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Doctor day again. Getting stabbed, bled, and zapped in the pursuit of a variety of diagnoses, all downstream issues of a single #COVID bout in Jan 2022.
BTW you can avoid my 46 months of hell just by:
- masking up
- staying vaccinated
- washing your hands
- ventilate enclosed spaces regularly
- and reminding others to do this
Such a small price to pay
On that note #Aranet CO2 sensors are reduced for a further week https://aranet.com/en/home/products/aranet4-home/ I highly recommend them
Some days you think I'll just fix a bug.
And then you're knee-deep in yaml-powered tool written in python, suddenly falling through a hidden trapdoor into a shell script that uses sed and grep to parse the yaml configs, and you land on a bed of ancient monkey skulls.
At least you hope they're monkey skulls, because the inference could be its other devs who never made it back, and this sed/grep monstrosity is looking for something that was assumed to be on a single line, but doesn't have to be, because ... yaml is not an ini file.
The monkey skulls suddenly collapse into dust, and while you sneeze, you disturb a previously hidden nest of snakes (the python, you remember), which rises up to bite you on the arse. At least, its pretty close to your arse.
The only thing you can think of is to run screaming down random corridors looking for an exit, only to find that the config files that should be in /usr/local/etc are in fact in /etc/ and they point you to an escape route, even if its poorly documented, but its across a shoddy rope bridge over /var/lib/ and there are raging crocodiles below you. Skimming these files that don't respect hier(7) at all, you realise there's no choice - it's the bridge, and the crocs, and you'll need to move, fast.
Grabbing a fraying cord on the rope bridge, you struggle across as fast as you can. Of course, it pulls loose, and you swing wildly down towards the crocodiles. There's no way out now, but suddenly you realise -- /run/ isn't safe, but there's /var/run/ where this stuff should be, and at the last second, you swing over the crocs, into a hidden cave of the ancients.
There is a scroll, and it tells you how to get out. There are only two words:
I imagine a 20 tonne side loading coal wagon but filled with delicious gravy. And then I imagine 80 more of them. They come past my door where I have a wall of mashed potato and a giant crane with a gravy bucket on it to pour over my mashed spuds. I also have a ball pool but it’s full of peas instead and my entire front yard is laden with delicious slices of roast NZ lamb.
That’s my idea of a gravy train and nobody gonna stop me.
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kiwis abroad! are you enrolled to vote?
voting papers are NOT sent to you. you need to be enrolled by midnight (nz time) sunday october 25th.
overseas voting opens on wednesday 21 october.
go to vote.nz/overseas for all information.
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The European #SBOM user group is growing. Our meetings are very active, filled with knowledge and discussions. Join and participate in our coming meetings!
* September 3: SBOM and digital signatures
* September 17: SBOM types revisited
* October 1: SBOM: Ask us anything!
Register for free and you'll get an invite to the Zoom meeting.
https://sbomeurope.eu/community/
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My book is out!
This one was a passion project. It's about how we've used computers for writing, including nroff, LaTeX, HTML, and DITA. There's even a chapter in there about WordStar on DOS. 🤓
I added a ton of references and examples, so you can see how it works. I think the chapters on nroff and troff are my favorite, because they show a really interesting part of tech writing history.
Links in comments 👇
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#fedihire #hiring #python #django #aws
UK based only - Senior Developer for The Electoral Commission // £70,000 // fully remote possible, hybrid at UK hubs also fine if your preference.
Fancy working with interesting data problems, and services that need to scale to millions of voters? You'll help bring a major voter-information service in-house and shape what comes next.
YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU! We all need you. Plz.
Interested? I'm sole recruiter for this > thayer@team-prime.com CVs pls!
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> which means the best free Arabic font of the digital era is a one-man reconstruction of the best government-funded font of the metal era
A massive treatment of the difficulties of rendering Arabic text.
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With Belgium experiencing the biggest fire in its history, I am once again reminded of:
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Falcon 9 and Milky Way
Credits: Derek Demeter, EmilBuehler Planetarium
#nature #space #astrophotography
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...If anybody's looking for a person who basically does everything from compiler {backend,frontend} development, GPU driver development, to hardware/firmware security research, let me know. #getfedihired
It turns out my creature comfort requirements are pretty low.! The three best things about being at home:
- decent coffee
- decent bed
- bath, oh how I missed you
To complete it, just add a nice view of the sea -- hard to find in Austria -- and decent pizza.
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I was on a podcast!
Me and @brad_frost woke up excited and talked about our shared love for music, web, accessibility, and AI sustainability.
Here or wherever you get podcasts: https://youtu.be/I2EIisn5f6Q
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@RickiTarr I just want the big blue hippo statue from the Met.
Love how people still think #COVID19 was a thing that happened in the past and not something you can still get, and keep, for years on end.
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A thing about Bluesky vs Fedi is that it's not enough to have an exit option.
What I mean is, I've seen generations of private platforms have temporary dalliances with open standards for interoperability. XMPP, RSS, IRC. These were all eventually removed. The common thread is that if a company like Google or Yahoo dropped this support, the usefulness of their products wasn't instantly annihilated. This is basically the problem with data takeout options too - it's a good gesture, but if you're not taking and verifying backups regularly, or you don't have a useful way to put that data into a different system, or you wait too long and they remove the feature... you're fucked.
Compare this to email, which is garbage, but it's truly decentralized garbage, where if GMail tried to take away federating with other domains, nobody would use them. This is how Fedi works. Even mastodon.social is not big enough to get away with attempting to wall their garden. They can't remove exits, so they can't remove exits.
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Little handlebar dragon risking it all with an uncertified helmet.
edit: it's mostly to keep his hair from getting wet in the rain ;-)
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'Detailfotografie' #FotoVorschlag
Oh I posted this one recently but I think it also fits very well for the 'details' topic. And it has some waterdrops to cool your timeline during the heat ;)
Happy Saturday my #photography friends
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Beim Bergwandern gibt es einen
'Schönster Augenblick' nach dem anderen...
#FotoVorschlag #photography #landscape #mountains #alps #hiking #Kärnten #berge
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