2026-04-13T20:44:22Z https://yabu.me lolcat https://yabu.me/npub1cj3aqn35rddf58eeezw4mnp4gjg88gp9hzcj4y8c3t8ef55ccm5qsak4um https://digipres.club/system/accounts/avatars/109/933/418/242/520/831/original/2955cb4319ab4791.jpeg https://digipres.club/system/accounts/avatars/109/933/418/242/520/831/original/2955cb4319ab4791.jpeg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswnxw9re6ngsetwtkwl7a5wzzapgvknk8da0s9t6ju38n5uyjk2nczyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws2apuaw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyuavfg2a6nc98f38mc8jdv2kv09guw2ls0x6yyzga8jpef97c90cqy0k70'>nevent1q…0k70</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know what to tell you. You are wrong. There&#39;s nothing about those green fields to worry about, at least from a water consumption POV.<br/><br/>Maybe check out the Wikipedia page.<br/><br/><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryland_farming">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryland_farming</a><br/><br/>I am muting this thread. 2025-11-23T05:38:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8vjkcjap39su65fcedgxy40e77zsv6ygdc86scg83n0nt087pvlgzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws9j542x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrtrm8720smfe4zktvhepeev852rhd9snlpcduaprzpvt9n3j062gef4alm'>nevent1q…4alm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It depends.<br/><br/>Dryland farming can be very productive in some places. Parts of KS, NE, CO, OR, WA. Dryland, means what it sounds like - no irrigation, just rainfall.<br/><br/>50 years ago, before center pivot irrigation really took off, you couldn&#39;t tell from an aerial photo if farms were dryland or row irrigated. But now? Now when you see big, rectangular patches under cultivation, that usually means drylands farms. 2025-11-23T04:16:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy3vgy3lehgmd4s30y0ykrz573nshrysuaczgz44qshrx7fks9a0czyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsrd9qzc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswvp6uhss90kpw745y779n3pgm02jlj98ky70phj2298ggvkur37glxmvpj'>nevent1q…mvpj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There&#39;s a very good chance the squares are dry-land (non-irrigated) farms from someplace like Pratt Co. Kansas. The circles are, as you suggest in another toot, center pivot irrigated. The brown fields are likely either bare, tilled soil, or cover crops that have been killed chemically or mechanically prior to replanting. 2025-11-22T18:03:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs070p95jtq3vx5sq0k4775fh850pkvffyqnqf4jslq0pfyy23a7fszyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws5wxljm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2zqq2gmsvm738v5s0wal5m55ajatwhr4e36uxrxynadtmneq3pkqjp7s2f'>nevent1q…7s2f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>A neighbor in the tiny, remote western town where I live has lost most of his eyesight and now suffers from crippling vertigo, all attributable to multiple rounds of Covid.<br/><br/>He is unvaccinated, and, just tonight, told me he believes &#34;Fauci and Gates should be publicly executed for murdering all those people.&#34;<br/><br/>Given the $100B ICE budget, and the instincts of those controlling most US govt, my neighbor might get what he wants, and there&#39;s no vaccine for that. 2025-09-09T05:34:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsys64mjuksqjle0ny4h8af6m74pxj0xasa0nuhm2jg2yfvjuuft0gzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsrnr4gg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstu4cpqwwjnycp4q48rn3g95wwafuwqurf3t803wd2dp9c6cdd5hc6uzc83'>nevent1q…zc83</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>For the last three years I&#39;ve been getting by with a $100 Aldi espresso machine and mail order Illy espresso-ground beans. I replaced the pressurized basket with a normal one, but otherwise stock.<br/><br/>It&#39;s not great, but still better than anything I can get inside a ~150 mile radius (I&#39;m being generous). Honestly, it&#39;s better than the espresso I get at &gt; half the independent coffee shops in the city. Compared to even train station coffee in Italy, it&#39;s swampwater. 2025-08-22T15:40:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0sageejxhurj0kfd5d2wj950tmjna7g7qgzlqlm5vlnsnndx03agzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwszuq26w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgfwzuk5t3gzeexxnq7lld8aj9smwnp6ndknqkwrnu56a5ux2v33qr8emyr'>nevent1q…emyr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You&#39;re kill&#39;n me, stuck out on the prairie. Man, I can almost smell it. 2025-08-22T15:12:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx0mvnnjwhtpz94gg2d8s6y7tstcxt2qx4zth22y04st3yj2ywlqqzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsv88pyn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvgz8dw870yswsyujxu685r2hkt9c7685a90rs6szaaxamjyruvlskrsjgy'>nevent1q…sjgy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Arctic fritillary? White wingtip markings don&#39;t seem to be typical. 