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

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

nothing says safety like a Sony rootkit

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”

BSD community seems to like snac2

Shantanu Narayen’s still not giving you a free license

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”

even if you’re in a “legal region” you still have to use a third-party website or app to find out which service has that episode of that season of that show because no service can be bothered to carry a complete show

considering how much Finland loves rally racing …

took me a LONG time to recover from high school cafeteria’s Friday tuna casseroles (complete with canned peas)

• with the year being 365.24219 days you don’t get a lot of factors to work with (365 ⇒ 1, 5, 73, 365)
• there have been various proposals for perennial calendars – in a perennial calendar, months always start on the same day, have the same number of days, no worries about “last Thursday of the month” calculations for holidays
  • if you deal with the year as 364 days + filler, you get more factors to work with (364 ⇒ 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 14, 26, 28, 52, 91, 182, 364)
    • fiscal quarters are always the same length and you get an extra day during the winter holidays
  • the easiest being something like a 13 month calendar (each month being exactly 4 weeks, 28 days) = 364 days + 1 year day + 1 leap day – this gets a lot of flack from religious groups because they don’t like the extra days messing with a 7 day week cycle
    • this keeps the 365 day year and uses the same calculations for adding in leap days
  • leap week calendars get around that by doing a 364 day year and then adding in a whole leap week to bring things back into alignment (you can do this yourself using ISO week dates and looking for week 53)
    • calculations for leap years are a bit more elaborate and don’t fit as easily into a simple mnemonic

• at the full-featured end, VSCode (OSS Code, VSCodium) has pretty much captured the market
  • for a while, Atom was a popular competitor until MS closed it down, you might have some luck with its successors: Zed or Pulsar
• mid-range, Kate and Geany have their fans
• deluxe text editors, join the Emacs / vim holy wars
• plain text editors, give up on extensions, plugins, etc. and just edit text

Olauncher

Elon decided Microsoft’s Tay chatbot was a guidebook …

Elon Musk removes blocking feature so he can finally see what his kids post

only for the low! low! price of a PhD in Hegelian philosophy

how many musicians sending in cease-and-desist letters again?