cerement @slrpnk.net - codeberg.org/cerement
- cerement.codeberg.page
- @[email protected]
- he/him
- header credit – Randall Mackey, The Lonely Cosmonaut
you are acting extroverted to other introverts – how would you normally react towards daily greetings from an extrovert?
Vanilla OS is the Ubuntu derivative, Vanilla OS 2 Orchid will be the Debian derivative
- Highland Coffee
- Climate change: Future-proofing coffee in a warming world
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“And we were completely blown away by the fact that this coffee tasted amazing. It has these other attributes related to its climate tolerance: it will grow and crop under much warmer conditions than Arabica coffee.”
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seeing a bit of a trend here …
- Arizona – purple
- Kansas – purple
- Lousiana – red
- Missouri – red
- Tennessee – red
- Arkansas – red
- Oklahoma – red
- Alabama – red
- Indiana – red
- Texas – red
(even the Satanists don’t want anything to do with them)
What I learned from the ‘Microsoft global IT outage’
> Media coverage largely sucked > > When I just looked at my phone, the headlines were about an unfolding Microsoft global IT outage. My first thought, ransomware. So I logged in and started looking around at what was happening — I’m a CrowdStrike customer — and quickly realised two different, separate things had happened: > > - Microsoft Azure had an outage earlier in the day. This was resolved before I got up. Azure has frequent outages (don’t kill me, Microsoft) — this isn’t abnormal. > - CrowdStrike had made a boo-boo and pushed out a channel update that had borked a decent percentage of customers. > > The media connected these two events together and conflated them. They weren’t connected.
- main computer and one monitor into the UPS – gives you enough time to close your browser and gracefully shutdown when there’s a power problem
- if you’re running everything off a laptop (with a good battery), then a UPS isn’t quite as critical
- most UPS have built-in surge protection
- surge protection for power surges, power spikes
- UPS for power outages
DNC busy trying to get Manchin and Sinema to come back to the fold
a scenario the party hasn’t experienced since 1968
because the 1968 Democratic Convention went swimmingly – oh, they’re also holding this year’s convention in Chicago again you say? with increased police presence as well?
checkbox compliance – companies are required to have something in place that checks the box so they can pass the audit
take a look at Alpine Linux – Alpine, Void, and Gentoo all grew out of a similar “Linux plus BSD” attitude – Alpine’s package manager is as fast or faster than Void’s – Alpine is pretty under-represented (but not absent) on the desktop side of things while being rather over-represented in the container, VM, server side of things (meaning the small community tends to be rather admin heavy)
we’ll do all their work for them, they just need to sit back and take credit the next time we shoot ourselves in the foot …
AI art has no anti-cooption immune system
> “One thing Myspace had going for it: it was exuberantly ugly. The decision to let users with no design training loose on a highly customizable user-interface led to a proliferation of Myspace pages that vibrated with personality.”
> “The most febrile, deeply weird and authentic prompts of the most excluded outsiders produce images that feel the same as the corporate AI illustrations that project the illusion of personality from the immortal, transhuman colony organism that is the limited liability corporation.”
Trump campaign aims to use today's shooting as a sort of Reichstag fire to incite his supporters to step up street violence
https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/112782702007709408
> The Trump campaign aims to use today's shooting as a sort of Reichstag fire to incite his supporters to step up street violence while calling for more state repression targeting his enemies of choice. > > The Biden campaign has already paused all outbound communications and withdrawn their television advertisements, ceding the entire field of narrative to Donald Trump, who will have no compunction about using his status as a victim to advance his efforts to victimize others. > > One of the classic mechanics of totalitarianism is that protecting the safety of the leader becomes a justification for violence against large swathes of the population. > > As centrists join the far right in paving the way for totalitarian rule under Trump, we have to organize to defend our communities. If you have been in denial about the challenges ahead of us, this should be a wake-up call to find each other and prepare for them.
Scenic train ride from Bergen to Oslo (Norway)
originally broadcast in 2009: Bergensbanen – minutt for minutt was a full recording of the 7 hour train trip from Bergen to Oslo and became the showpiece for slow television
(2017) Trump isn’t lying, he’s bullshitting – and it’s far more dangerous
Inflating his own grand persona is Trump’s sole goal, and he doesn’t care whether or not you believe him.
> Bullshitters, as philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote in his 1986 essay “On Bullshit,” don’t care whether what they are saying is factually correct or not. Instead, bullshit is characterized by a “lack of connection to a concern with truth [and] indifference to how things really are.” Frankfurt explains that a bullshitter “does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”
Honest Government Ad | AI
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17078489
> The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative
The original inspiration for Duran Duran's iconic Rio album cover has finally been revealed, four decades after the LP's release.
Google requiring Privacy Policy for XScreenSaver
XScreenSaver is a collection of free screen savers for X11, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android.
A new discovery that the AI-enabled feature's historical data can be accessed even by hackers without administrator privileges only contributes to the growing sense that the feature is a “dumpster fire.”
Humane is warning customers not to use the AI Pin's charging case due to a potential “fire safety risk.”
cinereus he - 42 keys, column stagger, splay in a 60% case
- Mekanisk Klippe case in Ultramarine
- cinereus he PCB with assembly by JLC
- FR4 plate in JLC Blue (missing Ultramarine’s hint of green)
- Gateron Melodic switches
- MTNU Susu keycaps
- running Vial firmware
- a BIG thanks to Noah Kiser’s PCB design videos and JLC’s PCB fab and assembly services
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Darvaza gas crater
(remembered this after seeing “Craters of the Moon”)
Rio album cover - Patrick Nagel (1982)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15540059
> cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/32260463 > > > Rio album cover - Patrick Nagel (1982) > > > > - From Muddy Colours > > > > "It’s easy to dismiss the technical prowess of Nagel’s work, as his style is easily replicated digitally nowadays. But keep in mind that all of his images were actual paintings, typically acrylic paint on stretched canvas. In total, he left behind a body of work of more than 400 paintings. But more importantly, he created a style that truly defined, and influenced an entire decade. The ‘Nagel’ style is now synonymous with the look of the ’80’s’. > > > > Patrick Nagel died tragically at the young age of 38. During a 15-minute celebrity “Aeroba-thon” to raise funds for the American Heart Association, he suffered a fatal heart attack due to a congenital heart defect that went un-identified his entire life."