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What app you americans use for personal conversations?
Here in South Europe people mostly use Viber. Edit: I was very unaware about situation in Southern Europe as I’ve learned from this post… Most people in Croatia use Viber!
Q: Setting up network directly behind my ISP provided router
Hi there, On my router/modem I cannot change the DNS entries, thus just using Adguard/PiHole for DNS blocking ads doesn’t work. Would a seperate Router circumvent this problem? Could I set up Adguard (or PiHole) on a Raspberry and use it as a DNS server for my home network?...
How safe is open source software? What are the general benefits?
So with open source software more on my mind lately I was wondering - while I get the benefits of transparency and such, how safe is it? If the source code is available to all, isn’t it easier to breach for people (like the recent cookies hack)? If I’d have an open source password manager, would it be easier for people to...
France is banning the sale of fireworks on its biggest national holiday after protesters used them as weapons against police (www.businessinsider.com)
The ban is in effect through Bastille Day in order to prevent “serious disturbances” to public order, the French government announced Sunday.
RustDesk (Open source TeamViewer / Citrix alternative) 1.2.0 released (github.com)
Changelog:...
‘Safe and effective’: first malaria vaccine to be rolled out in 12 African countries (www.theguardian.com)
How would you mentor new entrants into tech in general and programming in particular?
So on a different platform, I came across heated conversations about more experienced tech workers being unwilling to mentor new entrants. While I thought that was an unfair accusation, I thought to ask a wider audience their views and thoughts on mentoring upcommers. Do you mentor anyone? Were you mentored? How much impact does...