Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Whatever Biden does, I hope they don't restore the Foreign Policy status quo of endless interventionism and war. Trump - more through accident than design - brought some progress to extricating the military industrial complex out of some no-win places.

@noyoushutthefuckupdad He might do better selling that shit in Havana

An oldie but goodie.

@clacke *The* Albert Speer?

The nightmares of building from source have all come back to me. It's terribly hard to troubleshoot if you're not a developer.

Learnt something interesting today, RHEL/CentOS compiler toolchain & ABI is pretty old. Even Debian's is much more recent. Could not for the life to me get some R packages to build for a researcher until I tried them on my Debian test environment.

@PeteMoss And it matters less that people have at least a basic understanding of what their computer is doing.

@PeteMoss It's drive development too, more middleware and bigger black boxes (systemd) because standardization and usability trumps all.

@PeteMoss It's strange how technology shapes usage, then usage shapes technology.

Specifically this attitude came from Windows, and over time Linux - in trying to expand it's reach - started to embrace the idea of the (super)user.

I think this happens because the dev needs to create a MySQL user so they google that, and the how-tos show how to make a superuser account, so that's what they do.

"Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more."

There are, for example, some users I've encountered that believe every CLI command must be prefixed with 'sudo' because they've never learnt what privileges are all about.

Same sort of user that uses root for every damn thing. I think Ubuntu's 'how to' culture is partially to blame here, as it inculcates this practice of casually sudo'ing all over the place, like a dog pissing on every lamp post.

Man, there's a type of dev that will just take every shortcut going.

No it is not alright for your web app to have root DB access. Do it properly.

Jesus Christ Pajiba is sub-Gawker levels of trashy adolescent shit.

It's that time of year again.

Is your computer safe from Main Battle Tanks?
https://youtu.be/rSvBFm_MuXw