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It is from a time when we were used to remember phone numbers, and where we shared our phone numbers to keep in touch (calls, sms). ICQ directly picked on that and it was just anot…

Playing around with a hex based game myself, the bookmark to the Hexagonal Grid is a constant companion over the years. It was updated slightly over the years with some visual cues…

If it goes to the direction of Microsoft Copilot, then you can check out the recent announcement. Microsoft currently estimates that 30/user/month is a good list price to get „Chat…

When downloading Berkeley Mono, you can choose some configurations and I love the slashed 7 (as well as zero). Something feels off to me with the line but overall it’s fun to have …

And in some/many jurisdictions, your ISP is more regulated by your local government (also in regards to data protection) than cloudflare who has no obligation to you.

In parallel, there is a quite different point of view and after the last two dramas (Safe Harbor, Privacy Shield), the outcome is quite predictable in my opinion. https://news.ycom…

> The part of the cookie law that’s dumb is that it’s too narrowly scoped and should apply to all tracking technologies and techniques, for whichever purposes and vendors are or ar…

What degree of „searchable“ are you missing from apropos? https://man.openbsd.org/apropos.1

That was Civ 1. I think they dropped it in Civ 2. Edit: actually not sure. In Civ 1 you build up your palace, not the throne room per se.

You absolutely can and if you know that you don’t install software that needs it, there is no reason to install X during installation.

I think/assume OpenBSD is mainly used as a server OS. Yes, passionate people use it as a desktop but those mostly read the FAQ anyway. Currently and as far as I know, bioctl does o…

Yes, there is a dedicated question for how to do a full disk encryption: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html It’s 3 commands to type in that are explained and that will work as …

There are packages like image libraries, Java etc that rely on X11 libraries. The safe default is to have it around. You can always choose to not install all X* packages. In fact, …

TPMs do not reveal a unique serial number or similar identifier by design for privacy reasons. A TPM can attest that some measurements were done with it and it can attest that it c…

Regarding scaling: If you use 2x scaling it should be easy with any distribution. Fractional scaling is a bit trickier to get. I am using a Framework with 1.5x scaling using Fedora…

In Germany it is mandatory to do a bomb search on a plot before you are allowed to start building a building. Also photos of bomb drops are used to check where bombs might have fal…

Microsoft just released Linux support (Ubuntu) in their MDM Intune. It’s very barebones yet but provides first fundamental capabilities. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intun…

You get your private snap store and upload your snaps to it. Signing and delivery is only assured between the IoT device and the snap store. Not between you (the developer) and the…

And last time I checked, they refused to let you use your own signing keys. Means you do not get end to end trust for your own bits but need to rely on Canonical that they don’t sc…

Every BSD license has this, which is for that purpose: THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED „AS IS“ AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED W…