Hey GNU/Linux #distro maintainers, it would be awesome if your homepages all had a standard page - something like www.distroX.org/partitions - describing the default partition scheme your latest release sets up and why. There are so many options; partition table types, numbers and types of partitions, file systems, encryption or not, LVM or not. So much contradictory information on the web about them all. Being able to read and compare what distro mainainers say about it would be really helpful.
'On the General Architecture of the Peer Web' is an excellent essay by #AralBalkan of Ind.ie, laying out a brief history of the social impacts of computers and networks with a minimum of geek jargon, and some ideas for what the future of digital network technology could hold for us:
https://ar.al/2019/02/13/on-the-general-architecture-of-the-peer-web/
In meditation, and life really, the feeling that you can't bear a moment of sensation whether it's itching or pain or some other unpleasant feeling is never quite true, because in that moment you've already bourne it. What's really happening is that you're afraid of the next moment, and it is possible to find true equanimity in the midst of even very unpleasant sensations. -Sam Harris #meditation #contemplation #theliturgists
I am still here. I have taken up meditating. Waking Up app. One week of practice behind me. More to come.
PSA: Naturalnews.com is a very bad, Fash-adjacent peddler of dangerous pseudoscience and garbage medical advice.
0/0, Do not recommend.
(They sometimes come up as a top result when searching medical/diet things, which is why I bring this up.)
Toots galore: not so much.
How about this?
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Devices: Lenovo T420 w/Pop!_OS
Pixels Phone
Reading: Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson
Listening Habits: Waking Up with Sam Harris podcast (#135 Navigating Sex and Gender), Delete This podcast (#4 Who Viples The Piples?), The Daily podcast
Work: Uber/Lyft
"404 Page Not Found" by @mcmansionhell https://thebaffler.com/salvos/404-page-not-found-wagner
I don't know how to express how much I love this article. I'm glad someone is documenting the history of the internet from more than just the perspective of those who did or didn't make a billion dollars.
Car key fob lock button: Push it once, it locks your car. Push it twice, it honks your horn. Don't push it twice, unless you lost your car at Best Buy, or Costco, or Wholefoods, or Macy's, or in front of the bar, etc.
5G is being aggressively marketed in policy circles because it provides a useful distraction from the fundamental fact that the United States market is missing out on fiber's affordable prices and extraordinary advancements.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/heavy-focus-5g-wireless-means-we-are-ignoring-68-million-americans-facing-high
@lynnesbian I cannot tell you how many times I have googled how to do something and the first result is a stack overflow page where the only response is to google how to do it.
Next time you want to say things like "hackers broke into this system" or "hackers stole credit card numbers", please replace the word "hacker" with "cyber criminal".
Let's stop exacerbating the mainstream media's misunderstanding of the word "hacker".
In my last presentation, I almost wrote the sentence "Centralized systems are honeypots for hackers" and then replaced "hackers" with "cyber criminals".
🎉 New Year’s resolution: Become less dependent on services like Dropbox, Twitter, Google, etc. Use open, decentralised and/or self-hosted alternatives instead. First stop: #FEDIVERSE! Find me on 🐘 Mastodon: @sjockers https://vis.social/@sjockers
“I wanted to bring these projects to the community, so people can see renewable energy working in their community,” he says. “Communities want to rebuild themselves and not rely on some big municipal contract.”
The democratising potential of energetic self-determination is stellar.
What are cultural techniques and why Free Software qualifies as such. https://www.schiessle.org/articles/2019/01/02/cultural-techniques/ #CulturalTechniques #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #culture #Kulturtechnik
Non-dual-boot Linux user for long, long time.
Interests include center-left solutions, reading, writing, music (listening), film, social-media that helps.