Watching history repeat itself.

Date pickers that assume you have a 5 digit birth year.

This post is reporting the results of a poll. How is that trolling? Poll results you don’t like are trolling?

Also not sure why you’d think reporting Trump-favorable poll result sways sentiment here in his direction.

This news can be motivational for those favoring other candidates to volunteer, engage more.

One of the issues eight years ago was that the polls underestimated Trump so Dems weren’t as motivated to get out the vote against Trump. Let’s not repeat that mistake.

He is polling within the margin of error.

You have no evidence of this. Pollsters may have their own political slant but candidates of both parties want to know the accurate numbers of where their candidate stands.

Some of the NYT polls have looked more favorable for Trump than other pollsters as well.

Have you tried doing CAD work on a phone or iPad over a Remote Desktop connection?

Seems unpleasant enough to drive someone to buy a proper laptop to travel with.

If you don’t have a proper computer, how will you access this remote server to do your CAD work?

I imagine BitWarden is sufficiently good. The big leap in security comes from having no password manager to a decent password manager.

LastPass does not seem as serious about security so it doesn’t meet my personal bar for decency.

LastPass doesn’t have your password, so it can’t be stolen during a breach.

But 1Password goes a step further, also requiring a “secret key”, which also can’t be stolen.

https://support.1password.com/secret-key-security/

Even if an attacker manages to steal your encrypted data from 1Password and also guess your master password, they still can’t access your data without a secret key.

For that reason, your 1Password account is more likely to compromised through your own device, not their server. And if your own devices are thoroughly compromised, no password manager can save you— the attacker can potentially grab all you type and see all you see.

I evaluated both BitWarden and 1Password for work and 1Password generally won across the board.

If you host yourself make sure backups are rock solid and regularly monitored and tested. Have a plan for your infrastructure being down or compromised.

1Password’s security model guards against this. Even if they are breached, your passwords cannot be decrypted.

You are more likely to screw up your own backups and hosting security than they are.

They are common among US tea drinkers, but coffee seems more popular.

I like to manage services maximally with systemd so it was a natural fit for me.

It did not seem difficult to set up web and database quadlets so they are properly networked.

I tried a USB KVM switcher. I only recall there were serious issues and it didn’t last long.

Now I use a high quality USB dock and physically unplug/re-replug a work and personal laptop. That’s been a simple and reliable solution.

For my home server, I ssh into it.

I discovered this more than a year ago, but Fuzzel.

I just wrote about the new release here:

https://mark.stosberg.com/feature-packed-app-launcher-and-fuzzer/

Ballots are already getting printed and early voting will start soon.

Ghost has a lot of these features as well as being a blog and handling paid subscriptions and donations.

You use an IMAP syncer, like this one:

http://www.offlineimap.org/

A word of caution: I professionally hosted email for over a decade.

90% or incoming email will be spam. Anti-spam tools will need regular updates. Backups are also super important.

All things considered, I don’t host my own email anymore although I know all the pieces involved.

There are also some independent email hosts that are good like Fastmail or for extra privacy, Proton Mail.

If the emails live on your server, can’t you use software there to send, receive and search emails?

There aren’t log visualizers for every artisanal log file format. But there’s a movement towards supporting JSON format logs for more services, and lots tools that can understand JSON logs making generating graphs and metrics from arbitrary logs fairly efficient.

If this tool is making the logs harder to parse by using a custom format, that’s something the tool could improve.

Some apps support both plaintext logs for humans and JSON logs for tools.