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I have been a fan of Third Wave Water (TWW) for several years now.

A while back I posted about the very undesirable behavior of systemd releasing DHCP leases when shutting down which removes the entry from DNS and causes you to be unable to easily ping/monitor the host as it's rebooting or even look up what IP address it…

Short but sweet: if you encounter errno 11 (EDEADLK) on MacOS it's because the file you're trying to access has been offloaded to iCloud and can't be read, and based on how you were accessing it (script, cron, 3rd party backup daemon) it won't even try to…

A recent headline tells us that millions of email passwords were recently stolen from six ISPs.

Brief thoughts Quantum computers are the cold fusion of our lifetime: for the classes of problems they'd be good at they would be world-changing.

Chef has an undocumented feature that's super handy and more people should know about.

My primary email for the past 15 years has been a .me domain.

Editor's Note This is a reproduction of a post by Martin Sustrick that was on 250bpm.com before that blog was wiped and replaced with a new blog hosted on Substack.

There is a lot of consternation lately about the growing onslaught of low-quality (spam) and completely AI submitted bug reports, pull requests, etc.

I don't know why I'm like this, but being unable to edit messages when I'm writing something more than a simple message/reply drives me insane.