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riddle me this

evolution of convenience

oracle and postgres

a comparison of terminal emulators

Relaxation script

I make ice cream

audio in the house reviewed

Debian upgrade policies

complexity considered harmful

assumptions about certbot

preparedness

academic data management disclosures

recipe for high quality portable audio playback

yay for helpful error message

hey IT you need a wiki

authoritarianism is bad, antiauthoritarianism is good

llms again, sorry

fun fact about linux routing

reminder to self about LE SSL certs

your company is probably not Agile and should not be

security analogy

specialized toy geometry notes

about Agile

it was magic all along

things break when you try to fix them

the IT scale

new mouse report

belts and suspenders at home

the two most common fail-to-post errors

prediction scoring

pareidolia but for meaningfulness

tech note: slow SSH login

750 chars: security re-org

words about my mother

house network 2023

learning opportunity: LLM

one of the one true ways of ops

quote of note n=11: copyright

desktop audio update

sacrificial jacks

memorializing a prediction

how did dial-up ISPs work?

koreader is not perfect, but it is very good

considerations for ebook reader interfaces

minimal due diligence

models of language vs models of reality

quote of note - history of WWW tools

fingerprints

an opinionated tmux config

minimalism is an affectation of the wealthy

lessons from usenet

audio setups early 2023

uphill battle

new phone minireview

why apple mail products stop sending mail

if your tech company is growing, you need in-house recruiters

can we rebuild Usenet on top of blogs?

perfectly willing to believe

script assistant

a poem

predictions for 2023

log more on failure than success

smart homes are still for tinkers

in 2022 there are no slow computers

reliable indicators of trouble

superstition

smoothest pelican upgrade yet

setting vim options makes me itch

an element of style

recovery from audiophilia

years of experience are a bad proxy

that should not go there

bears repeating

where the cloud came from

make systemd journald dump to rsyslogd

advanced technology

quote: outsourcing risk

how to add DNS/TLS to your existing DNS server

Apple M1 MBP micro-review

users will learn things if they have motivation

assumptions

a thing which should be obvious

pseudovalidation techniques

this one trick always backfires

Amazon Fire HD 10 (2019)

when did I start to expect good fonts?

dice rolls

what software does a firewall run, anyway?

quoting myself, part n+3

last spinning boot disk replaced

please focus your attention

quote of the day entry n+1

validation

self-reflection: when do I post?

the internet is railways, not highways

when you want to work with text

spammers keep on spamming

why perl is the best language

I get spam

how to make mass modifications in LDAP

things to check

email disclaimers: even when they improve, they fail

secure-ish DNS for small environments