Racing to build utility-scale computer, quantum start-up earns $20m federal investment
Australian taxpayers are backing Sydney start-up Diraqâs ambition to become a global leader in utility-scale quantum computing. â Read more
Linuxulator-Steam-Utils To Enjoy Steam Play Gaming On FreeBSD & Other Options
Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet. Besides various open-source games able to be compiled natively for FreeBSD, this BSD can get in on the Steam Play gaming scene thanks to the âlinuxulator-steam-utilsâ project as a set of workarounds for the Steam Linux client on FreeBSD 14 and newer. Linuxulator-steam-utils builds off FreeBSDâs Linuxulator support for running Linux binaries to enjoy t ⊠â Read more
Libgcrypt 1.12 Released With VAES/AVX-512 Accelerated AES: 2x Performance On AMD Zen 5
Werner Koch released libgcrypt 1.12 as the newest feature release to this library providing the cryptographic building blocks used by GnuPG and other software like email clients, file encryption utilities, and other software⊠â Read more
Bezosâs Vision of Rented Cloud PCs Looks Less Far-Fetched
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once told an audience that he views local PC hardware the same way he views a 100-year-old electric generator he saw in a brewery museum â as a relic of a pre-grid era, destined to be replaced by centralized utilities that users simply rent rather than own. The anecdote, shared at a talk a few years ago, positioned Amazon Web Services a ⊠â Read more
Trump Says Microsoft To Make Changes To Curb Data Center Power Costs For Americans
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Monday that Microsoft will announce changes to ensure that Americans wonât see rising utility bills as the company builds more data centers to meet rising artificial intelligence demand. âI never want Americ ⊠â Read more
Bcachefs Ships Latest User-Space Utilities With bcachefs-tools 1.35
Kent Overstreet has shipped the latest version of bcachefs-tools, the user-space code complementing the Bcachefs file-system kernel driver. There are a number of improvements present in this latest version with Overstreet remaining committed to advancing Bcachefs even with its current out-of-tree kernel status⊠â Read more
The modern world seems to want to separate the concepts of beauty and utility. Weâre fine with having things that are aesthetic but donâ do anything useful, while the tools of society that get work done are often very uglyâvisually, socially and metaphorically. Beauty without utility is worthless; utility without beauty is meaningless. We canât treat them independently.
AndrĂ© Pestana - redução da idade da reforma, reforma mĂnima de 1000âŹ, acabar com os 5% da NATO
MVieira - Temos tanto ouro, podĂamos financiar um projecto de um botĂŁo para cada cidadĂŁo, o botĂŁo resolver. O botĂŁo funciona com ciĂȘncia e magia, inteligĂȘncia artificial e estupidez natural.
HCorreia - crise climĂĄtica vai ser o fim do mundo, precisamos de plantar muito muito.
Pergunta final para cada um:
LMM - comentĂĄrio de que mais se arrepende - Ă© difĂcil
GMelo - JĂĄ desobedecer por razĂ”es de consciĂȘncia? - Nunca precisou
Ventura - um primo diz-me que se apaixonou com alguém do Bangladesh - achava mal, preferia uma portuguesa
Seguro - se nĂŁo ganhar - a culpa Ă© dele (acho que foi isso)
Cotrim - onde Ă© que o liberalismo precisa de um travĂŁo? - nĂŁo precisa, hĂĄ um travĂŁo embutido
Martins - a causa fracturante mais importante hoje - ex. a xenofobia
A. Filipe - se jĂĄ se aborreceu com a disciplina de voto - nĂŁo
Jorge Pinto - jĂĄ cedi ao voto Ăștil? - nĂŁo
Humberto Correia - injustiça vs. falta de respeito, qual pior? - a pobreza
Pestana - Alguma vez achou que uma Greve foi longe de mais? - nĂŁo
Vieira - Coisa maia série que disse e q não foi levada a sério? Direito à felicidade na constituição
ConsideraçÔes pessoais: quando os debates começaram tinha dĂșvidas, hoje tenho certezas.
