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Whatever it is, it's not that. A ping to a unicast IPv4 address in the local subnet won't be transmitted at the Ethernet layer until the IP has been resolved to an Ethernet MAC add…

Before I read the linked page I assumed this was a rant about using MS Office with files on your local filesystem. Although that would be titled "How Hard is it to Save a File?"

EC2 is pricey if it's all you're getting from AWS. If you have wierd requirements, colo may be a good option. Otherwise, just get a VPS or 3 and be done with it. You'll get a virtu…

Sharing filesystems is hard when you make users do it in advance. I was thinking of the server end of an ffmpeg-over-ip system bringing up a FUSE filesystem backed by something sim…

I've been meaning to build exactly this for a while, and my waiting has been rewarded by someone else doing it! Had you thought about using FUSE on the server side, rather than pat…

As a New Zealander, I can say: it's not bad.

I went back to self hosting when Google were going to kill free Gmail for your domain. I have no problems with deliberability. And I have tiny mail volumes. Pre Gmail I was on Exim…

My high school got email access for students in 1997 (New Zealand). We had to pay per megabyte for web browsing. There were services you could email URLs to, that would email you b…

How similar is this to the sipeed NanoKVM? (RISC-V based, software source https://github.com/sipeed/NanoKVM ) From the outside it looks very very alike.

I remember when Java was exciting. There were several attempts at open source Java OSes like JOS ( https://jos.sourceforge.net/ ). A Java applet runtime for the PalmPilot. My thesi…

Does it play the single player mode cutscenes though? My PC was underpowered when I was playing Red Alert. Full screen, full motion video still seemed pretty amazing back then. "Hi…

As long as it's better than the i740 I used to have!

How prevalent is ladder logic for new industrial systems? Over two decades ago I was programming a Foxboro PLC in their SALL language, which was compiled down to C. Variables and c…

Would this work: * put a warning wrap on your sandwich - danger - this sandwich may have laxatives added * if your sandwiches continue to go missing, label them AND add laxatives

DIY (instead of the cloud) is the answer. If you're pushing terabytes+ from day 1 on a shoestring, you're going to want your own CDN. If you can manage a queueing system and the oc…

At last we can uninstall Bing & Edge! ... in the EEA. "Windows uses the region chosen by the customer during device setup to identify if the PC is in the EEA." Imagine the tourist …

Yes, you are being too paranoid. Once booted into Openwrt the router will only be running Openwrt code. I guess there's the tiny possibility of a backdoored bootloader but that wou…

When I looked at buying an EV last year, BYD was a serious option. In the end I decided on a second hand Nissan Leaf. In New Zealand, we're right hand drive and have no local auto …

If enough people didn't buy tickets, then the airlines would have to reduce capacity on the routes, and that would reduce emissions.

I've been using NestJS this year and (mostly) found it great for the use cases I've had. I'd rather describe the HTTP to method call mapping of my controller with decorators than a…

AirBnB used to be a cheap stay. Now it's often not. Many hosts charge the equivalent of an extra night as a "service fee," pushing up the total price for the stay and making it har…

I'm very happy with my Glove80. I started with a prototype 3D printed model last year: the creators are friends of mine, and I wrote the LED status display code for them. I also dr…

Ha ha ha onboard anything PCs of a sufficient vintage had so little logic on the HDD that you could swap out the MFM controller card in your PC for an RLL one and get 50% more stor…

Build yourself a Windows install USB stick with Rufus using its automatic ISO download system. When you write the image it has an option to make the installer create a local accoun…