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What. about. hardware. DEceleration.

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People from Baltimore: *stares into distance* "Yeah, 'The Wire' is pretty much exactly like real life back home..."

Me: *looks off at the horizon* "Have you ever seen 'King Of The Hill'...?"

1) This nonsense is why people hate open source

2) Truly, the cleverest jokes are the ones you have to explain immediately.

So I'm interested in standing up a public git front-end for projects.

Having looked at all the enormous, overwrought, dependency-burdened towers out there that do 99% of things I don't care about, I think what I actually want is just a really good CGit theme. Any recommendations?

[side note: there's evidently no decent index or directory of CGit themes anywhere in the known quadrants of the galaxy]

I probably spent 50 hours preparing a 10-minute lightning talk about font metrics for #guadec. Almost all being cleanup on the web-app I built that no one else ever sees, and that I therefore never fix the problems with. Having deadlines is good every now and then.

Despite there already having been multiple #guadec talks highlighting the vital importance of documentation, I will bet you all infinity dollars sight unseen that not one of these job postings is a documentation job.

A short follow-up to this morning: how many FOSS emoji fonts are there? Around a dozen, depending on how you count.

So if you wanna see more than just Noto Color Emoji, good news; you got a lotta options on where to pitch in.

Here's the list I made: https://www.freesoftwhere.org/2021/07/21/emojent-behavior/

#emoji

Radical, outside-the-bun, counterculturalpoint: if you believe FOSS fonts are something that have value, find a penny to invest in them(*) instead of fruitlessly demanding that a proprietary font vendor change the license on something.

* — This includes any of the half-dozen or so other FOSS emoji-font projects.

New billion-dollar idea: those little blue-light, no-winter-sun mood-fixer devices, except you can shoot the mood-fixing at other people.

Cautiously optimistic about the new #Dune reboot; Frank Herbert's book totally desecrated David Lynch's vision.

Home Assistant has now gotten to the point where it not only has to support a third-party add-on ecosystem, but there are multiple manage-your-add-ons intermediate layers, each of which has its independent configuration & maintenance scaffolding. That's a death knell if I've ever seen one.

Sure seems like meteor showers they keep forecasting aren't making dent in the heat.

As ridiculous as font binaries are, I gotta give them credit where it's due: they certainly are efficient to store & access.

Should online conferences replace the venue / city skyline pics on their t-shirts and web sites with blocky, low-resolution Second Life–style pavilions?

Quick round of applause for the absolute legend of the shipping industry who wrapped the roll of foam I ordered in bubble wrap so it wouldn't get damaged.
#infinityandbeyond

Does anybody know if the "dude you're 35 years old and you have a neckbeard lol" guy from OMGUbuntu is 35 yet?

That was a few years ago so I lost track.

I don't know if I should be offended by the way this is trending or not.