You both present sick arguments!

Reference: The Dollop, a comedy history podcast with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds. The episode is “Action Park”.

IM THE FUCKING HIPPO GUY

The tags only work with Firefox browsers, but they’re stored in a SQLite database. So there’s potentially a method for extracting them or syncing them. I’d like to figure that out so I can sync tags between my Emacs org-roam database and Firefox.

Firefox bookmarks have tags, which is way more than most browsers.

The factory must grow

Strip mining a planet, refining raw materials, building factories, and researching new technology. All to build a rocket to get off said planet.

With extra bonus: write an installer script that symlinks the files to the correct place. Use Ansible, plain old Bash, or Python depending on your preference.

Create a dotfiles repo in git. Gives you a way to track changes to your .bashrc or .zshrc

Mid 90s at work as a project support technician in Sony Broadcast R&D in the UK. Slackware, then red hat mostly. Installed Linux boxes in various digital TV stations in London in 1999/2000, used to insert interactive games into the broadcast stream.

I was a sysadmin from 99 to about 2018, from then onwards I’m more DevOps. Done a bunch of stuff with CentOS too, including migrating 500k email accounts to our hosted solution. Other cool stuff included a VMware based development environment using Foreman + FreeIPA to auto provision dev VMs with all sorts of puppet code.

Now at home I run Fedora and work on macOS, writing Terraform and Python. And some nodejs too.

Been at it a long ass time now lol

So that’s the LLM plan, huh?

Get us humans addicted to astonishing buttoral vibrations, then threaten to withhold our butt-crack unless we hand over control to them?

Possibly offtopic, I wrote a guide to setting up zsh on macOS: https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/0ffcb98aa262c585c49d4b3f3ae24019

+1 for Textual. It’s great stuff!

I love a good condensed font:

https://www.programmingfonts.org/#mplus

It doesn’t support ligatures though.

I like both of those, but my terminal and coding are always in MPlus Code

Apart from death and taxes, I think maybe drama is the 3rd universal constant.

I used Borg to backup a bunch of dev servers a few years ago, about 5TB from several dozen hosts, over several years. It worked flawlessly, and its dedupe is downright magical.

The restore workflow, where you just mount a snapshot and copy what you need, is fantastic. Very straightforward and reliable.

The One Ring has not been kind to Smeagol…

I’ve been wondering about that. I think they get around it by using the “enter your current password” prompt, so they potentially have it in cleartext for the duration of the session.

And that’s how you get rules put in place to not use a password that’s similar to your old passwords. (I don’t agree with such rules, just to be completely clear)

If you are forced to use long passwords, use book titles, song titles, character names, album names, TV show names, etc etc.

Examples: WutheringHeights$!5, ThePrisonerOfAzkaban:29, TheCountOfMonteChristo33&&

Of course you can put the numbers and symbols anywhere, not just at the end.