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Once upon a time, you could readily get basic graphics cards, generally passively cooled and certainly single-width even if they had to have a fan in order to get you dual output support; this is, for example, more or less what I had in my 2011 era machines. These days these cards are mostly extinct, so when I put t...

When I wrote about how CGI programs aren't particularly slow these days, one of the reactions I saw was to suggest that one might as well use a FastCGI system to run your 'CGI' as a persistent daemon, saving you the overhead of starting a CGI program on every request. One of the practical answers is that FastCGI doe...

Over on the Fediverse, I had a half-baked thesis: A half-baked thesis: branches in Git are a social construct, somewhat enabled by technical features. We talk about things having been done on a branch or existing on a branch, or what branches are what on an intertwined tree of them, even when this is not something y...

Over on the Fediverse I said something a while back: I have a rant bubbling around my head about 'why I'll never enable MFA for Github'. The short version is that I publish code on GH because it's an easy and low effort way to share things. So far, managing MFA and MFA recovery is neither of those; there's a lot of ...