stevekemp

> I think you're the one who missed the point Yes, I would like to know more ..

In Scotland I was with Telewest, then Virgin, and my memory is always that the DHCP pushed out the external IP of the ISP's DNS servers. Nowadays I'm in Finland and definitely the router run…

Only oddity was the reference to the "router cache". I agree if your browser tried to lookup example.com the local cache would be used, but then it would be the system's configured DN…

I wrote a console-based mail client, which was 25% C++ and 75% Lua for defining the UI and the processing. It never got too popular, but I had users for a few years and I can honestly say MIME was the…

Microsoft didn't write Internet Explorer, they licensed it from Spyglass, they had a "Spyglass Mosaic browser" which was ultimately based on Mosaic.

Most of the "Awesome XXX" lists are designed solely to promote their creators pet project. You can see the gaming happen early on in many of these lists, where commercial things start appear…

It was only a couple of years ago since I wrote an assembly language program of my own and got hit by branching-limits on the Z80 processor. I did exactly the same things that were suggested in this a…

Tesla-related fatalities probably count already, albeit without that label/name.

I think "for work" is very definitely the reason for me. I've run Linux at home since 1994 or so. As a sysadmin/devops person 90% of my life is emacs, a browser, and collection of…

Talk of referendum's being "non-binding" is a red herring and a distraction. The Scottish independence referendum was also non-binding, because that is how things work in the UK. .. Of …

I guess it depends on your field, for the past ten years I've worked in companies that use Google workspace, google docs, google drive, etc, etc, and slack. I've not had any lock-in to Micro…

I guess it depends on your needs. 90% of my working life is a terminal to run terraform, emacs to write code, and slack to chat with colleagues. In each of the companies I've worked over the pa…

That sounds like the kind of hallucinated statement you might expect from ChatGPT. Which doctors, in which countries, are using LLMs to treat patients?

I suspect this is an issue for most org-mode users, we all use different things. I have two real uses for org-mode; I write a "work log", or "diary", every day I'm at work whi…

> all so related but everyone does not want to admit it. I'm laughing in Finnish..

If it had been BBC Scotland you might have seen "jags" instead.

I wrote this to list/run named markdown blocks from README.md files, etc: https://github.com/skx/runme It's a trivial project, but it has been useful for reference and …

This was reported earlier via an Ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523885

All the way I was thinking the same. Why patch the binary to get the correct "system identity" value, to match the license/serial-key you've got? Instead patch the serial-check ou…

Not the poster, but what I did was to have a CGI script which would receive incoming comments and write them to "/srv/data/blog/comments/XXX/TIMESTAMP.txt" or s…

> A program which had all the keys and serials in existence. That sounds useful! Back in the day reversing was fun, and I'd rather do it myself than risk downloading malware. That said I'…

Looks like the site uses the deprecated "Report-To:" header in responses too, something I've never seen before and had to lookup.

It's not an invasion, it is just a special military operation.

Me too, back then I wrote applications either using the raw Win32 API (GetMessage, TranslateMessage, DispatchMessage, etc), or using MFC. I think MFC is now long-time dead and buried, but at the time …

There's a property website which covers my local area, and every few weeks I'll do a search for the city-center, and sort by highest-price. It's fun to look at the kinda house you could…

> But who's financially secure at 25? This is where free daycare, and support from the government helps. (And yes of course it's not "free", it is paid for from taxes, people ar…

That's a really cute looking tool. I ran it without installing via: uv tool run enroll single-shot --harvest ./harvest --out ./ansible It generated almost a thousand roles,…

Same. I spent several long evenings, back in the day, ripping all my CDs into MP3s and they've been copied from computer to computer ever since, and the collection has grown too of course since …

I wish I could remember, but offhand all I can say is that we definitely have two pikachus and one snorlax.

A tattoo of a balloon! Unless you meant what the meaning of the design was, and in that case different people have different associations and meanings. One of my forearms is covered in things my son …