Imagine being one of the antarctic researchers working when Mark Shuttleworth was in Antarctica, trying to hire Ubuntu devs. "Jim, we're seeing data from McMurdo describing a group of penguins near our sensors. Can you go check the site to make sure the solar panels are still in good shape?" "..." "Jim?" "Oh, sorry. This guy named Mark kept me up all night, said he needed to assemble a team." "A team to do what?" "He says he wants to make a pretty good Debian fork with a history of innovation but some less than stellar business decisions."

always a good day when CISA starts telling people to start yanking cables.

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pretty messed up how magic smoke is smoke that indicates a fried pcb instead of smoke that makes a genie come out of your pcb

The biggest tragedy of LLM slop code is that I no longer think it looks cool if my terminal output has emojis. it used to be cool! then Gemini and Replit used too many emojis!

husbear is officially quitting his job after playing a game of employment chicken with them for the past few months. I am proud of him! and if they obey the severance agreement then we will be financially okay for a bit! And I have already had him apply at internet archive and a couple other places, and set him up on my fastmail account so he has a very Employable-Looking™ email address! But also, if you know anyone who needs a remote worker to do library science, project management, gov RFPs or data historianship, consider this an invitation to hit me up with hiring links. #FediHire

We should do vaccine commercials that look like tampon commercials. It makes 1000% more sense to have a commercial consisting of a woman and her friends riding rollercoasters and hitting the beach and stuff when the product in question is a vaccine to make sure you don't die when someone's kid open mouth sneezes in your face! You could even do a blue liquid test, but have the blue liquid in a spray bottle sprayed at a mannequin's face like "See what kinds of germs you can get? Seriously, get vaccinated"

wait. WAIT. is the japanese word "kanji" for the chinese-based writing system a transliteration of the chinese word "hanzi" which is the mandarin word for chinese writing?

Instead of hanging a framed college degree on my wall, I should hang the CUPS test print that I just successfully sent over wifi on opensuse