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I recently placed some PDF files for some nontechnical people on Dropbox. To avoid confusing them with the long complicated Dropbox URL, I even created a shortened link for them to…

I've been self-hosting my email for a little over 2 decades. The basic setup has more or less stayed the same, but there's some more extra components around it you have to know now…

> Zojirushi water boiler Purchased this last month and really regret not buying it years earlier (we got the 5L CV-DCC50 model). It's amazing how we never worry about boiling water…

Just wanted to chime in on my beancount workflow, which you may also want to check out. I also use vim, and I use it a bit to edit my beancount files, but I mostly use fava, a most…

I've been running VPSs with them for the last 9 years. Never had a problem. And unlike Digital Ocean, they allow you to mount your own ISOs and fully support the BSDs. Unless someo…

Totally agree. I was there two weeks ago. The tour guide took us through a route that bypassed the longer lines and through some underground areas—culminating in an entrance that c…

On a slightly related note, Michael W. Lucas[1] is working on an upcoming book entitled "Run Your Own Mail Server", that will be published shortly (there's a Kickstarter campaign a…

Both Subversion[1] and CVS[2] had keyword substitution, which replaced those tags with useful information like the commit id, author, date, etc. They were very useful when you were…

scdoc is a great tool. It's written by Drew DeVault (sourcehut) and works great, I've used it in a couple of projects. Here's the blog entry[1] where he talks about the rationale f…

> someone complained about NTP issues with traffic passing through TATA and they were told to make their devices stratum 0 or something Not saying your summary of that thread is wr…

I've been an erstwhile FreeBSD user since v2.x (ca. December 1996), running FreeBSD on my own machines since v4.x (ca 2001), and started using it as my primary laptop/desktop daily…

Perl was removed from FreeBSD base more than 2 decades ago: https://bsd.slashdot.org/story/02/05/14/0015234/freebsd-perl... And this was the right move. It meant that the version o…

Happy user of git-bug for several years here, it’s a great tool, and the author is very receptive about bug fixes and adding new features. Probably my favorite is the built in TUI …

My relatives found this out the hard way last week, they made a low-calorie cake which was sweetened with xylitol, which their dog got into -- they left it on the kitchen table for…

I spent some time evaluating all the available dotfile managers a few months ago and settled on chezmoi: https://www.chezmoi.io/ I had initially been turned off when I first encoun…

Thimbleweed Park was a great game. Lots of great in-jokes, a useful help/hint system, and the classic old-school adventure game look/feel that I played as a kid and since longed fo…

Very sorry to hear of his passing. Sven Guckes was one of the kind souls on Usenet in the 90s who went out of his way to happily help people with their tech setups. I especially le…

> be sure to store the hash type as well so that you can change it later if needed Thanks for sharing this, I'd been doing this on my own for my own stuff (eg. foo.txt-xxh32-ea79e0…

GeoNames ( http://www.geonames.org/ ) offers a downloadable database of cities with more than 15k population and their time zones. They list aliases as well. That's what Zeitzono u…

I wrote a console based tool based on a similar idea, it shows city-based timezones: https://zeitzono.org/ Unlike hTime, Zeitzono (currently) doesn't offer any meeting suggestion t…

> Bunch of straw questions, I don't care to answer them. Answer your own pointless questions. By "straw question", you are implying that I replaced your argument with a false one. …

And old. See the many comments and articles posted in this thread to that effect.

> these things still do not seem to get adopted If I understand your comment correctly, the reason you are using an old, insecure, and broken tool is because the secure replacement…