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This is crazy to read. I live in what you consider a highly authoritarian and non-free society and can't imagine something like this happening here. Lower paid jobs are even more p…

Don't, there are many smaller email providers that will take that load off your shoulders for a small fee. I've been using purelymail and have had good experience with it, and hear…

> ChatGPT consumes 25 times more energy than Google > ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search

I've also used phones which haven't received any updates for years without any obvious problems. Just maintaining basic digital hygiene like you do. In theory, one could use a zero…

https://www.bram.us/2022/01/11/yaml-the-norway-problem/

I wish we would rather get rid of Dockerfile in favor of what something like buildah does: https://github.com/containers/buildah/blob/main/examples/lig... Since Dockerfile is a rat…

ECC is fully supported by consumer AMD processors (at least Ryzen 7000, and I think earlier ones too). You need to pick a matching motherboard, most boards from ASRock will do. And…

What was the difference between CPU and video card vendors (if you can talk about that at all)?

aerc sometimes breaks on non-compliant email because the author of the header parser refuses to introduce kludges to handle broken email. When it happens, the mail in question simp…

Another discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40231332

For what's it worth, the page is unreadable without JavaScript disabled on an overclocked desktop 7900X. I think it's the slowest one by far among all the crap I've seen in two dec…

https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla

Use a better token. YubiKey is the most popular one, not the best one by a long shot. My (cheaper) alternative supports 300 resident keys per each hardware key.

iptables has been with us for more than 20 years and is only now being replaced (pretty slowly I might add). The old rules are still supported through iptables-nft, you can just im…

I had a chuckle at this being a "non-issue". Where I am from, you'll get a severe beating (or worse) if you refused to provide the authentication credential, whatever it might be. …

btrfs does reserve some space for exactly this issue, although it might not always be enough. https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-filesystem.html > GlobalReserve is an art…

about:config → media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.enabled → false

Multi-master replication out of the box. Very useful, very occasionally.

Somewhat related: if someone whose technical proficiency you don't hold in high regard needs to perform a limited number of administrative actions on a network-connected Linux mach…

You don't need annotations for descriptions, they get picked up from javadoc-style comments which you should have anyway. Same with asp.net.

Are you sure you haven't visited hacker news by mistake? Hardware overclocking requires a decent amount of knowledge, most of it obtainable only through months of trial and error, …

I can't speak for Gnutella, but BitTorrent remains as popular as ever. Every non-technical acquaintance of mine is at least familiar with it, except for those over 70 years old. Mo…

Do you mean runtime type checking? Coming from compiled type safe languages, it was difficult to wrap my head around full type erasure too. Your name would have definitely helped.

The most developed countries should show us an example then. I am not Argentinian or from South America at all, but we have the same problems. As long as an average American keeps …