Patrick Smyth

@moira You can also cover it in coca cola and leave it overnight, really brings out the color.

Another great post in the I Want to Love Linux series, this time about Wayland #accessibility:

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-4-wayland-is-growing-up-and-now-we-dont-have-a-choice/
#a11 #linux #gnome

The Zen of Task Management with #Orgmode (in #Emacs)

https://bzg.fr/en/the-zen-of-task-management-with-org/

You guys know Clarissa, right? That doorstop by Richardson? *crickets*

OK let me start again. There's this really long book. Not much happens. It's the perfect read for 2025! And some folks from my alma mater are doing a reading group on Substack, reading the letters from the book on the dates […]

Candle auctions are still held today as a form of tradition. In Chedzoy ... , a plot of church land is sold by candle auction once every 21 years. In Tatworth, a 6-acre (24,000 m2) plot is auctioned by candle once per year. In Leigh, Dorset, two pieces of land, Alton Mead and Bere (or Beer) […]

I love landing on one of those #apache or (less common but possible) #nginx pages that is a list of files and directories. Happens less often these days

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=115522289#DirectoryListings-DirectoryIndexes
#web #internet #old

This game is a weird historical curiosity. Interactive fiction game where a genie teaches you #lisp

https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=zj3ie12ewi1mrj1t

I think @zarfeblong coded a Lisp interpreter in z machine. for this.

#functional #interactivefiction

Gary Dahl came up with the idea in a bar while listening to his friends complain about their pets; this gave him the idea for the perfect "pet": a rock. [2] A rock would not need to be fed, walked, bathed, or groomed, and it would not die, become sick, or be disobedient. Dahl said that they […]

@riaschissl

Here is an archived version if you'd like to poke around:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230304024607/http://simplenetes.io/

#wayback

WTF #kubernetes in like 17k lines of bash #devops #weird

https://github.com/simplenetes-io/simplenetes?tab=readme-ov-file#simplenetes---magic-free-clusters

My newfound dark academia knowledge: chug lactose for 2 weeks while your body cries out begging to rend your soul asunder.Don't do it. Or do, I'm not your pa... I fixed my lactose intolerance -- by chugging ALL the lactose

Very amusing video. I fixed my lactose intolerence by eating all the lactose"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90rEkbx95w

Just discovered the forgotten websites subreddit. Pretty entertaining

https://www.reddit.com/r/forgottenwebsites/

This parody chemical company website is the kind of stuff you get. Pretty weird/droll

https://www.alliedchemical.com/

#indieweb #webrings #old #internet #reddit

"Lowlander Great compositions produced with vivid tone colours and floating in a warm reverb... some of it reminiscent of a calming sanctuary hub in an otherwise dangerous computer game. Favorite track: Ritual of the Moon." […]

https://everything2.com/node/2208847?lastnode_id=0

Let us assume ... that you just hate grass. You have a lawn, and you want to have a lawn't. Your disgust and loathing for the entire notion of lawns burns with the heat of a thousand suns, and you have found yourself in possession of a soulless plot of monoculture ornamental grass, in a […]

Kubernetes is hard sometimes.

#k8s #devops

Just heard about a historical event called "Disco Demolition night" where they blew up a crate of disco records on an MLB field and folks started rioting O.o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night #weird #music #disco #mlb

We've got a Learning Lab tomorrow on chainguard's #Python container image. Switching your #flask, #django, or #openai app over will drop you down to ~0 known vulnerabilities just by using a different base image. We'll go into depth on it tomorrow at 12 EST […]

Did a deep dive on where the Grype container scanner's data comes from. We also build Grype's DB with their open tooling https://dev.to/chainguard/deep-dive-where-does-grype-data-come-from-n9e

#foss #security #cve #devops