Oliver's /dev/null replacement

Well, I guess the inaction of the UNSC in the case of the Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus emboldened Ecuador to raid the Mexican embassy. I wonder if future historians — prov...

https://blog.assarbad.net/20240415/the-end-of-international-law/

I have written about Microsoft Teams before (in German), how horrible a user experience it is and so on. Let me tell you, it hasn’t gotten any better. Only “newer”. Remember, Microsoft love...

https://blog.assarbad.net/20240412/why/

Linux is my main system, but I prefer using NTFS for various use cases and in fact some use cases require something like NTFS. The ST400 is the successor of several Zalman-rebranded iODD devices ...

https://blog.assarbad.net/20231218/migrating-data-from-2-tb-ssd-to-4-tb-ssd-with-iodd-st400-drive-enclosure/

/Be appears to spit out a make file1 snippet that contains the recipe to reproduce a given run of cl.exe. It takes into account variables. Check it out: all: @cd D:17.7.5x64 @set INCLUDE= @set LI...

https://blog.assarbad.net/20231107/two-more-useful-flags-for-cl-exe/

Previously the so-called Office and especially Teams were ranking quite high among the shittiest software from Microsoft in my book. In fact Teams in all its incarnations is probably going to tak...

https://blog.assarbad.net/20231027/new-shittiest-software-from-microsoft-in-my-book/

Now, while any small town club is able to reject applications for membership and scholarships are tied to preconditions — and ignoring for a minute that NATO even refused to talk about Russia�...

https://blog.assarbad.net/20230710/natos-open-door-policy/

Some ongoing research. For obvious reasons I can only share results and tools, but not actual sample data.

https://blog.assarbad.net/20230702/undocumented-msvc/

Turns out you can enable detailed logging of the command lines run by MSBuild when building from Visual Studio or the command line. This may not seem like much, until you realize that technically...

https://blog.assarbad.net/20230607/log-build-command-lines-with-cl-exe-link-exe-and-friends/

Mit der Ankündigung Großbritanniens panzerbrechende Munition mit abgereichertem Uran (Englisch “depleted uranium”) an die Ukraine zu liefern — und den quasi nicht existenten medialen Eins...

https://blog.assarbad.net/20230323/jetzt-wird-farbe-bekannt/

Ist schon faszinierend daß die Kubakrise häufig zum Vergleich mit der aktuellen Weltlage — mithin der Beziehung zwischen Rußland und den USA — bemüht wird, jedoch regelmäßig auch hier d...

https://blog.assarbad.net/20230302/geschichte-und-geschichten/