Posts by Glen 1 946 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jun 2009
fail2ban Sidenote: You might want to adjust the ban times/attempts to be stricter than the default. An attacker could do a dictionary attack in a reasonable time-frame (weeks/months) by rate limiting the attempts to be slightly looser than the default ban triggers. Especially if you set-and-forget.
Not that the readers here would ever have dictionary-able passwords. (blah blah ssh keys) It just gets annoying with the added noise in the log files - you do check the logfiles, right?
master with main across its services
"Oh, you mean..." (swastika)
Yes. I know, that's why I mentioned it.
You point out different cultures see things differently, and how meanings can change over time. Neatly demonstrating my point.
Do you consider the non-white people who have been here for generations (and in many parts of the world, before the white folk) to not be a part of the local culture? I mean, in this *has* been de-facto the case due to segregation and other racist practices. However, you don't get to be outraged about "immigrants" in this case.
As for the rest of the colour squealing faux outrage, do I *really* have to point out to (to presumably a grown ass adult), the problem isn't the *mention* of colour, its the connotation that black = bad and white = good.
How fucking stupid do you have to be to not see that?
"no real connotation"
To you.
A bit like the shortened version of "Pakistani" to my dad's generation. When people use it in an offensive context, it becomes offensive.
Like the St George flag, or Confederate flag. Outside of sporting events, its mostly seen being waved by racists, so it becomes the flag of the racists. Regardless of other peoples non racist intent. Not so different from the swastika.
"we're getting to a point where everyone is offended by everything"
When societies have spent centuries with a single demographic at the top, even a bit of the formerly-lower-strata having a say demonstrates how blinkered those societies have *always* been. (Wot, you cant even shoot peasants these days! Whatever next!?)
See also: Class mobility (Plebeian etc), Feminism (universal suffrage yet?), Indian caste system and so on... and so on... throughout history, throughout the planet.
I honestly look forward to the day where my currently "Woke" views are considered prejudiced. Think how far we will have come for the views of today's "snowflakes" be de rigueur in the daily mail?
If there ever was a place reeking of privilege. Its the people getting on here getting butthurt over a mild inconvenience caused by a name change. Its not the first, it won't be the last - remember “0xB16B00B5”?
The thing about virtue signalling anti-racism, is that if you are objecting to the *virtue* being signalled, you come across as anti-anti-racism (how true it is, seems to be proportional to the strength of the objection). A bit like anti-antifa.
To object *so strongly* REEKS of precisely the bullshit BLM folks are protesting against.
The correct response is approximately "meh". Plus or minus "That's mildly inconvenient" to "Yeah, that's probably a good idea"
Or is it that we can take your "master" from your "cold dead hands"?
"Is there any good reason, "
In addition to the above good reasons:
Network effect.
If the primary means of communication used by your peers or your family is not one you use, you will not be communicated with. If you say you don't have/use X, it will be met with instructions on how to get it, rather than a search for alternatives.
Thus now Facebook is old news, we had the rise of BBM (and subsequent fall), and Snapchat, with TickTock on the horizon.
Slack, discord, and telegram are for tech geeks. IRC? whats that?
From the Rules page - edited so there is no invalid HTML:
"You can use basic HTML to format your text - once you have had five posts accepted for publication. Currently we allow: b, strong, em, i and s (strike was dropped in HTML5). Badge holders can also use sub, sup, ul, li, blockquote, q, code, and pre."
Code and pre tags use the formatting literally(?) That's for badge holders only though. Otherwise newlines are assumed to be paragraph tags
I thought the link was going to be this one.
Brexit is going to be unfavourable to all companies that do a significant part of their business with the EU. Gee who'dve thunkit?
The word the Nissan bloke used was "unsustainable".
6K subsidy is a drop in the ocean compared to the problems no-deal would/will cause. It won't stop them going, but they will quite happily take the cash before they go.
The basic premise is that each app or set of apps is run in its own VM that can be spun up or deleted as you would a portable installation or git branch - with all the security bonuses a VM brings.
So start the email app from your menu, and the window that opens is in its own VM (as denoted by a different colour title bar). You can run from a fresh snapshot every time (with settings saved), or allow persistence, or allow disk access to a shared folder to save attachments. Or Not, as preferred.
The Networking stack in Qubes is literally a pfsense VM, just to give you an idea of the flexibility available.
We get the government we vote for (electoral systems notwithstanding), The tyranny of the majority and all that.
