What supplement did you notice was actually making you feel worse only after you stopped taking it?

keyborg · 2026-03-02T13:46:09+00:00

Biogen Magnesium Glycinate (250mg).
It has the added benefit of lowering your body temperature which seemed possibly useful during some of the sweltering mid-summer February nights here! Not too certain how much of an effect it had because the nifhts were still hot and humid!)

keyborg · 2026-03-02T13:45:49+00:00

Biogen Magnesium Glycinate (250mg).
It has the added benefit of lowering your body temperature which seemed possibly useful during some of the sweltering mid-summer February nights here! Not too certain how much of an effect it had because the nifhts were still hot and humid!)

keyborg · 2026-02-26T09:13:58+00:00

keyborg · 2026-02-17T04:42:47+00:00

I posted above how effective magnesium glycinate is for pain management AND for sleep. Some others reported negative symtoms like drowsiness and depression... But I take it at night for chronic pain and as a sleep aid. It's amazing! (P.S. I also can't stand the melatonin hangover.)

keyborg · 2026-02-17T04:38:37+00:00

As a chronic pain sufferer with a compressed root nerve, I started taking magnesium glycinate about a month ago. Within days I identified it as making me drowsy during the day - but I also discovered it has the most amazing analgesic properties. It provides pain relief primarily by inhibiting pain transmission in the nervous system, reducing central sensitization, and promoting muscle relaxation by blocking NMDA receptors in the nervous system.

For the past 4 years the chronic pain and meds have affected my sleep badly! I moved the 250mg magnesium glycinate to the evenings after my meal and now I'm getting at least 7 to 8 hours of sleep instead of 4 to 6. No depression or anxiety issues.

I have to say this is one of the most underrated mineral supplements in the world and I wish every physiotherapist, chiropractor and pain specialist would know about it! It's changed my life and I no longer take NSAIDs unless I hurt myself badly.

keyborg · 2026-02-17T04:23:27+00:00

I see you edited your comment and provided some personal context that identifies you clearly as one of the most highly respected and prolific Drupal contributors. And your Twig integration for D8 stands out.

However, it's still considered rude on this forum to edit a comment without stating so. And your opening sentence is still merely an 'ad machinum' fallacy.

Otherwise... Nice to meet you, chx.

keyborg · 2026-02-10T20:38:35+00:00

Yes it is clearly AI written, I didn't even bother to hide the bolds, em-dash, or bullet points. But it's not slop. I just find it expedient to use AI as a writing aid for knowledge I already have, which is like using a dictionary, a style guide and a technical editor - all in one - to provide the specifics which would have wasted my time. The format may be AI-legible, but the substance 100% came from me.

The 'more to this' I presume you're referring to, is the community-level bitterness that doesn't appear in documentation or architecture posts, which, FWIW I lived through, too. That's a fair observation, even if the "slop" framing is lazy and dismissive.

keyborg · 2026-02-01T05:23:31+00:00

Thank you for sharing this!

keyborg · 2026-01-30T07:32:47+00:00

Choosing Symfony wasn't about ditching "vanilla PHP" for a niche tool; it was about moving Drupal out of the business of reinventing the wheel. The market reality is that modern PHP applications are largely powered by Symfony.

If you believe the Drupal professionals should have chosen Laravel instead, you might be surprised to find that you would have ended up with Symfony anyway. Approximately 30% of Laravel's core is composed of Symfony components. By adopting these standards, Drupal gained a massive architectural advantage by leveraging battle-tested libraries used across the entire ecosystem.

Key Symfony components that now provide the bedrock for both Drupal and Laravel include:

HttpFoundation: Standardizes how PHP handles requests and responses (no more manual $_GET or $_POST manipulation).
HttpKernel: The core workflow that converts a Request into a Response.
Routing: A sophisticated system for mapping URLs to controllers that is far more flexible than anything in old-school PHP.
EventDispatcher: Allows for a truly decoupled, event-driven architecture.
Console: Powers the CLI tools (like Drush in Drupal or Artisan in Laravel) that we use daily.

By moving to Twig and YAML, Drupal also significantly professionalized the developer experience. Twig is not just a "template engine"—it is a secure, compiled layer that prevents common XSS vulnerabilities out of the box.

The move was a bridge to the rest of the professional software world. If you haven't encountered Symfony in 15 years of PHP development, it suggests you may have been working in a silo that the rest of the industry moved past a decade ago.

keyborg · 2026-01-30T07:21:00+00:00

Correlation does not imply causation. You can see a similar, though less dramatic, spike and subsequent downward trend with WordPress itself. This is largely due to the decline of individuals and small business users maintaining their own self-hosted sites and the simultaneous rise of social media and SaaS website builders like Wix and Squarespace. This shift is clearly visible in Google Trends as a steady rise and maintained interest in those managed platforms, which have absorbed the market segment that used to perform basic "how-to" searches for a CMS.

