Diane @alienghic@octodon.social

I was looking at ways to configure containers/systems.

Thought haskell propellor was a enough keywords to limit it to Joey Hess' project.

I was wrong.
https://www.propelleraero.com/blog/how-haskell-uses-propeller-to-manage-contractors-on-a-complex-worksite/

The word vector is so close to what I wanted but the meaning was still so far away.

Also I wonder what event this diorama was memorializing.

I live in a warm place, but was sent to a cold place for a conference. I am confused by the force field protecting this pond.

The only way to win is not to play.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/case-inbox-infinity/579673/

An alternative to inbox zero arguing there's too much email to process it efficiently and we should lower our expectations.

<sarcasm>What generous discount for your ebook</sarcasm>
Paper book: $25.00, ebook $24.99

https://islandpress.org/book/building-the-cycling-city

(It's probably a good book I just wanted to mock their pricing)

Kid: mumble mumble poop.
Me: You need more to your life than poop.
Kid: But that's the only life I got.

Only 48 commits to get propellor to build me an image usable by autopkgtest-virt-qemu

You are in Melania Trump’s nightmare forest. Keep to the path.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/11/28/you-are-in-melania-trumps-nightmare-forest-keep-to-the-path/

Horror/satire

Feel free to reshare, I was curious because I was being sent to a meeting somewhere that appeared to be completely devoid of any pedestrian infrastructure

Do you have access to a sidewalk outside your home?

Currently in food coma from home made quiche and banana bread.

Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers

Documents alleged to contain revelations on data and privacy controls that led to Cambridge Analytica scandal

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/24/mps-seize-cache-facebook-internal-papers

I don't know, Facebook having to face some accountability to a government amuses me.

Lets see how that worked.

Insurance company says you must call us to cancel your policy.

California says you must accept an electronic cancellation. https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/changes-to-california-automatic-renewal-41600/

Sent them an email through their web portal saying "I'd like to cancel" with links to the bill.

Other people around here might be interested in this too.

The Guardian's asking "Tell us about the things you do that represent non-capitalist living" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/05/tell-us-about-the-things-you-do-that-represent-non-capitalist-living

I saw this story on a list of proposed actions to cut to zero carbon. A surprising number of the actions targeted computing services (or is it just the cloud?)

I thought it might be interesting to others here.

"Data now has the same carbon footprint as aviation. A rapid rise in data processing has increased our energy use substantially. How can we use data more efficiently?"

https://www.treehugger.com/energy-policy/ipcc-says-we-have-12-years-cut-carbon-45-what-does-look.html

New Horizon is going to do a flyby of a Kuiper belt object named Ultima Thule on Jan 1, 2019. (From https://twitter.com/AlanStern/status/1054696589493784577 )

I'm kind of shocked. The logitech media server airplay bridge and spotify connect apps worked together.

This was made noticeably more impressive to me because I just put all of it into an apparmor profile.

https://github.com/detrout/apparmor-det/blob/master/usr.sbin.squeezeboxserver

Heck I even managed to use the flatpaked proprietary spotify app to do its magic same network authentication.

the trump administration is taking aim at transgender people, by saying that sex is immutable and fixed at birth

First saw here: https://twitter.com/ekp/status/1054043227542609920

But more information here
https://twitter.com/LambdaLegal/status/1054043631550689280

And the source
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html

Parallel universes & global warming. short story.

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/buckell_01_18/

When arguing with Trump supporters on birdsite I've noticed a thing.

They always refuse to trust the MSM, and they always, always link to some random terrible youtube channel to support their crazy conspiracy theory.

"When people feel condescended to by the media or told that they are simply rubes being manipulated — even by expert political manipulators — they are more likely to embrace those beliefs even more strongly."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/10/17675232/twitter-alex-jones-jack-dorsey-free-speech