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  ooh, my first DSYNC: query: dyn._dsync.example.org IN DSYNC -E(0)DV https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9859

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  Of course the parameter isn't called "gecos", it's called "comment". Why would you name it "gecos", eh?! #oldManYellsAtVoid #passwd #unix

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  RE: https://mastodon.online/@patrickworld/117303741230173577 I can't wait for when "show me a photo of sofia loren" brings this up. 🤣

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  I didn't read "Why can't you combine .tar.gz files with cat?" because that's wrong -- you can. They just stop being tar files, eh?!

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  I'm curious as to how BSD (NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD) adoption will progress in view of the Debian vote. I hope someone's measuring it. :-) #statistics

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  45 years ago began what turned into a seemingly endless amount of IT. On August 1st I entered an apprenticeship at the then quite successful Nixdorf Computer AG, and today we're having a class reunion! All, except for three who've meanwhile passed and three who can't be bothered, are attending. I'm sure it'll be "interesting" to see people, most of whom I've not had contact with in over 40 years. ;-)

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  They (swissbit) didn't dare write this bullshit in the English version of their manual (or maybe they've just not updated it yet) edit: English 55 pages, German 102 pages. Go figure.

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  I've been in IT for 45 years, which doesn't mean much, except that my mind boggles when I think how normal mortals (i.e. sane people) go about understanding something like this: "However, for keys prior to Release3, our FIDO2 Type-C to Lightning adapter supports FIDO protocols only, not OTP. If you wish to use OTP functionality with an older key, you will need to use NFC instead. Additionally, when using the HOTP feature of your FIDO2 key, be aware that it functions via keyboard em...

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  It's quite amazing how enshitified even NOTEPAD.EXE can be.

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  Happy 503 Day, if you celebrate

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  Curiosity killed the cat. The post Achieving 100% Observability with BIND and Zabbix has nothing to do with DNS. :-D https://blog.zabbix.com/achieving-100-observability-with-bind-and-zabbix/33358/

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  "How do you fit a 250kB dictionary in 64kB of RAM and still perform fast lookups? For reference, even with modern compression techniques like gzip -9, you can't compress this file below 85kB." How Unix spell ran in 64kB RAM https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-in-64kb-ram

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  Great that you placed a date stamp on your blog and thank you very much for that, indeed! However, 1970-01-01 doesn't sound quite accurate to me, but maybe my RSS feed reader is broken

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  I asked the waitress for a quickie & she slapped me. The old woman next to me said, “It’s pronounced quiche, dear.”

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  Is there a waiting list for male cast to another sequel to “Grumpy Old Men”?

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  TIL `apt install extrepo' for Debian Thanks, @ingo_wichmann@digitalcourage.social

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  "Networking gear maker Juniper Networks has asked for its .juniper gTLD to be deleted. No specific reason was given." Other than wasting a shitload of cash, of course. When the TLD is removed, I will report TLD JUNIPER 💀 💸 conceived 9 years ago in 2016, wasted €455_000

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  How a stranger used one text message to steal their entire digital life https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/how-a-stranger-used-one-text-message-to-steal-my-entire-digital-life-140003797.html

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  Yet another case of why the hell did you do that for this medical device?! #stopFrivolousUpdates

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  It's been seven (7) years already since I had the honour of being master of ceremonies (oh, sorry, that should be primary of ceremonies, I think) for the "DNS Privacy Panel" at the FOSDEM DNS Devroom. I got to interview the wonderful @bert_hubert@eupolicy.social, @bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr, and @bagder@mastodon.social (from left to right). One of the only rooms I actually GOT IN TO, even though it was FULL -- @Habbie@floss.social reserved standing room for me! :-D https://w...

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  Yet Another Fine Kernel Upgrade #linux #debian

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  Do I know somebody who'd be willing to make available the result of an #ansible -m setup (gathered facts) from an AIX node? Help appreciated!

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  I saw XKCD 1168 again just now, and you'd be safe with me -- the bomb wouldn't detonate. However, you better not ask me whether it's useradd or adduser -- 50% chance we all end up in smithereens. https://xkcd.com/1168/

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  In October 2025 I submitted one of my infamous jumbo PRs to a project. (Attached here) I was notified by Github yesterday, that they've asked Copilot for help in resolving merge conflicts. I don't even know whether I can begin to believe this

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  reaction -- a daemon that scans program outputs for repeated patterns, and takes action. Designed for ease of configuration and hackability. A common usage is to scan SSH and webserver logs, and to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors. https://reaction.ppom.me https://framagit.org/ppom/reaction (/via https://mastodon.social/@Viss/116903581258194138 )

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  TIL I can retrieve pages from the Ansible documentation in Markdown format by including an "Accept: text/markdown" header in the request. This seems to be a CloudFlare thing. https://tekunabe.hatenablog.jp/entry/2026/07/10/ansible_doc_by_markdown

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  ...AND WE WANT TO PLAY WITH FIFTEEN PLAYERS... AND FOR OUR GOAL TO BE SMALLER AND THE U.S. TEAM CAN ALL USE THEIR HANDS.

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  Being a European is great until it isn't. Sister is trying to get her Dutch passport renewed. All consulates which did that in Germany have been shut down except Berlin who have no slots left THIS YEAR. (Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Muenchen closed). Dutch border municipalities, of which there are 15, are totally overwhelmed "Take extra long waiting times into account". One possibility would have been Bern (CH) which is overwhelmed, so it's now Vienna (AT) with a first slot in Sep...

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  Can I haz @forgejo stock?

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  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@PowerDNS/116561621224776648 It doesn't get much easier than this, folks! Now for some/more gTLDs and ccTLDs to support this automated bootstrapping, please!!