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Originally called Phoenix, since it was Netscape Navigator, reborn.

But Phoenix Technologies disliked that, so they renamed to a descriptive name for the same immortal bird – Firebird.

The Firebird database people would have none of that, so after a few-months gap between 0.x releases, they found the closest thing they possibly could which was not trademarked. It had nothing to do with the original name idea, fire being a weak link.

And we’ve been stuck with that stupid name for two decades.

World news

Posts article from 2015

I guess I’m more up to date now, thanks!

zsh

Occasionally oil for neovim.

OUT.

This is now cool people thread.

apt-get, bitches.

And don’t forget to close the door on the way out!

Go on, then. Do argue that’s mostly attributable to liberalised free markets.

To each their own.

I thought that the trick with exposing the raw hardware to a VM was the coolest thing ever, since it negates this entire “do their special tools support Linux” issue. And you do it once every 6 months, maybe 4 times in total, until releases taper off.

Have a ready Qemu image of a Windows install. Have a live distro that has (or can install to RAM) Qemu. Boot Windows using Qemu in the live environment, and VFIO-passthrough your NVME as a PCI device. Install and run the official Windows-based update tool, which now has raw access to the SSD.

At least that’s what I’m doing for my WD.

An elegy for a clockwork-smooth, labor of love, tit slip site? Well, the Internet is alive and kicking!

This morning storm Poly smashed the Netherlands, especially North Holland (Amsterdam region). Digital emergency alert system was used, three times, and directed people to Twitter.

Which was closed, of course. It’s a political shitshow right now. Amsterdam municipality already runs its own Mastodon, and this fuckup will probably have consequences in moving official broadcast channels off Twitter.