“trust thermocline”

“There are two types of people: those who back up and those who haven’t lost data … yet.”

from Mastodon:

The EU president isn’t attending.
The US president isn’t.
China’s president isn’t.
India’s president isn’t.
France’s president isn’t.
Germany’s chancellor isn’t.
Brazil’s president isn’t.
Russia’s president isn’t.
South Africa’s president isn’t.
Canada’s PM isn’t.
Japan’s PM isn’t.
Australia’s PM isn’t.
The Netherlands PM isn’t.
But hundreds of oil company lobbyists are attending
and plenty of representatives from fossil fuel investment firms.

’cept Elon would cheap out any chance he could – his recent tech show proved he couldn’t handle anything more complex than animatronics puppeted by underpaid interns

we used to use X-rays to fit your shoes, so very probable

nothing says safety like a Sony rootkit

I’m sure he has lots more candy in the back of his van

no worries, I do hate you for who you voted for

“We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute.”

—Buenaventura Durruti, Van Paassen interview (1936)

remember seeing bumper stickers: “Intel inside, don’t divide.”

Utilities Have Been Lying to Us About Gas Stoves Since the 1970s

aimed at beginners who confuse “hasn’t been updated for a year” with “hasn’t needed to be updated for a year”

once you have some experience under your belt, these are non-issues:

• deciding to “learn Linux” the hard way by starting with a specialized distro (Slackware, Gentoo, Alpine)
• switching to unstable or testing branches before you’re ready ’cause you want bleeding edge or “stable is too far behind”
• playing around with third-party repositories before understanding them (PPAs in Ubuntu, AUR in Arch)
• bypassing the package manager (especially installing with curl | sudo sh)
• changing apps for no other reason than “it hasn’t been updated for a year”

too true, Trump is much closer to Mussolini, weaponized incompetence writ large

BSD community seems to like snac2

TIL: “desperation” = “ambition”

Shantanu Narayen’s still not giving you a free license

Let’s Talk About Thalidomide

cell phone providers can, they just won’t (would eat into their profits)

and most of the home internet sold as “unlimited” was a scam – if you started to get too close to some hidden value, they would start throttling your connection

“Itty Bitty Baby Hands and the Skipping Dipshit”