Nivex 🐧 📻 @nivex@octodon.social
Linux, #IPv6 geek (http://flyingpenguintech.org/). Amateur radio (#hamradio) operator N8VNR. Air and space fan. he/him.
#linux Big-time Ubuntu 18.04 fails (includes all derived distros). Come on, Canonical. Really?
All this posturing about IPv6 and Google Compute Engine doesn't even support it. :P
[Hidden Almanac] The Hidden Almanac for 2018-05-02 - The Hidden Almanac https://ift.tt/2KwIr79
"The Internet, Peak Indifference, and the Point of No Return"
Cory Doctorow in Chapel Hill, NC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-x-8Iucr6I
I have my phone set to auto-deny any number that is not in my contact list to combat the ever increasing amount of spam I've been getting. Unfortunately there is one insurance scammer that has taken to leaving voicemails. Multiple VMs a day for the last two weeks.
I contacted my provider about disabling my VM box altogether. They do not support this. You can, however, redirect missed calls to another number instead.
I now send missed calls to: https://github.com/pjf/rickastley
Eat Rickroll, spammers!
Proposal for a New Emoji: Otter
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18093-otter-emoji.pdf
Yes, please!
The local HAB group's most recent mission: http://www.ncnearspace.org/missions/nsl-63
Particularly amused by the acronym for the emergency string system: Outside Hung Compact Rain-Activated Pull-down
[Hidden Almanac] The Hidden Almanac for 2018-04-30 - The Hidden Almanac https://ift.tt/2HBlNg8
oh hey apparently I have native IPv6 at home without even trying.
[Hidden Almanac] The Hidden Almanac for 2018-04-27 - The Hidden Almanac https://ift.tt/2FmtAsb
Real love stories never have endings.
NASA Social coming up in Virginia:
https://www.nasa.gov/social/witness-the-next-space-station-cargo-spacecraft-launch-from-virginia
"Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it is not satire, it is bullying." - Terry Pratchett
Give me Star Trek
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bh9i4iBg9Pp/
cc @guinan
[Hidden Almanac] The Hidden Almanac for 2018-04-25 - The Hidden Almanac https://ift.tt/2KcThPB
How project funding works.
[Hidden Almanac] The Hidden Almanac for 2018-04-23 - The Hidden Almanac https://ift.tt/2HkfNIo
i hate recommending tech products to less technical friends or family now. over the last 5-6 years, every product has started requiring so much time and energy just to work around all the user-hostile design to avoid being screwed over in some way. i feel like the only advice i can offer in good faith anymore is "i'm sorry, you shouldn't get ANY smartphone/tablet/TV media box, because they're all now completely unsuitable for a normal person"
