On the plus side, if we're all in a simulation, looks increasingly likely we can break out.
Seems appropriate today to remember that we're building things out of sand here.
Enjoying fast syscalls on intel hardware while I still can.
12F outside, batteries at 35F, and I'm at 2 comforters and as yet no 2018 fire.
Watched the NYC ball drop for 1st time in years and got some culture shock.. Mostly from CNN cutting to a Denver pot-party where their reporter proceeded to hand out a THC drink to some people live on air (CNN cut away from that in a hurry). Also such big screens in times sq and such hollow frenticness.
In the world of my cat, the armpit is the gateway to the warm world of under the covers. Even if the armpit is not near any covers.
"Do we have a second radioactive source in the audience?" -- how to win at demo
Watching amazing #34c3 talk
https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8994-vintage_computing_for_trusted_radiation_measurements_and_a_world_free_of_nuclear_weapons
Using Apple II to verify nuclear disarmament.
"trust through simplicity and obsolescence"
Ordered a bunch of 1-wire temperature sensors. The house already records battery temp and PV controller temp; planning to also record outdoor temp, indoor temp, fridge temp.
Things in my house that have a fan: The two ceiling fans. Things that don't: Everything else, even if I have to risk destroying it to get it that way.
Took more clicks to disable secure boot to install Debian than it took to get through the debian installer on my new laptop.
Closed so many tabs today on so many sites rather than "please disable your ad blocker"
/dev/disc/by-id/ is not unique across multiple different vendors of microsd card adapters. Interesting..
(Currently using startx because lightdm and gdm both loop with no indication why in any log; one of the 3 terminal programs that don't segfault on startup, chromium because firefox launches to a crash dialog, alsamixer because the graphical mixer crashes, and the screen brightness slider because the brightness control keys stopped working.
All this and debsums finds no corrupted files except for one md5sums file itself full of binary garbage.)
It's interesting using my laptop now that its ssd is destroying itself. Lots of stuff is broken, and it's more or less impossible to know why or do anything about it (except reinstall).
Kind of the way using a computer must feel to most people, most of the time.
ordered a Lenovo Yoga 710, hope I don't regret it
also the mirror laptops should be subtly .. evil
usb-c could be the solution to that, but only if they routed the incoming power from plugs on both sides. somehow I doubt it?
laptops should come in mirror image variants. Nothing more annoying than the power plug being on the wrong side
So Lenovo stopped using the square "slim" power plugs.. All my old power adapters gonna be useless. Hmm, maybe a good point to switch from Lenovo to another brand?
