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One more post about Linux and then I'll shut up about it.

(I can do that, because I outgrew the evangelical "Oh my god you have to try this it's so much easier" stage like ten years ago, it's possible for me to shut up about Linux now, which is nicer for everyone involved)

If you have to choose between something that used to be crap but is slowly getting better, and something that used to be alright but is getting inexorably worse, the best time to jump is gonna be when you get to see and take joy in the getting-better bit.

If you leave it too long and the thing you're jumping from has gotten intolerably, unusably bad, you'll be in a hell of a panic and it'll probably be at a super-inconvenient time. Give the New Thing a good sniff ahead of time and play around with it a bit in a non-vital setting, so that you're not moving in a horrible panicked rush.

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(This is true even - or maybe *especially* - when they publish some seemingly in-depth analysis of something. Notice how certain connections are suspiciously underdefined, and how the whole thing looks a lot like "finding patterns because they are expected to exist".)

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Reminder for no particular reason that Brian Krebs is neither particularly reliable nor morally trustworthy.

Whoever designed this notepad seriously missed a trick. Those first 2 composers should have been Chopin and Liszt

please just one more clone of me, I swear I'll finish my entire TODO list, please, just—

Deze week in de Efteling echt iets heel zorgwekkends gezien: een groep schoolkinderen met school-shirts... met daarop *bedrijfsreclame*.

Is het nu echt al zover gekomen dat basisscholen kinderen rond laten lopen in reclameborden?

operating rule: you will steer towards whatever you are looking at. observe and note the hazard, then keep your eyes on the safe path.

do not stare into the void unless you wish to go there.

anyway they've released a coding challenge which, like, people who understand information theory will be aware that the thing they're asking for is unlikely to be possible... https://content.neuralink.com/compression-challenge/README.html

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Oh, you thought that microcoasters were just an RCT shitpost?

It occurs to me that half of their annual report seems to about accessibility in the various different interpretations. Physical accessibility, financial accessibility, sign language...

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Ya know, I ❤️ Mastodon because I actually get to see art by artists I can’t see anywhere else. Because they’re usually buried underneath an algorithm that serves only to make money for the platform.

I wouldn’t have discovered SO MANY genuine, talented, authentic, smaller-scale artists anywhere else. Because I’d never have seen them. Because those sites only privilege success.

You want to find new art? Fresh artists? Raw talent? Look on Mastodon.

#art #ArtistsOnMastodon #artistlife #MastoArt

it has been zero days since foone has opened up some old tech and accidentally gotten information she was not supposed to have.

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Oh, you thought that microcoasters were just an RCT shitpost?

covid stuff, re: food, non-vegan 

Also, bonus points for not hesitating at all and seating me in an otherwise unused area of the restaurant after I asked to be far away from other people for COVID safety reasons

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food, non-vegan 

By kidney diet standards, honestly, this was a king's breakfast.

(The custom breakfast that the Efteling/Bosrijk people cooked up for me to stay within my salt/potassium restrictions)

I need my students to understand that to get away with openly committing blatant plagiarism you have to be a billion dollar megacorporation, which they are not

Ik hoor al jaren -over wetgeving als cameratoezicht, fouilleren, sleepwet, etc- "Vertrouw je de regering dan niet?"

Waarop het standaardantwoord altijd is: "De vraag is: vertrouw je de regering die er over tien jaar zit?"

Deze term ga ik overnemen. #OrbánTest #Orbán #ViktorOrbán

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