Das Arnimal

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I do Computer stuff for money and brew beer for fun. V97.33XA 🇮🇱 Toaster Bonanza. *No conditions apply*
OSPlan9, OpenBSD, RSTS
Githubhttps://armeye.github.io
looks like the hurricane took out my main masto server 😨
The horrible truth is that the image we have of any given decade's design aesthetic is actually false—the truth is actually the aesthetic of the previous decade, with grime and tobacco stains on top.

one of the best decisions I ever made in life, as someone who is a security professional who also tinkers in many other fields, was the conscious choice that every web app side project *must* be fully unauthenticated or single user with the authentication delegated entirely to the httpd.

none of the data these apps handle is particularly important and the design complexity skyrockets as soon as you start to think about authentication and user privileges.

Jedes zweite Auto in der Straße hat noch eine Schneedecke auf Dach, Frontscheibe und Motorhaube. Heißt, die wurden seit Mittwoch nicht gebraucht 🤷‍♂️
An amusing story about a practical use of the null garbage collector - The Old New Thing

The computer itself ceases to exist.

The Old New Thing
I just double checked, and no, those aren't my monkeys and that's not my circus.

In case you're not scared off by gopherspace and want a decent tutorial on using ed(1):

gopher://katolaz.net/0/ed_tutorial.txt

I Take Full Responsibility

  

Backup everything

I don't just mean your own hard drive.

See something online you like?

Download it and save it.