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Maybe @JiaT75 got forced to do it. Maybe someone has more personal contact with him and can check how he is doing.

Very entertaining post and comments. :)

Big old fashion corporation had sometime build up their on internal postal system. Sometimes the try to reinvent the wheel instead of just reading about the estiablished postal system and get the best out of it.

One time I worked in such a big corporation and I have written internal letters to the CEO during business trips to other locations with a big "Thank You Postal Office Operations Team" on the enevlope to increase their visibility.

It's very important to have the base/grounds/fundamentals in a good way to support things building on top. If you have shitty network your application will be shitty, too. If you have bad roads you can't have a fast and reliable shipping of goods between companies. You have to invest in the base to have an enviornment which allow to grow and evolve.

In Germany there was a lot of discussion about fiber Internet build out and if we need it. At some point the discussion changed to "Yes, we need it as the base" and only discussion about you pays for it.

For me personally I feel more comfortable and safe with a working base (aka Goverment/Community/Society). And a lot of people working hard to have the base up and running to just let some egiost running their company and proudly saying "It's me who worked hard to build this great company and I'm the greatest man on earth". But of course he could only do that with the base.

It got better with fiber in my area. Now 1G symmetric is available for 199€ per month.

https://twitter.com/csch42 have a couple of IPv4 subnets similar to 192.168. https://ipinfo.io/AS20488. In some podcasts he mentioned a lot of invalid requests.

Do you have more information about GPON from AT&T? Here in Germany I have seen only authentication based on the GPON SFP serial number and not with EAP-TLS.

Maybe this is interesting for you https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-07-10-linux-25gbit-...

What eInk display are you using and in which case?

Do you use your main workstation with directly connected display or via some remote technology? My home server is in the basement and I have several low end devices around but haven’t found a way to use GUI applications remotely. Currently I use only TUI ones.

https://nogis.at/

Anyone has some details about their technology stack (OS, database, Middleware)?

I use an XMPP Bit to track my spends in cash and then later import it. Anyone else using something similar?

I have seen some Excel files from end users which grows into a whole application. The users wanted more functionalty and didn't get through all the management levels to reach someone from corporate IT and just start doing it by themselve with the tools they know and develop from Excel to Macros to VBA to VBA with SQL Database (because they have a standard process in the company to request a new SQL Database and the data was to big to be just in the Excel file directly). And then the company have this whole mess of "application" which is already business cricitcal because a lot of other users just use it as the fastet way to get their job done and the person who develop it is the only one which someone knows to handle it and maintain the application.

At some point in time the original person isn't available anymore and whole setup will have troubles because of upgrades of the basis (e.g. Excel) or just performance problems. They are even consulting companies specialize in optimizing or migrate to new Excel version for such kind of applications.

The corporate IT have to pick up the users early to help them to solve their current problem or help them to be more efficient with IT. If nobody helps they will develop their own solution which the knowledge/tools the have.