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I haven't fired up UT99, UT2K4 or any of the Quakes for decades. Are there active servers where you could get a good DM session?

Xonotic has that old school feeling. It's an unfortunately tiny player base, and only a handful of servers with regular players. But if you are within ping of a busy server (like J…

As a tea drinker, I wish that cafés, bars and restaurants followed the most basic rule which is: take cold water from the tap, bring it quickly to the boil ONCE and pour it into th…

Same. Our engineers have failed to convince absolutely clueless executives that service / code ownership is critical, you can't just allocate 100% of your engineering team to "roam…

My take, as a non-coder (well, not software engineering, I write 'code' but it's infra, and utilities in go/bash/pythong)... I work at a company where the biggest problems are not …

Sounds like they partnered to make an amazing advert for using AI tools.

Our S3 bill for a single day was $48 trillion

Just a personal project right now but it's a music metadata aggregator. I find that nobody really knows how to do this. Machine learning can detect some song attributes well (bpm, …

I get to use the same host names and IP addresses at home or on the VPN. I run a simple wireguard server on a Raspberry pi, and the whole setup has been rock solid. I did set up ta…

For small stuff I use bash / sed / awk / jq / yq / curl etc. I stopped using perl (a long time ago) and hate trying to build or distribute anything in Python. "You asked for a scri…

I love hearing the guys from The Rest Of History discuss this from their different perspectives!

And "hepped up on goofballs" is a Police Chief Wiggum quote, about Ned Flanders.

Lol, is github down again?

Hmm. I don't really care enough about leaking home network host names because they are all super generic names like 'router', 'laptop', 'tv', 'nas'. So I use my public zone on clou…

I have 3 different bookmarks that open 3 different Gmail accounts. I use an AWS SSO plugin to open each account in its own container. My wife and I have several other services wher…

How about mixing up band names? Take the end of "Florence and the machine" and mix it with the start of "Rage against the machine" and you now have the totally unguessable "Rage sh…

Last time I tried rootless podman was about 6 months ago and it was a total mess. I was trying to use it to run a container as me (user 1000) and mount a directory from my home (ow…

For me, they are completely essential and we're the killer feature that kept me on Firefox. That, and I never liked Chrome anyway.

Try getting a Linux laptop to just go to fucking sleep and not drain it's battery flat within a few hours, and wake up without losing wifi.

By "reward manufacturers that make good hardware" do you mean "purchase their hardware" or do you mean some other long term commitment to them? Or is this a jab at the person who s…

I installed opensuse tumbleweed on mine and the bastid won't hibernate. Or: it hibernates but refuses to resume. It loads the saved state from disk and then 30 seconds of black scr…

Right now mine isn't an app (yet) it's the backend service (api and web) so I just run it in a browser. For now I'm letting that backend access my files directly. The front end can…

I'm working on a recommendation service (which, to me, it's the piece I'm missing when I play my local mp3 collection) I collect song metadata from various places (genre, instrumen…

Yep. This situation doesn't do the "cancellers" much good either. What they want to do is eliminate the 'evil person' from society. Wipe them from social media. Block them. Even ge…

If his definition of woke mind virus is "identitarianism", then it's agree that it's fucking awful. But I wouldn't call it "woke mind virus". Identitarianism is a cancer, that has …