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X.Org IMAKE Updated For Those Not Yet Transitioned To Autoconf/Automake Or Meson
X.Org package wrangler Alan Coopersmith at Oracle announced today the release of imake 1.0.11, the newest version of this utility that 20+ years ago was used extensively as part of the X Window System build process for generating Makefiles from a template. With this first imake point release in two years, imake itself can now be built via Meson and there is now support for RISC-V and LoongArch architectures⊠â Read more
#ptpol #debates #presidenciais
1 - diferenças - UE, diz JP, pondo #CMartins Ă defesa. CM mostra como eles estĂŁo em concordo: quem Europa mas sĂŁo crĂticos em termos ou decisĂ”es especĂficos. JP tenta dizer que hĂĄ uma diferença, mas nĂŁo se vĂȘ diferença nenhuma (e CM tb diz queque se calhar atĂ© nem hĂĄ insana diferença aqui). Comunidade Europeia de Defesa? NĂŁo, nem nisso hĂĄ diferença.
2 - voto Ăștil - ambos acham importante um presidente de esquerda, e sĂŁo contra o voto Ăștil porque acham Seguro um mau candidato. EstĂŁo de acordo.
3 - presidente mais interventivo - Ă© importante, ambos estĂŁo de acordo.
âTecnologia para emanciparâ
ConsideraçÔes pessoais - tristeza de debate, o jornalista perde tempo a tentar atacar estas candidaturas mas nĂŁo tem tempo para os fazer mostrar diferenças. A Ășnica diferença aparente Ă© que o #JPinto diz que eles tĂȘm uma visĂŁo diferente da Europa ainda que olha-se na prĂĄtica e afinal nĂŁo. 27 minutos de debate: com 13 minutos para cada lado o jornalista diz obrigado e boa noite, e fica-se por aqui. Um dos debates mais importantes para ajudar na decisĂŁo de voto a eleitores que poderĂŁo estar com dĂșvidas ente estes dois⊠desperdiçado. AtĂ© parece que o jornalista quer convencer que entre estes dois ele preferia um terceiro com o voto ĂștilâŠ
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3 - maioria absoluta volta a acontecer? - AF âMais importante que previsĂ”es Ă© preciso um presidente claro e de confiança, aproveita para criticar o voto Ăștil, Seguro responde com apelo ao voto Ăștil, diz que sem voto Ăștil a segunda volta Ă© com Marques Mendes. Continuam a discutir sobre quem tem hipĂłteses e se o voto Ăștil Ă© bom ou mau, AF vai aproveitando para mostrar que ele defenderia coisas (boas) que Seguro nĂŁo defende.
4 - financiamento para ajudar a UcrĂąnia - Seguro a favor de eurobonds, acusa AF de nĂŁo condenar a invasĂŁo da RĂșssia Ă UcrĂąnia, AF desmente (e volta a condenar), Seguro faz-se de sonso, debate desce de nĂvel.
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ConsideraçÔes pessoais: AF claramente mais preparado para ser presidente, e seria melhor presidente. Ănico problema dele em relação a Seguro Ă© mesmo que hĂĄ clubismo e voto Ăștil que vai dar muitos votos a Seguro em detrimento da esquerda (incluindo AF)
#ptpol #debates #presidenciais #AFilipe x #Seguro
1 - Spinumviva e MMendes - Ă©tica e transparĂȘncia Ă© bom (duh)
2 - esquerda - AFilipe relembra o papel de Seguro na altura da troika para explicar porque Ă© que a candidatura dele Ă© que Ă© de esquerda, Seguro apela ao voto Ăștil, AF repete que Seguro nĂŁo diz nada de esquerda. Seguro diz que ele Ă© esquerda sim, e quer dar exemplos, pela na legislação laboral como exemplo e AF aponta logo âboa ideia, no dia da greve eu estava lĂĄ, e vocĂȘ?