all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Turns out upgrading from PHP 7 to PHP 8 breaks *everything* in a 20-year-old WordPress install. I am hand-coding PHP config files, changing curly brackets to square brackets, putting in if (!defined) to scope...
So I have a 16GB QOTOM PFsense box running the firewall. Before on AT&T fibre had to run funky VLAN0 EAP proxy to bypass janky router (Since obsoleted by a root exploit). New Sonic...
Heaven’s Gate website uses many key words to lure people in, including… Yoda. The maintainers. Heaven’s Gate Heaven’s Gate Heaven’s Gate Heaven’s Gate Heaven’s Gate Heaven’s Gate Heaven’s Gate Heaven’s Gate ufo ufo ufo...
Laptop with 2 TB of SSD running btrfs on LUKS suddenly ran out of space. Noticed all the docker snapshots were like some sort of borganism, eating everything. Solution was either 1) Finicky docker+btrfs...
rclone gets 105 MiB/s download from Google Drive and now I am impressed. It’s basically just maxing out my ethernet. Finally “Takeout” is worthwhile. And they’ve added a GUI.
This is super nerdy, but Anki 2.1.15-1.fc30 simply would not run on my Fedora 30 machine. It kept crashing out with: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/bin/anki”, line 6, in import aqt File...
The greatest email service hardly anyone ever heard of, SpamGourmet, is shutting down after the owner tragically developed GBM. I’ve used SpamGourmet for nearly 20 years to block spam from finding me. It was...
I have been busy for the past while, but now I am less so. There may be updates.
Wrt Brexit’s Irish Question… During “The Troubles“, there were 3,600 people killed, over 50,000 injured, and thousands of bombs (this is only a small sample of notables). By the 1990s, the impact and economic...
Noted radical activist for The Old Iron Dream, Jerry Pournelle, has died. He was a pioneer of word processing in fiction. Rather fittingly, his final blog entry from last Thursday suggested a “Service Guarantees...