2025-08-10T21:36:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2u2tnngvu4xkkrgaja2qpgeelgwgzke0vu36052958kga47mez4szyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws9f8jhv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw7rv2mp563uchu5vn5m86ccdthglfkduqvlqzymtsyxa7g4jctjcqcpe0y'>nevent1q…pe0y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>James Acaster&#39;s British Museum routine is golden:<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/b_Z6H4RaM00">https://youtu.be/b_Z6H4RaM00</a> 2025-06-24T13:54:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9w9ert92euu947lpkgdsn2f6yqrzls50zm2tcl9tnmrlfkv0yksqzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws8thum0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv2cmfgq3pwts35a8kmfgxc3xuwe3wnvrnaucmvxdzxr5fwm22dfq4q5fgk'>nevent1q…5fgk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>archived, non-paywall article on the topic:<br/><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211130083925/https://www.uia-initiative.eu/en/news/cartujaqanat-recovering-street-life-climate-changing-world-journal-2-how-sevilla-moving-needle">https://web.archive.org/web/20211130083925/https://www.uia-initiative.eu/en/news/cartujaqanat-recovering-street-life-climate-changing-world-journal-2-how-sevilla-moving-needle</a> 2025-06-23T14:13:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswqr6mt8zffztk8m9ezy8wamaxjmxeqlz3a3knql73923pnufj67qzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsasjrcp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqrl02ms9n0dvvdq7hg2gc8h3y9r4ndv8r7t5t3hk0j0an0u29pggw7xs27'>nevent1q…xs27</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Reminds me of George Hincapie&#39;s crash on the cobbles in the 2006 edition of Paris-Roubaix. As I recall, the team had fitted his bike with a carbon fork with an aluminum steerer tube (lifted from the Trek consumer line), and either the steerer broke, or the Al/C junction failed. Dude found himself pelting along over filling-loosening cobbles at &gt; 30mph, in a tight bunch, with no steering at all!<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/UZg1vrvGbdE">https://youtu.be/UZg1vrvGbdE</a> 2025-06-02T18:49:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqrl02ms9n0dvvdq7hg2gc8h3y9r4ndv8r7t5t3hk0j0an0u29pggzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws7hxa0h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspauzsf70p7x33763uunnjxmhpr3lmcj6ha46e9u6a3q75lehjk6cgad00p'>nevent1q…d00p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>VERY SCARY!!! 2025-06-02T18:41:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2fzcy4sp7ezaz5e7rw0w0vm2zsvexvqs8ql9cxepl752hlldn7qczyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsflr6p0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstnkemhcj9qlaa9699rz4vv5w7czv8l305jnu5llacvl0zztxhpcsya0uc8'>nevent1q…0uc8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Among the things I say (on repeat) which I&#39;m sure annoys some, but is nonetheless true is this:<br/><br/>The only real security is physical security.<br/><br/>Applies in all domains, digital and otherwise. 2025-05-01T19:29:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf62488883xqvpxyatz5vwgk804pde0s2vgnvheyq0atzjv96urzqzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws2um9at Chatting yesterday about the prairie fire prospects this year with the carpenter neighbor who&#39;s helping me build a garage. Three minutes in, and he&#39;s telling me there&#39;s nothing anyone can do since &#34;they&#34; are using space lasers to start the fires.<br/><br/>I am surrounded by ordinary looking people doing ordinary things, but who have gone completely bat shit insane. Like, three quarters of the people occupying (sparsely) three quarters of the country are beyond recovery. Just fuck me. 2025-05-01T13:58:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyg2s2tnyhzh2m2dpzsha4rpll2ntr98hht27ucm5f0qgt70jvvnqzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwskexz70 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf35t0xjlpatml76gsg773cjvycf202tjuhvw4k3xet70gftas5scvgrf9x'>nevent1q…rf9x</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Thanks for posting this.<br/><br/>For decades it&#39;s looked to me like our lives are described by Clarke&#39;s third law: <br/><br/>&#34;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.&#34;<br/><br/>where pretty much everything we interact with has become &#34;sufficiently advanced.&#34;<br/><br/>It bothers and disturbs me. It feels incompatible with democracy. It feels infantilizing. It feels like no one cares. 