baltakatei

If my workstation goes up in value in 4 years, something is seriously going.

Ah, the Mel Brooks guillotine.

Not to be seconded by the Founding Mothers’ BL Library.

date -Is my beloved.

What about a UNIX epoch HTML color clock?

YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS±zzzz

Shut off their water lines, cut off their power, cancel trash collection, and close their roads. Failure to abide by the laws regulating infrastructure means they don’t deserve infrastructure.

What’s Digg?

Old couple in boat celebrate house burning from What About Bob

It uses lemons for invisible ink used to embed its own serial code in case you try illegally printing truffles or something.

Something something revealed preference.

Student: “Hey, thanks for the Bash script! It didn’t know you could use the mapfile built-in to populate an array using standard input lines without a while loop. mapfile -t my_array < <(seq 1 10) is really handy!”

Vibe coding guru: “I have no idea what you’re talking about. That sounds like plumbing. You should let AI handle those details. Focus on the big picture.”

Imagine the chaos if all the FOSS maintainers collectively went on strike until their demands were met. They could demand so, so much despite being volunteers.

I thought Debian was as sluggish as Windows until I was forced to use the LXQt desktop environment instead of the default GNOME on an old Compaq laptop since that’s all it could handle. Turns out, GNOME looks nice but it kept my old laptop’s mid-2000s i386 CPU churning at 50% 24/7. LXQt? Barely a blip. Sure, it couldn’t run Firefox quickly, but at least its fan was silent when idling or when I was simply using the laptop as a dumb SSH client into a much more powerful remote server.

I now use LXQt on my main workstation because I don’t need fancy tilíng windows or Wayland.

Exfoliate that shit.

“Cut everyone’s lifespan to less than 100 years. Rewrite evolutionary history so the populations of all elephant, cow, canines, and cat nation-states cannot and never could speak. Delete the continent of Lemuria from existence.”

Those engineers should have formed a union and refused until they could collectively negotiate their pay. I can’t think of a more straightforward situation in which a union would be more appropriate.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-somewhat

People that treat people as things deserve the same courtesy.

The trick is to have a really good imagination so imaginary-you can perform all stupid without consequences. The process of training your imagination to do this is called “education”.