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One feature of Linux that isn't widely known is the ability to have separate network namespaces in a single Linux instance. This enables segregation of network stacks, which can be very useful for testing and running programs without impacting your main...
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YouFibre supports IPv6, which is great! Thank you, YouFibre! There are a few issues though. I'm only allocated a single /64 At least that I can see. I'm not sure how to get a /56 or /48 routed to me, or whether they support that. The eero is ...
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Full, fast, fibre to the premises gigabit internet has finally reached my house. Company YouFibre are an alt-net and reached my area a while ago. Package pricing Pricing for fixed-length contracts (when I was getting it) was: 150Mb£24 500Mb£...
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I find it interesting that here are many different names for the # symbol (and symbols that look like it). Here are some of them. Hash This is what I would call the symbol. It has lots of uses in computing. I'm glad that Twitter went with "hasht...
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I've been documenting the disparities between the number of seats won and the number of seats that would have been won based on the number of votes won. Previous elections: 2015, 2017 The 2024 UK General Election has again turned out to be quite u...
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For essentially unlimited backup space, Amazon S3 is fast and cheap. To store 10 GB for one month will cost you $0.04 in the Glacier Instant Retrieval tier. A nice way of interfacing with S3 is by using s3fs. This lets you mount a bucket as part of y...
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When Linux was newer (and I guess not as popular), I would often hear people mispronouncing it. The common mispronunciation was Lie-nux (/ˈlaɪnʊks/), rather than Lih-nux (/ˈlɪnʊks/). I assume was due to the popularity of Linus Van Pelt But recentl...
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If we assume that there are 8.5 billion people in the world, then what could make a decent unique identifier for each one? If we used binary (1 or 0), it would need to be 33 characters long. Probably not the easiest to read though. A simple number (...
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In a case of what might be "old man yells at clouds", I feel I need to mention this. Wifi doesn't mean Internet. tl;dr: Wifi just replaces a short piece of wire (up to 20 metres long). Nothing else. In the olden days (like 20 years ago), comp...
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Mitchell and Webb have a sketch that covers every situation. But sometimes, I can't locate the correct sketch quickly when I want to - until I found this list on Reddit that lists the sketches and episodes they appear in. In case Reddit implodes, and...