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tom at tom brossman dot com
Truly a first-world problem but damn, where are my cheap SSD's?
This is even easier then something like WordPress for them, and much simpler for me. WordPress deserves credit for its ease of use for non-technical people, however I don't view this as a good metric for what to choose for a website.
I deliver the _site folder as a finished product and put it on Cloudfront with HTTPS. That's about as simple and unbreakable as it gets. Customers can then pay a monthly retainer or occasional hourly rates for updates. If they want the source files to run the generator on their own machine that's fine too, but it costs extra.
The model isn't that much different from a wedding photographer.
Me too. I haven't had a cigarette in over a decade, but I remain hopeful that modern science will find a cure for cancer and other smoking-related diseases during my lifetime, so I can resume smoking again. This probably sounds nuts to non-smokers and I won't bother explaining it any further.
As an aside, I am one of many who tried e-cigarettes when they came out because they were very convenient, and ended up quitting. They were new and not banned anywhere yet, so I could 'smoke' even more. I never liked smoking indoors and do not like the stale tobacco smell so they were great. For reasons I don't really understand my tobacco habit gradually tapered off and I no longer smoke anything, but I do miss it.
Tested and working, for a while now.
Maybe the maps product wholly depends on JS for all functionality?
Even if a charge sticks, they will be better then you at pleading it down and/or negotiating reduced fines when possible.
Again, it's likely going to be cheaper then travel costs and you should have a lawyer anyway, right from the very start. It sucks to be unfairly targeted but there is an easy way out. I hire a lawyer for even the most minor traffic violations and they really can save you money once you factor all costs (insurance rates, etc...).
Imagine telemarketers were forced to wear that all day, I'm OK with that instead of a noose.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.technolatr...
AWS will give you a whole year if you haven't tried them yet and the other popular VPS companies (DO, Linode, etc.) all will give you at least $10 startup credit. This is probably simpler and faster than figuring out how to receive <$4 from some random internet commenter.
echo $(dpkg --list | grep linux-image | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort | sed -n '/'`uname -r`'/q;p') $(dpkg --list | grep linux-headers | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort -n | sed -n '/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\([0-9.-]*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/q;p') | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge
- HEADLINE: XFS + FDE Installer Support
- DESCRIPTION: Full-disk encryption set up is a breeze with the installer, unless you have a few different drives and want to use XFS. I recognize this is not a majority use-case but FDE with multiple drives is challenging to configure.
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: User
Facebook emailed back stating:
"There isn't a Facebook account associated with the email address from which you are writing. This might be because you don't have a Facebook account or because you already deleted your account. In either of these cases, we do not hold any of your personal data."
I didn't ask for data attached to an email address, I asked for any personal data they had collected on _me_ and their answer was evasive and non-responsive. I didn't pursue it any further but I know they are bullshitting me, and I had to move on to other things.
I've got a pretty good setup now with a fairly complex fstab, multiple SSDs, backup drives, and everything fully encrypted and auto mounting at boot. I'd really love to move this to a file system more resistant to data corruption.
No affiliation, just a user of their free service who was impressed enough to donate to them as it's extremely useful and well done.
I can understand for a site that didn't need CPU-heavy performance (I intended to use it for a personal Nextcloud instance) but my main issue was with reboot time. Change any settings in the control panel? Reboot needed. Applied kernel updates and need to restart? Wait for that reboot. It was agonizing, I had to abandon the process and check back an hour later to see if starting or stopping the machine had completed.
Even when I decided I was done and ready to cancel, one more wait of 40+ minutes for the machine to shut down so I could delete it and release the reserved IP. I admire the fact that they decided to try something very different, but forcing every customer to copy the entire contents of their drive to a second device and then copy it all back again to restart is nuts.
Currently on OVH for most things (by far the best performance/price ratio for my usage) but still keeping a couple DigitalOcean VPSs due to concerns about OVH's 'special' version of Ubuntu[0], which has me concerned. Hope that's resolved soon or I'm back to DO + AWS as a Plan B.
[0]https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/12/01/taking-a-stand-agains...
It's configurable, so my tweets auto-delete after 30 days unless 5+ people favorite or re-tweet them. The Ruby script has been running for several years now on my desktop without any issues (I'm using anacron on Ubuntu, because the computer is off at night when cron would normally run)
There are third-party services available but I won't grant them access to my account and I prefer to do it myself.
Anyhow, for many websites you'll get more accurate traffic data with GoAccess parsing your logs and showing you page views and basic demographic data. Use it alongside Google Analytics if you must, to see the exact difference between what Google tells you your page views were versus what your server tells you.
No, I would not refuse, mostly because this does not match my experience (though I accept it happens) and also because I just don't check for this kind of thing beforehand. Further complicating matters is how people self-describe their race or gender. Some prefer to be genderless, some cultures use different definitions for race than Americans do (e.g. "white" in Latin America and "Hispanic" in USA has significant overlap or none at all, depending on your culture. Even more confusing, upper-class people with what we call "black" skin were sometimes referred to as "whites" when I lived in Brazil, and this still amuses me). Bottom line is I don't focus on this much and I'm happy to accept whatever people want to describe themselves as. I don't find it that interesting or important.
Back to the original topic, I think it would be perfectly fine to promote an event open to all, and to do so exclusively to women if that's who you want to target as promoter. Just don't tell any men to leave if they show up and I'm presenting, or I'm walking right out the door with them. I draw a distinction between promoting an event and access control at the event.
And no offense taken, your points are well made and I think we just have a difference of opinion.
I do occasional technical talks or workshops for free and some organisers have asked to make them 'girls only'. I've always declined and made it clear that everyone will be welcome. I don't see any malice in people who want to do gender-specific events, but I do not agree that excluding people is the way to go.
I say good luck to you if you are doing 'girls only' events. You are welcome to come to mine too, even though as a man I may not be welcome at yours.
[0]http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sexism
[1]http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/discrimin...
Perhaps you already know this but Musso & Frank's is right around the corner from the 'Ferrari apartment' and is often mentioned in crime novelist Michael Connelly's stories. It's a favorite of a main character. If you enjoy reading about the history of this part of California, plus some unsavory and colorful characters, you should check out his books. 'Angel's Flight' is a particularly good earlier work by him. The book series is what Amazon's 'Bosch' series is based on as well.
(sadly, cheep.com is already taken or I'd be on that like white on rice...)
Is Chrome really any safer than Firefox when Firefox is used with the "holy trinity" of uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and NoScript? I realize that comparing a default Chrome install to Firefox with these three extensions might be perceived as an unfair comparison, but this configuration with FF is my daily driver for a long time now and I would like to know if there are any real benefits to returning to a browser from an ad company.
Privacy and security are both important to me, with privacy slightly more so. If I suffer a security breach, I wipe, restore from backups, and continue. Not so for a privacy breach.
For something much simpler I recommend EasyTAG: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG