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You can just ignore it. Nothing changes as a result of being "informed."

Lennart Poettering soon to announce systemd-freebsdd

The phenomenon of 1.2 children per family living a living a childhood of endless leisure until being thrust into the world of adult responsibility at age 18 was totally unknown to …

Maybe counterintuitive, but I've found that having more kids actually makes some things easier. With 4+ children, the kids almost never come to us for entertainment. They form thei…

I have five children and find this very difficult to believe. Even the "worst" of it (age 0-3 months) was never anything close to that bad.

I simply block all AI crawlers with a user-agent check in nginx.conf.

You are correct, sssd has a ton of features (like basically replicating the entire domain locally and caching passwords so you can roam away from your corp network). If you need th…

PowerDNS is an open-source DNS server that lets you store your DNS configuration in a variety of different backends, one of which is LDAP. For each of my "domain controllers, I run…

Nice. I run a very similar setup, but opted for a stack of OpenLDAP / MIT Kerberos / PowerDNS on my "domain controllers." OpenLDAP does multimaster replication and is the backend f…

Mozilla FireSlop.

I highly recommend this approach. I run ~all of my digital footprint on FreeBSD jails. After surveying how many jail managers have come and go in the last decade, I decided to just…

I've run my own mail for 10 years (postfix/dovecot/rspamd), no issues. Reverse DNS, SPF, and DKIM records need to be in place, but that's a small lift. Well, one time I was unable …

Still running everything from my basement using FreeBSD jails and shell scripts. Sacrificing some convenience? Probably. But POSIX shell and coreutils is the last truly stable inte…

If you are a KDE user, I highly recommend fooyin, which is essentially a Qt6 clone of Foobar2000: https://www.fooyin.org/

vim with zenburn theme. grep/find when I need to look for something. I've been programming professionally for about a decade, and the basic Unix tools have always "just worked." Th…

The drugs are digital now.

There is a small segment of parents who completely prevent their children from accessing these brainrot platforms. Usually these kids are in homeschool groups with other like-minde…

My family uses a self-hosted Prosody instance with the Conversations app on Android and Dino/Gajim on the desktop. It works great. Combined with JMP.chat, we even get SMS and voice…

The FreeBSD handbook claims that KDE works with Wayland but I have never gotten it to work. X11 still works flawlessly.

For my entire life, the networking nerds have been shaming us for not using IPv6. Back when I had a NeoPet in middle school, IPv6 was was "just around the corner." I'm now raising …