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Same here, I was very confused for a bit.

I'm currently polishing one of my packages for publication, and for that do a lot of testing in a vanilla Emacs. It's shocking how many of even (to me) absolute core functionality …

And the yet again I got told over and over again that Bambu didn't really mean to, and if they did they learned their lesson, and after all you can still keep them offline. And spe…

I assumed he just had DNS at AWS, but after re-reading I guess he has DNS _and_ domain registrations at AWS, which would be a special kind of stupid. That's something we were advis…

I'm not running a spam business. I've been operating my own mailservers (and related infrastructure) for more than 25 years now, without issues.

I've been in a similar situation - a surprising amount of companies really just click to create instances. Last time I've encountered that at a customer I improved things a bit by …

> My business email system still does not work. This is always the weird things in those rants. He's complaining that after 4 days his mails are offline. Now I'm doing a mix of phy…

I've found a lot of issues come through somewhat naive networking setup - which is encouraged by the "just yolo it" installation instruction in the documentation. If you want to st…

The last time (that I remember) people wanted to talk in a game, but could not teamspeak showed up.

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Back in the early 90s I've discovered that there's not really any backchannel happening when printing to a dot matrix printer over the parallel port. And adding multiple ISA parall…

I didn't read much of the page - just was scrolling a bit to see what the fuck that thing is doing, and that was more than enough to know that I'll never touch whatever those peopl…

> On the one hand, moving from assembly language to C made programmers less effective in some ways and more effective in others. On the other hand, the transition from writing code…

I'd recommend for every developer to get one or more colourblind friends. I have some, and regularly send them screenshots of what I'm working on to get feedback what they can see …

For a lot of tasks smaller models work fine, though. Nowadays the problem is less model quality/speed, but more that it's a bit annoying to mix it in one workflow, with easy switch…

> Even if everyone eats a perfect portion for themselves, if you overestimate the total then you'll have food waste if the food can't be preserved. That'd be just poor planning on …

How is that surprising? We've been taking that into account for any LLM related tooling for over a year now that we either can drop it, or have it designed in a way that we can swi…

> Or, maybe, don’t: when people do, they take much more than they eat. Compared with ordering from the menu, all-you-can-eat breakfasts waste more food—up to twice as much, accordi…

Yubikey (and nitrokey and other HSMs) are technically smart cards, which perform crypto operations on the card. This can be an issue when doing lots of operations, as the interface…

Anything pkcs#11 you can proxy. I'm using that on some systems - I have an old notebook with a nitrokey hsm at home. It binds pkcs11-proxy to a local wireguard interface, so I'm re…

As a German, after encountering Russian bureaucracy once, I commented to my wife that the main difference between Russian and German bureaucracy is that in Russia at least you can …

Unless I care about the meeting it gives me an easy way out. More than 5 minutes late in that case is "let's try it again another time"

I have fond memories of lending a Voodoo 2 from a friend when I was moving from a 486 to a K6 based system component by component. At that time I was still using my old ISA VGA car…

It's quite entertaining to read - most of the article is pretty much elaborating a chain of bad decisions by the author which all lead to this now being a big problem. If he'd have…

The archived copy of his old website has a picture from the beach: https://web.archive.org/web/20000511210957/http://ghg.ecn.pu... That's the page mostly dedicated to BBQ lighting:…