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This is the elephant in the room regarding the big "digital sovereignty" talks in the EU. For the moment in the EU institutions the focus is mostly at the post-acceptance stage tha…

I use syncthing to automatically sync my dotfiles git directory across PC/laptops, and stow to manually update symlinks when I add a new dotfile (the content of existing dotfiles i…

looks like LLMs aren't mature enough yet to play long-game xz-style attacks without detection... Scary stuff though :( These supply chain attacks are getting really wild

ah sorry, I thought you wanted a delivery notification when you are sending an email via your own SMTP server (i.e. when thunderbird is configured to use your own outbound SMTP gat…

Well I don't know if you wrote this in a sarcastic way or not, but when you write a new message in Thunderbird just turn on `Options -> Delivery Status Notification` and your mail …

As my main desktop computers I've been using Fedora and Windows (for gaming only) virtualised on top of a single proxmox host with 2 GPUs passed through for more than 10 years... U…

I think people like using makefile as a simple task runner because it's pretty much ubiquitous and also a kind of auto-descriptive standard. Interactive shells usually do autocompl…

actually the telescope devops guys were hiring a couple years ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38101085 :-D

I found this pdf presentation with lots of great technical details about data management and a devops infra oriented view of this telescope: https://ci-compass.org/assets/602137/20…

yes, it's my biggest worry too. At least with keepassDX on android there is no internet access permission needed by default, but if a compromised update suddenly required it I don'…

Syncthing on at least one server with zfs or btrfs snapshots

Just use syncthing ...

Fair enough about the android mobile client... My use case only involves meshing linux appliances across various networks so we only need the nebula core binaries which are under M…

Nebula is great! From what I found after testing other solutions (headscale, netbird, netmaker) It's also the only completely open source mesh vpn that can be configured with a hig…

There's actually an annual conference dedicated to Spreadsheet risks, they have lots of Excel horror stories on their website: https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/

I miss perl. I don't think there are any other scripting languages that allow you to write very concise one-liners that can do very complex things. That's also where perl got its b…

It was all magic to me until one day I finally took the time to look at git internals. You can build a valid git repo with simple unix shell commands, and that really helped me to …

I'm still self hosting after more than 15 years and I think what matters most is the reputation of your IP address, so it can be hit and miss depending on where you host your mail …

with gmail you can do: foo+anything => redirected to foo foo.something => redirected to foosomething (so . is not the same as +) The + isn't always accepted in dumb email checks th…

I still run my own email system (postfix/dovecot for imap), mostly for one reason: the virtual username function of postfix: I configured postfix with: recipient_delimiter = . whic…

Wow! Thanks for that comment, I have a Dell U3818DW with a KVM switch and I didn't know you could control it with DDC commands! So for linux (e.g. fedora): dnf install ddcutil ddcu…

I stopped for 6 months a few years ago when I was on a sabbatical, no problem. I still need a morning coffee to feel awake even on holiday though!

I've been taking ~50mg modafinil 5 times a week for years. Last batch I bought was 2 years ago on the grey market (an online indian pharmacy) in 200mg pills form (so I divide them …