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New comment by dclaw in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

dclaw — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:20:21 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Joshua

New comment by dclaw in "Pass: Unix Password Manager"

dclaw — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:03:32 +0000

Happy pass user for ~8 years now, have ~1300 passwords stored. No issues whatsoever. Use git to sync it across devices, totally awesome.

New comment by dclaw in "Maya Blue: Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment"

dclaw — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:59:15 +0000

Apparently someone has recreated it.

https://yucatantoday.com/en/blog/how-is-the-maya-blue-pigmen...

New comment by dclaw in "Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017)"

dclaw — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:29:16 +0000

Pirates IRC is based on Sid Meier's Pirates to an extent. If you're still on IRC, it's worth playing. https://www.piratesirc.com/

New comment by dclaw in "White House Says Gold Reserves May Be Used to Purchase Bitcoin"

dclaw — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 04:20:16 +0000

Yes, revalue gold. No, do not buy bitcoin with it.

New comment by dclaw in "Imapsync"

dclaw — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:06:02 +0000

Absolutely, ms365 too. Definitely a worthwhile tool, and if you have a big job or do it more than once a year you should purchase it.

New comment by dclaw in "The number pi has an evil twin"

dclaw — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:19:28 +0000

OK, that's fucking awesome. Thanks

New comment by dclaw in "The number pi has an evil twin"

dclaw — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:19:55 +0000

This discussion helped me discover my new favorite map. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peirce_Quincuncial_Projec...

New comment by dclaw in "Do you need ID to read the REAL-ID rules?"

dclaw — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 23:45:28 +0000

Real-ID is such a farce. I have had an ID since I was 15, and presented my birth certificate and ssn as a minor to do so. There is no instance where I am not "real".

I have a US Passport that took less effort and paperwork to get than a Real-ID. I will never submit.

New comment by dclaw in "Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns"

dclaw — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 05:13:04 +0000

s/delay/terminate

New comment by dclaw in "RStudio: Integrated development environment (IDE) for R"

dclaw — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:36:08 +0000

Ahh cool, now r-studio brings up this instead of the 24 year old data recovery program.... :-(

New comment by dclaw in "June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of CentOS Linux (2023)"

dclaw — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 18:25:41 +0000

For what it's worth, we're trying to do a lot of our server upgrades with the Elevate scripting to Almalinux, but man can it be a pain. We have a 30% success rate in testing, and even when it goes right it tends to be 2-3 hours of downtime. The alternative though is to rebuild every server on spare hardware and manually migrate data and configurations over. So it's still a better option once we can figure it out. I'm hoping to get downtime <1hr and >90% success rate before we start really pushing through these by April.

New comment by dclaw in "Sticking to 8192 signatures per slot post-SSF: how and why"

dclaw — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 05:06:08 +0000

Yeah, cause we want to stick with the crummiest blockchain that repeatedly rewards the select few and never manages gas fees right....

New comment by dclaw in "Outlook/Hotmail is no longer blocking my mail server"

dclaw — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 19:41:19 +0000

We shouldn't have to. These companies are fucking ridiculous and blanket ban entire swaths of the internet from sending email.

New comment by dclaw in "Police have undermined the promise of body cameras"

dclaw — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:57:26 +0000

I always said when this whole body cam business started years ago that everyone is going to be real fucking upset when they get live facial recognition on these things. Be careful what you wish for.

New comment by dclaw in "Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study"

dclaw — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 06:26:59 +0000

It's as simple as consolidation... If there is only 1 or even 2 companies in an industry, both are probably shitheads, and it doesn't pay to be the loss leader, otherwise you may end up gobbled up, you both grab what you can while possible.

New comment by dclaw in "Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users"

dclaw — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 06:30:20 +0000

I'm not sure why you keep saying this as if it makes the fact that they lied about the most recent breach any better.

New comment by dclaw in "In California, you can now sell your ADU"

dclaw — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 19:26:46 +0000

If we had high speed rail, areas along the rail line would be better suited to have people live along the route, and distributing housing affordability across a larger area. See the Shinkansen in Japan as a good example. https://hir.harvard.edu/high-speed-rail-affordable-housing/

New comment by dclaw in "Goldman Sachs reportedly said Apple Card savings account was a mistake"

dclaw — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:33:06 +0000

This is hilarious, but I am genuinely concerned about Goldman Sachs dropping Apple and the cc and savings account ending up with a shittier bank.

New comment by dclaw in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

dclaw — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 01:51:23 +0000

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