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harry8 commented on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices office365itpros.com/2025/... · Posted by u/taubek

bombcar · 9 days ago

Multiplayer PowerPoint is the single largest advance in the business world since the spreadsheet.

If used properly.

harry8 · 8 days ago

The ironic thing about satire is that sometimes it is very difficult to tell apart from the thing being satirized.

So, like, was that satire? I got a good laugh out of "Multiplayer PowerPoint" either way.

harry8 commented on Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server isc.org/kea/... · Posted by u/doener

TheFuzzball · 12 days ago

> To flip it, why would I use unbound without pi-hole? What's the win I haven't seen (or even looked at or considered?)

In my experience, the fewer moving parts the better.

I run Unbound on my OPNsense router, and it uses the same blocklists as Pi-hole and the stats page (blocked domains, DNS requests, etc) are the same afaict.

harry8 · 10 days ago

But you still need something to do your dhcp, so maybe not fewer moving parts? Dunno.

I did pi-hole first, then much later decided to use unbound for dns because it looked super easy to add it. It was. Haven't thought about it much since. I hope your experience was as good or better.

harry8 commented on Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server isc.org/kea/... · Posted by u/doener

BrandoElFollito · 13 days ago

I use Pihole as well (even tried to synchronize two for HA but I gave up). It is fantastic.

What worries me with dnsmasq is that it is a personal project maintained on a personal git (by a great person!). Sure, one can fork and whatnot but without several people participating it can fade out pretty quickly.

harry8 · 13 days ago

Yeah, fair point. And I don't think I've seen a router for sale that wasn't using dnsmasq as a dhcp server for 20 odd years. Must be some, I guess, but haven't encountered them.

harry8 commented on Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server isc.org/kea/... · Posted by u/doener

TheFuzzball · 13 days ago

I'm curious why you'd use pi-hole in combination with Unbound instead of using blocklists and stats that Unbound has built in?

harry8 · 13 days ago

I don't know about unbound's blocklists and stats or indeed much about unbound at all.

This: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/ was stupidly simple, pi-hole has a gui that I was already used to and it all works great. So I think about and study other things that need fixing/improving in my life instead.

To flip it, why would I use unbound without pi-hole? What's the win I haven't seen (or even looked at or considered?)

harry8 commented on Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server isc.org/kea/... · Posted by u/doener

BrandoElFollito · 14 days ago

I use dnsmasq mostly for its fantastic integration with DNS.

DHCP and DNS go hand in hand in a network, I really struggle to understand why they are not more integrated in otherwise great solutions (such as kea)

harry8 · 13 days ago

Yeah. Nowadays I use pi-hole which is dnsmasq underneath and use it with unbound.

Works great. Minimal fuss, efficient setup, little maintenance, I don't have to understand the guts. Everything on my local network is addressable.

Ad blocking at the router is also something you don't want live without once you've gone there but pi-hole is a great solution even if you don't want that.

harry8 commented on Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds bbc.com/news/articles/c23... · Posted by u/1659447091

Razengan · 20 days ago

I recall seeing some fairly befuddling ones, like "Study finds that a green environment with plants & flowers reduces depression" etc., how do you even quantify this into numbers?

I tell you I feel good if there's more greenery in the city, you want proof to see "how" good before you build more parks?

harry8 · 20 days ago

Well even if you are sure about your intuition in the knowledge that this confidence by humans has led to huge problems and tragedies in the past, you still want to have a good estimate of the effect size.

How much resource to allocate to this treatment vs other treatments having a positive effect.

Somewhere there ends up being a trade off that I will caricature as "Do we want another hospital OR another park?"

(All the above is idealised, the biggest win that moves the efficient frontier outwards is effectively fighting corruption and being vigilant defending the gains made. This seems to be universal across countries and cultures).

harry8 commented on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg ziglang.org/news/migratin... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

lozenge · 21 days ago

But the post isn't talking about Microsoft, it's specifically calling the people that work on GitHub monkeys.

harry8 · 20 days ago

You should also consider the point of view of anyone working on github and being paid by microsoft but who actually does care. Note that they are not named and shamed or anything like that.

Do you think there is a chance these hypothetical engineers who care actually want this kind of thing said publicly? And said as poetically invictive laden as possible? The rationale being that they might use such sentiment to get management to see the danger and /start/ caring about product quality?

I've never worked for microsoft. In my experience when product goes into quality decline, rubbish management is >90% of the reason. How futile is fighting that? How futile is fighting it for github? Does github matter in general? My own use is so limited it doesn't directly matter to me. Indirectly it might well do.

harry8 commented on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg ziglang.org/news/migratin... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

ericpruitt · 21 days ago

Amusingly, this post violates Zig's own code of conduct: https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct

> Examples of behavior that contribute to creating a positive environment include:

> - Using welcoming and inclusive language.

> - Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences.

> - Showing empathy towards others.

> - Showing appreciation for others’ work.

harry8 · 21 days ago

There is a difference between what you say to and about volunteers working for free on their hobby and what you say about the work of a company famously known as "The Death Star"

You want to work with people and the group says "yay and this is how we will work together" you do that or go away. This is entirely separate to stating a universal truth such as "Microsoft product blows because they do not care", "Oracle sucks" or famously "You can't anthropomorphise Larry Ellison"

Did Linus ever blow-torch community volunteers or did he get the pip purely with big corp submitting paid trash for their own purposes? He seems to cop a fair bit himself from people saying thou shalt not...

The standards differ. Microsoft is going to be ok guys.

harry8 commented on After my dad died, we found the love letters jenn.site/after-my-dad-di... · Posted by u/eatitraw

james-bcn · 24 days ago

It mentions “boskovitch's installation”. I looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Fan_(Feel_It_Motherfu...

harry8 · 24 days ago

https://x.com/handbarfs/status/1741365674008559962

harry8 commented on A friendly tour of process memory on Linux 0xkato.xyz/linux-process-... · Posted by u/0xkato

taeric · a month ago

This isn't really answering my question. Have they started using virtual memory in hard real time applications? Just generally searching the term confirms that they are still seen as not compatible.

harry8 · a month ago

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