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• Post #4132712

  You know it is the first monday after vacation when you forget to take a bectl(8) snapshot before you hose your laptop.

• Post #3830137

  My final BikeShed column for ACM Queue. Please make my predictions come out wrong. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3818307

• Post #3734500

  Seconded! https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822/990a8a5e2d379085/

• Post #1832037

  This is probably the worst piece of news I have read this entire year: https://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-overshoot-and-collapse-new-data/

• Post #1283112

  If you program, you should read this piece. "Ada's successes — the aircraft that have not crashed, the railway signalling systems that have not failed, the missile guidance software that has not misguided — are invisible precisely because they are successes. The languages that failed visibly, in buffer overflows and null pointer exceptions and data races and security vulnerabilities, generated the discourse. [Ada did not]" https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.htm...

• Post #1115699

  I wonder if Guinness Book of World Records is paying attention tonight, because there's going to so much beer rented out, that it may well become a world record. #OrbanOut #ThanksHungary

• Post #725223

  #FOSS in Ukraine during a war, and some other countries. Warning: May contain me & #beerware https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOn-L3tGKw0