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Jonti Picking (aka MrWeebl) did a more in-depth interview last year as well: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-sixteenth-minute-of-fame...

It does include a fairly full-featured DVR system - I used to use it with Kodi to record shows off DVB-T.

I saw someone recommend a site called "The Storygraph" recently - haven't tried it yet, but it seems like an interesting alternative to Goodreads. In particular the "moods" feature…

I had no idea that was an option, thanks for the tip!

> As soon as I try to add more detail the previously imagined details dissapear and I have to circle back and reimagine them. Like having a very limited amount of draw calls every …

I was amazed to discover, a few months ago, that iPeng is still under active development! I went to set the alarm on my Squeezebox Boom one night and the time picker widget was com…

You can play Island of Dr Brain on archive.org! https://archive.org/details/msdos_Island_of_Dr._Brain_1992 They have Lost Mind as well, but not emulated because it's a Windows game…

If you can find the .ipa, you can sideload them, no developer account or anything needed. The downsides are that you can only have 3 sideloaded apps at a time, and you have to rein…

Systemd has a mechanism[0] for configuring those limits. I believe you can limit a unit to 1 vCPU and 256MB of memory by using something like the following: [Service] CPUQuota=100%…

Small correction for the author: > Copper stays copper, unless there are one or two electron heads in any cardinal direction, in which case it becomes an electron head should be > …

Same here - it's a shame because I'm happy to continue supporting the developer, but I won't pay for a functional downgrade.

You make a good point - there are loads of third-party magnetic charging cables out there, but I never saw the point when I have a wireless charger. I might have to give the cables…

> How long before Grafana has these capabilities in OSS? They've already started down that path with Grafana Tempo[0]. It's functional, but their UX and discoverability need a lot …

The same effect was used to make stickers that lit up when you were receiving a call, with no battery needed! https://hackaday.com/2022/02/26/heres-how-those-battery-free...

I recently came across another useful utility for debugging unexpected packet drops - PWRU[0] (Packet, Where Are You) by Cilium. It uses eBPF to try to trace the path of the packet…

> Also, once you've got per-user encryption on ~/.ssh/authorized_keys you'll need some other mechanism for users to log in. OpenSSH supports this through the AuthorizedKeysFile dir…

Thanks for the correction - complete brainfart.

You might still be able to - check out "WordPerfect for DOS updated": http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/ . If you want spreadsheets as well, Corel 1-2-3 works under dosemu at lea…

The thing that bothers me is that it's not even restricted to iDevices. I was recently looking into replacing Time Machine on my MBP (which has a tendency to corrupt over SMB) with…

This does exist, though support for it is pretty sparse; it's called "Temporal Tables" in the SQL:2011 standard - https://sigmodrecord.org/publications/sigmodRecord/1209/pdfs... La…

The key word that covers the Heroku-style experience is "GitOps". Most tools are Kubernetes-centric (i.e. FluxCD[0] or Jenkins X[1]), but there are some simpler Docker-only options…

Thanks for the link; I hadn't heard of Mandos. Another solution in the same space is Clevis[1]; last time I was researching this problem, I came across it via Red Hat's docs[2]. [1…

You can! KinD[0] is a project to do just that, although production workloads are an explicit non-goal. [0]: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind

You don't even need to patch any files - you can patch classes at runtime using a "-javaagent" library. There are plenty of libraries out there to facilitate this such as Javassist…