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A hedge against civilization-destroying events. Meteors, global war, disease.

My home cluster is built from surplus Dell Optiplex desktops that I got from BYU Surplus and added some RAM (before RAM price went totally bananas) and SSDs to. I spent less than t…

Crabby monitors your websites and APIs and reports metrics to a variety of storage backends (Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, InfluxDB, etc). It gives you insight into timings like TTF…

I tried all of the prominent child web filtering solutions and they were all terrible and expensive. None of them made it easy to disable my teen's Internet. They were unreliable a…

> There are no school age children currently on Pitcairn. Yeah, I'll pass. Can you imagine how hopeless it must feel for kids here?

Can we get a "Kubernetes" added to the technologies filter?

You're 100% wrong about this. My mother is a mentally ill drug addict who has been homeless. We forced her into care when it was clear that she could no longer take care of herself…

It's partisan but only because of the state of the parties. Democrat-run Austin Texas used to be heaven in the 1970s and 80s. Then radicals took over and somehow got elected and no…

Homelessness in the US is not a housing issue. Simply walk through a typical homeless encampment or walk through the Financial District of San Francisco and it will be clear as day…

I'm willing to bet that I've been to more cities, states, and countries in my time than you have but, whatever, keep it up with the ad hominem quips.

This became a "right" thing when the Democratic Party--or more succinctly, the people they put on the ballots in liberal cities--have moved so hard to the left that they are unreco…

The Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story and was temporarily deplatformed for it. The DC left called it a fabrication, as did "mainstream" media. Eventually, even the NY Times …

I did this back in the early 2000s, when Asterisk first became really popular. My plan was to create an Asterisk PBX in my house and hook the payphone to that and be able to use it…

The bicycle industry is rapidly moving to factory stores. The big brands are buying out their more-successful dealers and turning them into branded stores, locking out any other br…

Imagine being able to play this and then just belting it out when you come across a piano at the mall or in a subway station. I never learned to play piano; as a kid, I learned oth…

Tom Lehrer solved this one years ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY

For any decent employee, those are refreshed annually with a new grant that has a new four-year runway. If you're a good employee, the grants grow in size.

Actually, it was the American left (Tipper Gore and friends) who led the censorship movement of the 80s and early 90s. I am in my late 40s and I was quite liberal in my youth and I…

Life is short for all of us. Don't put off living . https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MBMp085x5-Q

Hahaha, I came to say the same thing. It's an obscure line ("I'll wrap your head in with a ratchet!") but anybody who ever heard it will instantly recall this Frank Rizzo classic. …

The way I handle this is to run unbound on a server in the public cloud and then tunnel over TLS from my local unbound to the cloud instance. My local clients query a PiHole, which…

Thank you. Getting the government involved in this with simply create more government jobs, more waste, more pensions, and most importantly, homes that cost more. Politicians love …

That’s honestly only a small part of why I would never want this. More significant, for me, is that this TaxSoftware.gov idea would mean literally thousands more employees on the g…