Well,

Broadcom released a free VMware again

should be taken as a bait to lure in unsuspecting users before later stage enshit tactics happen. Synology seems to be at some other point in their enshit process, but enshit nevertheless.

Possibly the only Depeche Mode song that’s in a major key.

A long lost host (a machine that’s been offline or in a closed off network etc.) can find its master (puppetserver) when it sees the daylight again with the regularily polling puppet agent service. This is not as straightforward with ansible’s push model.

When facepalm ain’t enough try facedoor.

No, no and yes.

Type-O-Negative had its most popular moments in the 90’s. I think the placement would be quite horny and fairly sad. (If it were Carnivore and the 80’s, the scale would implode because it doesn’t accommodate very angry but really horny.)

As a shorthand writer I approve of this comment.

Bird flu is the nature’s way of saying how cruel and fucked up the system is and how it should be abolished. Humans don’t need eggs for anything.