In an interview with Zelinsky Trump asks "why haven't you had an election? " Zelensky : "because we are at war" you can see the idea percolating then. People think I'm a nutter for suggesting there just won't be another election but that's where my money is. I'm waiting for his version of the Gestapo, ICE seems to be a proving ground

An important detail here is that Ukraine's constitution says they can't have an election while they're at war. The US constitution does not say that, and the USA has had elections during wars several times.

You're not a nutter. Trump constantly projects what he's going to do and no one takes him seriously because what he says is so beyond the pale. I explicitly remember the exact instance you're talking about because I thought the same thing as you are thinking.

There will be a sham election, like in Russia, but a sizable number of people will be unable to vote. Trump only need to steal the election in a few key districts

People like married women who changed their name, or foreign sounding people, they will be prevented to vote in 2026. ICE will guard polls to physically make people unable to reach the ballots

ICE is trump building a personal army

For machine tools I just use an oil can with a finer than normal tapered tip, this will depress the ball bearing in zerk / grease nipple fittings no problems, this also works with the ball oilers typically found on lathes etc. You can cut a tiny slit in the end too if that helps get oil in https://www.wentztech.com/metalworking/projects/convert-a-ch...

One place I worked at used Red Dwarf characters, Hollister, Cat, Toaster, Rimmer etc

TV show characters can be good

I normally use Greek gods for snowflake servers

A concatenation of owner / location and device for LAN devices. JohnsPixel4, LoungeTV,

This has aged well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17818647

ALWAYS:

Actually, Later We'll Adjust Your Service

The relicense doesn't bother me. That straight up lie, though.

Pretty much. I think it's the whole virtue signaling and intellectual hand wavy dishonesty that really bugs me about these companies. They want to have the cake and eat it too.

Do companies like Apple say macOS is open source (I mean the entire OS, not just Darwin)? No. Some people are fine with it because we know this.

LSP (Language Server Protocol) a way for editors to talk to language tools to provide auto complete, warnings errors etc. this means the language tools can be written once and then any editor that has LSP support can use it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Server_Protocol

Not even particularly elegant code, for example, opacity is clamped between 0 and 1 in in the very next line a bounds check is made anyway.

  opacity = (opacity < 0) ? 0 : opacity;
  opacity = (opacity > 1) ? 1 : opacity;
  if(opacity >= 0 && opacity <= 1) {
      document.getElementsByTagName("BODY")[0].style.opacity = opacity;
  }

> these religious institutions help stabilize society

I'm not sure this is true, there are plenty of conflicts because of religion. I would argue the most stable would for nobody to be religious

A couple others

Mail Catcher https://mailcatcher.me/

Lunatic SMTP https://github.com/anlar/lunaticsmtp

Green Mail https://greenmail-mail-test.github.io/greenmail/

I’ve used mailcatcher for years and love it. It is perfect.

Same, I'm using it in CI/CD for full E2E tests of web apps in combination with Playwright for app interaction, and it's awesome. Same test flow can nicely simulate user interactions and verify that emails with the correct content go out from the backend, all in seconds within a normal Gitlab CI test job.

May take a look at Mailpit though. It has the advantage of having a native Docker image build, whereas for Mailcatcher I'm using a third-party Alpine-based image.

Also, Mailhog: https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog

Per mailpit author mailhog is not actively developed and has performance issues. Hence developed this alternative

Ah, I did not know that, sorry.

I've been using https://github.com/maildev/maildev, and it has worked fine for me.

smtp4dev https://github.com/rnwood/smtp4dev - works well in docker, has api, can selectively forward to a real smtp

Auctions generally perform better in a seller's market (strong buyer demand), with interest rate rises prices have been dropping lately here (NZ)

Banks don't give out access to this API easily. Unfortunately it's not some OAuth thing that a new upstart accounting software could easily hook into, therefore the banks gate keep feeds to major accounting providers and no doubt charge excessively for the privelage. We need regulation to open feeds to anyone willing to consume them, or a bank to add it as a feature but why would they when they can charge Xero and MYOB to access proprietary feeds