2025-04-23T13:30:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd9rfur39vrl87zz2exf6925w9c4ttcsc0rn3atvy403334t96s5czyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsyxz7nv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdu5nkq2s9tvu6xzsqp6fps6hjcklpawcjwg0x04rteghgazs4ckgcacz0s'>nevent1q…cz0s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>At the risk of stirring up trouble (not my intention), I&#39;m curious how others processed Cadwalladr&#39;s coverage of Cambridge Analytica. From where I sit, she served as a credulous stenographer for Wylie and Kaiser - two grifting idiots. No question, CA was bad news, but it was never a &#34;military grade&#34; data operation (that claim was one of many meaningless assertions she made to jazz up a story with no there there).<br/><br/>So, what was her deal? And how have so many just given her a pass? 2025-04-22T16:33:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsprayvrvh4mgtx0uvl8dsle0h7rmw63rde2veu2zyw0sgy5rxujjszyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsg53umy Google has removed most of the bulk-delete options for personal data in YouTube. For example, to remove &#34;likes&#34; on other users&#39; comments, it is now necessary to do it one-by-one. Worse, I can&#39;t find any way to remove dislikes or to even see a list of them.<br/><br/>Even if you do remove thousands of comments, or likes individually, it&#39;s likely the removal will have failed for some substantial fraction of them, so you&#39;ll have to check and redo some.<br/><br/>If I am wrong, and you know how to bulk delete, share! 2025-04-19T18:53:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0n7c95zamzgd85ceduqlrkxw6wlhgxhprp3n2xavnpmfxjwtn5hszyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwswechh2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszm5rs524d63t03h2dtejkd8hqesn2ncy2kghttx6yt9qxrcap5zq3v0yhl'>nevent1q…0yhl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It took a decade, but the suits ended upon getting what they wanted - control of the money, which is what this was always about - without ever making a rational case for their cause. It was bullying and lies from start to finish. Now damn near everyone is stuck paying more than they did before to maintain relationships they have no power to end because the technical staff have all been fired, and the new generation have only been trained to do AWS/Azure/Goog.<br/><br/>It&#39;s been a Guayana Punch process. 2025-03-14T14:07:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszm5rs524d63t03h2dtejkd8hqesn2ncy2kghttx6yt9qxrcap5zqzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwstuazcl Well done! In my experience, the suits used all of these (2007 - 2018). First, refuse to define &#34;The Cloud (TC),&#34; then:<br/><br/>Bully:<br/><br/>&#34;Only people too stupid to understand haven&#39;t moved to TC!&#34;<br/><br/>Identifies the easily cowed.<br/><br/>-------<br/><br/>Big Bully Lie:<br/><br/>&#34;Everyone has already moved to TC!&#34;<br/><br/>Asking for an example is met with ad hominem attacks.<br/><br/>------<br/>Big Basic Lie:<br/><br/>&#34;TC is always cheaper!&#34;<br/><br/>Showing it&#39;s a lie, using AWS&#39; own numbers, and you&#39;re called to the woodshed for beatings until you stop. 2025-03-14T14:01:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyj0gadmr7xfxg6rpm9q9g42ka460npv7f4w4m8dm6a88ssk5gx0gzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsjglgft In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9e238eghry0rgyu5ynpf830mjd3r7y44xwmpwu77azsvzqk2w59grtlmuh'>nevent1q…lmuh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Your arctic experience sounds very interesting! <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1t4w6gyfxkcd7p6zce8q4feesn4celyjs3vpvxh62u0kp2v8he7kqu875pz" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>vxo</span> (<span class="italic">npub1t4w…75pz</span>)</a></span> has hinted at doing radio work in remote arctic locations, and it&#39;s hard for me not to imagine cinematic landscapes. I can almost feel the cold air on my face. 2025-03-11T03:25:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9e238eghry0rgyu5ynpf830mjd3r7y44xwmpwu77azsvzqk2w59gzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsatmfss In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx0hrdnxw8xu2jgkryjz26xvwem5k6880tryr3j4havn3v9fw8cpqaql00c'>nevent1q…l00c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I had stumbled into a role putting several academic/lab sites on the NASA Science Internet. Before getting their leased lines, I&#39;d serve them via PPP. Also served remote researchers in the same way. In the later years, also provided ARAP to some Apple users, which could involve some really silly protocol tunneling. 