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Liked the product. The developer's blog post sounds they feel burned out and not appreciated. Might be due to their take it or leave it attitude.

Participated in beta testing for a few computer games. Did some localized translation for these games. Looked for work.

From the article here https://archive.ph/bUsFH#selection-1451.0-1451.314 "At least two of the ships suspected of causing damage appear to have dragged their anchors 100 miles or more across seafloor. A ship that dropped an anchor by accident, Toveri said, would immediately be dragged so noticeably off course that crews would scramble to bring the vessel to a stop and assess the damage." The most recent ship accused of this type of damage was also loaded with spy/electronic/surveillance gear. Once is an accident, twice is unusual, three times.....

Show me that it can scale then we'll see. So many announcements and promises are based on little tiny demonstrations on a lab bench.

All my cameras use wired access to a dedicated VLAN with no access to any other compute/IOT devices. I tried to pick a vendor that keeps the video camera footage in my country but that is something few vendors discuss and with the ubiquitous cheapness of AWS S3 it's hard to verify where your data is. I also chose not to have any cameras inside the home as a privacy measure. When using the web access tool I changed the default password and go through the users to remove people who no longer require access (house/pet/kid sitters)

I am getting used to good products becoming worse for reasons that are never explained. As long as I am not seeing ads in the interface this is still better than forgetting a password.

Broken pagination for me too

Not associated with any Canadian government initiative.

Users who paid for the game are not happy about the addition of in game micro transactions

Best quote from the article "It doesn’t sound like they needed him as much as he needed them." Bears don't need people, just leave them alone.

They would be more relevant if the hostile or snarky users were effectively quietened.

It's back up!

This article indicates that data migrations could be done by or assisted by AI. Having done a number of them I am skeptical as most of the time I end up working with crufty stuff that is out of support. Sometimes, by the time the client is ready to migrate, the infrastructure team will tell you "We don't turn that server off as we're not sure it will boot again". I'm not even going into the custom code written by too-clever people who were short on time. That kind of code is difficult to parse for intent and can take some time and intermediate steps to solve.

Long overdue and not accompanied by any explanation of why their staff use Titan Keys to authenticate but you can be anyone from a Gmail address.

I migrated to 2FS as I wanted to keep my MFA secrets separate from my BitWarden passwords. It does require some technical knowledge but the how to was thorough and is found here https://gist.github.com/gboudreau/94bb0c11a6209c82418d01a59d...

Best to get it done quickly before they prevent you from downloading the older version that had the debug console

Anticipated as soon as the buyout was approved. It's so long VmWare, hello Proxmox for me

Keeping my Dell hardware which is no longer supported by VmWare Esxi and moving to Proxmox. Goals: easier backups and better ups integration

I have been using this for years with my cloud provider and this is a rock solid application. My only wish is that the logging could have a sweet spot in the middle where it is not verbose but does show the names of the files changed

Yes, looking backwards PL/SQL code looks and acts like an API to the data. At Oracle conferences they will tell you that keeping your business logic in stored procedures means you don't have to duplicate it if a second application wants access to your data.

It all seems quaint now but the last time I built a web app with Entity framework and Oracle the EF part worked fine for simple CRUD operations but for complicated reporting and analysis stored procedures and views worked extremely well.

It is all about where you want your business logic. You can put it in the front end or the database or anywhere inbetween but the real test is whether it is documented, commented and easy to understand.

I am constantly contacted by recruiters who just want to talk about their latest thing. An email won't do, it has to be some of my valuable time. You cannot deal with them unless you know what your priorities are. I have three criteria for work: how much it pays, is it remote, can I do it.

Few recruiters will lead with how much it pays so I just tell them what my hourly range is for that type of work. Very few ever follow up and the ones that do are more likely to represent real work.

It is the best database if you are a bank, military or very large company who is already using it. Even in large government departments where I do contract work no one, absolutely no one, ever says "Why don't we use an Oracle database for our new application". If you are a large company and pay enough in licensing fees you can get great support and it plays well with other Oracle acquisitions like PeopleSoft. Some of the support tooling is a nightmare to patch (looking at you OEM!).

Certainly agree that the Raspberry Pi's SD card is unsuitable as a boot device if you have any issues with power failures or voltage regulation. You can boot from a USB but by the time you pay for the USB drive you are in the same price range as other Micro computers.

I have twenty years in IT doing contracting and LinkedIn has been a great source of work. However the signal to noise ratio is getting worse and I no longer read the posts due to all the low quality content. For a recruiter it's great to be able to mass mail your search results when trying to fill a position. It's no different than the other job search sites in that a majority of the contacts I get from recruiters are for the wrong type of work, wrong technology or pay too low. I don't bother trying to explain that I did .Net many years ago but don't do that now because most recruiters have no idea of what .Net or Angular or a SIEM is anyway.

Looks like click bait. Nowhere is there a clear link to how this drive will cut a Mars transit to 45 days (not the 5 days the title here states). Nuclear drives in space could solve a lot of problems. Building a compact controlled fission device is a bit of a challenge and getting it into space safely every time is another.

Bitwarden has an emergency contact feature if you have a premium membership. My wife and our lawyer have emergency access. They can request it anytime. If I approve they have access right away or if I reject it is denied. If I cannot or do not take action access is granted after five days. It's well thought out and a nice feature for $10/year https://bitwarden.com/help/emergency-access/

Sort of lost the point when the author starting comparing coyotes and raccoons to financial misdealing's

In Canada contractors who work for the recruiters who supply resources to the Canadian government can expect these kind of rates: Experienced DBA ~$80/hour System Analyst/Platform Analyst ~100/hour Security Assessor or Practitioner from $115 to $125/hour

Front end developers who know a JavaScript framework, Power BI developers and anyone with cloud experience are in demand at top rates.

Then there are the gold ring jobs that pay over $200/hour. An example might be a subject matter expert on deploying Splunk, CyberArc or Sailpoint at an enterprise level. Usually you are working for a name brand consulting firm.

The recruiters add 30% to your rate and pay you net 30. Direct contracts with the government are possible but tend to be more short term

These are all excellent tips that make you think about situations on the road that are riskier than you may think. The recommendations about having lights front and back, using a reflective vest and not riding on the sidewalks are very practical

I moved out of DBA work after many years working for large enterprises. Databases had become more of support model. There were very few new databases you were able to contribute to. Either it was an off the shelf package where the database structure, configuration and coding came from the vendor or platform as a service. As a contractor I went where there was more work and more money: security. There's always work reducing risk...

Establish a working relationship with a recruiter in your area and get them to review your resume. There are good recruiters and many times your goal of getting a job or contract and their goal of placing you can align.

Do a test interview: have a friend ask you typical questions while video recording. Then review...

Also interviewing.io does some free interesting things if your skill set is right