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You may have heard the line, if it’s stupid and it works it’s not stupid, but I guarantee you: it can be both.

https://cofe.rocks/objects/6d9c5c56-1795-47ab-90cd-c1f9e15382f0

There is much truth to this post about about #math textbooks.

Hey, Fedi. I have a favour to ask you. Help me help a friend. (Not financial!)

I have a friend who is all about cool bug facts. They're going through an intense patch in their life, so I would like to send them some bug facts to cheer them up. But this is really their thing, so basic search engine results aren't going to new to them.

If there is a cool bug fact that you genuinely love yourself, could you tell me? I'll save them to share with my friend over time.

#Bugs #CoolBugFacts #Insects

Isn't just wonderful that clothes come with their sources? If you slice the different parts off with a seamripper, lay them all down, trace them on new fabric, cut them out, and stitch them back together, you can effectively clone and fork garments. I realize that this is probably real obvious to most people, but it only dawned on me recently.

So, that’s what I’ve been up to, most nights my laptop is stowed away to make room for the sewing machine on the nav table. It all began when the store that made the patrol cap that Rek and I wear stopped carrying it. The seams of the old worn-out cap were cut, new 14oz canvas was bought and the cap was cloned, twice! I enjoyed the process so much, I made a new messenger backpack, fixed ripped panels on my winter jacket, sown tartan wool arm warmers and some other things. At one point, I realized that I was wearing six items of clothing I had made or mended.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now.html

I will visit the FLOSS weekly podcast tomorrow to talk about cake_mq and (I expect) other topics related to (or not!) bufferbloat.

Listen live on the show's YouTube channel starting at 18:00 CET Tuesday: https://www.youtube.com/@FLOSSWeekly/live

Or find the podcast afterwards wherever you get your podcasts :)

The end of the #curl bug-bounty

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/26/the-end-of-the-curl-bug-bounty/

me inside the insane asylum: "I have never seen such an inside/outside gap, **everyone** in here is being followed by tall, shadowy figures, people elsewhere have no idea"

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I *really* don't want European Hyperscalers to be a thing. Hyperscalers are at best a market/regulation failure and at worst a huge risk to create another one of these "too big to fail" scenarios.

I want a sane and healthy landscape of small- to midsize competitors in the hosting landscape.

It makes everything more robust and reliable.

Not sure why this is not a shared understanding anymore.

Burning CD's.
Millennial witchcraft.
😂

@jpkolsen @borup @jchillerup @jpelckolsen @kramse @mshdk bare som referencepunkt: Jeg dækker en firlænget gård med tre Ubiquiti Unifi 6 LR - med OpenWrt selvfølgelig: https://openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/unifi_6_lr :)

Bortset fra et enkelt rum helt ude i den ene ende hvor jeg så har sat et ekstra AP op (et ældre Unifi AC Lite jeg havde liggende).

WiFiAnalyzer appen til Android (findes på F-droid) er i øvrigt god til at teste signalstyrke når du skal placere dem; og kan også give dig en kanal-oversigt så du kan undgå interferens med evt naboer...

@mshdk @jpelckolsen @borup @jchillerup @jpkolsen @kramse Sandt, i teorien. I praksis vil være ret skeptisk over hvor stor en forskel det gør i en opsætning med to AP'er i et parcelhus. Moderne klienter er ret OK til selv at opdage når der er et andet AP med bedre signal og hoppe over. Og hvis en (typisk ældre) klient ikke gør det er chancen for at den understøtter de "roaming hints" der blev tilføjet i nyere WiFi-standarder heller ikke særlig stor. Så det eneste en controller kan gøre i så fald, er at sparke klienten af det ene AP og satse på at det så forbinder til det andet. Hvilket sagtens kan virke, men det kan også risikere at ødelægge forbindelsen helt for den klient...

Så altså, ja, central styring og WiFi-controllers er smarte, og det er en skam det ikke er bedre understøttet af OpenWrt out-of-the-box. Men i praksis i et to-AP setup derhjemme gør det næppe nogen stor forskel...

@jpkolsen @mshdk @jpelckolsen @kramse @jchillerup @borup Lyder umiddelbart rimelig fornuftigt. Det mest besværlige er klart at trække kabler, alt andet kan man nemmere tweake senere. Så god ide at trække to ad gangen, og hvis du kan trække dem i rør så de er nemmere at skifte ud hvis det bliver nødvendigt er det en fordel (som @jchillerup også nævnte længere oppe i tråden).

@jpkolsen @jpelckolsen @borup @mshdk @jchillerup @kramse man kan sagtens roame mellem AP'er med OpenWrt. Du skal bare manuelt konfigurere hvert AP; men det er en engangsting. Når bare alle AP'er er konfigureret til samme netværksnavn og kode, og er på samme netværk bagved, så klarer klienterne fint roaming.

@mshdk @jpelckolsen @borup @jchillerup @jpkolsen @kramse enig, OpenWrt mangler en controller til central styring og konfiguration. Der er et par projekter der kan styre klienter (usteer og dawn), men det er ikke nok i sig selv (og de er i øvrigt også lidt langhårede at sætte op begge to).

Wow, an exciting and unexpected honor seeing INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE on the #BSFA awards l long list for best nonfiction long-form. It does indeed relate to SFF reflecting on the myth of dark & golden ages in fiction. (And quoting Firefly & Babylon 5 😉🚀)

https://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-longlist

@grimalkina I've had too many conversations where pointing out that nearly half of women STEM grads have left those fields after a decade earns me a stock "well, we need to train more women for STEM careers then" and ... I'm like, my friend, my brother, you call yourself an engineer but I say "half of X falls unaccountably out the side of process Y after Z time", and your answer is "we need to shove more X in the front end?" If you said this in a meeting about making cat toys you'd be fired.

@jpkolsen @jpelckolsen @kramse @jchillerup @mshdk @borup har altid bare købt de billigste kabler. Vær dog opmærksom på at der er forskel på Cat6 og Cat6a. Sidstnævnte er skærmet (sølvpapir rundt om trådene) og giver derfor bedre signal over lidt længere afstande. Mest relevant for 10g, men kan jo blive relevant at opgradere, og så ærgrer man sig over at have sparet 100 kr på kablet!

Ift AP'er har jeg aldrig set et kommercielt produkt der var værd at anbefale, så her er min eneste anbefaling at installere OpenWrt. Så skal man bare vælge noget der er understøttet; her er en liste: https://toh.openwrt.org/?view=normal - flere af Ubiquitis er på den og fungerer glimrende!

Why there’s no European Google?
And why it is a good thing!

My answer to the European Commission "call for evidence on Open Source."

https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html

#geminiprotocol link: gemini://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.gmi