend wanted to build a PC, that’s where we went. The employees were great; the salespeople, not so much. I…

Yes! It really was the best way to stay connected to friends on all the chat platforms from the 90s and early aughts.

This takes me back to 2004 when I inherited a NasRaQ, the original company file server, which had been replaced by a Windows Server 2000/2003 a few years prior. It became my go-to …

A total recall

Amusing because it's kinda true; although there are a # of startups in the area where the pay is decent (not big tech salary or crazy RSUs by any means). IIRC Sysdig was founded in…

All machines get extra lives! - 2004 custom dual boot gaming desktop is running FreeNAS at a friend's house - 2007 custom desktop survived until 2019 when a power surge fried the m…

It blows my mind (in a good way) that people are still posting this to Hacker news. I remember writing code for MenuetOS in both my Operating Systems and Hardware classes in ~2002.…

Introducing kids to multiple x's? Good on you! Be careful your gnu doesn't write an x-pose on it.

Isn't Codespaces essentially what Koding was doing ~10 years ago albeit w/less freedom?

I still have my Hobo sticker somewhere...I mean "vagrant" :/

I suppose we can take this further and say prop 47 attempts to address symptoms because of a failure to agree on what the problems are (what problems should we be talking about).

They don't. Their hand cuffed by Prop 47 and the apt but misdirected antics of defund the police.

https://remoteok.io/

I suspect you're asking whether you'll regret taking a job for a local company with an option to work remotely rather than holding out for a more "tech" focused company that enable…

Does Pidgin still store passwords in a plaintext file in your user profile?

A fork of Kanboard with metrics, productivity and "workflow" management is https://www.businessday.io/ Our accounting team found it useful to keep their team on track. Oddly I woun…

Yes, OTR worked well for me years ago. Although IIRC Pidgin also stored network credentials in plain-text file. Maybe that has been resolved in the past 10 years?

IIRC Incredible Universe have a McDonald's inside. The Fry's PC builder section at Northgate was a mainstay for years. Sad days.

A week before Thanksgiving I went to the Fry's in Roseville. The Northgate (Sacramento) location has always been busy (haven't been back since 2018). Fry's has always been my go to…

> we need to rid ourselves of the idea that all ideas are equally valid and deserve equal amounts of airtime and consideration What would you call this event? The genocide of ideas…

Really? In theory I think most Americans agree on freedom of speech but in practice it seems like everyone is offended by something these days. The offended (both sides of the aisl…

The Chinese government isn't stupid. It knows people circumvent the GFoC. Damage control as usual. I think the US corollary is "all enemies foreign and domestic".

There's been some of talk of trying to own the "maker" space rather than fostering "maker" spaces. I suppose that's part of the problem. I subscribed to Make for a few years in the…