Damn, using a VPN messes with syncthing it seems.
Kind: Notes
git-drink-base, really handy git command, surprised that not a lot of people know about it:
git-drink-base: drink non-staged unstaged bases from any quiltimported non-filter-branched upstream trees
https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/#cc3ec3bd1ad3e393b1969dc14eba1267
Be careful of the –plunge-history option though
Fascinating sprawling discussion on counter anti-disintermediation, decentralized social media, decentralized infrastructure, politics of coops, mesh networking.
https://social.coop/web/statuses/99324980275573606
Two thoughts spring to mind:
- Mastodon isn’t great for reading a threaded discussion
- Seems a shame all this great discourse is destined to just eventually slide off a timeline, what’s to be done about that?
The First Things First manifesto from 1964. Graphic designers advocating for a use of their trade that has more benefit to the social good.
“In common with an increasing number of the general public, we have reached a saturation point at which the high pitched scream of consumer selling is no more than sheer noise.”
Just to repeat, that’s over 50 years ago. It sure as hell hasn’t gotten any better.
Fun poking around in the machines yesterday.
“Pass completed, 120568268 bad blocks found.” OK. Going to assume that that’s bad.
Finding a replacement laptop battery is not an easy task. Most retailers get 1 out of 5, ‘do not buy!!!’ reviews on trustpilot. The best one selling my part averages 3 out of 5, with reviews like ‘first one I received was faulty, but customer service was OK and they sent out one that worked.’ Doesn’t inspire confidence. Oh well, time to gamble £30…
Rather than sexual relationships and reproductive organs, humbly suggesting the use of more genuinely offensive phrases for times of anger, e.g.
– you’re a total archon
– what an utter sultan
– oh put a crown on
– why don’t you go and abdicate you absolute monarch
etc
Aid payments are dwarfed by what’s lost to spurious debts, profit extraction, and dodgy invoicing, but help to feed a narrative of the industriousness and benevolence of developed countries.
“What this means is that the usual development narrative has it backwards. Aid is effectively flowing in reverse. Rich countries aren’t developing poor countries; poor countries are developing rich ones.”
“In other words, for every $1 of aid that developing countries receive, they lose $24 in net outflows“
The awesome images of Andreas Gursky.
http://www.andreasgursky.com/en/works/
