Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Read Doctorow's enshitification essay and it's very good. Describes so many things in tech. The latest of which is YouTube.

Sportscar racing is definitely having a sunshine period, the surge in manufacturer support due to Hypercar, the convergence of IMSA and FIA regs. But, they're fickle. They tend to walk away. Audi and Porsche in particular treat it like their plaything. LMP2/3 filled the gaps in the grid with a cost controlled formula. it's a shame to throw it away.

@Juju Does your current provider provide a breakdown?

A superb Racecar Engineering deep dive of the Oreca 07, of LMP2 fame. Probably the most important class of endurance racing, they kept prototype racing alive while all the big manufacturers swanned in and out as they pleased. Dropped from WEC next year, they will only be at Le Mans. #FIAWEC #EnduranceRacing
https://www.racecar-engineering.com/cars/rebellion-r1/

@aburtch I love the story of how he still could not do the programming, and in the end Stewart Copeland programmed the drum track. Needed the drummer after all!

I first heard this version at uni in the 90s, and thought I imagined it. A kid in the next door room had it on vinyl and I remember thinking "what the hell is this?" Then I didn't hear it again for 20 years.

The 1986 rework of 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' is such an interesting example of a distinctive and timeless composition being made very, very of it's time. It sounds like Jan Hammer. A weird time capsule of the post-Police Sting dipshittery. I still like it, for all that.
https://youtu.be/8RlUMoWP-Mg

@quazarsamcoupe Plastic degradation is so interesting. BASF usually the good stuff, too.

@lain

@ParadeGrotesque lmao, fair enough!

@ParadeGrotesque Although since Debian 12 I'm of the opinion that 'just run Debian' is a better idea.

@ParadeGrotesque It is a bit upsetting it has got notably heavier and slower. We ran a few servers because so much ML and data science stuff targets Ubuntu (and Debian, to be fair) libs that is makes it easier. It's not bad as a server.

@ParadeGrotesque I actually really like it, but they can't get out of their own way. Canonical, I mean. Linux cannot be something it is not, and they keep trying to do it.

@ND3JR@social.coop @craigmaloney It was an attitude that seemed to flourish for a while. Lots of bloody noses and all totally needless.

@claudiom good lad

There's a cheapness in academia that sometimes gets right on my pip. They never want to pay for anything.

@ND3JR@social.coop @craigmaloney Modularity and portability are the goals of XFCE. A lot of this started with the Gnome project strong-arming distros via logind (depended at that time on systemd) which in and of itself did tremendous damage to Gnome's adoption, with a number of distros showing the gnome project the door. The users are ultimately the ones losing out.

@Moon @feld @progo@boop.city @mattskala@mstdn.io I think it's similar to anything that is at the extreme end of physical performance. For example some ultra-marathon people do horrible shit to themselves.

@jaelisp@lgbtqia.space The pandemic also created an always-on culture. I fucking hated it, caused huge stress because the new normal became people expecting me to work at 7pm.