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I rented a Volkswagen a few months ago and yep, that checks out.

Also it was the first time in my life I had to search online how to reset a car entertainment system, because the screen suddenly didn’t work anymore.

A friend of mine bought a new VW a few years ago. He was so excited about that app it came with alerting him about unlocked doors, open trunk, open window, etc. Well, 100% false alert rate.

I remember seeing VRML as a kid and I was mindblown. If I recall correctly, it ran in IE 4 with an add-on. I really thought, only a few more weeks and I can build games like Doom myself running in a browser.

Well, with my assessment I was off over a decade lol.

Last week I went to some meetup and met a young guy raving about every website is going to be VR in about two years. I didn’t even know about VRML.

Still using Google Workspace in our company to collaborate and send/receive emails, still using Google Maps for recommendations and routes, still using a Google phone. I guess the answer is no.

Almost three years ago, but the last time we used database as engine for Laravel’s queue subsystem it exploded due to some database table locks under high load. We switched to redis and things just worked well.

> Plain old files on the file system

…and accessed over SFTP.

I worked for a company in the health industry and one of the labs we integrated refused to call a HTTPS endpoint whenever a result was ready, so we had to poll every _n_ mins to fetch results. That worked well until covid happened and there were so many test results causing all sorts of issues like reading empty files (because they were about to be written to disk) and things of that nature.

> Disable IPv6: this approach relies on ARP, which IPv6 doesn't use

I wish more people would care about IPv6.

Yes, you contact support provide them a description of what is faulty (disk with the exact serial number) and they gonna replace it usually within 30-60 mins.

Provisioning of servers was always quite fast. Same day or the next business day.

My experience is a little dated, I used to order bunch of dedicated boxes from them for our clients and with Hetzner we always had the best experience. Also the most bang for the buck.

Is it correct though?

I’ve been toying around with ChatGPT for a few weeks now and I encountered a few situations in which ChatGPT was like 90% accurate at best. Things like suggesting snippets of configuration files or plugin research. It’s good to get an idea and get started somewhere, but I certainly cannot trust it blindly.

I got one self-hosted setup: Postfix, dovecot, both IPv4 and IPv6. It has been working for 15+ years and is still going strong. Never had any major deliverability issues.

In my new company we are using Gmail though. Easier to manage for non-tech people and it’s fully managed.

I think the idea was (or still is) to have dollars or some other equivalent that is more tangible and easier to transfer in the world of cryptocurrencies.