stevekemp

I remember working in random IT companies, back in the early nineties, where our "servers" were a collection of random desktop machines running Linux. At the time I think we had one Sun E450…

Nowadays people prefer to call the country "Ukraine", rather "the Ukraine". I admit I've made that mistake more than a few times. See here for some backstory and history: ht…

Kinda like product hunt, where nothing is real and posts live or die by how many people you pay to vouch for your submissions. "Product Hunt for ..." is a bad tagline for selling anything, i…

I don't have slack on my phone, and I wouldn't even see a message sent out of hours. I've sometimes been in on-call rotations over the past ten years and so there are exceptions where I…

The past few times I've searched for a job I've literally opened Google and searched "sysadmin, Helsinki". Sometimes that points me at specific linkedin posts, random recruitment …

There are tutorials out there, that tend to start out with the "fantasy system", the chip8: http://www.emulator101.com/introduction-to-chip-8.html (You can google "chip…

I have my journal available within my editor, so it's easily accessible. I find that once I've seen how useful past-notes have been its very apparent I need to update. I keep a standard set…

Over the past few months I've actually gone back to buying DVDs. Sure their quality isn't amazing, but they're so practical and dependable. The local charity shops sell movies for €1 e…

This is in no way a "deep dive", and instead reads like some kind of chatgpt blog-spam.

"I saved XXTb of bandwidth with this one simple change!"

Mostly, when he's tired or distracted, I hear questions like "Where the cat is?" instead of "Where is the cat?", or "What the clock is?" rather than "What is th…

I remember a few months of our child only saying "No". If you asked "Would you like ice-cream" the reply would be a smile and a head-nod. There was no spoken "Yes", but…

That's an interesting mixture! I know our child with only English and Finnish-speaking parents always preferred to reply in the local language (Finnish) for a long time. He would understand Eng…

I started as a developer, and became a sysadmin by accident/necessity. Over the past 20ish years I've been: "sysadmin", "sre", "devops engineer", "cloud e…

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I use the same thing, and put together a "distribution" of pass, with a couple of plugins including the OTP extension: https://github.com/skx/pass Just clone beneath &#…

Looks like you need to filter out <script>alert.., and similar XSS from the input.

Usually these awesome lists are created with enthusiasm, then they get a sponsor or paid link at the top, and sit abandoned and never updated. You can see the linked list has a link to their android a…

> Do you mean you expect me to give my banking site/app credentials to X? In Finland it is common for many online shops to handle payment, and authentication, using a banking account. You neve…

I recently wrote a CP/M emulator, and I admit I had a warm and fuzzy moment when I successfully got Wordstar to launch. No need to use old machines with emulation around! My code doesn't ru…

I guess from a certain point of view you're right, a credit score is a list of all the debts you've had an how you've paid them back. So somebody with no debt is "unknown", ra…

This is backed by both github, and YC? That's pretty impressive. Though sadly the demo on the front-page gives no results for me, just endless animations.

I guess this might be a regional thing, but where I live (in Finland) there's a healthy trade amongst parents with other local families for clothing and toys. Facebook marketplace is used for thi…

I remember the heat. I had a year of sickness, or so, back in the day. I decided I was gonna blow as much money as I could on the "best" TV setup. I bought a 42" plasma TV, and I sat…

In general, yes. In this case the study cites that as being unethical due to the high prevalence of HIV in the target population. So the actual trial gave some people the shot, and some other people …

Fun piece of trivia, in the UK those (distance) measuring wheels are called "Trundle Wheels", which is a little redundant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor%27s_whe…