moobot · HackerTrans

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

Some of us require more stability than the startup scene allows. Some of us also have wives that want to be able to afford decent living/eating conditions, and demand to be able to spend time with their spouses. Some of us also don't like the amount of stress involved, or the need to do things other than just working on software...

moobot

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

I just got done interviewing for an SRE position, and while there were a few small "trivia" questions, most of it was about general Linux userland tools, and were mostly used as a lead-in to having me solve some sort of practical, real world problem. For the few cases where I didn't know the answer, the interviewer just moved on to the next portion. It seemed rather balanced IMO.

moobot

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

The benefits to me are all based around comfort. If using Dvorak isn't more comfortable for you in everyday usage, then there's no reason IMO to stick with it.

moobot

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

I've found that using X11's highlight + middle-click paste has drastically reduced just about all of my reliance on using shortcuts for copy/paste, at least in any application that requires me to keep my hand on the mouse (like a browser) rather than keeping both hands on the keyboard (like Vim).

moobot

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

It requires rooting/jailbreaking your phone and unlocking the bootloader, if you consider that an option. Otherwise, American carriers (except for T-Mobile) will freak out if you even mention running something other than what they put on the phone.

moobot

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

Except that shred is not guaranteed to work on many (most?) modern filesystems. From `man shred`:

       CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very  important  assumption:  that
       the  file system overwrites data in place.  This is the traditional way
       to do things, but many modern file system designs do not  satisfy  this
       assumption.   The following are examples of file systems on which shred
       is not effective, or is not guaranteed to be effective in all file sys‐
       tem modes:

       * log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those supplied with
       AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)

       * file systems that write redundant data and  carry  on  even  if  some
       writes fail, such as RAID-based file systems

       *  file  systems  that  make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS
       server

       * file systems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS version 3
       clients

moobot

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

It sounds as though the author uses OSX. Are there any tiling window managers that aren't limited to Linux/X11?

moobot

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

It only does this for me on Windows. On Linux, I see the proper glyph.

moobot

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

If I'm verifying the fingerprint of the server's certificate, is that not doing the same thing that the chain of trust would be doing?

moobot

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

My biggest complaint with the SSL CA chain of trust is the way that self-signed certificates are (mis)handled. The connection is still an encrypted, "secure" connection to the server; it's the server's identity that is in question, and there's rarely any distinction made to the user about that.

I don't want to have to pay or verify my identity to run my own SSL-secured mail server, IRC bouncer, or similar service. Why should I need to? But if I don't, then just about every SSL client in the world falls down and sucks its thumbs or screams bloody murder at me because my certificate isn't signed by the holy gatekeepers...

moobot

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

Another user of Bitlbee here. It goes hand in hand with using irssi and a bouncer to maintain an always-on presence that I can take with me anywhere I go.

moobot

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

I personally use ZNC and I love it.

moobot

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

Not to mention that it will actually work better on Android with the ability to run in the background...

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