miguno

I thought I'd repost this piece quoting the first sentence. Then I thought, no, the first paragraph. No, the first three. And I went on doing that until the final word. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

"They were once men; great kings of men. Then OpenAI the Deceiver gave to them nine AIs of Power. Blinded by their greed, they took them without question, one by one falling into darkness. Now they are slaves to his will. They are the brAInwraiths, neither living nor dead."

Donated to Geoffrey Bennett (github.com/geoffreybenn...) for his wonderful work on maintaining Linux drivers and tooling for Focusrite Scarlett audio interfaces. Thanks a lot!

tf Meta/Facebook? www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-... "22% of the most visited websites in the world are affected. […] Over 8 years (Yandex) and at least 9 months (Meta), billions of users were tracked without their knowledge."

Docker, Cloudflare, IPv6, and firewall configuration is a match made in hell.

🦄: Hi Rust! I want to learn about your strings. This will be easy, right? Not weird like C. 🦀: But of course! We have String and &str. Or maybe you want some &mut String, &mut str, or &'static str? 🦄: 🖕

For Java/Spring: What is a simple, reliable, and batteries-included tool for running background jobs (e.g., create report, do maintenance)? I am looking for an equivalent to Ruby's Sidekiq and GoodJob. For Java, I am already aware of JobRunr, db-scheduler, Quartz, Temporal.io, and Spring Batch.

For 2025, I made a donation of €50 ($52) to the foundation behind LibreOffice. I also decided to cancel our MS Office 365 family subscription, whose annual price was recently increased by Microsoft to from €99 to €130 ($135) "because AI !!1!1!!!".

Had some minutes to spare the last week, so I released v1.1.0 of github.com/miguno/sauber. It's a CLI tool that sanitizes filenames (replaces German umlauts, French accents, Polish diacritics, and more) on Synology NAS devices so they can be accessed through the network.