Hacker's ramblings

It hasn't been an especially good couple of weeks.

With this DALL-E 3 created image of Santa Claus' "cloud service" I'd like to wish you all Merry Christmas!

I had an opportunity to take a trip to India.

In Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 2024 there was a question (I'm paraphrasing here): As a part of your work, how many years have you coded professionally?

Like the Dire Straits song says: "I want my ESU!"

Yeah, Windows 10 still end-of-lifed and not getting any updates.

Today is 14th Oct 2025.

My beloved ISP whom I love to hate has finally ... after all the two decades of waiting ... in Their infinite wisdom ... decided to grant us mere humans, humble payers of their monthly bills a native IPv6.

The heat is on.

Trouble Operating multiple physical computers is a chore.

Solar panel, photovoltaic system, solar generator.

This is what's happening in my system tray: Blue is an optional update indicator.

On my Arch, I was doing the basic update with pacman -Syu.

Long time no post.

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