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I've been using SpamCop for years (decades?) but lately I've been wondering if they're still relevant. One example: they seem to have a size limit of 50KB when you report a spam ma…

20? Try 5... I"m working on a repository that uses at least four different jira ticket number formats. All commits should have a jira reference but I think only the current format …

There's one DDD feature that I haven't found elsewhere: its graphical representation of a struct and its contents. You can double-click on a pointer field and then it draws whateve…

(Fellow country man here!) That still sounds like a lot to be honest. According to the yearly stats we receive from our trash collector: in 2021 our family of 4 produced 27,50kg of…

On a related note: I have the impression Broadcom is more and more losing terrain to the likes of Qualcomm and Mediatek. A couple of years ago nearly everybody was using Broadcom c…

So something like https://syncthing.net/ ?

Note that they no longer do this fallback to local name resolving: From the advisory: Starting in curl 8.4.0, curl no longer switches to local resolve mode if the name is too long …

In my country it has been mandatory for at least a decade in any new construction or significant renovation to collect rain water and use it for at least flushing toilets. It's not…

Average house where? Here in my European country the average is more like 10kWh per day.

Are you referring to the original DAB (using MP2) or the upgraded DAB+ standard (using HE-AACv2)? I think most, if not all, stations have switched to DAB+. I'm told the quality is …

It's a balanced mechanical ventilation system with a heat exchanger and located in the attic. It pulls in fresh air via an inlet on the roof and then distributes it via a set of tu…

Passive houses typically use balanced mechanical ventilation coupled with a heat exchanger so outgoing stale air will heat up incoming fresh air to minimize heat losses.

Performance wise floor heating has no problem with keeping a well insulated house warm; it doesn't have to be a passive house for that. Comfort wise I think floor heating is the be…

I live in a passive house in western Europe; AMA :) So far autumn has been fairly mild and quite sunny. As far as I know our (floor) heating has not had to kick in, or if it did it…

Wladimir Palant (original creator Adblock Plus and nowadays doing security work with a focus on browser extensions) has recently started a blog series on browser extension security…

(ITYM $1/Wh, not kWh) For reference, I'm currently waiting for delivery of a 10kWh battery that will cost me about €6100 (including VAT, excluding installation and government subsi…

Indeed; here it's mandated by law to have a bell on your bike (together with lights and reflectors back and front). I would expect that's the case in many European countries. There…

Firefox Focus on Android basically does that by default. If you set it as default browser then all links you click will be openend there. Hit the back button when you're done and e…

In my European country if a train was running very late they could turn around the train some stops earlier, thereby not servicing the stations further down the track. Since the tr…

Just FYI: Lua also allows you to provide your own allocator function. In fact, the core API function to create a new Lua state (lua_newstate()) requires an allocator function but u…

They're against it; see for example https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3906

For me it's often the other way around... system language is English but where possible (e.g. browser) I indicate Dutch/Flemish can also be used. Still, many websites seem to think…