When I was a student, my school had analog clocks that were synced via some electric system.

Enough ghost stories! They should open the sarcophagus immediately if there is any chance that it could save Grendel.

I wouldn’t think so. Isn’t bottles just an easier way to manage wine prefixes? If so, it doesn’t do anything to hide your Linux system from the executable.

Wine prefixes are not sandboxes. They are a way to separate the windows-level configuration for different programs (eg env vars, or drivers, etc).

Wine is a translation layer between a compiled windows binary and your Linux syscalls/libraries/device drivers/etc, nothing more.

Wine is not an emulator. It’s not sandboxed either. If you can do it as a user, a program running in wine can do it too.

There’s nothing stopping a piece of malware from crawling your disk for sensitive information, or encrypting your files for ransom.

Gary should learn about Lazy<T> and stop reinventing the wheel.

I put blame on any of his senior coworkers who didn’t use this as a teaching opportunity during PR.

All cops are bony

We’re posting pumpkussy?

This was from a few years ago.

Serious answer: ownCloud

I’m a fan of the ultimate non-maskable interrupt.

Everyone Nokia user knows that Space Impact was a better game than Snake

Is there a nuance to usage of the word hierarchy that I’m not understanding in this context?

Like if I invite a bunch of friends over to help me move into a new apartment, is there a hierarchy because I’m telling everyone where to put the boxes? If my pal Sarah drives a truck for work, so I entrust her to load the van with two other people, is that a hierarchy?

I’m not asking this to be a smartass, I’d just like to understand if there is a meaningful difference between hierarchy and deferring to someone’s skill in a particular domain.

There are some sites where Anubis won’t let me through. Like, I just get immediately bounced.

So RIP dwarf fortress forums. I liked you.

Yes! Thanks

Malware or not, remember to update WinRAR

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/08/high-severity-winrar-0-day-exploited-for-weeks-by-2-groups/

During a work presentation, an exec used the phrase “opening the kimono” in reference to showing business accounting books to potential investors. I had never heard it before, but my gut reaction was that it was some kind of prostitution/nudity reference, and kinda gross for a professional setting.

Maybe my mind is in the gutter, because allegedly it refers to a Japanese businessman coming home from work and wearing his kimono loosely to relax. Not really sure how that relates to transparent accounting practices.

Anyway, some words or phrases can be interpreted wrongly by others who have never heard them before. It’s not a reason to always ban them, but it does make sense to evaluate our language with outsider perspective in mind.

• I like sharing
• I never found any good direct downloads for all the movies and shows I wanted

What do you mean by handling the keyfile?

You can generate your ssh keys outside of docker and make them available in the container through a mounted directory. You will need to manually copy the public key to your remote host authorized_keys file anyway.

I always thought that wish-granting is instant, even if the effects of that wish are delayed.

So if I wish for something to happen in 5 days, it’s granted in the moment and guaranteed to happen. That raises a question though: Can I wish to cancel a wish I have already made, but whose effect has not yet taken hold? On its face, this should be possible, but if we take it as a given that all valid wishes are always granted at the moment of utterance, then it might be physically/psychologically impossible for me or anyone else to revoke the wish before its IRL effect is complete.

The pain of keeping it around will outweigh the pain of needing it and not having it.

Quick boot into windows to help a friend test something on your machine?

• Twenty-five bajillion updates since you never logged in
• Windows “helpfully” cleaning up your Linux bootloader
• Any shared NTFS partition between windows and Linux is almost guaranteed to be left in a “dirty” state when windows shuts down, meaning you have to run ntfsfix before Linux will mount it again

And suddenly, that’s where you’ll be spending the whole afternoon. I agree with the others who say a VM is probably good enough.

I’ve got friends who are vibing without a job. The vibes are… not so good.