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Also worked for the dutch government for the last 5 years. All or most of the projects we did have been open-sourced on github over the years. Currently there are plans to move them to code.overheid.nl I think, though I no longer work there currently. (I was the github org-admin for the department)

Local government can quickly change that, if they get their act together. Here in the Hague, there's literally thousands of public chargers available on the city's residential streets. Coupled with the fact that the charging-price is city-mandated at a fixed rate (currently around 35ct/kwh), this gives a perfectly fine solution for most people. (I can charge at home, for 20ct/kwh currently, so that's even nicer)

On GrapheneOS (and maybe android generic?) this calls the emergency number, I just found out (with a 5 second timer to cancel this luckily)

Yup, still get nightmares about glusterfs.... still have one customer running on it.

Time to use a VPN in your docker pipelines ;) Or run your systems outside of Spain.

Or can this be avoided by using an alternate DNS?

That's why I only buy Thinkpads from the business/professional lines... Replaced the keyboard om my t480 for $24, and replacing it myself was a 2 minute job (2 screws, pop 2 connectors, replace, and put back together).

I did the same with a limited subset of dutch laws a while back: https://github.com/sigio?tab=repositories&q=wetboek

My solution, put a cname record in your zone, to a subdomain, have that subdomain be served by a seperate DNS server (for example desec.io)

If something gets the credentials for desec.io, they can only use them to do stuff with the single txt record.

This got me to finally put effort into upgrading the firmware on my brother printer, which was still running stock firmware. There was only a password-entry, and that didn't let me access anything. After running Brothers updater in a VM, and sharing the usb-device, I managed to upgrade the printer. However, still no login, and now I need to get it reconnected to my wifi, ugh.

Try entering a long wifi-password via the 1-line lcd and 2 buttons on the printer, what a nightmare. (No way to configure via usb). Oh well, I still have a couple of days before I need to print a bunch of documents, so there goes the weekend ;)

For laptops, I always spring for the lowest amount of ram + hdd/ssd, and then instantly upgrade this from local after-market sources. However, this wouldn't work for apple devices (Hence I don't own any Apple devices).

For example, my current Thinkpad T14-gen5, was bought with 8GB ram and 256GB NVME, and then upgraded to 64GB ram and 2TB NVME, for the same price as 16G/512G would have cost at Lenovo. And then I still have the 8GB/256GB to re-use/re-sell.

At the same time, we had cheap consumer gigabit ethernet, and still have cheap consumer gigabit ethernet. 2.5 is getting there price-wise, but switches are still somewhat rare/expensive.

With adblock loaded, the page loaded a whopping 10MB, after scrolling all the way to the bottom.

So yeah. It might be bad, but I can only recommend everyone on low-data-rates/plans to always use an adblock/contentblocker.

(169 requests, 10.59MB / 3.28 MB transferred), total time 1.10 min)

Public AC charging in Germany isn't great, but DC/Fast charging is quite good. I traverse the entire country with a Kia Nero EV, and that's not really a problem using either EnBW, Tesla or Ionity chargers. Besides these networks there are enough others with mostly nation-wide coverage (but not as cheap as these).

(EnBW and Ionity for 39ct/kwh, tesla for a bit more or less, depending on time and location)

Yeah, but even the local (groningen) residents think it's a bad idea to not keep some resources available for emergency situations (they also would like to heat their houses in winter) like when other sources are cut off.

Percentage Used: 0% Data Units Read: 15,235,390 [7.80 TB] Data Units Written: 33,573,616 [17.1 TB] Host Read Commands: 107,051,408 Host Write Commands: 496,391,879 Controller Busy Time: 455 Power Cycles: 938 Power On Hours: 13,189

Not bad ;)

Fine by me... instantly setting my age to whatever it is that disallows all ads ;)

I've had this command as 'git drop-merged' for a few years now (put as a script in your path named git-drop-merged:

  #!/bin/sh
  git branch --merged | egrep -v "(^\*|master|main|dev)" | xargs --no-run-if-empty
  git branch -d

Yeah, my youtube/google account is almost as old as youtube itself is, but will constantly ask me to verify my age when clicking on something as marked 'not for kids'. Can we just get the leisure-suit-larry age-verification system ;)

Gaming certainly has age-concerns, many games are rated 13/15/16+ or 18+

But yeah, leaving discord... they are not getting my ID/Photo

reduces temperatures by at least 15 Kelvin == the same as reduces temperatures by at least 15 Celcius.

It 'reduces it by' ... not reduces it TO

The number of products that actually use SRV records is surprisingly low (besides some mailservers and kerberos)

I've head Netbird running for the last few months... In general it works quite well, but it would keep messing with my dns-resolving, and I couldn't find the setting to stop it inserting itself into my resolv.conf.

During the last few weeks I've removed netbird from all my systems (about 12), mostly because of issues on laptops where resolving or networking would break after they moved to a different network/location.

Don't know where you are, (US probably?), but here in the Netherlands I can find many suppliers offering decent panels at about $90-110 each. I'm guessing wholesale pricing (or importing yourself) would be cheaper.

Though in the US there's probably a 100%+ tariff on non-US panels...

Seems the only download the the OS is a 6.7GB ISO, yeah, not gonna bother to download and unpack that.

Browsing to their github is also interesting, no source anywhere, a few empty repos with a LICENSE.txt or README.md, but nothing of value.

The entire website looks shady, I can't imagine anyone installing this.

Was there any analysis on what the binaries do, because it could theoretically be a really badly implemented 'check for updates'.

Though I'm tempted to believe it is all part of a big scam :)

I think in (most of) europe, most of the safety-related features are mandatory on all new cars these days, so all these features must come on all trim levels. This does make the base model a lot more expensive then a few years back, but you get all the nice features, so that also makes them cheaper in general.

Ah, it must be ipv6 only now then:

                             My traceroute  [v0.95]

t14 (2a0e:5700:xxxx) -> towel.blinkenl2026-01-27T13:33:52+0100 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. 2a0e:5700:xxxxxx 0.0% 4 0.8 0.9 0.8 1.2 0.2 2. 2a02:f640:xxxxxx 0.0% 4 8.5 9.3 8.4 11.0 1.2 3. 2a02:f640::1 0.0% 4 8.2 8.8 8.2 9.2 0.5 4. amsix-501.xe-0-0-0.jun1.bit-1.ne 0.0% 4 12.9 13.1 11.7 15.3 1.6 5. e48.leaf-sw2.bit-1.network.bit.n 0.0% 4 10.7 11.2 10.7 11.8 0.5 6. lo0.leaf-sw3.bit-2b.network.bit. 0.0% 4 11.8 12.0 11.8 12.3 0.3 7. 2001:7b8::213:136:2:43 0.0% 4 12.8 12.0 11.2 12.8 0.7 8. deepthought.blinkenlights.nl 0.0% 4 12.4 11.8 11.4 12.4 0.4 9. towel.blinkenlights.nl 0.0% 3 11.6 11.8 11.5 12.2 0.4

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Its still running just fine

It still exists, and still works. I was sure I showed it to someone a few months ago, and just confirmed, it's still online. (I know the guy who built it). It works over ipv4 and v6, with the ipv6 version having some additions ;)

Worst is... the bots, spam and ads are still there, even if there is no-one to read them. Usenet might still be alive (for piracy/binaries at least), and maybe a handfull of still-alive text-groups, but in the text-groups I used to read, it's nothing but a constant flow of spam since 15+ years.