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_Useless complexity_ (aka everything must be a service@scale even if it's not necessary at all) keeps cyber security companies in business.

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A newcomer with a Vertx backpack (vertx.com) ;)

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If I need to make some research for a project, I keep my findings on my computer (publicly available knowledge, facts, ..).

BUT I keep all my new ideas, thinking, todos, agenda, ... offline (analog) to prevent AI tools reading them and sending it back to big corps. I keep them in a Filofax so it's easy to shuffle/insert/... pages if required.

I work in IT since 1995 (now 15 years as a freelance/consultant) and honestly I start returning back to analog information management for most of my stuff. I don't trust big corps. It's not new but it's more true today than ever.

So if you have a really revolutionary new idea/discovery: NEVER EVER put it on ANY big corps infrastructure (Cloud, OS, ...) to prevent leaking it everywhere.

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What about legal media files? In addition to be a software engineer I'm a DJ... I have near 1 TB of LEGAL music (mostly FLAC or high bitrate music files) on my OneDrive (easier because I use Virtual DJ). Yes I know it's not Google Drive but how they can make a difference between legal and illegal files?

Note: I'm in a process to completely "de-googled, de-microsoft, ..." all my stuff (big self-hosted TrueNAS server with BlackBlaze backup).

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For MANY things a simple text files (txt, tsv, gnu recutils, ...) is required. Using the filesystem (folder, links, ..) to organize them.

I started moving back all my things/KB to simple text files and stop using all apps/web apps "du jour". Using text files is SO lightweight and resource efficient.

For multimedia content, I use only open/future proof format free of any patents/legal restrictions.

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Nice a password manager taking 1GB of RAM and 20% of CPU.

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Because nothing's free.

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This is the MOST important reason no one talk about.

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What is the environmental cost of such useless technology (production, maintenance, end of life,...)?

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By definition, all ads are unsolicited.

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Google Cloud Platform (GCP) web console : really slow and take HUGE amount of memory

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s/more fragmented IRC networks/more decentralized IRC networks

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Why a new browser? Use Firefox

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How to write unmaintainable code? Easy : write a project based on the latest "saveur du jour" JS framework.

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Because it's simple, straight to the point, doesn't have any distracting images, perfectly aligned, light, ...

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My client use paid GitHub services for the new projects they work on. But we (devs) really hate it because it slow us at lot (can't push/pull, Github Actions not working, "crash" our CI/CD server, ...) because of instability of Github servers! Their status page look like a Christmas Tree! Not a single week without issues.

I don't have control on my client decisions (not my business), but personally I'm done with GH.

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Exactly. My own domain is on Fastmail. I have an alias for every sites I have account in (Amazon, eBay, Pocket, ...). If I got spammed using an address I know exactly where it came from, advise the sir and create another alias.

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Another great console tool to view/manipulate/process/... tabular data is Visidata (http://visidata.org/).

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Text files are king! I store every single byte I can in text files. Examples:

  - Tabular data     : TSV   (almost all Un*x/GNU tools handle this out of the box)
  - Simple "records" : GNU Recutils format (https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/)
  - Formatted texts  : Markdown, LaTeX, ...
  - ...

If I need some hierarchical kind of information, I use a folder structure to handle this.

I know that not everything can be stored as text. But I try to use open, well documented and future proof formats. Examples:

  - Images : PNG
  - Music  : FLAC, Ogg, ...
  - If I really need to preserve orignal format/design of a web page: PDF

Nothing's perfect but stay away from any closed/obscure/proprietary formats.

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Why not? Not everything have to be dumb proof/easy. For example, Suckless softwares like DWM (https://dwm.suckless.org/). Extract:

"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions."

Sometimes we need to have expert/power user's tools. It's not specific to IT jobs. You can see it in many other jobs.

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