@djsundog the hardest thing I’ve found is figuring out how to connect to the existing infrastructure without the local telcos screwing you because they don’t want the competition. Tips welcomed on solving that bit!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/014/public/#/screen/home/allcountries <-- EU Universal Basic Income referendum thingy.

TODAY ONLY! Please Sign!

Seriously, we need a better way of communicating the existence of these things, than random chance on Fedi and other social media.

@eyeling these are captivating and astonishing. The tweaked colours are something else.

@eyeling I love the blue much more than the red. do you have a higher res version of these available? I'd like to put them on my desktop background.

@Gina coffee. And that my partner organised the kids for school this morning so I could nap.

@jgoerzen is it really idle? or is it continually validating and gossiping the underlying paths and connectivity?

@lattera have you read any of William Gibson's books? IMO they aged surprisingly well. Sometimes, a touch *too* realistic when compared to today's dystopian future.

@calcifer @ajroach42 this is called a Rights Option. and it's very common, especially for books and screenplay adaptions.

🧵 I have spent a lot of the last year tinkering in the Big Arm64 server ecosystem, mainly with Ampere systems, smallest at 32 cores, then 80 and even 160 cores.

I like them so much I have 1 in my basement, doing all the usual things. It uses almost no power, but could do with a driver to slow the fans down when they're not needed.

With a merry band of the usual suspects, we've been working away at getting the upcoming FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE ready for this.

Here's a few highlights along the way 📩

@yojimbo I have a mix of all ages, to maximise the chaos :-)

children (noun): an efficient mechanism for turning a perfectly tranquil and organised-in-advance morning into utter chaos, culminating in a mad rush for the bus. Every g*dd*mn day. It's like a super-power, except the inverse of positive benefits.

As somebody who spend a decade being vegetarian, I don't get how people can say "this dish is vegetarian", and then have cheese and egg in it.

Please don't, just don't.

I'm cool with lacto-ovo vegetarian, or some less pedantic version of that name for common parlance, but please don't put "vegetarian" on recipes that ... need animals.

Please, show me the cheese plant and the egg tree, prove me wrong!

#fedi help I am looking for a blog post about somebody *running* Linux on an SFP. I should have bookmarked it but I'm a numpty, and search is turning up empty handed.

- this is *not* running linux on a server and having a fibre SFP plugged into it

it is:

- actually hacking the SFP itself
- installing linux in the control plane arm CPU of the SFP

does this ring any bells?

Hot Take: Kubernetes is the New Docker.

- over-complicated
- solves problems most companies don't have
- already spawned 1000 almost-compatible products
- requires dedicated Kube-experts to manage your Kube clusters
- 30% over-provisioned (due to Kubes pods) than your VMs
- makes it almost impossible to "just debug things" like we used to

I'm the grumpy unix greybeard
:flan_greybeard: in the corner, nursing my slowly warming pint of guiness :flan_beer: in front of the fire.

@clacke immutably borked, and preserved in this state for all eternity then?

📣 It's my birthday today! 🎉 :goose_honk:

Actually I should *first* go to sleep, and then get up, for my birthday proper ... in 5 hours.

I stayed up late watching crappy films :flan_vacation: So embarrassed I refuse to confess what films.

:cake_chocolate: 🥮 :cheesecake: :cheesecake_choc: :cheesecake: :flan_cheer:

Anybody who says "slept like a baby" hasn't spent much time around said troglodytes. We should say "I slept like a cat in a sunbeam".

PS: I slept like a cat in a sunbeam the last couple of nights. Managed to defer some of the existential dread at the triple tsunami shitstorm that is 2022 and onwards.

@jpmens #euroTip use Gluehwein and both can be true

Elinor Ostrom developed practical and theoretical frameworks for managing shared resources without depletion. A lot of this was derived from learning with indigenous groups, and looking also at industry and global systems. She received a Nobel Prize for Economics for her outstanding work and contributions.

Her theoretical work also resulted in this delightful line:

A resource arrangement that works in practice can also work in theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom

@mwlucas notwithstanding the great book content so far I am mightily impressed with read.bookfunnel.com for reading in the browser. I honestly did not expect it to be so good. Hope it’s author friendly as well.