Diane @alienghic@octodon.social

Germs these days, they aren't like the germs I had as a kid. (cough cough)

Who said kids can't be revolutionaries? https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/12/13/how-children-demanding-play-streets-changed-amsterdam/

These kids so wanted to be able to play in the street, they went door to gather petitions, and would deploy barricades across their streets.

I may enjoy messing with "microsoft tech support" scammers more than I should. Its funny when you try to follow their instructions on a GNOME desktop.

Hey @nextcloud I saw Charlie Stross having trouble with a netgear FreeNAS over on twitter. I was tempted to suggested nextcloud, but realized to make progress with professionals and small business the FOSS world really needs a way for them to find local IT support who can evaluate needs, make reasonable, suggestions and provide ongoing support.

https://twitter.com/cstross/status/976121109543313408

With Kerberos, if you're planning on lying to your servers about DNS, you really need to make sure you lie consistently.

(Was having GSSAPI errors, because DNS was sometimes pulling from our workgroup DNS servers with a private network view, and sometimes from the real campus DNS servers, which know nothing about our cluster hosts.)

Me: Trump is Coming!
Spouse: Throws hands up
Me: No he's on his way right now.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-trump-california-border-201803-trump-s-california-schedule-1520924600-htmlstory.html

Apparently we took that old Aqua song Barbie Girl too literally, and are trying really hard to plasticize our world.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/12/microplastic-pollution-in-oceans-is-far-greater-than-thought-say-scientists

Feel guilty. Drove to farmers market, because walking/biking with a 4 year old is hard. Also I still ended up with two plastic bags, two plastic tubs and two plastic trays. Cutting out single use waste is hard.

So over in Washington DC area, there may be very high winds.... Winds high enough that "Pedestrians will face very hazardous conditions, and need to be aware of wind-borne projectiles." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/03/01/destructive-60-to-70-mph-sting-jet-winds-possible-during-friday-morning-commute/

Here's a more readable summary of what Massachusetts is likely to go through. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/03/01/once-in-a-generation-flooding-possible-in-boston-friday-and-saturday/

And over in California we're going to get enough rain, that burn areas may turn to mud slides.
#WatchTheSkies

In case you hadn't heard, there's likely to be life threatening flooding along the east coast starting Friday morning. (Especially Massachusetts.) https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=MAZ015&warncounty=MAC025&firewxzone=MAZ015&local_place1=2%20Miles%20N%20Roxbury%20MA&product1=Hazardous+Weather+Outlook&lat=42.325&lon=-71.0958

In case anyone else ever wants to enter accented characters in emacs. https://www.johndcook.com/blog/emacs_unicode/

I don't know why I'm amused by this, but researchers found when the NRA holds its annual meeting gun injuries drop about 20% https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/28/rate-of-gun-injuries-drops-20-during-nra-conventions-study-finds

As the owner of a new PV array I do appreciate the weathers report predicting that today's rain is likely after sunset.

I have solar panels, and they are finally nomming sunlight.

(Grid inter-tie system using a solar edge inverter)

This needs a caption https://octodon.social/media/vto41EpEugwwI4AeFi8

Saw this in The Guardian:

the Finnish word "talkoo", ... means something like ‘working together, collectively and voluntarily, for a specific good’.”

Reminds me of the goal of FOSS communities.

(The actual story: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/16/how-copenhagen-stays-healthy-secret-finland-success-new-series-upside )

Witness the power of this fully loaded cat tree. Mew. Mew. Mew