Evgeny Kuznetsov

В этом году не то, что интернет — даже SMS отключили, а то вдруг чего. Бездельники в метро интересуются мало не каждым рюкзаком. Да и людей с автоматическим оружием на улицах сильно больше, чем комфортно.

Боятся. До дрожи в коленках боятся Великие Победители праздновать Великую Победу.

Хорошо, что дед не дожил: ему бы было больно на всё это смотреть.

As I reported earlier, I run my own email server; I still do. The server is fine, and I keep using it for my personal mail. I also have a “server” at home, and that server has been serving mail for even longer. I chiefly use it for outgoing mail — the automatic notifications my various computers generate — but it also serves as a backup MX for my main email server, so the SMTP port is open to the Internet at large.

Я тут в выходные программировал немного на домашнем компе, и включил, конечно, автодополнение от LLMки — очень удобно и полезно, когда пишешь код или документацию. А в блог же я пишу в том же редакторе, и обычно функцию эту выключаю: насколько предложения LLM обычно «в тему» для кода, настолько же они отвлекают и сбивают при написании нормального текста.

Само собой, садясь писать вчерашний пост, отключить автодополнение я забыл. Но «интеллект», разумеется, немедленно о себе напомнил.

There are things that are nice and interesting to do, yet there are things you’d rather not spend your time and effort doing. People are different, and my categorization may not match yours, but on average, there are a lot of things in today’s life that one would like to delegate to some extent. Hiring a person or a team for this is something very few of us can afford, but technical progress gives some hope to wide audience, too.

Owning your own data is great. I’ve been using this website as the central IndieWeb point of my online life for over five years, and I love it. However, the joy of owning your own website comes bundled with great responsibility: as the website owner, I am responsible for what’s on my site and for what’s stored “under the hood” to make this website work.

It’s not a huge issue as long as I only post my own content on my site, but the cool thing about the IndieWeb — as opposed to “regular” Web — is its social aspect, the ability to interact with other people running other websites. To do that I usually need to put some of the data that belongs to other people onto my website. And that always makes me uncomfortable.

This post is about obvious things, but it looks like they aren’t that obvious to some people.

Many messengers allow to send voice messages instead of text. These messages are problematic: you can’t read them in a meeting, you can’t skim through them later to remember what the conversation was about, you can’t search the contents of these messages… The fact that the voice messages are possible to send doesn’t mean you should. You shouldn’t.

I recently learned that the foundations of the audiophile world are being rocked, shaken and uprooted by a horrifying scandal that has already been dubbed MoFi-gate. Everything about this scandal is so hilarious I can’t stop giggling.

Russian users are receiving letters from Namecheap stating they have until March 6 to transfer their domains to another provider.

For pro-regime users, it’s a nuisance, of course. Not a major one, though, since the pro-regime Russians tend to have their domains in the .ru zone, and have them registered at the Russian providers.

Anti-regime users, including bloggers, foundations, and other organizations, on the other hand, need to have their domains registered abroad, and have no other choice. Roskomnadzor, the Russian communications watchdog (serving as the censorship agency for the regime) is blocking anti-Putin publications left and right, and has, on numerous occasions, subpoenaed the domain registrars based in Russia to stop providing services to those violating the Russian regulations¹.