Gemini CLI was my late entry into AI-assisted work.
It was included in my employers workspace subscription so I tried it out last june, and that's how I finally understood the power of AI.
Then they announced that it was no longer included in our license and I bought my own Claude license instead, the employer went with another AI company.
Pollen allergies have definitely skyrocketed in Sweden. We used to be able to sit in an office and work all year without hearing people sniffle and sneeze.
Now it's like an epidemic, at least half the office is affected.
Probably we can blame higher hygiene standards, or some other environmental factor for it. Forests haven't changed much in past decades.
Here in Finland I've never been affected by any kind of tree pollen at all, but somehow timothy grass pollen gives me horrible symptoms, forcing me to take antihistamine most of the summer. I lived my childhood near farmland and forests, so definitely got exposed to both forms of pollen at early age.
And I got it as an adult, in 2009. So 26 years without any allergies, then suddenly, one summer in Helsingborg, the air was thick with pollen. I remember the smell was like cheese doodles in the air, musty.
Once I got back from an errand in the city my face was leaking, I walked to the pharmacy with blurry vision to get my first antihistamines. Ever since then every year june is a nightmare. It affects your sleep, so it affects every part of life.
And since then I've observed more and more pollen allergies around me, friends, co-workers, strangers on the bus. It's very prevalent.
I would not be surprised if humans caused this somehow with our modern city planning.
Once you get sensitized, it gets worse every year, right?
Since my teenage years I was mildly allergic to pollen, and now in my adulthood it seems to be getting progressively worse. Each spring is worse than the previous one, and the antihistamines do less effect (or so I subjectively feel).
That is the general pattern but not always. I never used to have allergies and then developed them a few years ago. Was very miserable for a couple months every year for about 5 years but they disappeared again a couple years ago. I tried a few things like taking a spoonful of local honey every day etc. Ultimately I don't know what made the difference sadly but I haven't been bothered by seasonal allergies for several years now.
I've had seasonal allergies for decades and haven't seen them trend more intense, though some years have more allergens than others.
Personally I only take allergy medication maybe 50-100 days a year, and usually just a half dose. I have definitely heard from people with worse symptoms that they get a tolerance to medications so it may help to switch between them if you take them year round.
Not _necessarily_. I had big problems with pollen when I was a kid, but very rarely, these days (there seems to be _something_ that causes me difficulty for a few weeks a year, but that's more or less it now).
One theory has to do with sanitation and how well we've done at eliminating parasites. Some people have reported successfully curing allergies by giving themselves a hookworm infection.
> The fact that some local African languages contain no words to describe allergic symptoms could support this hypothesis, indicating that allergic diseases have never been a problem among these populations
Covid fucked with people in various, not easy to measure ways. Some effects went away (like losing smell and taste, but it took months for me), some... not so much.
When I get cold/sneezing (the usual non-flu winter sickness) I cough much more since covid, more thick sputum created in the lower part of the throat. Talked with few people around and they confirmed they feel similar effects.
Allergies could easily be another area where effects can be subtle but permanent in some individuals. My father's hair got almost completely white after he almost ended up on ventilation for example. We as family with 2 kids (back then babies) had covid at least 11-12 times so far (confirmed by tests, wife is a doctor), plus few other probably-but-not-tested. Most recent one last autumn was like immunity went to 0 again, was coughing away nasty stuff for another month. I am glad I just survived all that, some of that was mild and some was pretty harsh on body and mind.
I had exactly the same experience. After I contracted Covid, until last year, it usually took me 2 weeks to stop coughing after the other symptoms went away. I think what improved the situation is exercise. I started to sprint walk a lot since last year and so far I haven’t had any long cough since then.
My son also got asthma after Covid. But he also improved when he grew a bit older (now close to six). We still give him the pumps whenever he had a bad cold, though.
Hope you and your family get better. It is very nasty. It is not life threatening but threatens pretty much everything else.
Not really, but OpenBSD has been in my life for 25 years.
I used OpenBSD to create the firewalls for our LAN parties when I was at school.
The first shellserver I ran, on an UltraSparc IIi was OpenBSD, gave out accounts to my friends.
And then I used it as a firewall, both professionally and personally, for many years. Until the first Turris Omnia was released, and now I have retired even Turris for pfSense, which is FreeBSD I believe.
But the PF firewall in OpenBSD was superior, definitely to the syntax of IPtables.
To me Linux was a great server OS, and OpenBSD was a great FW/Gateway OS.
I've done the same with Lenovo and BENQ monitors with built in KVM, but DDC commands were new to me. I just switched source on the monitor buttons and it would also switch all USB peripherals at the same time.
The dark ages had a power vacuum that made pillaging more profitable than trading.
I think the vikings were actually among the last of their kind, the last to become christianized and part of the European trade network. And that might be why they're so fascinating.
The author essentially bootstraps their servers with a known trusted host key, so that first connection is recognized, instead of having to trust a new and recently generated host key when you first connect.
It's a neat little trick if you're often deploying VPS in shared cloud environments.
How to deploy secrets during bootstrap to a new virtual machine running in the Cloud that does not leave a trace in the infrastructure. And in a way that I can completely automate the deployment.
One answer is providing the secrets in cloudinit - but this leaves a trail on the host/provider's infrastructure, I do not know if those configs I paste into the portal then get saved off somewhere.
The other option (more secure) is having the keys/secrets generated on the host itself at first boot. But then this is difficult to automate as I would need to scrap them (even just the public parts) in a secure way. One option would be to have the public keys printed to the terminal/VNC - but this is much more trouble than it is worth to automate.
I'm not sure on a good solution. This is taking quite an adversarial security model though, assuming the host/provider is not completely trustworthy. Of course not owning the hardware means that the host/provider could be performing other attacks without my knowledge (copying memory, etc.)
You can bootstrap from your custom ISO with some embedded starter key, upload ISO, loads into RAM and opens SSH, connect and run a playbook to encrypt the root drive where you deploy your OS with your SSH key. If you went with encrypted root, you might need to enter pass via console, or dropbear server in a pre-boot env you connect to via SSH to enter the key if you dont trust the console, or setup some custom network unlock mechanism, etc. But once unlocked your provider can still dump your keys from memory. There are also things like AMD SEV-SNP for some more confidential use cases.
We all have different needs, to me any Macintosh is just as hard to justify.
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