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5 votes
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questions - a site for identifying some (mostly tech related) things you don’t know
10 votes -
Digital Vintage Sound: Modeling Analog Synthesizers with the Wolfram Language and System Modeler
4 votes -
Go team publishes draft design proposals for a new read-only filesystem interface and a standard way to embed files into Go binaries
2 votes -
Seeking good anti-malware to replace AVG Free
Hi. AVG's been bugging me with reminders to renew my subscription recently, but I don't have the money for that. I've been using AVG Free for years, but each time I trial the full edition it seems...
Hi. AVG's been bugging me with reminders to renew my subscription recently, but I don't have the money for that. I've been using AVG Free for years, but each time I trial the full edition it seems to install as a separate program, and then I have to manually revert back to the free version once the trial's up. The only other anti-malware I use is MalwareBytes (free again).
I'm not too worried about using a VPN, and have been advised to avoid the free ones anyway. I'd really just like a decent alternative to AVG Free that won't mess with my Steam games or pester me to upgrade several times a day. I have almost no experience with other anti-malware programs, so I'd rather ask people in the know for advice than just install something straight away and find out that it does one of the aforementioned annoying things.
...Should I use a free VPN? I'm trying to save as much of my scant moolah as I can, and I do occasionally torrent things, but the free ones are allegedly a little shady.
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
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Recommendations to learn SQL?
I read the AskReddit thread on "What costs less than $100 that changed your life?" (link unavailable since I'm at work) but someone responded "SQL" - jobs just open up that make a ton of money. I...
I read the AskReddit thread on "What costs less than $100 that changed your life?" (link unavailable since I'm at work) but someone responded "SQL" - jobs just open up that make a ton of money.
I did a cursory search on Indeed and holy moly they were right -- SQL jobs get easily 2x what I make now. I'm pretty good at Excel and that sort of thinking, so I was thinking I'd try taking a class.
Do yall have any recommendations as to a good course to take in SQL, preferably online, preferably free or cheap? I'm willing to pay a bit if it'll mean I can make a lot more, but I'm currently not making a ton, haha.
Any responses welcome, including ideas as to how to break into like, tech-oriented fields as well.
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A new funding model for open source software
3 votes -
Neocortix Announces Arm 64-bit Support for Folding@home and Rosetta@home COVID-19 Vaccine Research
4 votes -
Historical programming-language Usenet groups disappearing from Google Groups, including comp.lang.lisp
6 votes -
The Postman Always Pings Twice: a postman tutorial, with pinball
4 votes -
7 Aspects of IT Certifications
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KmCaster: On-screen key-mouse display software
4 votes -
Change in manjaro team composition
8 votes -
On not caring about your privacy
7 votes -
What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
4 votes -
Twilio's TaskRouter JavaScript SDK was in a world-writeable S3 bucket, and had what appears to be a precursor to a payment-card skimmer inserted for about 12 hours
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Highlighting code with color can carry a huge amount of information, and there are many useful approaches other than just using it for syntax
10 votes -
Personal Software Development Checklists
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What do you self host?
I'm interested to see what people on here self host, or if they self host at all. Reply with what you self host, why you host it and any other thoughts you have!
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Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs
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Passing the Same Parameters to Multiple Functions
6 votes -
When do you use singletons?
7 votes -
The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to transistors
6 votes -
What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
11 votes -
Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly
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Cool URIs don't change
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What is the best way to teach Python for my 11-year-old sister that lives in another state?
This may seem an obvious question, but not as much as it seems. She uses Windows, I’m currently using Linux/macOS. How to instruct her to install her Python environment? Should I use Zoom, Skype,...
This may seem an obvious question, but not as much as it seems. She uses Windows, I’m currently using Linux/macOS. How to instruct her to install her Python environment? Should I use Zoom, Skype, Google Hangouts, or another solution? Is there and easy way for live-drawing (online blackboard) to explain things to her visually? And, perhaps most importantly, how can I do that for free?
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
15 votes -
Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
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Chopper Commando Revisited
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Self-hosters and home-lab enthusiasts ... anyone here have experience running their own Matrix?
Following up on @freddy's query about self-hosting ... I am trying to set up a self-hosted VPS running Synapse (the server-side component of Matrix), Riot-web, and bundled in Jitsi. I've twice...
Following up on @freddy's query about self-hosting ...
I am trying to set up a self-hosted VPS running Synapse (the server-side component of Matrix), Riot-web, and bundled in Jitsi. I've twice gotten it up and running successfully for internal accounts/users, but federation keeps throwing weird authentication errors when trying to connect with user accounts from other server instances (a week later, my regular Matrix account still has 3 outstanding broken Invites from the new server-account which I can neither accept nor reject ... ).
I'm basically following along with this youtube setup tutorial (except I am using Apache rather than nginx).
Before I start to drill into the nitty-gritty of my issue(s), does anyone here have experience setting this up? Anyone care to dedicate a bit of time and energy to helping me figure out what I'm doing wrong?
Additionally, I saw commentary from @smores that Jitsi isn't performing well for him on his self-hosted server ... any further details you can share?
Edited to add:
Sorry all, I didn't think through the timing. I am still motivated to get a self-hosted Matrix instance up and running; however, right at the moment, I have a couple of other, higher priorities I need to attend to first. If I'd thought about it, I would have held off on starting this thread for a couple of days.
I will get back to this thread ... let's say, Wed or Thurs ... take another crack at the Matrix set-up then, and provide details here, as I do.
Thanks,
EtC16 votes -
Rust is surprisingly good as a server language
11 votes -
The future of online identity is decentralized
11 votes -
GitHub feature: README.md for your profile
If you create a repo with the same name as your account, your profile page will have a readme at the top. I found this via a thread on hn; I think it's neat.
24 votes -
Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized
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Onivim 2: First round of MIT commits have been released
12 votes -
Linux Mint 20 Blocks And Removes Snap Citing Backdoor To Canonicals SnapCraft Store
7 votes -
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
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1Keys: my 1 kilobyte JavaScript piano is open source on GitHub
17 votes -
Sandboxing in Linux with zero lines of code
7 votes -
What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
15 votes -
Programming Languages which are Homoiconic
I've been looking for languages which are homoiconic. I've worked with Lisp, Prolog and Smalltalk, as well as some of their children. Are there any other designs which have this useful feature?
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Beginner’s Guide To Abstraction
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Benchmarks of some of the most popular static-hosting providers
8 votes -
How Vim became so popular
22 votes -
The end of the Redis adventure
15 votes -
Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
9 votes -
How Sourcehut monitors its services
8 votes