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thepostman0on QEMU Advent Calendar 2023

I don't need chocolates, just give me a new computer each day!

thepostman0on Cicada – Open-source cross-platform version of GitHub Actions and Gitlab CI

Unsigned though

thepostman0on New Microsoft Exchange zero-days allow RCE, data theft attacks

Well, let me tell you about qmail. Each part of that setup has only privilege that it needs to go it's job.

Seems a good design and very few problems given its age.

Postfix seems next best by design.

How many parts of least privilege is message acceptance to mailbox in exchange? I suspect one program image.

thepostman0on Distribution Release: Window Maker Live 0.96

There used to be a site that had desktop themes showcased in the late 90s or early 2000's that was popular, csnt remember the name of it now.

I used to look at the windowmaker and KDE themes in that daily.

Nostalgia, would like to see them again.

thepostman0on Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook

You still love apple products? This sounds like Stockholm syndrome, I seriously mean that. You are paying your captors.

thepostman0on The Paradox That Broke Set Theory

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox

Russell's paradox

thepostman0on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

They did say huge leap forward in the article.

thepostman0on JIT-optimized Ruby can outperform a C extension

Clickbait titles gets criticism because some people won't read beyond the title

thepostman0on How to type “blimpy” in Emacs [video]

Unless you're on sunos...

thepostman0on Skiplagging: The travel hack hated by airlines is now the subject of a lawsuit

They also save by not refunding an oversubscribed seat too. Win win win for airlines.

thepostman0on Compuserve

https://isp.netscape.com/?guccounter=1

thepostman0on SUSE to go private

I hope they keep doing the music videos

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6sYHytyKN2-X93TurF3JptW8...

thepostman0on Anti Warez Association, 1 (1993)

Let me tell you, there was more than one

thepostman0on Every phone should be able to run personal websites

Would be cool if spam callers had to complete a door game before getting put through

thepostman0on When did Postgres become cool?

Hey, unrelated to DBs, but my view is WSL is boring, seems a VM with mounts, but wine feels much cooler.

Interesting view with cloud vendors, there does seem to be a shift from traditional LAMP stack.

thepostman0on My favorite Vim oneliners for text manipulation

Not everyone wants to edit in a browser, maybe many people can't due to their computers spec.

thepostman0on Google Web Environment Integrity Is the New Microsoft Trusted Computing

Netscape

thepostman0on The magnificence of the bluefin tuna

This specific documentary

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14152756/

So many things I didn't appreciate

thepostman0on Important Coding Habits

Obligatory bullshit episode:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0771272/

thepostman0on Meta Tells Managers Promotions Will Be Few and Far Between

Feceboom is over it is a shit website and nobody cared about your friend count.

Their bubble has burst (and rightly so after CA scandal).

The rest of the industry will use fecebook's news as advice, sadly.

thepostman0on Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG

Keeping exchange virus free with a Linux scanner at the mx.

thepostman0on Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG

Debian is free for the consumer, the producers put the effort in. The end user is expected to fill bug reports in, may e that can be seen as not free entirey as some effort is expected at the consumer end perhaps?

thepostman0on Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms

The one good thing about IDEs is their key bindings when they're like vim. Everything else sucks. I use vim with debuggers.

Nothing seems to have changed for the worse over decades.

It doesn't get in the way and seems to work the same everywhere.

thepostman0on Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)

Some v92 "winmodems" were more glorified sound cards so needed CPU. If the PC was busy, sonetithe line could drop. A 33.6 would be hardware, so there could be a time when slower becomes faster due to CPU load.

All external 56k modems were hardware, some people wouldn't risk an internal card for fear of ending up with a driver based device.

Ah good ol' days of BBS and wvdial for internet.

thepostman0on Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website

If it must go to internet, a MITM SSL proxy cache out of GH would help.

The problem is within GH's network, a 90s ISP would have blocked spammy users, GH should at least operate like an ISP if random stuff can execute and reach the 'net.

thepostman0on How to escape meeting hell as an engineer?

Online meetings, yes, in person though, more polite to say you have another meeting to go to, but you're available online if anything urgent.

thepostman0on Show HN: Debian-based home router

Nice.

Does anyone know of any all-in-one hardware that has ADSL, 5 switch ports and WiFi, that is Linux capable?

thepostman0on Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod

We are like 11 and 1 o'clock, so close yet so far.

I can't see 100 quid getting five times the headphone experience. Given these have lasted a decade, I don't see myself needing to replace the five times over during the rest of my life. I don't think my ears would be able to distinguish the difference, especially not from pc sound output.

thepostman0on Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod

Hd201,about £20 when I bought them ten or more years back. Worth the money. Anything more than this and you're into diminished returns, it just doesn't make sense to step outside the lower part of £30.