2025-03-11T03:14:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf7rwxt62pg9e8zzr9sxsv6xcdfz98ny8n23u0fykvg6y5xudl0aszyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws7ej68q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrmwnl7lel242eh39zpnqxgcsdn63jdrtg746xuew94tdz5ytjjqs7m4n6n'>nevent1q…4n6n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Fond memories of running what amounted to a SLIP/PPP ISP through a terminal server and a rack of USR 56k modems in the late 80s-mid 90s. Among the lessons learned was that things don&#39;t sing without lots and lots of meticulous tuning - s-registers in this case. The experience served me well later building and running HPC systems. <br/><br/>Very few things deliver the advertised performance out of the box, and the documentation often lies. Even the expensive stuff. 2025-03-11T03:03:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8reqs4xzaxxn9qcnfmhmfgy08w0fussv7kj902vn9l9rgdpcz9sgzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws6hrtqp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2p7pdmqyntvwyg2ua0gjxa4zgmfqfqauys2hgpdscay5rteh3k2q677u2z'>nevent1q…7u2z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Solid HW! I once used these (at least I believe it was this model) as top-of-rack switches in some pretty decent-sized HTC clusters (500 to 1,000 nodes) back in the aughts. Bomber gear. 2025-03-10T19:47:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyclp449ad0fr6gc3wwnpkzuehxfcs9ywykxa6vl8l8h6vq45drgqzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwswv9myn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvdewcv2xlv9mrq699upf9kpn5s68fn3xhc2f3lhmk0f40sa6e4zqsfu92t'>nevent1q…u92t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It also keeps airplanes, complete with their crews and passengers, from falling out of the sky.<br/><br/>Without detailed weather forecasts/data, aviation becomes much, much more dangerous. 2025-03-08T01:57:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf739lzjnrxxt97m9l5nd3pkjnezj8zk2kupfwmvtfxh2hl0086fgzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws8dfekp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9hzwa3u3u67t2a6ypyfslquvtgup72jz2feypwnl87mup3c2tchc88hjnx'>nevent1q…hjnx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>...Getting to the point:<br/><br/>In addition to his advice, Milo and his team* sent me two documents.<br/><br/>The first was a list of all the NSN nodes, plus contact info for each.<br/><br/>The second was a list of Internet resources - stuff like the IP address of a PostScript printer at (IIRC) Harvard.<br/><br/>I&#39;d really like to have these documents again - especially the second one. If anyone can help me track it down, that&#39;d be great!<br/><br/>*Apologies - the name of the woman who helped me navigate so much of this escapes me. 2025-02-23T02:27:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9hzwa3u3u67t2a6ypyfslquvtgup72jz2feypwnl87mup3c2tchczyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwskumalj I&#39;m looking for an old document.<br/><br/>Back in late 88 (I will always remember the date because Morris Worm) I joined the Internet - Specifically, the NASA Science Internet. The engineer in charge of it all was named Milo Medin. In those days, we all spoke to each other on the phone. I remember the only advice Milo gave me was to choose a DNS server that supported &#34;variable length subnet masks,&#34; and an SMTP server that supported MX records.<br/><br/>[hang with me for a few more words - I&#39;ll get to the point] 2025-02-23T02:21:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswzxen8z20pd9vxcvrs77dp0ql696z84qdehqu8cu7jpvh7d62szqzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwslkxxph In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsww2cj2a0l896qmy7yafk0suavk8f2cq2xfw2dyll0xd3udw83w3qyxs4fz'>nevent1q…s4fz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Being right is cold comfort when, for at least the last 18 years, you&#39;ve been warning anyone who would listen that this was the endgame. No comfort at all.<br/> <img src="https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/114/033/417/980/886/751/original/69d3d3d693570baf.jpg"> <br/> 2025-02-20T00:39:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxr5f6d694kwfclzxcw46pc4vr65dt267jq6eu5jzfrtz6a4s6jzszyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsqptzvv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszmlxx6nmu4fgd0s6fxgvl874k0s4k4raazmfyxaae28qkxsf8q5sv3rwmt'>nevent1q…rwmt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah, 10Base2 networks were very fiddly. Making your own cables was much trickier than 10BaseT, and there were so many more rules about how the network could be configured. So, when something went wrong, getting to the bottom of the trouble could also be much harder. OTOH, you could network a dozen computers with a single skinny cable, so at least it was tidy... 2025-02-14T18:31:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstm0d802z7r0pk92ld3f74pp8jrps3wulgwxecd8pu5m0js3k46fgzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsdvzvn4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspvgmatlqjwm2ngn0se05tax20tzcllgpq9vvya40p4ct3xcekkhcgg86x2'>nevent1q…86x2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The 1980s were a glorious networking and OS mess, and I loved it all. Token Ring, Arcnet, Ethernet, LocalTalk, PhoneNet, Thick, Thin, Twisted, IP, AppleTalk, Netbui, Netware - and that&#39;s before you even touch the exotic or high performance stuff.