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calamity_elf

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calamity_elf··on Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions
The org I work for won't allow agpl packages or code to be used or deployed. It's too much of a risk.
calamity_elf··on Carolina Eyck, renowned superstar of the theremin
I built a theremin in the early 80s for a school project. Had to get the local library to obtain books and other printed resources on it so I could make one. Sadly no pictures survive, and the device itself is long gone. Didn't think to document it at the time, beyond the hand in materials for the project. I was 14. I have wondered about getting a modern one though. They're so cool.
calamity_elf··on Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
very easy to block and filter to your tastes.
calamity_elf··on 56k modems relied on digital trunk lines
I used to use 128Kbps bonded ISDN at home through BT Home Highway and an ISP called Red Hot Ant who had fixed price unmetered internet access.

And I accessed the heck out of that connection (until the ISP went bust, wonder why?), and was very much a Q3A LPB during that time.

calamity_elf··on Alexa+
then half the time for us it will not hear the announcement, so we say 'alexa announce' again, and it announces "ALEXA ANNOUNCE" all over the house.
calamity_elf··on Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users
my credentials aren't mine if I can't securely back them up and secure them in a platform independent way.

That attack on KeepassXC is despicable.

calamity_elf··on Cheating alleged after men's world conker champion found with steel chestnut
I went to first school (3 tier system, first, middle, high) in the 1970s and we played conkers in the school yard in the 1970s, and into the mid 80s in middle school too. By the time I reached high school they'd been banned.

I see parents and children collecting horse chestnuts in the local market square and arboretum still today though, and it brings back fond memories of rapped knuckles and entanglement "clingy-niner's" or "clinchies" in some games, depending who you were playing with.

calamity_elf··on I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
That's a colossal number of tapes. The few I found that had been stored in boxes since the 80s had mould on them, hopefully the collection doesn't have mould.