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Fondly remember Beej's Guide to Network Programming back in the day :-)

Does anyone actually like Docker Desktop? I much preferred Docker before it had weird UI parts to too. Have since switched to Podman.

If anyone's interested in the really low level radio modulation bits too, you might enjoy this talk I gave at last years Defcon: https://youtu.be/SM1XSxP6W78

I wish all shops just have a clear email address. Id much prefer emailing over placing a voice call...

Screenshot or bust

For those situations where you need just a little bit of protobuf in your project, and don't want to bother with the whole proto ecosystem of codegen and deps: https://github.com/a…

SIM=subscriber identity module. sim=simulator. :-)

I use Syncthing a lot. Is Garage only really useful if you specifically want to expose an S3 drop in compatible API, or does it also provide other benefits over syncthing?

Not free

No, again, just run VMs on your desktop/laptop. The software doesn't know or care if it's a rack mounted machine.

This seems absurd. Just apt install irssi. Why Docker for such a simple self contained tiny app?

Sometimes you are integrating with system that already use proto though. I recently wrote a tiny, dependency-free, practical protobuf (proto3) encoder/decoder. For those situations…

A tiny, dependency-free, practical protobuf (proto3) encoder/decoder. For those situations where you need just a little bit of protobuf in your project, and don't want to bother wi…

Handmade by Jobs, not Woz?

Yes, Gnome on Ubuntu and Debian has had a built in rdp server for the last several releases: settings -> sharing -> Remote Desktop -> on

Syncthing

Would be fun to try to run Meshtastic on it.

I’m so confused by these guys. Stumbled upon them on YouTube and thought it was satire https://youtu.be/18cHBU05zK0

I think it is indeed a joke on microservices and the other commenters just didn’t get the joke yet :-)

Was looking for a demo of it on YouTube and fell over this hilarious one from a few months ago: https://youtu.be/coroLWOS7II?si=TeVghP_Zi0P9exQh . I’m sure it’s improved since :-)