BambuLab A1 Mini. It has a WNIC.

Blockchain 10 years ago was hyped like AI now.

It would be great if more smart devices had a LAN-only control mode like my 3D printer, TV and AV receiver.

I would be perfectly happy if my iRobot phone app only worked from inside my network.

Mozilla gave them an OK privacy rating. Not great, but not terrible.

Now I want Lightspeed® Briefs.

If making the PRNG on your CPU predictable can compromise your whole system, then your kernel is not doing its job.

I still remember the mass migration to reddit. Digg had an old website that didn’t scale to their userbase. They deployed a new site, and everyone hated the design. They couldn’t continue on the old website because it would crash and burn.

The important part is that Kevin, Alex and all of Digg were quite open and honest about the situation. At no point were they being jerks. They just couldn’t keep manage the technical hurdles.

OMG Hypnotoad HTPC is so much better! Why didn’t I thnnk of that?

Server (big iron): Bender

Desktop (main character): Fry

Laptop (for accounting): Hermes

Netbook (small and dumb): Nibbler

Phone (held to my head): BrainSlug

HTPC (one big viewport): Leela

I just went on Youtube and watched the real song that was posted 15 years ago.

The comments are flooded with “RIP Rick Bucker” (drummer) from 15 days ago.

Now I’m ruined.

I first visited London only a few months after this came out. It was stuck in my head the moment I got on the platform at Heathrow.

• API = Direct interface to other people’s code.
• Library = A file containing other peolple’s code.
• Package = A contained archive file contining other people’s code.
• Framework = When the entire foundation of your program is other people’s code.

It’s weird that I had a tower desktop as a kid when it was niche, and I still have a tower desktop 35 years later when it’s niche again.

Click on all the ads and install all the malware. That will teach them.

Are you talking about Betamax, ATRAC3, MemoryStick, Video8, Digital8, UMD, MiniDisc or BluRay?

I’ve seen XML parsers that will convert element content from strings to native types by default. So “0” becomes an int, “true” becomes a boolean, and “null” becomes an actual null. I had to take extra steps to keep everything as a string unless explicitly told not to.

JSON does not have this problem, BTW.

The owners closed the restaurant and started a new one so I let the domain lapse.

I got a new Android TV for offline use. Most people say you get an OK experience if you don’t connect the TV into a network.

The biggest remaining annoyance is that it takes 45 seconds to cold-start. Almost as if it’s booting an OS desgined for a phone or something.

OK, here’s how it happened.

I was hungry, and I wanted to see the menu for my local pizza joint. I couldn’t find it anywhere.

I discovered that all their socials linked to a website that wouldn’t load. When I checked, the domain had lapsed.

Out of frustration, I purchased the domain and pulled the last snapshot of their website off archive.org. It had their full menu as a PDF.

6 months later and it’s still getting visitors from their facebook page, who are viewing the menu. They haven’t even realised.

Host all the things!

Wordpress, SMTP/IMAP, tor, bittorrent, Nextcloud, Plex, NTP, photo galleries, DoT…

I even started hosting the website for my local Italian restaurant and they haven’t even realised it yet.