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Sudo issue was closed - reason?

We don't generally hate progress, improvements and changes. Most of the answers here on Serverfault actually leads to improved configurations, towards best practices instead of workarounds. Your ques …
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New response - duplicate of old question whose answer is no longer valid

As my original answer addressed some question specific problems, I ended up rewriting it to better fit the original question from 2009, and also expanded the answer a bit. Luckily, all the same princi …
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Query Starter mirroring our Q/A sites [duplicate]

I was googling for my own answer from couple of years ago and was surprised to first find it from an Indian site called "Query Starter" https://www.questarter.com/ This site seems to mirror all quest …
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Borderlines for GDPR related questions

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) affects everyone working in the field, since it extends even beyond the EU. It's a hot topic, and all kind of myths and claims are developing around it. N …
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An expired & re-registered domain causing multiple harmful links across ServerFault

While reading an answer on a canonical question I found out that a domain of our formerly active contributor, MDMarra, has expired and registered by someone else. He has been referencing his blog here …
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Is it "a .ear file" or "an .ear file"?

In theory... (“A” or “An” with abbreviations? It depends. gives similar examples.) If it is written as an .ear file then it is pronounced "an ear file" [æn ir faɪl] or "an E A R file" [æn i eɪ ɑr faɪ …
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How can I move a stackexchange entry to another stackexchange server?

Moving a question to another stack exchange site is called migration, but it has limitations. You cannot do it yourself, but it is done using the same methods than for closing the question. You can a …
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The waving hand "New contributor" symbol

I have found that labeling the new contributors with the waving hand symbol has a psychological effect that really helps to improve the attitude towards new user accounts. Has it helped any others to …
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Should spam flag have optional hidden comment?

When flagging a post spam because of a single URL considered as spam it may be challenging to find the reason for flag, if the post otherwise is well formed. For example there seems to be a user crea …
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