That's on us (in the general sense). Especially when the problems can be seen from a mile away. Like Nissan Sunderland being "unsustainable" in the event of no-deal Brexit. ("We knew what we voted for - to safeguard British jobs") Like Trumps grasp of basic concepts being sub par (Make Mexico pay for that wall... by imposing import tariffs).
It works the other way too. Diane Abbot's grasp of numbers. Joe Biden's opinion that black Trump voters "ain't Black".
*sigh*
We mark our X and make our choice
Remember, they work for you
I don't know about the US, but in the UK, MPs have surgeries
"being provably right can be crucial"
Something something Politics Covid-19 Brexit.
"Unfortunately, the CxOs are impervious to critique. It can never be their error. They have done everything right. Even when they are informed, it cannot be the CxO's fault. Some underling must have been sleeping because the CxO cannot fail."
s/CxO/electorate/g
"Since when was it the Corporate World's job to make that decision for me?"
Since society starting blaming Corporations for people's own crappy decisions.
See also: Blaming Microsoft for running as admin by default (I mean, its *your* machine right? Why *wouldn't* you be admin? Its *your* choice to run stuff. he says sarcastically). Blaming microsoft for *letting* MeDearOldMums run virus.exe. Blaming Microsoft for crappy third party drivers. Blaming Microsoft for Flash, Adobe Reader/acrobat and their associated attack surfaces. People complaining that FB knows too much as they upload another photo of their kids.
Dawin takes you, and the rest of internet along with it. This why we can't have nice things. Thus my original comment.
"since I moved her to Slackware"
So MeDearOldMum hasn't used windows since XP (Vista?) and IE7 (6? *spits*), OK.
Out of curiosity, why isn't the windows using sibling on Linux too? Choice?
A) "Sandboxing MeDearOldMum in her desktop protects her from herself"
B) "I want to be able to access the entire planet, without restrictions"
The problem is where people in cat A think they are fine in cat B.
*Avoiding* giving the user the CHOICE to click on that dodgy link/email/attachment, while still giving them enough access to do their job, is something IT departments have struggled with for decades.
Add to that not all "MeDearOldMum"s have a tech on standby that can't bill by the hour when they do something particularly stupid, and you have a microcosm of why the internet is what it is.
"life is too short to chase Android updates"
Yep, thus the "Android One" system to combat provider abandonment.
On the topic of obsolescence:
I got burnt by Apple dropping support for my Offices' Mac Mini. Bought 2nd hand and was quite old, so cant be too annoyed. We had about a year before the app store required a later version of Xcode, which required a later version of OSX.
The only app we were making (at the time) was a charity thing, so the amount we could justify spending on new hardware with a single purpose was limited.
Tried some of the less 'official' upgrade paths. No Dice. Was investigating the legalities of a VM, but fortunately had a new hire of the graphic design persuasion, thus justifying the expense of new mac hardware.
"iPad as a second screen wirelessly and are able to text and call via your iPhone"
Pick your battles.
A) That's an expensive £40 monitor B)You can also add your tablet as an external display in W10 using 3rd party software C) You've been able to call and text through your phone on W10 directly for a year. D) I could do it on my Nokia N8 using the Nokia software in *2010* (I was still running *Vista* then)
Build quality is a question of manufacturer. You can take the Thinkpads from our cold, dead hands.
Resale value is for people on the upgrade treadmill.
When the main way you interact with the file system is so terrible, like akin-to-w8-start-screen terrible, picking things you can already do on windows as counterpoints is not a winning move.
Also: Finder is terrible.
It's the main way people interact with the file system, yet it gets in the way more than Windows Explorer. Hell, the *terminal* is more user friendly than finder. Let *that* sink in.
At least the Linuxes have sane defaults.
If/when I switch from Windows as a daily driver, it sure as hell won't be to a mac.
I'm not into it esports in general, but there is obviously enough of a following for folks to be getting paid $$$ from advertisers.
I *have* watched "Let's Play"s of F1 games, and found it significantly more interesting than watching a bunch of millionaires kicking a bag a of wind about.
*shrug*
Each to their own, I suppose.
"If it can't be done with just CSS and HTML5, or on the server end, you probably shouldn't be doing it on the client side."
Ugh. This again.
The example I used last time was sorting a table by different columns. It is trivial. It shouldn't require a full HTTP round trip. Without Javascript, you are effectively doing the HTML-only calculator again. NO.
Don't get me wrong, many sites go over the top, how much script do you really need to show a page that is just text and images (with perhaps a few flourishes)? You *needed* JS for different screen sizes before CSS caught up.
However, this draconian "Web Pages shall only *ever* be text and images forevermore" bullshit belongs to the days of RealPlayer.
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