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A research reveals that people take a dim view of others' professed neutrality on controversial issues, rating them just as morally suspect as those expressing an opposing viewpoint

Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed

Shooting myself in the foot with Git by accident

Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous

Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls

There's always going to be a way to not code error handling

Go's runtime may someday start explicitly freeing some internal memory

Discovering that my smartphone had infiltrated my life

A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice

A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice

We haven't seen ZFS checksum failures for a couple of years

We need to start doing web blocking for non-technical reasons

The early Unix history of chown() being restricted to root

I wish SSDs gave you CPU performance style metrics about their activity

I have a GPS bike computer

Go's builtin 'new()' function will take an expression in Go 1.26

Some stuff on how Linux consoles interact with the mouse

Systemd can be a cause of restrictions on daemons

The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice

I have divided (and partly uninformed) views on OpenTelemetry

Diets low in carbs and fibre alters gut microbes and drives the growth of colon polyps causing colorectal cancer.

How my mail notifier avoids interrupting me (2010)

ZFS scrubs check (much) less than you probably think they do (2018)

Connecting M.2 drives to various things (and not doing so)

Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems

Implementing a basic equivalent of OpenBSD's pflog in Linux nftables

Another reason to use expendable email addresses for everything

Realizing we needed two sorts of alerts for our temperature monitoring

Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020)

Investing in stable housing for marginalized populations was found to be cost-effective, improved health outcomes, increased participation in addiction treatment, and saved lives

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