If you try visiting The Pirate Bay from Holland nowadays, you are very likely to be disappointed. Your internet provider will most probably block your access with a page like this: https://blocked.t-mobilethuis.nl/

This is, of course, completely unacceptable.

But while we are sitting around wondering when the revolution will start so that we can round up all those responsible for this situation and send them to the forced labor camps, it would be nice if we had some means of bypassing the block.

Here is how:

Right out of the box, an Ubuntu 18.04 machine will not see any Microsoft Windows machines on the network, and Windows machines will not see it. Unfortunately, there is an incredible amount of work necessary to get it to work properly. So, here are my notes on setting up an Ubuntu 18.04 Linux workstation to act both as a Samba server and as a Samba client in a Windows Workgroup.

Server

I have been researching clipboard managers for Linux, (Ubuntu with Gnome,) and I am recording my findings here for the benefit of others.

This is an article I enjoyed reading. I am in full agreement with every claim made therein. It was very nice to see certain conclusions that I have arrived at in the past being spelled out and illustrated with nice explanations.

https://medium.com/@egonelbre/psychology-of-code-readability-d23b1ff1258a

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• gmc 2019-09-16 19:05:24 UTC

  About naming, this is a brilliant podcast on the subject that i think should be required listening for any sw engineer: https://www.se-radio.net/2016/12/se-radio-episode-278-peter-hilton-on-naming/

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My apartment is equipped with a Ferroli BlueSense boiler, which I needed to troubleshoot today, but the manual is in Dutch, so I had to find the manual in electronic form on the interwebz, and have it machine-translated to English.

I am posting both the original and the machine-translated version here, in case others find it useful.

Ferroli BlueSense Boiler 3, 4 and 5 user's manual in Dutch (PDF)

So, I have this huge mp3 collection that is mostly missing cover art. I embarked on a quest to add cover art to each mp3 file, and before long I realized that I need some software to help me with it. Here I am documenting my findings.