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Worth mentioning Jess Frazelle was running desktop applications in docker a while ago. Not a full desktop, but also quicker to rebuild individual apps. https://blog.jessfraz.com/po…

As someone who is also introverted and looking to start a business in the next few months, this is something I'm going to seriously consider. When I'm on the consuming end of a ser…

I love the over-the-back-of-the-neck earbuds, specifically the ones from OnePlus that turn off if you use the magnet to turn them off. I don't think they are popular, so I've order…

Unfortunate naming... https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/nonce

Not a dev, but as a DevOps engineer, I use LLMs for a few types of work: 1. A starting point for a problem I've no experience with - "How do I set up replication on a database". I …

The author might have confused a few things, I don't think direnv and Nix are related. I've used direnv for years without touching Nix.

Wouldn't a small script that lets you toggle between a QWERTY layout and a custom layout solve this problem?

"Additional safeguards have been introduced – notably, in the most recent round of amendments, a 'triple-lock' authorization process for surveillance of parliamentarians ..." Thank…

I use Firefox and ublock origin. I also have a Youtube premium account. When I change my firefox useragent to windows/chrome my load times go from 5-10 seconds to under 1.

A little hyperbolic. Here's[0] a 64 page party manifesto from 2019. [0] https://www.conservatives.com/our-plan/conservative-party-ma... From the manifesto front page[1] they talk a…

Looks like they recently made up: "UK Labour Party is pro-Israel again, says chair of its visiting friendship group" "After antisemitism drove Jews away in Corbyn era, MP Steve McC…

JIT cutlery and crockery.

Isn't this the exact problem? How can websites stay afloat unless you pay for it in one way or another? I guess the choice is buy the product or be the product. I've been paying fo…

How are "real thanks" and "thanks of the week" different?

It's already passed the commons unfortunately.

This was one of the few times I emailed my MP, Peter Gibson. I laid out all the reasons why backdooring encryption was a bad idea. I got a response (on very nice thick, embossed pa…

I use the app Pocket Cast and listen to podcasts in sped up form. Current stats: * Listened for 27 days 9 hours, * Manual Skipping: Saved 17 hours, * Increased speed: Saved 31 days…

I guess it would all depend on the scale. For my home servers which just run personal things (like a kanban board as a todo list) I just use watchtower[0]. This requires mounting t…

Hey, are you ok? Society is just made up of individual people. I've found that when I get offline and out of big cities, people actually do care a lot. Try not to confuse everyone …

Not a doctor, but remember that most vitamins and minerals (and hormones[0]) can be used to supplement a diet low in those things. Ideally everyone would get enough from food, but …

For me, the value of Ubuntu is the community support around it. I'd love this project to take off and become mainstream.

I was mainly talking about here where I live, the UK, but I expect a lot of people here are American. It seems like the CDC made this claim. > CDC chief Rochelle Walensky said earl…

Step 0 needs to be rebuilding trust in scientists. Anyone with half a brain and a memory that can go all the way back to 2020 remembers the lies told to the world. When major healt…

The problem with the idea (for me) of letting people live with the consequences is that in the UK, I'm forced to pay a good chunk of tax (I think it's about 1/5th) on a failing hea…