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  • Watched Arrival (2016) again.

    It is so good, but 😭.

    16 November 2024
  • Today I learned that Slack has a per-person limit of 23 reactions per message. There can be more than 23 reaction “reacji” on a message, but they’ve got to be from multiple people.

    15 November 2024
  • RISC V continues to progress in measured steps.

    8 November 2024
  • I find the existence of the yes command to be a failure.

    16 October 2024
  • yes | sudo unminimize

    🙄😞

    16 October 2024
  • Finally learned how to get Zsh help to work properly. Had to do a bunch of other stuff to get HELPDIR set appropriately for my setup, but, finally.

    13 October 2024
  • Sticker graffiti got me to go to a band’s Bandcamp page and listen to them. Unfortunately, from their YouTube channel, they broke up last month. (No, I’m not going to link to them.)

    13 October 2024
  • Watching Parents. What a good weird movie.

    A boy in 1950s suburbia suspects his parents may be cannibals.

    Michael: “What are we eating?”

    Mom: “Leftovers, honey.”

    Michael: “Leftovers from what?”

    Mom: (laughs) “From the refrigerator!”

    Michael: “We’ve had leftovers every day since we moved here. I’d like to know what they were before they were leftovers.”

    Dad: “Well, before that, they were leftovers-to-be.”

    8 October 2024
  • Criterion Channel's current “Rebels at the Typewriter: Women Screenwriters of the 1930s” collection

    Finished watching all 16 movies in Criterion Channel’s current “Rebels at the Typewriter: Women Screenwriters of the 1930s” collection.

    The ones worthy of rewatch:

    You and Me has a miserable first half, but the latter half goes some wild places.

    What Price Hollywood? is decent and is rightly known as a A Star Is Born precursor.

    But the one that is head and shoulders above the rest is Finishing School. It turns “condemned by the Legion of Decency” into a recommendation.

    2 October 2024
  • 📺 The Moon’s Orbit is WEIRD

    Really nice discussion of why the Moon’s path around the Sun does not involve loops.

    2 October 2024
  • ∙> bash -c '(( 0 )); echo $?'
    1
    
    ∙> bash -c '(( 1 )); echo $?'
    0
    

    True is false and false is true? Say what, Bash?!?

    13 September 2024
  • Found out about -H as an alternative to f/--forest option to Linux ps. Does not show ASCII art, however does indent children of PID 1, which makes a difference inside containers.

    6 September 2024
  • 📺🎥 “We shot a YouTube video about film formats on 35mm film”

    😂

    27 August 2024
  • *le sigh*

    The -format json option to vault doesn’t cause it to emit errors as JSON.

    > vault token lookup -format json
    Error looking up token: Error making API request.
    
    Namespace: whatevs/
    URL: GET https://example:8200/v1/auth/token/lookup-self
    Code: 403. Errors:
    
    * permission denied
    
    27 August 2024
  • I thought there should be a “standard” utility for overwriting the content of files with random garbage on most Linux systems. Unsurprisingly, it’s called shred. Surprisingly, to me, is that it’s part of GNU coreutils.

    27 August 2024
  • My private motto has always been “Behind every silver lining is a cloud.”.

    — Glenn Gould

    26 August 2024
  • 📺🎥“The Sustained Two-Shot”

    Every Frame a Painting is back!!!

    🎊🎉 🎊🎉 🎊🎉 🎊🎉 🎊

    26 August 2024
  • TIL about bundle _VERSION_ … to force Bundler to use VERSION of Bundler, regardless of whatever Bundler guesses that it should be using.

    E.g. bundle _2.5.17_ … will only use v2.5.17 of Bundler and will fail if it cannot.

    23 August 2024
  • American Standard - “My Bathroom” from The Bathrooms Are Coming! (1969) 📺

    17 August 2024
  • “Where did the art go?”

    4 August 2024
  • Bah. All these “low footprint” Docker images turn you into a Linux distro builder having to assemble a list of packages that you need/want.

    26 July 2024
  • Male or Female: Could I Love a Pair of Wings? 🎵📺

    26 July 2024
  • TIL, services fronted by Cloudflare won’t let you use “/etc/passwd” or “/etc/group” in their input.

    🙄

    23 July 2024
  • Do not use pyenv, rbenv, non-root-user whatever language runtime manager.

    Build and lock down your runtimes. There should be a sudo chmod -R ugo-w …; sudo chown -R nobody: … somewhere in the build/install process.

    19 July 2024
  • I semi-regularly use the . (plain files) and * (executable files) Zsh glob qualifiers.

    (The way to remember these is to think of ls output.)

    11 July 2024

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