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Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:33PM (#50308261)
What a wonderful thread. Thank you all for the great time I had reading this.

One small quote of his character from TNG that got deeply burned into my brain : "time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and allows us to cherish every moment because they will never come again"

Re:Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way on Sunday June 21, 2026 @12:19PM (#48620178)
< 300ms boot with HW isolation sounds very nice but the pve-daemon patching approach is risky and might break at every eye-blink.
Re:Jira Is Turing-Complete on Monday May 25, 2026 @01:02PM (#48269066)
Bugzilla. Seriously.

Can be easily extended and unneeded fields can be disabled via template.

We use it since 20 years at a 6000 heads company and it's totally fine.

Re:OpenWrt One on Monday November 04, 2024 @12:04PM (#42043572)
Only 1 lan port and only usb2 is not great...
Re:European night train map 2024 on Sunday October 20, 2024 @01:55PM (#41897178)
I recently took the night train from Innsbruck to Hamburg in a brand new sleeper car run by ÖBB and those are a blast.

Searching for more routes I stumbled across this map and a pretty neat database of available European connections https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-list

Hope to see more connections in the coming years.

Austrian Provider liwest is since many years very transparent about their DNS blocks. All of them are based on court orders / eu sanctions.

https://netzsperre.liwest.at/

Re:Slow TCP Connect on Windows on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @02:45PM (#41249241)
So 200ms is curls ipv6 tax on windows. To avoid wasting time on the "IPv6 sinkhole" use -4

Will we get over 50% ipv6 adoption by the end of this decade?

Re:Code42 Ending CrashPlan On-Premise on Thursday September 02, 2021 @02:31AM (#28389261)
This important communication is being sent to you as a CrashPlan On-Premises customer with an upcoming renewal date of ... We are writing to inform you that Code42 will no longer offer CrashPlan On-Premises. This product will officially end-of-life on February 28, 2022.

We encourage you to: * Transition to CrashPlan Cloud before the end of your current subscription. * Simply let your CrashPlan subscription expire on 2021-12-08 and no longer use CrashPlan On-Premises. * Renew your CrashPlan On-Premises subscription through February 28, 2022, and transition to CrashPlan Cloud or another vendor before March 1, 2022.

<stripped useless marketing bla bla>

Re:Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt on Friday August 20, 2021 @07:50AM (#28245002)
Sectigo provides SSL certificates with 1y validity via their certbot compatible Acme endpoint.
Re:A Spark of Insight into Neanderthal Behavior on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:11AM (#23687110)
They used a very cool way to analyze the Bones. Instead of chopping off samples the bones were put in a plasic Box and a tiny static upbild was enough to kick some molecules out of them which they analyzed and identified the species.
Re:OpenBSD -stable binary packages on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @10:27AM (#20695875)
Is there a better command for a cronjob to check for available updates? I try to get something like <package name> - <current version> - <updated version>

i currently use

  pkg_add -u -n -I -v 2>&1 | grep 'Adding' | sort -u
Re:OpenBSD 6.5 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:27AM (#19738649)
ok, found it.

http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Update-MariaDB-fro...

10.2 is a no go for us as the new client library requires atomic ops killing the client library on a handful of archs.

Re:OpenBSD 6.5 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:06AM (#19738449)
> MariaDB 10.0.38

Can anyone share some insight why OpenBSD does not provide a more recent MariaDB Version ?