School drop-off and pick-up at the catholic school across the street from me is complete and utter chaos. I just popped out to pull my car around the block for a closer street parking spot and it felt like I was playing chicken with a mindless mob—ignoring stop signs and right of way, pushing through a one-lane neighborhood street, flasher-parking where there are no parking signs, doors flinging open, cutting the wrong way around mini traffic circles, and generally not paying attention.

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Skiers who look like musical notes...

A photo by Haukur Sigurdsson.

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An aerial view of cross-country skiers traversing white snow. The skiers are small in the frame but cast long, distinct shadows across the snow.

Friday nights I make myself a little meal, watch some anime, and know that I’ll put out hard.

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A meal with a large bowl of stirfry vegetables and udon noodles with teriyaki mock flank steak. On the side is a bowl of cucumber salad, spring rolls and a hard plastic red cup of iced tea that I stole because it reminds me of home . In the background are candles and the opening credits of Golden Kamuy on ny iPad.

Can someone recommend a good self-hosted solution for easy file sharing, like DropBox? Here are my requirements:
* Unique randomized URL per file.
* Secured with password (auth not required).
* Burn after reading (file and URL are destroyed after download)
TIA (thanks in advance)
#HomeLab #SelfHosting @homelab

(And you know that they outsource their mailings, so even if you never log in, when you unsubscribe, they know it's a good email address to sell, along with sharing your general location.)

Adding a hard drive makes Linux change network interface numbers?

brb, static-configuring enp06 through enp15 in /etc/network/interfaces #sysadmin

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Young me: "These Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books are fun reads, but this 'all the wealthy and politicians are into human trafficking' plot is a little over the top."

Older me: "I should probably re-read those Larsson books to see what else he was right about."

Your man is one damned lucky individual to have landed you!

Gruber was commenting on a post about how great Apple's TextExit was because of its support for the "stable" RTF format. But he fails to acknowledge that RTF is constantly updated to mirror Word by Microsoft.

The awesomeness of BeOS's StyledEdit was that its files were actual plain text files, and readable by every other system. The "styles" were all saved as extended attributes in the filesystem.

Celine Dion has come out in support of farmers by removing all the consonants from her name.

have just seen my favorite meme of the year so far, hands down.

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The meme is a matrix of 4 frames with Jurassic Park characters and the options "Doesn't use AI", "Uses AI" on the vertical axis, and "Doesn't know how AI works" and "Knows how AI works" on the horizontal access. Thusly: Alan grant doesn't know how AI works and doesn't use it. The scummy lawyer doesn't know how AI works but DOES use it. Ian Malcolm knows how AI works and does not use it. Dennis Nedry knows how AI works and DOES use it.

I have guns. I have a concealed weapons permit. It is absolutely entirely legal for me to be filming ICE with a firearm on my person. It is not a reason to shoot me. If ICE is tackling me and my firearm becomes visible, that is also not a reason to shoot me. If it were, we’d be shooting all these unmarked goons running around with openly displayed sidearms.

Tesla convicted 18 times and ordered to pay thousands for failing to help UK police with investigations

In each case, when British police officers tried to track down the details of speeding Tesla drivers, their letters went unanswered and the forces ended up prosecuting the company itself

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/tesla-elon-musk-car-convicted-5HjdR8N_2/

Since we here in the USA don’t know the #metric system, we need to learn more units for this weekend

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Picture of six objects progressively increasing in height, captioned "Easily envision snow depths" with a quarter, 9 volt battery, credit card, candy bar, sugary drink can, and a dollar bill.

(Of course, every time I hear GWAR, I am transported to Empire Records, and Eddie's brownies.)

nom de guerre: an assumed name one uses during war

pomme de terre: French for "potato" (literally "earth apple")

pomme de guerre: an apple of war? An assumed apple? a grenade?

nom de terre: your earth name?