<br/><br/>Making it all work together was a blast (not being sarcastic). 2025-02-14T03:36:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs055s8cql85hu40r6lwt4wa05cpv5wehctdpcqydhczc35hwlluaczyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws9ukxpm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9l0c3h2ruzhlk8an900wenfhuaza2lqmm6ujjs5uxyez2k7mswtguz795d'>nevent1q…795d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Peter Norton&#39;s DOS guides were pretty great back in the day. I believe you can still pick up copies for pretty cheap.<br/><br/>As I recall, Norton gives a pretty good intro to the IBM PC architecture, in addition to the DOS deep dive. 2025-01-30T18:49:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv86k9cegy79dfcpk0n4vvjywuv9sqg3lrsmrp4n75nyvuzs45laszyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsl6xluc What&#39;s the best Linux distro to install and use on an old PowerBook G4? 2025-01-29T16:41:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsweysr00fhtswlfkwfumccdq80ys9ffddvfvax6tc4wlj6x8g3gwqzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws7g0pps In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw6v8uh8we35yfn65cn3u6ks02aprkgkx2vuvulk7unxqkrmpvegssyk9lg'>nevent1q…k9lg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I can imagine Ken Nordine doing this. 2025-01-25T16:54:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstlek42wxvwxe4w4gz5meh4cy6gsnctk9gcmy5vdvvapvctqajlfqzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsvmcn45 If anyone has a good source of info on home water softening options, please pass it along. On the enshitified Internet it is no longer possible to find useful information about this or most other things unless you already know the answer.<br/><br/>My town&#39;s well water&#39;s hardness is literally off the charts. It clogs everything with limescale, acts as a nasty astringent on your skin, and ruins the taste of coffee, etc. I thought I&#39;d get used to it, but I was wrong. 2024-12-28T05:40:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp8a4p8hez4jjn68mf26xtw2xtn0a6m74w02ljz9latthrd7s9lpgzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsmp4qts In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgqxcdewqr5a8kdj9ld677kt07k558hsv2v89z3rwwfygdtskq5tclkggqq'>nevent1q…ggqq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You and Walker Evans<br/> <img src="https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/113/705/075/747/460/669/original/cf015e44afe18c58.jpg"> <br/> 2024-12-24T00:56:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy67kmujvcwx7yhx50msayu45d7tfzqtqws2nzph6yyffwjwvdt2szyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwssws8az In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz96r2n8crwuz77tzgr6qa3t8ch82l03m80k2g29ywq05w894zl9stythj8'>nevent1q…thj8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So much of this is so familiar to me. Also, you&#39;ve written it in a way that makes me feel a bit like we&#39;re just shoot&#39;n the shit about old times over a nice beer or two. Thanks for all of this! 2024-12-20T15:46:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf7l5cln82y26zzzyvlwf774062y4faqy4sngx3caaxvcrgz35eggzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsujm7cp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxn57ue26yn3rqdj7hlayrk9hexep7ja3l2kkc6yvh5etnsjykmfqewxsza'>nevent1q…xsza</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Tooting to apologize for the tone of my earlier response. It&#39;s worded all wrong, and comes across way to agro. I was trying to make a rather banal point about popular attitudes toward containerization. It probably didn&#39;t need to be made at all, and certainly not in such a clumsy way. 2024-12-17T15:40:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxn57ue26yn3rqdj7hlayrk9hexep7ja3l2kkc6yvh5etnsjykmfqzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws6clwp4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswdlwv9k5atlceyp56g0d4krt8hul5e9muqcku64u257akx4p0yyqyma5xa'>nevent1q…a5xa</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Does your code execute across nodes? Does it access shared storage?<br/><br/>If so, there&#39;s an important networking component - you&#39;ve just chosen to ignore it. Maybe that&#39;s OK in your case. Maybe it&#39;s not - you&#39;d have to understand what it&#39;s doing on the network to have any idea.