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hello,

as always: imho. (!)

idk the exact procedure which will apply to enter the birth-date on such a system, but if other comments are correct: just enter what you want!

there will be no real possibility to tie this to anything "legal" / to "enforce" any "official" check of lets say your passport or other governmental id.

and if in my personal opinion (!) the pretty crazy guy behind the systemd-project tries to introduce/enforce such a thing ...

then i think it'll be time to either fork the project or look at systemd-free linux distributions like devuan ~ a systemd-free fork of debian :)

* https://devuan.org

just my 0.02€


hello,

i'm always a fan of 1-JAN-1970

[eg. the "birth" of UNIX-like OSes unix-timestamp eg. "0" ;]

or

date -d @0

cheers a..z


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hello,

as always: imho (!)

the usa will "bomb bomb bomb bomb iran" for a few weeks - as they wanted since 1979:

more details to the song

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_Iran

1. a few weeks in they will run out of ordnance to drop

2. they will declare victory and leave

3. iran wins by not being beaten

i think 2 things are possible but very unlikely - eg. small single digit per cent probability:

* successful regime change

* a really long war - like in afghanistan or irak (~ 10 or up to 20 years)

just my 0.02€


> successful regime change

Best we usually get is a failed US puppet state. The non-puppet faction is stronger but poorer but ends up winning in the end.

> a really long war - like in afghanistan or irak (~ 10 or up to 20 years)

Iran is twice the land size and about twice the military size. The US hasn't won wars half the size of this one. Not when 9/11 made people want blood. Not when they had a stronger casus belli. Not when they were deep in debt and economically separated from their top trade partner.

But on the other hand, the USA also doesn't declare wars; they're military action by a president. Since American presidents swap out every 4-8 years, nobody really owns the war. A future president decides that nothing of value was accomplished and ends the war to everyone's relief.


hello,

as always: imho (!)

idk:

as a business, if the "main focus" of your business is related to email =?> self-host.

but if this not your core business: why in the world would you even think about self-hosting!?

pay someone "as a service" / for your "peace of mind" and be done with that.

as a private person:

if you are interested in learning a lot about the internet and especially e-mail: do self-host ;)

if not: pay someone a few bucks a month and do stuff that matters to you ;)

just my 0.02€


For a business, another option is to have your own server but pay someone to manage it rather than just entirely outsource it.


yes ... i thought this is included in the expression "as a service" :)

it doesn't matter how you slice & dice it, the "service" is to have someone - be it business or be it a person - who is responsible for running this service ... you get an SLA and according to the conditions you are able to work with the entity which provides the service ...


If the person you pay is an employee you do not get the external guarantee, nor would you if you pay someone to maintain a server that is yours.

The big email providers do not really provide a worthwhile SLA to most customers AFAIK. Do they cover the cost of business interruption if your business is heavily dependent on email, for example?


hello,

am i the only one who gets an error!?

404 There isn't a GitHub Pages site here.

archived version

* https://archive.ph/D4EYW

cheers!


hello,

as always: imho. (!)

ah ... babylon 5 :))

this was one of the best scifi shows back in the mid 1990ties.

it introduced a lot things which we take for granted today ... together with startrek "deep space nine" which roughly aired during the same time:

* telling a "story arch" over multiple seasons

* 2 parallel story-lines within episodes

* causally show people doing "every-day" life things, like going to the toilet - you may laugh, but 30+ years ago, for example in various startrek spinoffs - tng, ds9, voyager - nobody went to the toilet ... ever!!

don't get me wrong, i'm a big fan of startrek too ;))

* despite their budget decent CGI for the time

if i remember it correctly: they used a software called "lightroom", which ran on the amiga hardware-platform at first, for later seasons they moved to PC hardware...

just if you wonder about the quality of the CGI ... this was some 680x0 computer running at something like 16 or 32 MHz (!) with a few MB (!) of memory.

not a scifi "blockbuster" utilizing multimillion us$ SGI clusters like ILM productions of the era did!

absolutely recommended:

"the lurker's guide to babylon 5"

* http://midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html

just my 0.02€


> if i remember it correctly: they used a software called "lightroom"

Afaict, it was Lightwave3d, that I just learned still lives to this day. Last release June 11 2025. Also used to make SeaQuest :) Oh, the memories...


That explains why the effects looked so similar in the two...

Never did get into Babylon 5, but SeaQuest, for all its campiness, was my jam briefly in my childhood.


Mine too! Another Lightwave-produced show I loved was Space: Above & Beyond.


It's incredible that it still lives to this day. I remember running it on Pentium-133. The gallery they have there still has showcase renders from 2000s.


yes, you are right ... its been a few years :))


You are missing one important detail, an Amiga alongside NewTek's Video Toaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster


24 Amiga 2000's each with a 68040, 32mb of RAM and a Video Toaster, managed by a 486 server with a 12gb of storage.

[1]https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue166/68_The_makin...


I just had to add more, because I remember they used DEC Alpha systems at some point.

" Alphas for design stations serving 5 animators and one animation assistant (housekeeping and slate specialist). Most of these stations run Lightwave and a couple add Softimage. VERY plug-in hungry. PVR's on every station, with calibrated component NTSC (darn it, I hates ntsc) right beside.

P6's in quad enclosures for part of the renderstack, and Alphas for the rest, backed up 2x per day to an optical jukebox.

Completed shots output to a DDR post rendering and get integrated into the show.

Shots to composite go to the Macs running After Effects, or the SGI running Flint, depending on the type of comp being done, and then to the DDR (8 minutes capacity on the SGI)."[0]

[0] http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/making/effects.html


Thanks for the correction and link.


you are right, i left this detail out ... but it went somewhat together with the amiga & the lightwave-software :))


hello,

as always: imho (!)

recognize that software-engineering is not about writing / vibing code but to solve (!) problems.

nobody cares if the code which solves a problem is generated / copied / written ... as long as it was legally obtained ... ;))

anyway: code is liability, every line of code which was not written to solve a problem keeps future maintenance-costs low(er) ...

additionally especially for non-trivial problem-solutions - read: projects -, its essential to have maintainable code. which means, code that is ...

* easy to understand ~ new developers

* easy to extend ~ new features

* easy to sustain ~ update dependencies, update the underlying runtime-environment etc.

especially if it solves a complex problem for a company, the code may be used for years or even decades =?> keep that in mind!

just my 0.02€


hello,

as always: imho. (!)

idk ... i just put a http basic-auth in front of my gitweb instance years ago.

if i really ever want to put git-repositories into the open web again i either push them to some portal - github, gitlab, ... - or start thinking about how to solve this ;))

just my 0.02€


I've put everything behind a Wireguard Server, so if I need something, I can access to it through VPN and AI can't do anything


hello,

as always: imho. (!)

btw. thanks for the downvote.

its for sure better to kill your own infrastructure because of some AI crawlers - buhuuuu ... bad bots!! - than to solve your problem with a stupid simple but effective solution.

just as an idea: if i had to host public repositories i would think about how to disable costly operations - searches etc. - for anonymous access ... like github did.

just my 0.02€


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