Alex

@lx@swiss.social
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I like technology, specifically computers and the like. I mostly toot about #RustLang, #DevOps, Networking, Linux, etc.

Profile picture and header were AI-generated.

Formerly known as @lx

Tooting in99% English, 1% German
Fav. Programming LanguageRust 🦀
There are 3️⃣7️⃣9️⃣0️⃣ emojis, ✨ is the most popular one, and couples who use the little pictograms tend to feel closer. 👩‍❤️‍👨 More fun facts for today’s World Emoji Day: https://threema.com/bp/world-emoji-day-2025
Fun Facts to Celebrate World Emoji Day

Every year on July 17, World Emoji Day is celebrated. Because emojis have become indispensable for chat communication – whether as a reaction to a message or directly in the text – we have put together a few fun facts about the little pictograms.

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The reports are true: FireWire’s run on the Mac has ended after 26 years. RIP, my once-fast friend.

https://512pixels.net/2025/07/tahoe-no-firewire/

In macOS Tahoe, Things Are Indeed Dire for FireWire - 512 Pixels

It has been reported that macOS Tahoe doesn’t include support for FireWire devices. To see for myself, I dug out an old FireWire 800 drive I used to use in my Apple service tech days. This baby has a lot of volumes on it, all of which appeared when plugged into my MacBook Pro running […]

512 Pixels
Alpine is not vulnerable to the latest sudo CVE, CVE-2025-32463. Exploitation requires a system which implements NSS (loadable plugins for username and hostname resolution), which musl does not.

Oh wow, the difference in #liquidglass between Beta 2 and Beta 3 of #iOS26 is quite noticeable 😯
I have to say I much prefer Beta 3!

Source: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/07/07/ios-26-beta-3-everything-new/

It’s sad to see so many people post things online and don’t even do a simple sanity check.
Like, I just came a across a calculation that was off by an order of magnitude and when fixed the issue they made out goes away. Took me two minutes to check after if seemed unreasonably high.
I am pleased to report that @cyberduck can handle percentages above 100% 😆
#bug #fail
If you send your AI notetaker to a meeting I invited you to instead of you, you will not be invited again. You obviously only want an email anyways…
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You'll own NOTHING and be HAPPY! That's what I've been hearing a lot, lately. Quick video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAsgjKBkKMA

Sign the Stop Killing Games initiative here, if you're in the EU or UK: https://www.stopkillinggames.com

You will own NOTHING and be HAPPY! (SKG)

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@bagder "create issues with copilot" is such a beautiful description for it because it is so unintentionally true. all it does is create issues LMAO