â. Seguro continua a falar do trabalho para dizer (tarde e a mĂĄs horas, relembra AF) que o pacote Ă© mau, mas dizer isso nĂŁo Ă© uma coisa que o distingue do AF⊠AF diz que o Seguro nĂŁo começou com esta posição no pacote, Seguro diz que Ă© mentira. AF fala do ataque aos trabalhadores na altura da troika com apoio do Seguro, e que ele nem defendeu a retirada depois da troika. Seguro diz âah isso Ă© diferenteâ. Seguro diz que nĂŁo esteve com Passos, atĂ© o jornalista vai buscar citaçÔes a dar razĂŁo a AF. âEu nĂŁo quero falar do passadoâ, responde Seguro, com insistĂȘncias ele repete irritado âjĂĄ lhe disse que eu sou presidente para o futuro, nĂŁo no passadoâ. Continuamos nisto, eventualmente Seguro acaba a admitir que erava em concordo com Passos e a troika. Seguro avisa AF ser sĂł protesto, AF exemplica q n
Denmark Says Russia Was Behind Two âDestructive and Disruptiveâ Cyberattacks
The Danish government has accused Russia of being behind two âdestructive and disruptiveâ cyberattacks in what it describes as âvery clear evidenceâ of a hybrid war. From a report: The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyberattack on a Danish water utility in 2024 and a ⊠â Read more
Cryptsetup 2.8.2 Released With BitLocker Clear Key Support
Cryptsetup 2.8.2 released on Thursday for this open-source utility used for setting up disk encryption with dm-crypt on Linux systems, including for LUKS volumes, TrueCrypt, BitLocker, and other formats⊠â Read more
I cleaned up all my of AoC (Advent of Code) 2025 solutions, refactored many of the utilities I had to write as reusable libraries, re-tested Day 1 (but nothing else). here it is if youâre curious! This is written in mu, my own language I built as a self-hosted minimal compiler/vm with very few types and builtins.
#ptpol #debates #presidenciais
1 - #GreveGeral: Ă© possĂvel e Ăștil um acordo entre Governo e UGT? CM diz que entendimento Ă© difĂcil com um pacote tĂŁo maue os insultos que o Governo tem feito aos sindicatos. LM acha acordo possĂvel e Ăștil. Acha que o acordo devia ser mais abrangente em matĂ©rias afectadas, e que a CGTP nĂŁo interessa se quer ou nĂŁo, o que interessa Ă© UGT e patrĂ”es. CM perguntou a LMM o que mudava no pacote, LMM diz que nĂŁo diz que isso Ă© trabalho dos negociantes. Mas se ele diz que promulgaria com diferenças e nĂŁo diz quais nĂŁo Ă© muito transparente aos eleitores⊠CM elenco vĂĄrios pontos maus do pacote. LMM continua a dizer que nĂŁo diz, e diz que CM sĂł diz porque nĂŁo tem probabilidade de ser eleita.
2 - independĂȘncia: CM diz que quando hĂĄ um Governo tĂŁo inclinado Ă direita e ataque aos trabalhadores, Ă© importante ter uma presidente que faça contraponto e diga desde jĂĄ que vai proteger o trabalho em vez de fragilizar. LMM pede que se parem os falsos moralismos, todos os candidatos querem o bem, sĂł por caminhos diferentes. (Ele nĂŁo pode acreditar issoâŠ) Em vez de falar de independĂȘncia acusa CM de ter causado instabilidade e crise ao chumbar o OE da geringonça (espero que ela responda).
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Turbostat Introduces New Cache Statistics, Nova Lake + Wildcat Lake Support
Turbostat is the Linux command-line utility for reporting CPU frequency / power / C-states and related performance / power management items namely for modern AMD and Intel processors. This CLI utility lives within the Linux kernel source tree and for Linux 6.19 has picked up a few new features⊠â Read more
Can This Simple Invention Convert Waste Heat Into Electricity?
Nuclear engineer Lonnie Johnson worked on NASAâs Galileo mission, has more than 140 patents, and invented the Super Soaker water gun.
But now heâs working on âa potential key to unlock a huge power source thatâs rarely utilized today,â reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [Alternate URL here.]
