For example taking the right kind of antihistamines, taking them in the evening before bed, and most important regular cleaning.

And I got it as an adult, in 2009. So 26 years without any allergies, then suddenly, one summer in Helsingborg, the air was thick with pollen. I remember the smell was like cheese doodles in the air, musty.

Once I got back from an errand in the city my face was leaking, I walked to the pharmacy with blurry vision to get my first antihistamines. Ever since then every year june is a nightmare. It affects your sleep, so it affects every part of life.

And since then I've observed more and more pollen allergies around me, friends, co-workers, strangers on the bus. It's very prevalent.

I would not be surprised if humans caused this somehow with our modern city planning.

It was included in my employers workspace subscription so I tried it out last june, and that's how I finally understood the power of AI.

Then they announced that it was no longer included in our license and I bought my own Claude license instead, the employer went with another AI company.

So your loss Google.

Now it's like an epidemic, at least half the office is affected.

It's one of those strange memories from my youth that I've been unable to confirm as an adult.

I used OpenBSD to create the firewalls for our LAN parties when I was at school.

The first shellserver I ran, on an UltraSparc IIi was OpenBSD, gave out accounts to my friends.

And then I used it as a firewall, both professionally and personally, for many years. Until the first Turris Omnia was released, and now I have retired even Turris for pfSense, which is FreeBSD I believe.

But the PF firewall in OpenBSD was superior, definitely to the syntax of IPtables.

To me Linux was a great server OS, and OpenBSD was a great FW/Gateway OS.

I think the vikings were actually among the last of their kind, the last to become christianized and part of the European trade network. And that might be why they're so fascinating.

It's a neat little trick if you're often deploying VPS in shared cloud environments.

Just a few notes in the age of supply chain scares, don't install flatpak as root if you don't have to, and in this case you might want to use flatpak mask com.github.k4zmu2a.spacecadetpinball after installing, seeing as flatpak updates all its installed flatpaks otherwise. It's a project that hasn't seen updates in 2 years and really shouldn't see any updates considering its nature, so let's keep it that way.

Looking back it was innocent exploration, but if I did what I did then today, I might get put on some watchlist.

And today I can barely watch an arm breaking contest without cringing.

Anyone else remember orsm, b0g? They rarely get mentioned among the greater sites, but that's where I spent most of my time before 4chan.

But this kind of thinking can be dangerous because it implies that your systems don't talk to the outside world at all, which they obviously do. I mean a very glaring example is container images, so it definitely takes more than a firewall and ssh keys to stay safe in general.

Am I right to assume, that maybe this cleanup crew experiences something similar?

But yeah I guess, that's another argument against getting accustomed to tabs for indentation.

I was once told that the tab key can be represented in different ways on different systems, and that's why spaces are safer because they're always represented the same.

Is that what Brendan was trying to say?

Docker compose assumes all your services can reach each other over docker, which I find horribly insecure.

I separate all my services by user account at least, maybe even by VM, and I run them all in rootless podman containers. So it just doesn't fit my style, but I'm sure it works fine.

I never called it a "free" layer of security, I said it was ONE layer of security. Emphasizing the one, because security comes in as many layers as one is able to manage.