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The missing context is that he was quote-tweeting a thread by Sandy Petersen titled "How Quake ruined id software": https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2069592209645785294 > How Qu…

Kind of - but when the country across the water is hundreds of km away, turning slightly to the left or right could mean you're facing a completely different country. But I'd also …

Related, but does anyone know of an app or site that can tell you what you're facing when you're standing on a beach? As in, what country or part of the country - so if you were st…

Thanks! You're the best.

Hey, thanks for that Mastodon link. I think I remember at least one of those guys. I think that building over the road is nothing of note - just some generic commercial real estate…

I probably served you coffee at the time, then, brilliant. It was definitely the place I fell in love with the internet - I ended up leaving school early because it.

Hah, amazing! That brings back memories. The PC where the guy with the red t-shirt is sitting is where one regular used to come in and send out his erotic fanfic. He'd bring in a f…

I worked at Cyberia's second location in Kingston in 1995, before getting hired by Easynet to do tech support on the top floor of the building where Cyberia London was located. It …

He was such an amazing guy. We got to interview him on our tiny podcast[1] after we reached out and he so happily joined us for half an hour. His book, Manna (which is $0.99 to dow…

Well, thanks for posting but that page is way out of date! I don't think I've updated it for... 15 years now? The data itself is kept fresh though: https://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverli…

I love this part: "It represents additional work, additional risk, and additional unnecessary complexity", because it could be "refactored" into "additional work, risk, and complex…

I did some research on TXT records a little while back, that might be of interest: https://labs.ripe.net/author/pgl/the-joy-of-txt/

It all comes down to trust in the end, but over time I've come to trust Mullvad more and more. One particular example that sticks out to me is that they ended subscription based bi…

Mullvad really does have a commitment to privacy. Some key points: - Acts as a Google proxy, removes tracking links and caches results - Only available for Mullvad paid users - 100…

I think this may be referring to this study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29206091/ "Effects of caffeine administration on sedation and respiratory parameters in patients recove…

> I only really noticed this properly when my DNS sinkholing server (Adguard home) started blocking t.co links and I was getting an error when say, clicking a linked news article M…

Suspended. That was quick.

Command line output as JSON. Very handy and has parsers for tons of common utilities, written in Python. Blog post with examples here: https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2020/08/30/parsi…

Just for the record, but my list is available natively in a format for use with Unbound: - https://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php?hostformat=unbound Remove the header with &showint…

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Okey dokey

(Why is it these kinds of discussions get snotty so quickly?) I don't know how else an end user can express their preference. IP addresses are PII under the GDPR with enough contex…