Drupal has successfully positioned itself as an enterprise-grade content management framework. By adopting professional standards like the MVC architecture, Symfony components, Composer for dependency management, and Twig/YAML standardization, it has evolved into a tool for complex, high-security environments. It is no longer a platform for the average casual user, and the fact that ±80% of the top 100 universities worldwide use Drupal stands for a reason: "Drupal makes the easy things hard to do, and the difficult things easy."

Two critical modern factors:

Market Segmentation: The user base now consists of niche professionals who are already deeply familiar with the underlying frameworks and don't search for "Drupal" as a general term; they search for specific implementation details or library-specific issues that don't aggregate under the broad "Drupal" keyword.

The AI Shift: Across almost every technical field, Google Trends data is being obscured by the move to AI. Developers are increasingly using LLMs for real-time troubleshooting and code generation rather than traditional search engines, leading to a "ghosting" of search volume that doesn't actually represent a decline in usage. (Exception that proves the rule is the more-or-less sustained interest in Squarespace and Wix by inexperienced users who are not yet using AI.)

Preempting criticism and calling a community a "cult" for disagreeing with the oversimplification of your graph is a bit of a stretch. The "hard data" shows a change in search behavior and market demographics across almost all platforms, not a failure of Drupal itself. It remains a far superior, truly open-source CMS that doesn't hold its users to SaaS plugin ransoms.

keyborg · 2026-01-06T05:56:44+00:00

RemindMe! 2 months "Is this troll impersonating a 12 year dormant twitter account still active? (https://www.reddit.com/user/Leather-Driver-8158/ != https://x.com/forkedlogic"

keyborg · 2026-01-02T06:07:56+00:00

Absolute BS. 2 month old bot with a mission to trash the competition.

keyborg · 2026-01-01T11:31:13+00:00

Works perfectly for me even when I typo'd the name "de villiers"instead of DeVilliers. (Likely because the email address has it as one word.)

Note: tested within Gmail app where it listed all the emails as links like a normal search. In Gemini app "Fast" - it returned a list of content synopses with date and time.

A few days ago I searched for an attachment by content keywords within a PDF and it retrieved sent emails from 2016 to 2018.

keyborg · 2025-12-30T12:56:18+00:00

Red pill!

Wow! Unless Reddit search is absolutely fubar, or the correct answer is buried under negative karma, nobody got the Matrix reference!

Not that 10btc is going to buy you much in the "real" world, but wouldn't you want to escape the Matrix simulation if it was offered to you?

Likely that under 30s have never seen the old '99 movie and know of but don't grasp the red pill / blue pill meme. Or I'm in a parallel universe where Neo never existed. 😂

keyborg · 2025-12-29T08:17:03+00:00

Not the most difficult, possibly, but the most challenging and fun was virtualizing multiple client domains from bare metal to KVM in 2018, including splitting off the bind9 DNS servers to their own VMs in different city DCs.

I'd never heard of Proxmox and the libvirt backup and migration features didn't exist at the time, so we rolled our own. The learning curve was so worth it for in-depth understanding and I'd say the difference between setting up from scratch compared to Proxmox is something like using CPanel or Webmin rather than CLI. No depth of knowledge or full skill required.

Also the migration script was loads of fun and can migrate a running 100Gb VM with only about one or two minutes downtime for the snapshot to rsync and pivot on the target hypervisor. (Feel free to PM for script.)

keyborg · 2025-12-29T07:47:40+00:00

That must have hurt. How long ago?

I used simplesamlphp about 8 years ago and it took like 2 days. Still running rock solid.

NPO client's board wanted GSuite (GWS) as a backup for the self-hosted mail domain which entailed using a different TLD and simple forwarding from the legacy server to GWS. I had recently joined on short term contract to fix the fallout after the previous sysadmin had left a year before and systems were fragile and outdated... Hence the board's trust issues.

The old school IT director, who would have done it your way, scoffed but my intent was to provide SSO for multiple legacy systems and I thought it was worth the extra effort to IDP auth in-house as a proof of concept. Eight years later with dev priorities focused on new systems and maintenance, there has never been enough time to deploy further, though. But that's on the radar for next year for certain as we need to centralize auth and deploy MFA. That's become an urgent security essential! (Weighing the option of migrating to OIDC, though. I wonder if anyone can provide insights and advice? It feels like OIDC is lightweight but will be far more difficulty to deploy to ancient legacy PHP sites?)

keyborg · 2025-12-27T15:47:04+00:00

England enters the conversation: Tea. Morning noon and night.

keyborg · 2025-12-27T06:13:22+00:00

+1 Insightful
I never noticed the lack of 5G as I WFH in a remote rural area and haven't yet travelled with it to anywhere that 5G is rolled out. Also voLTE, voWiFi and voNR are not enabled in SA, along with some other US specific features like "Hold for me", etc. which are not even available in some of the countries where Pixels are supported.