Waste heatâŠ
The Johnson Thermo-Electrochemi ⊠â Read more
#ptpol #debates #presidenciais
0 - HĂĄ uma pergunta mas #LMM diz que responde a tudo mas primeiro tem outro tema obrigatĂłrio: a acusação de #Cotrim Figueiredo hĂĄ 15 dias de LMM ter feito pressĂ”es, pede a Cotrim que concretize - Cotrim nĂŁo pode ou consegue, tenta atacar LMM noutro tema com um book review, a dizer que LMM vai lançar um livro que Ă© pior que o livro que Cotrim lançou - isto nĂŁo se inventa. De certa forma isto influencia o debate porque quando o jornalista pode entĂŁo fazer perguntas jĂĄ nĂŁo fala do que queria falar, e em vez disso pergunta o que distingue as candidaturas deles e voto Ăștil e essas coisas. Cotrim responde que ele Ă© o mais energĂ©tico ou qq coisa dessas, mas em prĂĄtica sĂł diz que vai jantar com jovens mais vezes que LLM. 12 minutos de debate e ainda nĂŁo se disse nada - mas sĂł menos mostra bem que entre estes dois hĂĄ claramente um menos sĂ©rio que outro. Cotrim critica LMM estar no Conselho de Estado hĂĄ tantos anos e Portugal estĂĄ cheio de problemas - pena que LMM nĂŁo diga a Cotrim que foi deputado e eurodeputado, e Portugal e Europa estĂŁo cheios de problemas tambĂ©mâŠ
1 - finalmente a pergunta que o moderador queria: o pacote laboral. LMM repete a conversa de que Ă© preciso uma reforma e esta Ă© uma reforma por isso nĂŁo entende as crĂticas. Cotrim promulgaria (duh)
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Pena que nĂŁo haja tempo para Catarina demonstrar como votou bem nesses casos (com o estado da SaĂșde como bom exemplo).
3 - Inverno DemogrĂĄfico: CM responde com um desapontante solucionismo tecnolĂłgico. Seguro defende o mesmo.
4 - jovens: Seguro diz que a coisa estĂĄ mal, quer um plano de fusĂŁo de PMEs para melhorar o emprego jovem (nĂŁo teria o efeito contrĂĄrio?), Catarina quer debates, dĂĄ exemplos das micro-produção solar descentralizada (uma boa ideia mas isso nĂŁo Ă© bem uma solução para melhorar a qualidade de vida dos jovens, quer dizer, Ă© para todosâŠ)
5 - NATO: CMartins quer cumprir a constituição e chama a atenção que o programa do PS tb defende a dissolução da NATO. Fala tambĂ©m da Palestina, lamenta que nĂŁo tem sido tema, acusa Portugal de continuar a financiar o genocĂdio, e critica a Europa continuar com o acordo de associação com Israel quando Israel viola a sua parte do acordo. Seguro nĂŁo quer o fim da NATO apesar disso estar na constituição. Catarina diz que a NATO estĂĄ na mĂŁo de Trump.
6 - sĂł para Seguro para equilibrar tempo: nĂŁo era melhor uma mulher Presidente? Ele diz que Ă© para escolher o melhor candidato, homem ou mulher - e faz um apelo ao voto Ăștil.ConsideraçÔes pessoais: continuo sem entender eleitores PS a votar Seguro e nĂŁo Jorge Pinto ou CMartins
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X.Org Serverâs xkbcomp Updated For Four Security Issues Dating Back Years
Red Hatâs Peter Hutterer announced the release today of xkbcomp 1.5, the CLI utility used for compiling X Keyboard Extension (XBD) keyboard descriptions for the X.Org Server. Driving this new xkbcomp release are fixes for four security issues⊠â Read more
Pensando mais no assunto, outra coisa que se tira deste debate - em comparação com o de Seguro - Ă© que Seguro estĂĄ mais preparado que Marques Mendes para lidar com o Chega, algo que serĂĄ Ăștil para o prĂłximo Presidente.
Memtest86+ 8.0 Released With Support For Latest Intel & AMD CPUs
Since the 2022 release of memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used RAM testing utility, this open-source software has continued advancing nicely after a decade hiatus. Released on Sunday night was memtest86+ 8.0 as the latest iteration of this popular RAM tester for enthusiasts⊠â Read more
Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in Sacramento
A California judge has shut down a decade-long surveillance program in which Sacramentoâs utility provider shared granular smart-meter data on 650,000 residents with police to hunt for cannabis grows. The EFF reports: The Sacramento County Superior Court ruled that the surveillance program run by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) ⊠â Read more
Are Data Centers Raising Americaâs Electricity Prices?
