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I see this comment about how awesome Apple Trackpads are all the time here, and just assumed I was missing out because I'd never used a MacBook. But I got given a MacBook Pro recen…

Coward. https://www.daniclodedesign.com/thevine20

Dani, whom the article mentions, has also worked on prosthetic arm replacements which are indeed modelled on tentacles. I don't have a link to hand but I'm sure some use of your fa…

My last job was at a UK bank. All our *nix systems were configured with a specific whitelist of commands that could be run via sudo. We found this an enormous pain in the arse when…

Is there an arm64 version of the docker image for the atuin server? I'd really like to be able to deploy this to my microk8s cluster.

Ah, so much this! Why do all these new utils not come with a man page? :(

Oh I don't know. I'm going to send this to a friend of mine who's an ex black cab driver. If he doesn't get full marks I'll be amazed.

Snagit got me into trouble twice at my last job, by phoning home even when I'd ticked off the preference for sending usage information (which appears you have to opt out of, rather…

There's so many people in here saying "did you try it?" - and I signed up on the waiting list the day it was announced and still don't have access.

Absolutely love the Fermat reference at the end!

Dani did a TED talk about it https://youtu.be/UD_LwZD2Kls

Huh. I've chatted to Dani several times (we go to the same bar and share a circle of friends). She is hella smart. Sadly she's yet to have had the third thumb with her whenever we'…

Weird. It let me use my Gmail address.

Still no Thunderbolt though? Unless I've missed it somewhere in the article. My wife was sent a Surface Pro (3, I think) to WFH on, and getting it to play nicely with external disp…

Same in the UK. The Google Pay app on my phone allows me to add credit cards and use them for NFC payments and that's about it. I can't see a way to send money to someone else usin…

No, the article starts with a scan of the reply.

I can't find an online source to document this - but on a recent tour of Chislehurst Caves in SE London - the tour guide mentioned that during the second world war, when it was use…

There have been a number of attempts at this over the years with Rockbox (not sure about recent years though as I no longer hang out in the dev channel on freenode). All of them ca…

Heh - I helped out on the port to 80GB video which came with a rather odd ATA controller on it that didn't work with the first cut of the ATA driver that Rockbox had been shipping …

I am rooting for Windows Terminal to succeed, but currently it's definitely not fast. Complete redraws of the content are in fact painfully slow for me at the moment.

Interesting. I thought the stuff people generally wrote on blackboards with was actually gypsum, and not chalk at all. Although everyone calls it chalk.