Diane @alienghic@octodon.social

Apparently Americans who want some kind of gun control really need to spend more time telling their representatives this.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/12/supporters-of-stricter-gun-laws-are-less-likely-to-contact-elected-officials/

I am fairly surprised to learn several species of ants seem to pass the mirror test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test#Insects

This turned out pretty tasty https://www.cilantroandcitronella.com/vegan-chorizo-and-potato-tacos/

Though I cheated with store bought salsa and cheese

Ugh.... Someone's going to get nuked, aren't they. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/17/north-korea-trump-latest-warning-kim-jong-un-gaddafi

I got my first post solar panel electric bill. It's for -56 dollars.

I can leave it as a credit in case we use more power in another billing cycle or if the credit is over 50 dollars I can ask for a check.

I was trying to update the Debian ipywidgets package and getting stuck on how many problems are caused by different versions of packages. Several things broke because Debian has typescript 2.8.1, and the project expected 2.6, other things seem to be broken because of the wrong backbone version...

JavaScript is the post-modern development environment. Everyone's off using their own versions.

Out of curiosity would anyone else be interested in having a Google hangouts API and console mode client in Debian?
https://hangups.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Refugees want connectivity and privacy too https://datasociety.net/output/refugee-connectivity/

Saw a car with the licence plate USEIPV6 today.

Best of luck Disneyland workers. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disney-living-wage-measure-20180430-story.html

I thought this review article discussing the issues with secure email deployment was informative.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07706

I hadn't realized the issues with PGP key revocation, and I hadn't heard there was work on certificate ledger systems for email.

"If they want to protect their intellectual property, they shouldn't crash on public roads." They were getting so close to one of the arguments for Free Software. http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-driverless-data-20180430-story.html

Man I can get so much more Debian stuff done when my kid is sick.

When she's her normal energetic self... I just sit exhausted after we put her to bed.

Does anyone else ever wish the prefix syntax in turtle and sparql were the same?

I keep forgetting when I need the '@' and '.'

I have a fever and the only cure is more replicates.

(On conference call debating normalization because two data points don't agree -- Which would be easier to resolve if we had more observations)

This is a neat looking project, recycling an old inner tube into a cargo net. http://www.instructables.com/id/Bicycle-Baggage-Net-From-Old-Inner-Tube/

Any suggestions for freedom respecting, low electrical power usage servers with 2-4G of RAM, supports, SATA and gigabit Ethernet, and can run Debian?

I saw this on twitter, and thought it a surprisingly good illustration of identity on the net. https://twitter.com/zoeyjsalsbury/status/979566206813376512

Cranky pants 4 year old just slammed the door because we would dress her at night