<br/><br/>Not dinging you - just pointing out that containers aren&#39;t magic. 2024-12-16T15:25:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgxwjq7azwazwqqh3lep8npzemhpw582aclez4tsa50fhqpwjzu8gzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsz39kv8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgd8dafkz3vu74wx4e2ml9rfajh8edh24xhxxa8554jxzxuj53dec52x5yf'>nevent1q…x5yf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Building &#34;cloud native&#34; is like signing an open ended apartment lease that allows your landlord to tear down the building with you still inside, while simultaneously doubling your rent twice a year.<br/><br/>Maybe I&#39;m far too cynical, but, based on the last 10 years, I feel fairly confident in my assessment.<br/><br/>Problem is, how do you *not* do cloud native if the entire talent pool only knows that? 2024-12-14T17:30:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspdph3ahjl9082qmwwf43kecgxf2d3k9p98egffn5mrjxs84gwakqzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws3xld8a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvalkmkqkaah3hruud8wz85aq6j82wmtjxkqfrpg0xdclrg8we72gmvqs45'>nevent1q…qs45</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So far, it looks like the top three tips are:<br/><br/>Simplicity<br/> - minimize dependencies<br/> - appropriate frameworks<br/> for scale, etc. (?)<br/> - ?<br/><br/>Continuity<br/> - keep the team together<br/> - train new members before<br/> oldsters retire<br/><br/>Transparency<br/> - Document, document, document<br/> - instrumentation? 2024-12-14T17:11:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp4dwuda8lrpfzzyftwm6h7k240yh46e8q0luy4f9h9tnpke22jfgzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws39kgz2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0q3m8snajzczjusr8c86zntc4x8gn6nyaylxwyk9rcsrm5jjvkjs3hj3y0'>nevent1q…j3y0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>FWIW, I&#39;m not complaining - I love this sort of thing! It&#39;s much more fun to think &#34;Who the hell is Michael Fish, and what was his moment?!&#34; than to have it spelled out. <br/><br/>Tangential: Boosterism seems to be in the nature of Tech reporting. Go back 100 years, and the wonders of leaded gasoline were being praised in every paper. 2024-12-04T17:30:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0q3m8snajzczjusr8c86zntc4x8gn6nyaylxwyk9rcsrm5jjvkjszyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwss3ntl8 This story in today&#39;s Guardian describes (in very vague terms) a new weather forecasting software/system release from Google&#39;s gen-AI people. <br/><br/>The closing paragraph acknowledges a potential issue with &#34;edge cases,&#34; and quotes a climate scientist fearing a potential &#34;Michael Fish moment.&#34; Apparently, in the weather forecasting world, this is quite famous - but famous enough for The Guardian to assume their readers will understand the reference?<br/><br/><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fish">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fish</a> 2024-12-04T17:27:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxl5fjuvpezdnu50wldfqgrtmj0jar3wlxe9nzczzevd3xvfdx7cqzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsnewuhf For at least a decade, US higher ed has been all-in on outsourcing as much IT to Google and MS as possible. It&#39;s been years since the last major US university replaced internally-operated email with one of those two.<br/><br/>One of the few computer-related services not yet completely surrendered to &#34;the cloud&#34; is HPC, but that&#39;s not for lack of trying. Years of literally screaming lies into the faces of researchers and IT people has taken its toll - a generation quit/retired/laid off. 2024-11-08T19:17:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyw0zmjrx6sku4wfghjnxalc3rjf4ycxsgug3qd49wakcw896wulszyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws5ecpvr Anyone have any updates on the state of the North Carolina quartz mines supposedly damaged in the hurricane? 2024-11-08T00:01:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfzmzwy5tnmezgwr2gj42878al60wj7x2r6v5eenyhkjawfhwagnqzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws769a5j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9w0aweknctwflgepdu2ss9pc4twksatt0vcgqt8d65dw8m2nfurgslkc4e'>nevent1q…kc4e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah, technical debt presents a huge challenge to moving on from MS.<br/><br/>Starting in ~2000, as I moved more into management and interacted more with the management class, I encountered more and more people who could ONLY deal with MS formats. They couldn&#39;t even handle plain text. 2024-11-03T16:15:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrled72u3wpengyrad2j0x7tyxq0jr2jvfnu7n70wlngd6yxszp9czyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws0p8kyy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfap4unhv5xj4m92zej2p0e2grzeu8p9vtr0xcv7jajwnyhf3fpegq3dsqp'>nevent1q…dsqp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Related:<br/><br/>ALL critical infrastructure EVERYWHERE in the world is compromised. Our spooks are in their stuff. Their spooks are in our stuff.