David Egan Evans

That’s me, in the bottom left corner, one of the tiny ones, though I’m not new to the parish.

And who wears a t-shirt to church?! Critical Role too. What a nerd!

I think there’s more here than open source. Plus, the phrasing seems stuck in old assumptions.

Memory is fickle. It could be when I first noticed it.

MB vs MiB

My memory is Seagate with the 1G drive sizes. I worked at NEC at the time, before they pulled out of North America.

Control is not the secret to happiness.

The messiness of relationship is the secret to happiness, or at least contentment.

This is the first year in memory where I can’t watch the World Series on TV or live broadcast (without a subscription or pay per view).

ESPN radio has it, and this is not the first time I’ve listened to a game on the radio, but certainly I haven’t done so in years.

GM7: go Dodgers!

House was a fun series

“But I still cling to hope
And I believe in love
And thats Faith enough for me”

— Neil Peart, Faithless

TaB is the original diet drink from Coke. Diet Pepsi was its non-Sachrin competitor. The closest Coke equivalent is Coke Zero.

Diet Coke is diet New Coke.

If you want something that tastes like Pepsi, you want Pepsi Zero.

Coke -> Coke Zero/Diet Pepsi
New Coke -> Diet Coke
Pepsi -> Pepsi Zero

@stephenking.bsky.social is one of the few US Kings I support :)

Having lived through that, however young, I’m not so sure…

Good overview and explanation. Not a bad plug for moving to less crunchy, contemporary TTRPG, like PF2.

That’s the Naha-te Seisan. Not sure why he said Seipei: possibly nervousness. Renshi always told us not to tell on ourselves in competition.

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Document typesetting is interesting to me, and this software has me curious:
github.com/typst
#typst

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This is a symptom of the never ending September in the era LLM double speak generation. Anything that grabs your emotive attention can control you, utilizing misdirection as misinformation.

We need to reason from empirical observations outside espace. We need to communicate with verifiable humans.

Windows 10 EOL this October will mean many computers being junked. I’ve noted that Linux is an option, depending on the software you need to run.

Windows 10 has been around a decade, but part of it is major hardware vulnerabilities. It’s given me pause for my old Linux installs. Is Microsoft right?

“If we don’t have free speech, we don’t have a free country. It’s as simple as that.”

— Donald J. Trump

www.catb.org/esr/jargon/h...

Unless you want the data (or lack thereof) to not interfere with your anthropogenic global warming denying agenda

My first Linux was Slackware 2.3, obtaining the disc from a very patient @shalkie.bsky.social, struggling with boot and root floppies (@kreichard.bsky.social’s books saved me), and finally getting an install. (3.5’s bootable CD was a relief.) I’ve followed Slackware since.

That was 30 years ago!

From Slackware 14.0:

$ fortune -m “goal of Computer Science”
%% (fortunes)
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we’ve finished building it.

Rust has momentum in Linux. Like C++, it has been a possible C replacement. Formerly Alef -> Thompson’s C -> Limbo -> Go (written in Thomason’s C) is C’s native successor.

After hearing Kernighan’s recent comments about Rust, I wonder if that background was on his mind.

That particular “minus context” was a big gotcha for both Romans and for reformers.

Found this gem under a process discussion mentioning zombies and orphans, (Slackware 2.3, Linux Configuration and Installation): “Family values obviously play as important a role in the Linux operating system as they do in the Republican Party.” :)

I’m fussy. I’ve maintained my own at home for 20 years, and run Slackware on a laptop. I’ve supported and written about most major distributions for several companies. As for bad habits, there’s a lot of opinions, but you can’t know without learning it. My opinion is stop being defeatist and learn.

With Windows, Apple/Unix, you pay for your OS and support. With RHEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu, you can also pay for support (though Ubuntu is gratis the first five years). The rest is community.

Who cares about Linux distribution? What matters is preference and community, and your use and contributions.

Age verification doesn’t really work anyway, and legislators know it. This isn’t mere virtue signaling, but deliberate targeting of said-subcultures to disrupt them, since the law otherwise upholds their rights.

D&D has mixed history.

* Gygax and Arneson
* Basic set
* Gygax and AD&D 1/2
* TSR: AD&D alternative 2
* WotC and the OGL: rejoice!
* 4e and the GSL: boo!
* Pathfinder: rejoice!
* D&D 5.0: yippie!
* Starfinder: cool
* OGL 1.1: boo!
* PF2e: more cool
* D&D 5.1/2: CC-BY
* PF2e ORC: rejoice!
* SF2 ORC