2020-07-26T21:18:51Z via Pumpa To: Public
Does anyone plan to watch the launch of Perseverance and Ingenuity on Thursday? I understand the launch will be streamed live via NASA TV. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
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Thank you for the heads up
heh, "Perseverance and Ingenuity" sound a bit like a potential sequel to "Pride and Prejudice" ;-)2020-06-30T13:29:57Z via Pumpa To: Public
I like my GNU/Linux distros to be boring and uneventful. Specifically: Releases that happen at 2 - 5 year intervals and where package version numbers are frozen in time on release. This lets me work on the things I want to work on and not spending my time on fixing the distro. Can't remember where I heard this one: "The bleeding edge is stained by the blood of the users."
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Well, you could argue that those boring distributions have that über-stable software thanks to all the testing done by the users of those "bleeding edge" distributions 😅
Agree with both. Good points.2020-06-21T22:24:45Z via Pumpa To: Public
I am currently building Linux-libre for amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, or1k, powerpc, ppc64, ppc64el, and riscv64. Should I add anything else? https://jxself.org/linux-libre/
I don't think I see Itanium in there!! 😎
Facepalm
2020-06-07T14:48:24Z via Pumpa To: Public
Oh, derp. I'm so stupid. I thought "Oh I should apply package updates and then after doing so I stupidly restarted the computer that was doing kernel stuff. As I saw the SSH connection close in the other window I immediately thought "Wait, what? Oh yeah; I was using that computer." Now to start over...
My habit of carefully shutting down every program manually before shutting down or rebooting the machine pays off in those situations 😅
2020-05-18T13:56:37Z via Pumpa To: Public
I'd like to thank someone -- who asked to stay anonymous -- with donating 2 build servers for Linux-libre. You know who you are.
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You're very welcome 😎
2020-05-18T13:44:01Z via Pumpa To: Public
It's Monday. Go make a programming language.
2020-05-18T13:16:27Z via Pumpa To: Public
If they love it so much where is the Windows 7 source code that was asked for? :)
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In a vault. M$ "loves" open source software, not free software, because that way they get free labour and continue to hold captive their users.
Number 5 Is Alive?
2020-05-18T03:45:14Z via Pumpa To: Public
An odd sight: A golden number 5 just floated by within view of my window. It was a balloon. Someone must have lost it.
Somewhere, a half-centenarian just got called a nothing.Stayin' Inside
2020-05-17T00:17:15Z via Pumpa To: Public
This made me smile: https://invidio.us/watch?v=nmUXntGlqFI
Stay safe.
2020-04-24T00:45:42Z via Pumpa To: Public
I found 9 old hard drives in a box while moving. They range from 500MB to 80GB. I'm going through them them one by one to see what's on them. First one had nothing on it. Looks to have been reformatted. I'm wiping the drive with GNU Shred because I don't recall what used to be on it. Then repeat.
Puff, the Magic Dragon
2020-03-31T03:08:54Z via Pumpa To: Public
The Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS) is super weird in a lovable way. Did you know that Puff, the Magic Dragon lives in ITS? It's like a syslog daemon but in the ITS vocabulary, the idea of a "daemon" is instead called a "dragon" so of course they'd put Puff in there. This is before operating systems got all boring and "professional" and whatnot.
I want more dragons on my GNU! 😡
2020-03-17T00:58:27Z via Pumpa To: Public
This is so sad: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/03/16/1755209/windows-10-now-runs-on-1-billion-devices
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Depressing...
2020-03-17T00:37:27Z via Pumpa To: Public
I bought 4 pounds of peanut butter (about 1.81kg for you metric people.) Is that crazy?
2020-03-14T14:41:48Z via Pumpa To: Public
Attending the virtual LibrePlanet conference. The opening keynote was great. Next up is Lucy Ingham's "Rented future: The dangerous rise of life as a service" https://libreplanet.org/2020/
2020-03-11T13:54:57Z via Pumpa To: Public
I've noticed that the cat always wants to smell me before he lets me pet him. Is he checking if I am still me?
He doesn't want you rubbing weird smells on him 😆
Computers are everywhere
2020-02-29T02:05:58Z via Pumpa To: Public
Computers are everywhere, even in your chargers: https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-chargers.html
Your charger could send you to the moon.
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2020-01-01T19:43:49Z via Pumpa To: Public
Happy Public Domain Day: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2020/
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What Year Is It?
2020-01-01T16:51:25Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
What year is it? It turns out that Barbara Walters has been telling us all along: https://jxself.org/what_year_is_it.webm
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Seattle enters 2020
2020-01-01T16:15:32Z via Pumpa To: Public
Seattle enters 2020: https://jxself.org/New_Years_at_the_Needle.webm
Sadly, the windy weather made it unsafe to shoot off the fireworks that were set up to go along with the light display.
I'm afraid you'll just have to imagine fireworks shooting off from the Space Needle in coordination with the lights and music.
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