Had problems getting a systemd service to change the slice it runs under. What finally worked was

systemctl stop …
systemctl disable …
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable …
systemctl start …

I do not understand the need for disable/enable.

I 💙 sd_notify(3).

The thing about reading systemd docs is continually having to remind yourself what version you’ve got available.

systemctl --version

📷 Cathedral of transit

… There was one other, but she was in Egypt. And, besides, she didn’t last as long as I did.

Searching YouTube for classical music —

result 1: “whatever, best version” result 2: “whatever - the original and best version” result 3: etc..

New Lustmord! Behold a Voice as Thunder 📺🎵

TIL of the German Coast uprising, the largest slave revolt in U.S. history, which resulted from, in multiple ways, the Haitian Revolution.

It took awhile, but I was finally able to watch The Set-Up (1949), and thus able to catch up with the first episode of Lions, Towers, and Shields.

Installed zsh-fast-syntax-highlighting everywhere.

Yeah, yeah, Steamboat Willie, yeah, but the work that I’m most excited about becoming public domain today is The Front Page. I hope to see versions of it proliferate because I find it so entertaining. The most well known version of it right now is His Girl Friday.

The final episode of The Day the Universe Changed (on what questions society allows science to ask, how that affects our understanding of the universe, and how those change over time) is such a kick in the pants.

Growing up in the Chicago area in the 1980s makes this so weird: blockclubchicago.org/2023/12/2…

Hearing a pop song for the first time outside of a Breakmaster Cylinder mashup on Canada’s Drag Race…

Hour-long interview of Ben Burtt by Adam Savage.

Nicely done.

Burtt says that “THX”, the name of the sound system, is not derived from Lucas’ movie title.

Firefox can now force links to always be underlined. This option can be enabled in the Browsing section of the Firefox Settings menu.

Firefox 121 release notes

Eat it, form-over-function designers.