<br/><br/>Nation states sit on it bc when shit blows up, no one cares if the cause was a bomb or a hack. The response will be your shit being blown up too. IOW, war.<br/><br/>But what about non-state actors? For $100M, you can buy a lot of access. And their calculus does&#39;t necessarily align with any govts, or even make any rational sense. 2024-11-02T17:46:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfap4unhv5xj4m92zej2p0e2grzeu8p9vtr0xcv7jajwnyhf3fpegzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws0490qh If you build a backdoor, eventually everyone&#39;s going to use it.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/02/china-spying-telecom-trump-harris-fbi-cell-phone/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/02/china-spying-telecom-trump-harris-fbi-cell-phone/</a> 2024-11-02T17:40:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvrc2ldng4m6ehwey75ka2vta92lg49umc0q3p84r860mqs4awvkszyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws52qy9e [@bert_hubert](<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert">https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert</a> ) <br/><br/>Awoke this morning to a random thought:<br/><br/>When five of the six most valuable US companies (by market cap) go bust two to five years from now, based on their misguided gen AI investments, Europe&#39;s relatively slow uptake might not only look good, but could also position EU economies as the safest places in the world for business.<br/><br/>I&#39;m still holding out for anonymous micropayments backed finance replacing surveillance capitalism. 2024-11-02T15:54:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg223ma3f5ny4eum86jgruja2h4vatxd3avrqr5wvq6lw58nyft0szyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwskqqkq0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9ca004a44eh4568jmph72j7rjg4tqyanxn6ssea8rm4sy865x96q0adk49'>nevent1q…dk49</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I remember reading about George Bernard Shaw when I was a teen, and being surprised to learn that his Fabian Society associations made him the target of attacks from the left and right.<br/><br/>Now, as a geezer, I see that is usually the way. 2024-10-26T19:44:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8xyw9cn24rzmt432fg589x0qsmr45y0nldshqkq5sw2pu70zl3zqzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrws94g6fh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstgjf6g6d77ufg6khqsjpr5vqm88w9slz669ksskq3nm6shfhwt6qk60jc6'>nevent1q…0jc6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Replace &#34;computers&#34; with pretty much any other tech (radio, cars, airplanes), and slide to the appropriate date range, and your graph remains valid.<br/><br/>Just as with all previous tech, and possibly even more so, computers are indistinguishable from magic for all but a few people. I believe that&#39;s a problem. 2024-09-11T21:11:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgxea42p8rjgq7csz4788a677cahh584kz9j7e63lpa3dqglvz2xqzyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsy7uztu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv4tjrhvmvcyzsqfvakele0fkksk6kknlwpd3pfadyk8qjv8dva0ck90znv'>nevent1q…0znv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Haha - not &#34;skin,&#34; but &#34;sin.&#34; 2024-08-21T16:07:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv4tjrhvmvcyzsqfvakele0fkksk6kknlwpd3pfadyk8qjv8dva0czyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwsez043u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsphk4rfkzfwaxv5dl84vk04lrvxdrwcak7hwf8r6xk9yx7m9t4leshrlp8s'>nevent1q…lp8s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Being zealously thoughtful is no skin. :-) 2024-08-21T15:49:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0mgvzs7yfvx94zr6h4fq2fjqeas8ztgv9esfhkhjkllegc8r2jkszyrz285zwxsd44xsl88yf6hwvx4zfquaqykutz25slz9vl9xjnrrwshm4eye In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsye98aggtlter9sa2st63hvvtp0ps0nv6a6kjcxstpz55tzj4vtzgfptjgl'>nevent1q…tjgl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hang in there, man. Zealots are no fun, even when they really, Really, REALLY want to do the right thing. Makes it difficult to engage with people in various scenes in which I have a passing (or more) interest.<br/><br/>Urban density zealots<br/>Bicycle infrastructure zealots<br/>Renewable energy zealots<br/>Nuclear power zealots<br/>Big Data zealots<br/><br/>Just amped up, deliberately, obstinately misinformed zealots gumming up the works everywhere. 2024-08-19T23:45:11Z