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  • I feel like they could have avoided all this argument by saying won't raise taxes on working people's earnings, rather than just working people. Any sane and honest person knows what they meant and the whole thing is just trying to gotcha them. Just shows they don't have any substantive criticism.

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    Bitwarden update: sdk-internal now GPL, sdk/sdk-secrets to remain proprietary but not used in clients
  • Yeah I'll willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one. Could very easily believe that a dev added the reference without realising the implications and they fixed it very quickly. Will be watching for any future attempts though.

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    Man pages maintenance suspended
  • It is my understanding that the only difference applies to hosted software. For example, Lemmy is AGPL. If it were GPL, then a company could take the source code, modify it and host their own version without open sourcing their modifications. AGPL extends to freedoms of GPL to users of hosted software as well.

    A real example of this would be truth social which is modified Mastodon and as AGPL those modifications are required to be open source as well.

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    When's the last time you asked a questions on StackOverflow?
  • i got that once, except it was my exact question with no response at all, then i noticed it was me that posted the question 4 years earlier.

    i used to use stack overflow a lot back in 2007/08 but i cant remember the last time i actually got an answer.

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    Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"
  • it can barely get single functions correct but we're supposed to believe it can write entire systems from a single prompt? Either way our job at the moment is writing instructions for another piece of software (compiler) to turn into the code. This just adds another level of abstraction. High level programming languages already let us do more with fewer staff. It didn't make coders redundant, it let to even more software.

    edit: forgot to add, agree with your edit, that or just trying to inflate their stock prices.

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    Cheese
  • yeah this is my dog. at the vet last week he knew something was about to happen and was absolutely not interested in cheese.

    After he had his vaccines and it was all over, so much more relaxed, would eat cheese again.

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    B.C. landlords allowed to impose massive rent hikes after mortgage payments spike
  • I was always told landlords deserve to extract profit from the economy for nothing because of the risk they take on. Yet time after time it seems like they can't possibly tolerate any risk at all.

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    Account Required, 2FA, Contract Signed In Blood... to see a PDF.
  • Been there many times. Had one case where support had to through the reseller who sold licenses in our country. Actual people who knew what they were talking about was tier 3.

    We had a bug and were trying to report it and get a fix or workaround. Just told no, we're doing it wrong. After a lot of back and forth we had to pay for an "expert" to fly over and show us what we were doing wrong. Turns out he wasn't an expert, he was a salesmen. Made a demo for us on the flight and the first time he ran it was in our meeting room on projector.

    Failed in exactly the way we had been saying. It was very satisfying.

    Finally he phoned the dev team who confirmed the docs were wrong and we couldn't do what we were trying.

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    Companies are not your friend
  • I think another key difference is everyone can use whatever tool they like and still work on the same codebase. They don't have proprietary file formats that lock in you and your entire team forever.

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    Two UK water companies lack complete maps of sewage networks
  • Several years ago I was working on water sites and they didn't even have accurate info about the stuff on their own sites. The head office staff thought they did though. Just the computers did not match reality. Running many of the sites was entirely reliant on the knowledge of site operators who were all about to retire. There was no younger staff being taught anything either.

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    Found on Wikipedia
  • I've worked on SCADA systems. The most the keyboard was used for was logging in then then putting something heavy on it stop the computer going to sleep. System was entirely controlled by the mouse and head office didn't consider that 1 person might be monitoring 4-6 computers on their own for an 8 hour shift and enforced a 5 minute idle lockout on all of them.

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    Resticity - a cross-platform frontend for restic
  • I use restic but I switched from Borg because of the cloud features. Outside of that, there's not a lot of differences really. If you're happy with Borg keep with it.

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  • We're using Terraform to manage our AWS infrastructure and the state itself is also in AWS. We've got 2 separate accounts for test and prod and each has an S3 bucket with the state files for those accounts.

    We're not setting up alternate regions for disaster recovery and it's got me wondering if the region the terraform S3 bucket is in goes down then we won't be able to deploy anything with terraform.

    So what's the best practice for this? Should we have a bucket in every region with the state files for the projects in that region but then that doesn't work for multi-region deployments.

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