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How to host WordPress without it being a SNITCH
I hate companies that make users think they’re getting something for free but then have these hidden functions that report back to the mother-ship what users are doing with them. WordPress’s parent company, Automattic, doesn’t have the best reputation as of late (check out the deal they made to sell your data to OpenAI). Just…
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Why Linux?
Because Windows and MacOS both suck. I’ve dabbled with Linux since I was a kid. I remember asking my uncle to buy a copy of Red Hat Linux (I think it was Red Hat 5?) on CD from eBay for me when I was just a middle-school aged nerd. We had painfully slow dial-up internet…
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Disable Azure CLI Telemetry Collection
Pfffffffft! No thank you, Microsoft. That’s getting #disabled right now. (See Microsoft official documentation)
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Writing systemd User Timers
Why am I writing this? I omitted installing the cron package on my Linux box since systemd provides a timers function. Who needs two packages to do one thing? Heh… for a moment I thought maybe I do because some of the documentation out there is a little confusing. Or I’m just dumb. Or both.…
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Azure Cloud Challenge: Lime Survey
Last week I worked with a team in Germany to deliver an Azure Hackathon. During the hackathon, we decided to create a cloud challenge for the team to work through. These challenges are difficult and require independent critical thinking. The requirements below were developed with the attendees, after which we worked at the whiteboard to…