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This impacts me and my family for sure. I'm not so worried about the business implications of going to paid, but I have been providing my family with firstname@ourfamilyname.tld for decades and t…

I put devonly: as part of every placeholder secret in docker-compose.yml or similar config that is committed to Git. The goal is a developer who has just cloned the repo should be able to run the setu…

Maybe I am wrong, but I think Facebook has jumped the shark with the virtual reality Meta branding. It's not going to work.

I know someone who just lost access to their Facebook account, and more because resetting their Google password lead to account lockout, and their phone number too, and that means everything that used…

In our household if it is not on Netflix, Amazon Prime (since I have that for work purposes anyway), or YouTube, it doesn't exist. We are not going to subscribe to Disney, CBS, or anything else. …

The tax man always gets his vig.

Wow, this is interesting. And I am now wondering if describes how I process visual information mentally. Outside of dreaming I do not specifically see anything visually if I close my eyes and think ab…

AppleCare (a manufacturer’s original warranty) plus a one to two year credit card extended warranty is pure gold. Apple or Amex has paid to repair or replace every MacBook Pro I have owned for 13 year…

You are also paying for credibility even at the small business side. As an s corp owner buying a house was much harder than it would be for a normal w2 engineer. The letter from our cpa was priceless …

Use it for personal but gave up trying to get my CPA or his booking staff to work with it at all.

Have you tried getting a bookkeeper to use GnuCash? Xero has a following as does SAGE/peachtree but not the good open source options. I did and it failed. No reason except everyone in the CPA and…

It kind-of already was for all practical purposes. Businesses had to keep buying to keep the payments integrations and stuff. At least my perception.

He went to The Georgia Institute of Technology actually. Nick was a legend in the College of Computing even as an undergrad. While I do not know, I concur with it likely being his dad who is the Unive…

When you are a <10 person small development agency where juniors come to work it is critical. The subject of https://rietta.com/blog/dockerized-cost-savings/ . Paying over…

Just checked on my Windows 3.1 QEMU image and Help used Green hyperlinks still then.

Why not simply display generic ads to people and be done with it. Use more specific ads on certain pages/groups. Content tracking should not be necessary and is creepy.

Is the market for this software gone or is it that Mr. MacKichan is ready to retire and there wasn't a buyer for the company? I could imagine being tired and ready to close up shop after 40 year…

That works for many things. Many years ago Microsoft acquired a phone company that we had apps in the app store for. We had documented proof of the sales receipts but no payment. After months of nothi…

1st hand knowledge of contemporary usage in court offices. We still support WPD file attachments as well.

He wrote or illustrated some of our daughter's favorites. It's amazing to me just how classic these are. Something I had no idea about until becoming a parent. RIP Sir, and thank you for bei…

Use this all the time. It's very useful.

Compared to what? The general argument for "no raid" is to have a single drive without redundancy other than backup. That's riskier than a mirror.

A RAID does not increase the risk of a drive failure. It via redundancy reduces the risk, but not to zero. Probability of Single Drive Failure > Probability of Double Drive Failure. RAID is not a b…

RAID 1 still has benefit when coupled with proper backup. Can still replace a drive and keep working faster than doing a restore from backup for large drives.

I associate Remora with the long running brand of made in USA sticky handgun holsters. Is there not a trademark conflict to use someone else's name? https://remoraholsterstore.com/…

Like how Squeak was written in Squeak. Cool!

I've been in this business long enough to know that point estimates are always wrong. A proper estimate is a range with a confidence interval. When forced to do a fixed bid, you have to raise the…

This may not be accurate at all, but my first thought was I think I've seen people living in some of those no one lives here on the Alaska TV shows. Specifically, http://www.kavikriver…

Cash can be stolen but it can't be data breached. Steal my wallet and get $40. Steal my card and I have hours of work todo to get back to whole even "getting any stolen money back". I p…

Sad ending. It'll be on https://killedbygoogle.com within 36 months.