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Broadcom yanks ESXi Free version, effective immediately
There are two kinds of datacenter admins, those who aren’t using VMWare, and those who are migrating away from VMWare.
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Broadcom yanks ESXi Free version, effective immediately
There are two kinds of datacenter admins, those who aren’t using VMWare, and those who are migrating away from VMWare.
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Avast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phones
tl;dr: It’s a false positive. The headline makes it sound like an intentional classification, but that’s not the case. Also, they fixed the problem two days ago.
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Why so many *arr services? Why not 1 service that works with all media types?
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You’re taking it too literally, and missing much of the nuance between philosophy of design and actual implementation details.
The movies app manages movies. That’s its one thing. No need to overcomplicate it. Unix ‘find’ for instance, finds files. That’s its one thing. ‘find’ also lets you filter the results, but that doesn’t change its purpose of finding files.
The fact that *arr apps don’t do things, or are bad at things, has nothing to do with the Unix philosophy. Were these apps combined into a monolith, the same issues would need to be addressed.
There is no right or wrong in a design philosophy. It’s all trade offs. I don’t know anyone who says Unix (or the metaverse) is successful because of a design philosophy. What matters is what you deliver.
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Anon goes to Starbucks with his ThinkPad
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Because they get you places.
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Up to 90% of honey sold in Malaysia is artificial, says expert
Clickbait title. What the article says is that honey made by Kelulut bees, which is considered a premium product, is being counterfeited by taking regular honey and adding things like vinegar to it to try and make it taste the same.
The honey is still real honey, it’s just not made by Kelulut bees.
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Why so many *arr services? Why not 1 service that works with all media types?
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I do wish I didn’t need to run a second Radarr instance to have both 1080p and 4K media.
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What's your current petty obsession?
Hummingbirds. I put a feeder out and I’ve been staring at that thing for days waiting to see a hummingbird.
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Demystifying StartupWMClass
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This is literally what the article was created to explain. Just one more click, my guy, you’re almost there.
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Are conveyor lifts worse in Update 8?
All of that still works for me. Snapping is fine. And you can swap input/output direction when placing a conveyor lift by pressing R.
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The Witcher 4 will enter its production phase this year, and CD Projekt Red confirms it won't be using AI to replace developers
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20 years ago I worked for a grocery company that introduced self checkout terminals. Corporate messaging was that no jobs would be lost. They now run 6 self checkouts in most stores with a single clerk managing them.
It may be true that they didn’t directly let anyone go, but even if they just let attrition do the job, those positions are gone and never coming back.
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How are you guys keeping track of your personal inventory?
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I tried Grocy for a while, but eventually stopped. Data entry was a huge pain.
Using the iOS companion app to scan grocery items into the app resulted in data issues that prevented me updating the item in the web app later. The only recourse was to add the items by hand in the web app, but then go in to each one separately with the mobile app to register the barcode. This also resulted in losing the additional metadata about the products that the mobile app would automatically configure if you onboarded the items through the mobile app, as it was able to look up additional data online and prefill a lot of stuff.
At the end of the day, it was too much of a hassle. I do like the idea, and may come back to Grocy again, but for now I have to pass.
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Will a war between Russia and NATO start in February? Here's how it could happen
A garbage article citing garbage sources.
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Docker configs destroyed after update [resolved!]
You didn’t happen to change an unprivileged container to privileged, or vice versa, after creating it, right? Doing so can break filesystem permissions, which could have resulted in something like this.
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Trade in question: switch from iPhone to S23 ultra or wait for s24 ultra?
If saving money is a concern, and I had an iPhone 12 (actually I do, but just the regular Pro, not the Max) then I’d stick with what I had, for a number of reasons. The big two being a) existing investment in the ecosystem - most of us have spent hundreds of dollars on apps over the years, and b) the iPhone 12 is not bad tech, and should last for years with nothing more than a battery replacement.
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How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves?
Mostly nothing, except for Home Assistant, which seems to shit the bed every few months. My other services are Docker containers or Proxmox LXCs that just work.
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That’s how it works. I don’t think many people use the option.
If it helps, you could choose the keep and unmonitor option, and then once you’ve confirmed that it does indeed impact movies not on your lists (by unmonitoring them), you can disable the cleaning option (or choose a better option for you) and update all your movies back to Monitored.
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If everybody agrees with you then that's a pretty good sign that you are wrong.
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That’s just Big Cute propaganda. The puppy-kitten industrial complex has brainwashed us all. Have you even considered that tarantulas and anglerfish might be the true standard of cuteness?
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IPv6 for self hosters
I’ve considered using v6 as I host a lot of services from my homelab and it would be great if each had its own address. The question I have is, is v6 prevalent enough that all the clients out there are ready to go and I can just switch my lab servers to v6 and swap my A records with AAAA records, or will I still need to serve up v4 (and therefore, may as well just stick with the topology, reverse proxies, etc. I’ve already got.)
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Passkeys might really kill passwords
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Coming up with a simple formula is a big security risk. It makes your passwords easier to brute force, and with enough entropy, probably easy to guess as well.
And what happens if the password is breached? Do you change the formula? What happens if a site requires a password change? Even if the formula accounts for versioning/iterating, how do you remember which iteration you’re on?
Extra security with 2FA I agree with, but that’s not mutually exclusive to using a password manager.
And are password managers really single points of failure? These password managers can sync to multiple devices, so your data is generally safe. If someone gets your password manager password, that’s a problem, yes, but they’d need access to your device to view anything, as installing on another device requires a separate master key to set it all up (which should not be stored digitally anywhere).
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There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about
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TIL it’s “prerogative”…