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Location: EU / Bulgaria Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C++ and other programming languages, Qt, Docker, Kubernetes, CI pipelines, automation, core Internet proto…

It's what happens when the people governing is terrified about the people they govern.

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When I received the first warning email about this, I wrote a simple library and cli to validate all my certs for me. https://github.com/jgaa/openvalify

That explains a lot.

This is never about protecting the children. This is always about government overreach. People are less likely to criticize the government, or even participate in political debate,…

So much for Elons "Free Speech"! This may come as a shock to him: Free Speech means to allow people to say something that he disagree with. Something that may hurt his interests or…

With all the BS the new administration is coming up with, I guess the federal government lose anyone competent that is not a very loyal Trump supporter.

I use a dedicated PC with Ubuntu for the kind of AI assisted development where the AI's has access to the disk. The only secrets it has are the API key to the AI, a temporary ssh k…

I only use mine occasionally, so I turn it off an put in a drawer. When I power it on a few months later the battery is flat , and the machines date in far in the past. This have n…

It's truly sad to see one of few traditional web sites of extraordinary quality go.

My "issue" with X509 is that it's hard to create certificates in code. I have not seen a single software package I use do it from scratch. They always use a library. The X509 libra…

The nice thing with science is that if you cherry-pick your scientists, you will always find some who "prove you right" ;)

It has no tits. Things without tits gets little coverage in the UK mainstream media ;)

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Sorry dude. I'm not writing my next book in XML.

Kermit was how I managed to get online for the first time. I bought a new 8086 PC clone back in the days. Then I ordered a add-on card with a serial port and an external 300 baud m…

I will not surrender in this fight. If my bank prevents me from logging in with a reasonable browser (as opposed to a privacy nightmare designed to facilitate advertisers) - I will…

One reason may be that they alienate users by copying the look, bad habits and feel of Chrome. They also engage in dark pattern UI behavior that pisses me off each time I get it in…

Prisons are not there to rehabilitate people. Prisons are there to make profit for it's share holders.

Just say no. Ignore Google and educate your friends and family about the alternatives. Make it your mission to save the Internet.

I tried it when I re-installed my workstation with Kubuntu 23.04. It was a shit-show of invalid links and errors when I tried to get the extensions and runtime modules for the VM's…

Yea. They are made to help you achieve something. They are not designed to "engage" you to maximize ad profits ;)

> "handwaving eventual consistency" approach for a lot of things. Which, for some systems translates to: It will be in sync when all the entropy in the universe is gone.

> Microsoft has no shame They never did.