Today’s systemctl --user … learning fun:

• The difference in resulting environments from ssh user-A@host followed by su - user-B vs. direct ssh user-B@host. You don’t necessarily end up with the same set of variables.
• An X Desktop Group variable (XDG_RUNTIME_DIR) needs to be set even on systems that don’t have X installed in order for systemctl to find the user systemd agent.

What’s my public IP address? (Plus other stuff about your browser.)

Nice.

Doom clock

Wow. The Microsoft Consolas font went open source. (via Ricky Mondello)

Today’s minor epiphany: systemd does not parse the names of slices the same way as it does other units. In most units, the hyphen character is not special, but in slices, a hyphen indicates hierarchy.

Spam email lead: “NOTE : DOCUMENT IS PROTECTED WITH MICROSOFT MACROS, TO VIEW YOU MUST DOWNLOAD DOCUMENTS AND ENABLE MACROS”.

Nice try.

Was perusing ancient Daring Fireball posts, and decided to look at odeo.com, expecting to be redirected to Twitter. Instead, there’s an announcement about something coming this summer. 🤔 /cc @manton

Running command_line_lint reveals the top shell commands in my history as: gvim (15.7%), vcs (10.0%) (version control wrapper), and ack (7.2%).

Just gave Vim fits by doing a gqip in the middle of a 5777 line, 180KiB swagger.yaml file.

Robocall threatening that my “Microsoft Windows Services” will be stopped and that I will not be able to use my computer. Please call urgent [sic] at Windows Security Department at 1-855-xxx-xxxx.

I can’t remember the last time I ran Windows even in a VM on personal equipment.

I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you. (Thank you Viticci.)

No, I don’t use Apple Music. This is manually syncing from iTunes.

Bless me that I might do your dark works in this, the mortal realm! ☕

Today I learned that the standard bulleted list handling in plain text files that I depend upon in Vim is actually a result of its “comments” handling.

I just learned about the CSS user-select: none property.

Eww.

OMFSM, FLA is doing a cover of “Rock Me Amadeus”.

The Steadfast Tin Soldier: Great costumes. Great puppets. Cool idea for what to do with the musicians. Incomprehensible story at parts. Confusing use of physical scale.

New digital release of the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection means more Ivan Albright for everyone. Hooray!

Yuck: slack.com/cookie-ta…

But amazing that it is documented.

Get yourself an education and learn from The Carl Stalling Project.

Reading pipe(7). That BUGS section: ouch.

Finally an iDevice that can hold my music collection.

Elevator buttons at the National Museum of Mathematics.

There are a lot of people trying to figure out how people are going to vote outside my polling place.

Allison Truj and Brian Hamilton are awesome: most-important-meal.com/episodes/…

Today I learned that, if you unset PS1 in Bash, it really displays nothing as a prompt. I would have thought that it would display something.