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A nearby computer museum is celebrating their 25th anniversary next month. Several people, myself included, have been invited to give ceremonial addresses and lead a discussion on the general theme: "What can a computer…

I'm currently building a toy web application in Rust (end-to-end, using WASM on the frontend). When checking out the Rust frontend dev landscape, I found that basically all relevant libraries/frameworks are React-like:…

My favorites are the synopses for true and false: > true(1) - do nothing, successfully > false(1) - do nothing, unsuccessfully And how every second option for hdparm is labeled "very dangerous" or "do not even think…

I have a bunch of services on my private servers that all support LDAP-based authentication, so I would like to deploy a suitable server for SSO. The only serious option seems to be OpenLDAP, which seems to consider…

In another thread, someone pointed out the hilariousness of the descriptions of the true(1) and false(1) commands in their respective manpages: true - do nothing, successfully false - do nothing, unsuccessfully Another…

One thing that a lot of regular people are missing in their security setup is password managers, so I'd like to spread the word e.g. among my family. What should I recommend to them, esp. for use on Windows/Mac? I'm on…

So we currently have a front-page story about blockchain hype being over (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18795274), and Ars Technica wrote about the autonomous-driving hype falling apart. With two hypes now…

I recently appeared on radio to talk about Unicode [1]. In the introduction, I said that Unicode is interesting because text encoding and rendering sounds (at least to Western people) like something that's boring and…

Last week, a colleague came to me to ask for advice. He's a senior systems administrator who's now in a developer role. He's competent in writing and editing code in general, but feels like he's lacking experience in…