Not exactly timely, but I bet I'm not the only one who easily forgets about that particular thing. Most of my stuff is set to autoupdate so I tend to forget.
The upgrade downloaded a large number of packages, I think about 160, during which network connectivity continued to function. After downloading, my router PC reset, and that first boot after the upgrade took quite a few minutes. I ended up running the 90 second timer out after which it reset to 20 seconds a number of times. I was just about to start digging for an HDMI cable to see what when I heard the router beep and my internet came back. Perfect upgrade, didn't need to fix anything afterwards.
The UI is way, way better. I also haven’t had opnsense corrupt itself, but PFsense did that to me twice in the five or so years I used it.
Other than that there aren’t a lot of functional differences. There was some drama years ago with the guy who runs PFsense and I guess he’s kind of a giant asshole, that’s what led to the fork, but I don’t remember the details.
Today for #MinCup23 I'm voting ammineite because guano mineral 😆 I got no folklore for it, even though I vaguely remember reading a bat guano folktale at some point... couldn't locate it. Maybe for the next round.
While three men (George S. Key, Henry Jones, and Edward Smith) were initially sentenced to death for murder, their supporters launched a legal challenge to the Guano Act and the jurisdiction of U.S. courts, argued as Jones vs. U.S. before the U.S. Supreme Court and, when that failed, successfully lobbied President Benjamin Harrison to commute the sentences. By that point, the case had achieved such notoriety that he devoted part of his 1891 State of the Union address to defending his decision.
This support came principally from the Black Baltimore community - especially the Grand United Order of Galilean Fishermen and the Mutual United Brotherhood of Liberty.
While successful in saving the men's lives, the commutation of their death sentences to life in prison meant that Key, Jones, and Smith would spend the rest of their lives in hard labor in brutal conditions without labor protections. Just as they had on Navassa.
Snapper offers basically the same functionality as Timeshift and is -to my knowledge- developed by openSUSE’s team. So, while finding it therefore pre-configured on say openSUSE Tumbleweed makes sense, it’s also the preferred solution on some other distros like Garuda Linux, Siduction and Spiral Linux.
@linux I was able to install Keyscape on Ubuntu Studio, but the GUI won't work in the standalone or VST. Does anyone know how to resolve this? Should be similar if anyone has encountered this with Omnisphere
Today is the 20th anniversary of my attending my very first science fiction convention: Torcon 3 in Toronto. Some memories of that convention, and thoughts on how the world of conventions has changed since then, are up on Whatever today:
@CherylMorgan@scalzi My first convention was a Yorkon in Leeds in '83 or '84. Other folks I bumped into there: Roz Kaveney, @neilhimself , and PTerry—all of us young and incredibly obscure!
@obu - AMAZING comprehensive FREE online courses on a variety of topics. I'm doing one on the words of the #Buddha and I am loving it. #Education#OnlineLearning
And as @zenartcenter has noted, there are female Bodhisattvas within the #Mahayana tradition.
This is not to say that there are not problems. But I've always thought religious communities are so diverse. Consider #Christianity - you can have hardcore Christian nationalists in the US and you can have radical peace churches like the Quakers, Mennonites, and Amish within the same tradition.
The key is to not see religious traditions as monolithic and to understand that there are many traditions operating simultaneously within the larger umbrella and which can become more important in certain places, times, societies, and contexts.
@Sibshops@Wikisteff@Andres@pikesley I am "on the autism spectrum" (that is, I'm autistic) and I can confidently say I would not score a point against Serena. I also find the typical male ego ludicrous and obnoxious, despite being male myself.
Now I'm wondering, why did autism get dragged into this?
@hosford42 Yep, my son is barely on the autistic spectrum.
It wouldn't be out of character for him to say "I don't know" or "I don't think so." if I ask him if he would be able to get a point against a tennis pro.
@Sibshops That's a common misconception. The spectrum isn't a fade from full-blown non-autistic to full-blown autistic. It's more like a color wheel, with twenty different hues of autism, none of which is closer than any other to being "normal". I look and act neurotypical to most people, until they get to know me better, so people tend to call me "high-functioning" or otherwise water down my autism, but I'm every bit as autistic as any other autistic person. What most people see as more or less autistic is actually more or less able to pretend to be normal.
@neilhimself I need to get my comics organized and in doing so I'll be getting my life together. I'm living in unorganized chaos. I need to go to IKEA. Send help.
I wonder if the whole #AI thing will finally convince artists that modern #copyright regime was never meant to protect them.
It was meant to protect the middlemen. The Amazons, the Spotifies, the Sonys, the Disneys. The film studios, the publishing houses.
Now the middlemen figured out they own basically all of art, and that they can just train a computer on that, to replace artists with a piece of software.
And then stop paying artists even the pittance they were being paid so far.
@rysiek If you consider Audiobook Narrators to be artists and audiobooks to be art (I do, honestly, on both counts), then here is a link to my catalogue of high heat audiobooks:
@AdaraAstin I absolutely do consider audiobooks art and audiobook narrators artists. Many books get a completely new shine, new depth, in an audiobook version!
Does anyone have any links for reverse engineering Spotify DRM? I didn't necessarily need it for myself, have plenty of music, and it would be a pretty inefficient means of piracy vs. BitTorrent or like yt-dlp, but I'm curious how it works.
It always seems to me like the analog gap is particularly gaping with audio, and I wonder how far down to the metal it's protected.
What does it mean in terms of ethics when a song is not on Spotify and is not considered a song (is just a generic video) through YouTube Music? It seems to happen a lot to video game OSTs, especially Touhou music.
How stressful is to be a yoga teacher? Engineers, doctors, school teachers are known to have a lot of pressure in their jobs, I wonder if the same happens for yoga teachers and similar jobs?
@elonjet
Musk's internal monologue: "I shall walk imperially through the halls of power for this photo, like an 18th century duke, and then I shall cast my gaze upon you, little photo-person. Do not weep in the presence of my greatness but love me... from a distance."