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The browser company drama

A few years back some well intended folks founded The Browser Company and built what seemed a rather cool browser called Arc. Then at some point they decided to pivot and started replacing Arc for some AI bloat browser called Dia. Dia is only available for Macs with M CPUs so the marketshare is rather

VMware support merged to Broadcom Support

Earlier today I received this email to my VMware account, fortunately I switched all my ESXi infrastructure to Proxmox over the past months: Dear Valued VMware Customer,  Broadcom Inc. recently acquired VMware (Press Release) and as a result of the acquisition, all VMware support accounts (ie. VMware Customer Connect) are being migrated to Broadcom’s support

Porkbun is the worst registrar ever

Over the years I’ve had domains registered with various registrars and I still have domains with like 5-6 registrars because it’s almost impossible to consolidate them into one. Some don’t offer country specific TLD’s like .ro or .es and some offer those, but for three times the actual price. So at some point I decided