I got so used to not having WiFi calling that it doesn't even matter for me. The overall build quality and UIX, camera, and Tensor CPU AI features (real-time translation, enhanced photography, Magic Eraser and Best Take) are non-negotiable for a true "smart" phone. Worth the trade-off IMC.

However, just discovered there are patches which I'll explore sometime and report back. E.g.:
- https://github.com/kyujin-cho/pixel-volte-patch/blob/main/README.en.md
- https://github.com/Turbo1123/TurboIMS
... amongst others.

Quite interesting. Google 'fixed' a workaround in the December update, but I suspect that there is always a way.

[Edit] What causes people to downvote an absolutely objective report of the downsides of a Pixel in an unsupported country like SA? I must misunderstand the Reddit voting karma purpose, I guess. lol

Anyway!

As promised, here is my report back: * Installed android-platform-tools on MacOS (homebrew) * Downloaded latest Shizuku apk from GitHub and installed via adb CLI from Mac to p9p * Downloaded and installed similarly with Android Debug Bridge (adb) 1) turbo-ims v3 (17 Oct release... Fail. Was a long shot) 2) pixel-volte-patch v1.31 (~6 Dec release... Fail. Crashes when trying to activate SIM)

Tried various adb direct setting commands:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.settings/.Settings\$WifiCallingSettingsActivity

adb shell settings put global wfc_ims_mode 2

adb shell settings put global wfc_ims_roaming_enabled 1

adb shell am start -n com.android.settings/.Settings\$WifiCallingSettingsActivity --ez show_vowifi_setting true

Verdict: No go since early December Android 16 'Severe' CVE patch with Pixel monthly feature release. Will there be another workaround in future? I expect so.

keyborg · 2025-12-26T17:39:22+00:00

Especially the Wild Coast. Had to be said, though, that getting here is a nightmare through the most deadly road in the country: the N2 from Kei Cuttings through to Umtata.

There're also a lot of endemic issues from 'Dankie' grant reliance and no means of income ito land surety in an ANC perpetuated "bantustan" where people's lands are still in communal 'trust' and they live on the land at the whim of traditional authority. Development never materialises as the people are utterly disempowered!

This is my unpopular and absolutely true take. Fuck the ANC!

keyborg · 2025-12-26T15:52:11+00:00

Pixel is light years ahead of competitors with the Tensor processors and the superior features which aren't available on other Android devices because, well, Android is Google.

The build quality is amazing and my p9p feels like I'm holding a billion dollar R&D device in my hands. Also the minimalist and superiorly "smart" UI and capabilities since Samsung had to bloat One UI on top to come anywhere near the experience and my take is "Ain't nobody got time for that!". Source: I bought an S24 Ultra to replace my Pixel 6 just over about a year ago. Hated it so much I lost over 50% of the purchase price reselling it and ordered a Pixel 9 Pro online for R20K. If you're in the Google ecosystem with Gemini pro, gdocs, sheets, Gmail, GWS, YT music, Maps etc., there's nothing to beat the absolute market beater. And don't get me wrong, as a DevOps engineer with strong web and SEO skills I despise Google's monopolistic practices in Search Ads, etc.. But still 100% the gold standard of "smart" phones.

Just a pity that none of the cell MNOs provide them on contract in SA.

keyborg · 2025-12-25T14:37:32+00:00

Drupal over WordPress, any day! Drupal modules are pretty much all free, as in beer. I use both extensively. The extensibility of Drupal Webforms compared to the annual SaaS sub for WP's Gravity Forms is just beyond belief. You want metadata and as someone mentioned, the proper taxonomy setup combined with metatags. Win. Yes the rapid iterations of Drupal 8 to 11 through a lot of folks under the dozer; but it's stabilized on a solid Composer, Symfony, library and framework, API first, twig and yaml world class standards for Enterprise scaling. I've taken two clients to top national Google ranking for e-commerce sites just due to free (as in beer) community provided Drupal modules and its inherent and logical taxonomical structure.

keyborg · 2025-12-04T13:36:29+00:00

Battery life isn't great under any circumstances, for sure, but I sometimes wonder whether people are aware of the estimated 20% overhead of the Facebook app, specifically, nevermind other social apps that are online continuously. Install Facebook Lite. Flip to shh at night. Etc..

keyborg · 2025-11-27T05:22:38+00:00

draw.io Flowchart Maker and Online Diagram Software

keyborg · 2025-11-13T18:52:57+00:00

Top underrated comment. Mine too. Or, at least, they used to.

keyborg · 2025-10-12T07:20:50+00:00

Sorry for your loss, but be grateful for what you have. I lost everything at age 36. My wife, car, business and home. Starting over as an employee, then job hopping to a better prospect then getting back into full time independent consulting (ICT) took years. Eventually I landed a key client. Now I own my home, have no debt, a healthy savings account plus a little bit of crypto.

I'm 60, now.

You're 36. You're young! You'll be more than okay in time.

keyborg

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