Residential utility bills in America ârose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period in the previous year,â reports CNBC, citing statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration:
The reasons for price increases are often complex and vary by region. But in at least three states with high concentrations of data centers, electric bills cl ⊠â Read more
Multiple Vulnerabilities Found in Rust Sudo Clone in Ubuntu
Ubuntu is now shipping with Rust based replacements of core utilities (sudo, date, du, etc.). â Read more
sudo-rs Affected By Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - Impacting Ubuntu 25.10
The Ubuntu 25.10 transition to using some Rust system utilities continues proving quite rocky. Beyond some early performance issues with Rust Coreutils, breakage for some executables, and broken unattended upgrades due to a Rust Coreutils bug, itâs also sudo-rs now causing Ubuntu developers some headaches. There are two moderate security issues affecting sudo-rs, the Rust version of sudo being used by Ubuntu 25.10⊠â Read more
New Linux Patches To Expose AMD Ryzen AI NPU Power Metrics
New Linux kernel patches currently undergoing review will allow AMD Ryzen AI NPU power metrics to be exposed under Linux. In turn this is useful for helping to gauge the utilization of the neural processing unit and also helping to evaluate the actual power efficiency of leveraging the AMD Ryzen AI NPU⊠â Read more
This new robot has a clever spin on lunar mining
Work continues on designs for robots that can help assist the first human explorers on the moon in over half a century. One of the most important aspects of that future trip will be utilizing the resources available on the moonâs surface, known as in-situ resource utilization (ISRU). This would give the explorers access to materials like water, structural metals, and propellant, but only if they can recover it from the rock and regolith that make up the moonâs surfa ⊠â Read more
GNU Coreutils 9.9 Brings Numerous Fixes
Following yesterdayâs release of Rust Coreutils 0.4, GNU Coreutils 9.9 is now available as the latest update to this set of core utilities common to Linux systems and other platforms⊠â Read more
Data Centers in Nvidiaâs Hometown Stand Empty Awaiting Power
Two of the worldâs biggest data center developers have projects in Nvidiaâs hometown that may sit empty for years because the local utility isnât ready to supply electricity. From a report: In Santa Clara, California, where the worldâs biggest supplier of artificial-intelligence chips is based, Digital Realty Trust applied in 2019 to build a data cent ⊠â Read more
Totally-eclipsing binary UZ Draconis inspected with TESS
Astronomers from Keele University in the UK have utilized NASAâs planet-hunting TESS telescope to investigate a totally-eclipsing binary known as UZ Draconis. Results of the new observations, published October 31 on the arXiv pre-print server, put more constraints on the properties of this system. â Read more
Fwupd 2.0.17 Released With More Hardware Support & Features
Days after the Linux Vendor Firmware Service celebrated 135 million firmware downloads, a new version of the Fwupd utility is now available for firmware updating systems and peripherals under Linux⊠â Read more
Rust Clone of Core Utils Breaks Ubuntu Updates
Ubuntu 25.10 dropped the battle tested GNU Core Utils, in favor of the untested, incomplete âuutilsâ. â Read more
IO Wait Times, Utilization, and System Reliability â Read more
How to turn Liquid Glass into a solid interface
Appleâs new Liquid Glass interface design brings transparency and blur effects to all Apple operating systems, but many users find it distracting or difficult to read. Hereâs how to control its effects and make your interface more usable. Although the relevant Accessibility settings are quite similar across macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS, I separate them because they offer different levels of utility in each. I have no experience with (o ⊠â Read more
âdetect-fashâ Feature Developed (and Rejected) for Systemd
âA utility to detect problematic software and configurations,â such as Omarchy Linux, Hyprland, & Ladybird, was developed by an account with a Russian Military email address. â Read more
I just created a zs blogging template which Iâm going to use for https://prologic.blog and I might starting writing long-form again soonâą đ So far the âbloggingâ template/engine (if you weill) is quite simple. It comprises essentially of an index.md a prehook and a few utilities:
$ git ls-files
.gitignore
.zs/config.yml
.zs/editthispage
.zs/include
.zs/layout.html
.zs/list
.zs/months
.zs/now
.zs/onthispage
.zs/posthook
.zs/postsbymonth
.zs/prehook
.zs/scripts
.zs/styles
.zs/tagcloud
.zs/taglist
.zs/years
archives/.empty
assets/css/site.css
assets/js/main.js
index.md
posts/hello-zs-blog.md
posts/on-tagging.md
posts/second-post.md
tags/.empty
Ubuntuâs Rust GNU Utils Replacement 17x Slower & Buggy
Canonical plans to replace the battle tested GNU Coreutils with new, untested, Rust-based replacements. â Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Debian repository key change
We have been working on some changes to our Debian/Ubuntu package repository.
