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His wife, chose wisely.

Just another example of the US government stuffing media and the public and also foreign countries with three outrageous 'things' per day. It's exactly like the quote from a famous…

Compared to the very first test, everything worked better and looked greased. From the HD drone footage (via Starlink I presume), to the fast arriving boats, quick hypergolic fuel …

Reuters ran the story: https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-broadcom-testing-c...

Biggest issue I have, is not solving all the dependency hell that is Python with its unversioned libraries, but supply chain attacks. Also regressions introduced by new versions al…

A few years after the first battle over Taiwan has taken place. There has been news about Broadcom and NVidia testing their designs on Intel process nodes. Which is arguably worse …

The future and maximum freedom lies in open source, where a team of dedicated users or developers actively de-enshittifies products. If you are on Arch Linux, try ungoogled-chromiu…

Used to be "buy cheap, buy twice", now it's "buy American, buy twice". One step could be to replace what Israel replaced, for more independance. Wouldn't buy their solution though,…

Took me weeks to perfect our own setup based on Postfix, Dovecot, Roundcube with some patches, rspamd with attachment-type whitelisting and a bazillion other features, clamav with …

Check AislerHQ on Twitter, based in Germany and should not be affected from the block. No affiliation except that I like to look at naked PCBs.

I tried them all (also anything on Linux) and now I just use Roundcube on a local install, which runs in any browser.

I have around 1.2 GB of compressed git commits on disk, still fast on an ancient Intel E3 1275-v6 with 64 GB of RAM and 2 TB Intel P3520. Version 10 also now without any startup er…

Majel Barrett voice please.

The scam and spam call problem is really bad in Germany to this day. And has been for 10 years. A couple years ago I would sit at my desk thinking about a really hard problem in si…

Using i3 with rofi on X11 git version (because of new TearFree option) myself. A very thin top bar for virtual desktops, tray icons, email notifications, sound volume and date time…

Small tip for anyone running a superlight and minimally distracting Linux desktop with X11, i3, and no compositor. Until recently, tear-free video playback necessitated double buff…

There is no easy way, because you have to be able to identify the greats of a field to find relentless quality. You have to become a nerd of greatness, armed with an RSS reader. Ex…

This is actually a big problem for Germany, because the cited StGB 202 ff. penal code paragraphs have made security research in any private sector shape or form impossible, or at l…

I'm using a 20 KiB awk script that I wrote from scratch to calculate taxes owed from investments. German tax code is a bit tricky when your broker is abroad because you have to cal…

I'm on Arch and a 4K display and had to hack the package 'xf86-input-libinput' to be able to adjust mouse scroll speed, towards faster. Upstream has been unwilling to implement it.…

Arch, i3, RSS sizes, only counting processes from logged-in user: 2.6 GB ungoogled-chromium (Browser) 150 MB kitty (Terminal) 50 MB udiskie (Automounter) 46 MB picom (Compositor) 3…

I have anecdotal evidence that CDs can lose 2x2mm chips of the reflective layer after 10-20 years. Also I have seen Blurays written 5 years ago starting to get read very slow becau…

Think about malware that encrypts everything on every HDD+SSD storage within reach in the company. Assume it somehow got all admin passwords. Doesn't even want money for the decryp…

LSI 2008 or 2308 (PCIe 3.0) with IT-mode firmware are good and cheap adapters for LTO. Card's chip will run hot though, so make sure you get a slight air breeze towards it to cool …

Back in the LTO-5 days, there was an issue with MAXELL tapes. See https://sourceforge.net/p/bacula/mailman/message/36060578/ The gist is that HP heads were harder material than IBM…