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Caste followers have a lot of undue social advantage over the oppressed groups (like in any other form of discrimination). Admitting that it exists would be the first step to givin…

Rust has an undeniably steep learning curve which can cause a productivity penalty for beginners. However, there are some statements in this article I simply can't agree with based…

I have a different experience with Rust these days. The errors that Rust throws are either the ones I had a vague hunch about or the ones I missed. It never feels like friction, bu…

> an ethereal hourglass of orange and blue dust being shot out from a newly forming star at its centre. Is there any standard way of describing images in non-visible spectra using …

These sorts of incidents would be far more common if bosses shit talked their employees in the public and tanked their brand image in the process in front of their users and future…

Any plans to publish this on your blog? It's a much more elegant source of information. This also belongs there with the other great articles.

Indeed! The headline gave false hopes that the article may advocate for returning to plain text emails. It instead talks as if the biggest problem with email is the lack of even mo…

You could use XCA [1] for small scale deployments, or step-ca [2] for a more comprehensive setup. [1] https://www.hohnstaedt.de/xca/ [2] https://smallstep.com/docs/step-ca

Other commenters have mentioned interactive and patch staging. That is the standard way to ensure that only the lines you specify go into a commit. I want to add an alternative met…

The ad is about a git tool (hiflux) that happens to be written in Rust. That is perfectly relevant in this context. Rust is also a good language to write such tools (as is Go). I u…

The perfect commit is useful only when you're ready to publish. Development can be chaotic with all the half-done or possibly-wrong code. You don't need to worry about all those st…

Client certs as implemented on Gemini and IRC are self-signed. They are enrolled on the service after they're created. They don't need enterprise level capabilities. In fact, even …

I don't think I understand passkeys. The best I could make out is that it uses an asymmetric key pair for authentication. How is this different from self-signed TLS client certific…

I can confirm it works on MailInaBox. So it should probably work on any installation that uses Postfix and/or Dovecot.

I used lsp-mode for a while and then switched to eglot. The reason was that lsp-mode has quite a lot of dependencies including helm and hydra. This can be inconvenient when you use…

How familiar are you with Lisps? I heard somewhere that it's easier for a complete beginner to start learning programming with lisps than with traditional languages. I started with…

Yes, that's certainly possible - especially with tools like kind. However, the reason I prefer LXD over Docker/OCI is that the former behaves more like a full OS. LXD containers ar…

I use Kubernetes within an LXD container with Btrfs backing storage. This isn't anything special. But it has two advantages. The first is that you could try out multi-node K8s clus…

I use LXD these days and I love it. It's easy enough to deploy without knowing too much internal details. Its CLI is also intuitive and well designed. It's true that LXD doesn't su…

I was hoping to see a more modern alternative to the VTE terminal protocol and its derivatives. Does anybody have any good suggestions and possible implementations?

Oh! I missed the 'uncrewed' part! Nevertheless, the video itself has a good view of the failure. I can't wait for the public domain failure analyses based on it.

> On the positive side, it looks like if there was a real emergency the crew could have escaped. Looking at the video, it seems like the BE-3 engine was having some trouble for abo…

So, you're supposed to avoid doing factory reset on a phone once your account is banned? Sounds like an essential feature being held hostage.

You could set up auto-renewal. Good registrars also remind you when the domain is about to expire. In any case, using a custom domain is safer than relying on a single email provid…

The danger occurs when a human body is touching surfaces at different potentials. In fact, shorting all electric points together during a strike (using gas discharge tubes or somet…