meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

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PHP 8: OMFG

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...

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PFsense, FTW (Again)

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...

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Top Shelf Revenant SEO Beams in from 1996

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...

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Btrfs vs the Docker Borganism

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...

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rclone and Google Drive: Fast

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.

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Super Nerdy: Anki + Fedora 30

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...

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Bye SpamGourmet

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...

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30 Years!

This week marks the 30th year anniversary of me posting my first message on the Internet (and getting flamed back) just after the Great Renaming. It’s all been my very own Eternal September since....

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Mo Borders, Mo Troubles

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...