If you use our repository to keep up to date with new Prosody packages, you
need to take action before 4th August 2025 to continue receiving updates
smoothly.
The âaptâ utility has been moving towards a new format for specifying package
repositories. If you are familiar with putting deb lines in a sources.list
file, [that method is changing](ht ⊠â Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org They are optional dependencies and listed as such:
$ pacman -Qi pinentry
Name : pinentry
Version : 1.3.1-5
Description : Collection of simple PIN or passphrase entry dialogs which
utilize the Assuan protocol
Optional Deps : gcr: GNOME backend [installed]
gtk3: GTK backend [installed]
qt5-x11extras: Qt5 backend [installed]
kwayland5: Qt5 backend
kguiaddons: Qt6 backend
kwindowsystem: Qt6 backend
And itâs probably a good thing that theyâre optional. I wouldnât want to have all that installed all the time.
Zip It! - Finding File Similarity Using Compression Utilities - Computerphile â Read more
** Of fairies, compost, and computers **
Lately Iâve buried myself in reading fiction. Stand outs from among the crowd are, of course, Middlemarch but also a lot of sort of scholarly fairy fiction; works that follow the scholastic adventures of studious professorial types in vaugely magical settings. Namely Emily Wildeâs Encyclopedia of Faeriesâ, Heather Fawcett and The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow.
Iâve also been working on a handful of personal utility programs. I ⊠â Read more
https://omnitools.app/ Access thousands of user-friendly utilities for editing images, text, lists, and data, all directly from your browser.
One of the nicest things about Go is the language itself, comparing Go to other popular languages in terms of the complexity to learn to be proficient in:
- Go:
25keywords (Stack Overflow); CSP-style concurrency (goroutines & channels)
- Python 2:
30keywords (TutorialsPoint); GIL-bound threads & multiprocessing (Wikipedia)
- Python 3:
35keywords (Initial Commit); GIL-bound threads,asyncio& multiprocessing (Wikipedia, DEV Community)
- Java:
50keywords (Stack Overflow); threads +java.util.concurrent(Wikipedia)
- C++:
82keywords (Stack Overflow);std::thread, atomics & futures (en.cppreference.com)
- JavaScript:
38keywords (Stack Overflow); single-threaded event loop &async/await, Web Workers (Wikipedia)
- Ruby:
42keywords (Stack Overflow); GIL-bound threads (MRI), fibers & processes (Wikipedia)
Get Network Utility for MacOS Sequoia with Neo Network Utility
Remember Network Utility, the handy tool for Mac that was bundled with the operating system since the origins of Mac OS X? With Network Utility, you had an easy graphical interface to commonly used network tools like ping, netstat, nslookup, traceroute, finger, port scanning, and whois. But for reasons unknown, Apple removed Network Utility from ⊠[Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/05/16/get-network-utilit ⊠â Read more
** My not so pragmatic guide to running background services on macOS **
I self host a lot of stuffâââthese days, mostly weird little utility scripts and toys that run in the background, but also some web apps like plex, calibre, and a suite of irc things. For a long time I ran such things on a VPS, but being incredibly cheap, and hardly ever leaving my house for realsies, during the height of the pandemic I brought everything on to an aged mac mini I keep on a shelf behind some books.
I tr ⊠â Read more