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New comment by mbirth in "Moving from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)"

mbirth — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:25:33 +0000

A buddy found Cusdis - a self-hostable Disqus alternative: https://cusdis.com . But this only does comments, no pingbacks - and via a separate product that you need to integrate using JavaScript.

And running this opens you up to security issues you were trying to avoid by going the SSG route. In a way you could just keep WP, then.

(Also, WP has this beautiful ActivityPub plugin that makes your blog a fediverse account that people can subscribe to and even comment on your posts from Mastodon/Pleroma/etc.)

New comment by mbirth in "A brief history of instant coffee"

mbirth — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:58:47 +0000

Or boil a larger quantity and fill it into a thermos. Perfectly fine for instant coffee throughout the day. (And without the coffee stains in the thermos.)

New comment by mbirth in "A brief history of instant coffee"

mbirth — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:55:19 +0000

Yep, all the instant coffee jars I’ve seen have a note to use hot but NOT boiling water. And I’ve noticed that using too hot water can even spoil the taste a bit.

I usually turn off the kettle when the noise starts noticeably changing. This usually is something between 70-80℃.

New comment by mbirth in "Yggdrasil Network"

mbirth — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:14:17 +0000

Or the yggdrasil daemon from Red Hat:

https://github.com/RedHatInsights/yggdrasil

New comment by mbirth in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"

mbirth — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:13:12 +0000

You could technically just transmit data via RDS, too. Change a letter here and there and nobody would know whether that’s a decoding error or actual ciphertext. (Would need some kind of checksum or so, of course.)

@windytan did a fascinating audio clip highlighting the RDS data stream in a radio recording some while ago:

https://soundcloud.com/windytan-1/rds-mixdown

New comment by mbirth in "Apple Just Lost Me"

mbirth — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:49:14 +0000

> As of now, my only way to verify it is by literally ordering a credit card from my UK bank when I'm pretty happy with my debit cards already.

This is not true. On the screen where it wants you to scan a credit card, tap “Enter details manually”. Scroll down. Tap “Try other methods”. And there, you’ll be offered to scan an ID or your driver’s license.

New comment by mbirth in "HopTab – Open source macOS app switcher and tiler that replaces Cmd+Tab"

mbirth — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:54:28 +0000

macOS 26, of course.

New comment by mbirth in "HopTab – Open source macOS app switcher and tiler that replaces Cmd+Tab"

mbirth — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:32:36 +0000

Native clipboard history was introduced in iOS 26’s new Spotlight.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl40d5b86b/...

New comment by mbirth in "Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety"

mbirth — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:15:28 +0000

“They only want your firstborn. You can make more kids."

New comment by mbirth in "The Official DR DOS Website"

mbirth — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:46:35 +0000

DiRe DOS :)

New comment by mbirth in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

mbirth — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:54:45 +0000

Check out News Explorer. Works on iOS, too, and syncs everything via iCloud.

New comment by mbirth in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

mbirth — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:35:45 +0000

I’ve setup a local RSSBridge instance and use its “CSS Selector Feed Expander” module to expand these feeds into full feeds.

They also have a public instance.

https://rss-bridge.org/

New comment by mbirth in "19 States approved permanent daylight saving time"

mbirth — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:25:22 +0000

I loved the idea. However, the main issue was that it completely ignored the date.

While it worked fine in Western Europe - as i.Beats were based on the “Biel Mean Time” = GMT+1, people in the US would e.g. wake up at @584 on March 7 and eat dinner @125 on March 8.

New comment by mbirth in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

mbirth — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:48:29 +0000

Yep, just think of those people in front of you, that pass the same several large signs telling them to make sure that all their liquids are in a 1 litre ziplock bag and have that bag ready for inspection (this is in Europe) … and then doing a surprised Pikachu when the security personell asks them about why their perfume isn’t in said bag. Then starting to repack their hand luggage while the whole queue has to wait and watch.

And you only experience those few people in front of you. The security staff has them all day long.

New comment by mbirth in "70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)"

mbirth — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:28:07 +0000

They didn’t go out of fashion. It’s just that some people emptied them to sell the books on flea markets, sometimes drunk people used those for their “business”; and sometimes, kids set them on fire. And this was just in a rather small town.

New comment by mbirth in "Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times"

mbirth — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:02:28 +0000

A while ago I've rewritten TRMNL's Kindle-client from Bash into Lua, optimised it a bit and when doing a refresh every 5 minutes, my Kindle Paperwhite 10th gen now lasts about 5-6 days on a charge.

https://github.com/mbirth/trmnl-kindle/tree/lua-rewrite

New comment by mbirth in "Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents"

mbirth — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:29:42 +0000

Not to be confused with:

cord - The #1 AI-Powered Job Search Platform for people in tech

New comment by mbirth in "Running My Own XMPP Server"

mbirth — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:11:15 +0000

Latency isn’t that much of an issue. There might be greylisting for the initial message, but once the receiving server knows you, it’s pretty usable. And since everything is an email, you can “chat” with people that don’t use DeltaChat and they can reply using their normal email program. If you’re not using encryption, that is.

New comment by mbirth in "Running My Own XMPP Server"

mbirth — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:07:53 +0000

Isn’t that still email/SMTP under the hood - just optimised for fast delivery?

New comment by mbirth in "Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code"

mbirth — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:59:41 +0000

The MacOS hex editor HexFiend uses Tcl for its template language.

> https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend/blob/master/templates/T...