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Why on earth is so much more expensive than an arbitrary pair of devices that could max out a cable?

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To be concrete and hopefully more constructive with my criticism, he's prone to saying things like "Fil-C is safer than Rust": https://x.com/filpizlo/status/2053351119095791995 And…

He's been especially arrogant and dismissive on X. I'm very glad Fil-C exists, but his behavior makes me doubt the whole project.

I switched my main home computer to the Framework 13 (albeit on Windows) in 2021, after multiple weeks with my MBP sent away for AppleCare. I had some minor electrical issues with …

I was lucky enough to be at the event and I can say the 13 Pro feels great in the hand. Overall chassis stiffness, typing (I guess due to the increased chassis stiffness), and the …

I had a similar experience with FreeNAS (now called TrueNAS): I'm sure it's great for some people, but I ended up fighting the abstraction layer way more than I benefited from it. …

I've been running OpenBSD as a router for almost 20 years I think? These days, the only ongoing maintenance it requires of me is running `syspatch` and `pkg_add -u` periodically to…

> Asking for "no politics" is itself a strong political view No, it explicitly is not, and this "deepity" doesn't change any rational analysis. The injection of politics into every…

I didn't realize, until recognizing Bradbury in that image yesterday, that HTTP status 451 is an explicit reference to "Fahrenheit 451", but apparently it is: https://www.rfc-edito…

Illustrating "451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons" with Ray Bradbury made me laugh

I even had to switch my reading list spreadsheet over from LibreOffice to Excel when the former started seriously lagging with about 250 rows total

Yeah, I imagine this will help a lot of people who created retrospectively-cringey email addresses in their youth, but kept them over the years because of inertia > After changing,…

Not a perfect defense, but sufficient to make your key much harder to exploit: Use a Yubikey (or similar) resident SSH key, with the Yubikey configured to require a touch for each …

Some distros have better WSL support than others—some will only work with systemd disabled, others have issues with X11. Ubuntu is well supported of course, but on the RHEL-ish sid…

Really great book. Among other things, I think it's the best explanation of ZFS I've seen in print.

These days I use it as a home file server because for my needs, FreeBSD the best tool for that job. But back in the early 2000s I got access to a free Unix shell account that inclu…

Sure, but ZFS is much better integrated into FreeBSD. It supports ZFS on root with boot environments out of the box. And when running a Samba server, it's helpful that FreeBSD supp…

The recent addition of dhcp6leased is a great example: Built into the base system, simpler to configure than either dhcp6c or dhcpcd, and presumably also more secure than either.

Yeah it's the most succinct explanation I've seen of weird machines and memory tagging. Definitely bookmarking this one. I wonder if video of the talk that presumably presented thi…

I use a screen protector to prevent wear to the oleophobic coating, which had noticeably degraded on my previous iPhone. I know you can also buy treatments to replace the coating o…

You can additionally set up ULA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address The way I do this, my internal DNS resolves hosts to their fixed ULA addresses. For the handful …

Huh, why IPv6 only instead of dual stack? Assuming you're talking about a home or small business network The (occasionally, on Comcast) changing dynamic prefix was a pain for me to…