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Don't ask me why I did this, but I did. Linux dellbert 4.14.182-dellbert #3 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 3 08:39:40 PDT 2020 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux pidsley@dellbert OS: Gentoo/Linux Uptime: 0d 0h 37m Shell: /bin/bash Init: sysvinit+openrc Disk: 1.9G / 20G Mem: 15Mi / 2.0G...

^ I know how this works and I started to write a reply, but it gets really geeky, so I stopped. You can look it up on wikipedia if you are really interested. (-: The wikipedia article is actually pretty interesting -- apparently there is something of a cassette "revival" (kind of like with...

^ I am finally getting rid of a box full of cassettes in this latest purge (some of them from the mid to late 1970s). (-: I didn't have any way to play them in the house (my car still has a cassette player, but I never use it) so about two years ago I bought a cassette deck at a thrift store and cop...

Yes. pidsley's fourth law - - "your collection of useless stuff expands to fill the available space" (unless you keep a really close watch on it). In one of my moves, I discovered boxes in the attic that I had not opened since the last move. I got rid of them without even opening them. The...

^ I probably will keep it. I am in the process of getting rid of lots of things I don't need or use. Moving is a great time to do this, but I have not moved for 16 years (longest I have ever lived anywhere), so I have accumulated a lot of crap. I try to purge every once in a while, partly because I ...

Linux dellbert 4.19.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.19.118-2 (2020-04-29) i686 GNU/Linux pidsley@dellbert OS: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Uptime: 0d 0h 6m Shell: /bin/bash Init: systemd Disk: 845M / 9.8G Mem: 35Mi / 1.9Gi Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-686-pae i686 CPU: Intel Celeron CPU 2.40GHz I am going th...

The author tries a little too hard to be funny, but it is still an interesting read.

^ I would definitely use that IP checker (I am an admin on another non-linux forum and often have to look up IPs for new registrations and other places where people look dodgy).

^ I like it.

More science history.

A very interesting look at the history and science of psychotropic drugs. It always fascinates me that we don't know how so many drugs actually work.

The Expanse books are much better than the TV series (in my opinion).

https://i.postimg.cc/PJXxDs4Y/F41-AF51-C-5763-42-A0-9-A66-6-C04-D88-EAA9-B-Img100.jpg My father was a math teacher; he would have loved this book. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotterie...

Funny how many of us have moved away from the constant experimenting. I still have four different distros running on different machines, but I'm not building anything new or experimenting much at all these days. Still using Debian oldstable on the main machine; one of these days I might upgrade to s...

I tried zsh for a while, and I like it, but it does not bring enough benefits for me to use it full time. Maybe if I used it more I would see more benefit, but I have too many machines with vanilla installs that only have bash and I am too lazy to install zsh everywhere. I tried fish for about five ...

^ Interesting. I think calling that a systemd replacement is a little like calling a bicycle an M1-abrams tank replacement. It does show how little an "init" system really has to do, though.

Ram Dass (Richard Alpert)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/obit ... -dead.html

Cokie Roberts

This makes me sad. You guys outside the US might not know her, but here she was a well known and respected journalist. She was a fixture on National Public Radio for many years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/obit ... -dead.html

"I am doing this due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations." -- what an idiot.

Finished the Coolidge bio, and started on this one, another president I know very little about): https://i.postimg.cc/ZK08HkFp/hoover.jpg Next up is this (a little out of order, I know; this one is part two of a three-part series, I read the first book a little while ago) https://i.postimg.cc/zDQbJy...