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deadcatbounce

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  • Traefik with Socket Activation via Podman Quadlets

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  • Excuse the ignorance, what am I actually reading about here?

    I read the first few paragraphs and an out of my league.

    What are 'we' trying to achieve?

  • Do you pronounce the word “data” like the Star Trek character? (Day-ta)

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  • Yes. I'm British.

  • What was Linux like in the 90s

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  • I live these old stories. Kinda gave up programming by 1996. It was a short-sighted thing to do!

  • What was Linux like in the 90s

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  • Having grown up with Acorn Atoms. BBC Micro, MS and DRDOS, Gem, Xerox something, Windows 1, don't remember 2, 3.0 to 3.11, NT. I didn't realise how nice early (2004) Linux was until I used it in a Windows server hosted VM to handle my phone calls (VoIP@home or something it was called).

    I did everything I could to ditch Windows after that. The webification of QuickBooks was the final release.

  • WordReference on Kindle?

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  • I agree. I used it to move my vocab on enormously.

  • $119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’

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  • Jerry Springer, I take it?

  • Android 16's Advanced Protection Mode will one-click enable these security features (APK teardown)

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  • Thank-you. Thought so but wasn't sure.

  • Investigation finds Bangladesh politician bought at least 350 homes in UK

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  • Android 16's Advanced Protection Mode will one-click enable these security features (APK teardown)

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  • Does prevent side-loading effectively cause problems for open source F-Droid? Apologies for ignorance.

  • UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading - BBC News

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  • Foot in mouth*

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  • Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly?

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  • Oh ok.

    I haven't been to a circus recently. My knowledge in that area is wanting, I'll admit. 😳

  • Why do Americanized names of places etc exist?

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  • All good!

  • Seeking advice on unifi/ubiquity

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  • It's actually not that pricey for what you get from it. The problem is that they have a tendency to be closed mouthed about their plans.

    I bought a 2.5 GBE router, to replace my elderly and difficult USG, and was about to buy a 2.5 GBE WAP - there was a problem with them having issues with only one chipset inside the first version, so I didn't pull the trigger immediately. Within a month there was a 10 GBE WAP being sold. A 10 GBE Router appear soon after. Damn.

    The only viable alternative, IMHO, is pfsense (mostly US users) and opensense (not US users) and you need your own hardware.

    I run my Gateway without a UI login, a local account. I lose some of the features, but that's ok with me.

  • Why do Americanized names of places etc exist?

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  • The irony of using 'Z' in the title.

    It's our language; you broke it.

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    What TV show intro will you never skip?

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  • [grin] I get that!

    I'm sure that there are others I used to like - I'm an old fart - but this is the only one that occurs to me now.

    For some reason, my long term memory stopped in the late nineties. I'm convinced that there are series I've watched that I loved that it's going to take a replay to remember that I loved the incoming theme.

    There were several cult shows on BBC2 and ITV back then: Thirty-Something, a few about UK barristers, Moving Story. Damned if I can remember any of the theme tunes.

  • Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly?

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  • Cars younger than last century have two modes of indicator available.

    [ BMW, Merc and Audi drivers: nothing to see here. Not in this whole post and comments. ]

    A soft push in either direction gives a brief - I don't know what the definition/legal requirement is - period where the indicator flashes before cancelling itself.

    A harder push has the indicator stay in that position until the steering wheel or the driver cancels it and it stops.

    Maybe you're complaining about people using the soft mode.

    In my country, there is no requirement to indicate when moving back to your lane after moving into the/a overtaking lane. I think that's a little weird tbh. I've always indicated, wherever I'm going, on the basis that when I don't, someone will sideswipe me through my own negligence.

    Of course, these days the sodding lane-change Nazi in my car won't let me pass any line, but happily forcefully steers me into the hedgerow/ditches on country lanes where there are no road markings. You can turn it off every time but not generally.

  • What's with "checks notes" everywhere?

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  • Hell, I remember a time people just said "um", "er" quietly and paused between words when they hadn't thought the thought through.

    Instead now they use 'like' as a space between words whilst the processing is still taking place.

    It gets real confusing when what they're explaining is the concept of similes.

  • Why I support privacy by Vitalik Buterin

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  • I started some time ago by reading his Ethereum emissions. I have a relevant qualification but it was handed down last century.

    Yeah. I need a refresher. 😳

    That's not to say that the bits which I did understand weren't elegantly put and digestible.