This post is not about birds
It's about second-order consequences.
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Success with the Epson EcoTank ET-5855 on Linux
I've found a great office-quality printer that works perfectly with Linux.
Slow network-enabled DYMO label maker on Linux?
A fix for the insufferably slow DYMO LabelMaker 550 "Turbo" — also known as the infamous "Waiting for printer to finish" problem.
How to have Jenkins dispatch builds for tags pushed to your multibranch pipeline-enabled Git repository
A task so simple, and in principle possible, yet so hard to find documentation for.
What's the deal with "age verification" and computers?
What the end game of this legislation might be, and what that implies for both open computing and anonymity online.
Observations on AI coding
The electric cat is out of the bag.
Pure, uncompressed, digital music, thanks to ESPHome and Music Assistant
Push bit-perfect low-latency music via fiber optic directly into your sound system — all for less than $30.
Grocy users, update to SQLite 3.50
A huge performance regression renders the homely Web application (and its companion Android app) unusably slow.
Smartifying a light for your baby
Very little is needed, when you have ESPHome to help.
As few dumb people is always better than a few smart ones
That is, if you want to have a peaceful, productive society.
Government food welfare solved the wrong problem
You get what you optimize for.
Libertarians need to understand why non-libertarians crave the State
Without an understanding of the problem, there can be no change.
How to delete a wrongly-checked-in file from the Git history
A quick set of commands to run.
Not every human behaves like a person
NPCs are real; what does this imply?
How food price controls could never cause food shortages
Never, of course, never ever. Right?
Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail notifying you late (or never) when an e-mail is sent to you?
There's an easy fix a couple taps away.
Fucks given
What money is and what it measures.
Equalism is a stupid and evil idea
Appealing to the stupid is a waste of time; giving them power is suicide.
"Indigenous harmony with nature" is a perverse lie
There is no one more eco-successful than Western Man. Here's how to keep that going.
At gunpoint
Your speech matters zilch, if you can be silenced by men with guns.