Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

"And that was the problem with 1968. People went ahead and built those things without worrying much about the consequences, because they figured that, by 2018, we’d have come up with all the answers. Toward 2019!"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/what-2018-looked-like-fifty-years-ago

Google photos threw this uo in my memories from 6 years ago, I saw this little scamp on my walk into work, in the yard of a very large house. He always wanted to play. Sometimes would bring his ball to the railings.

Hope you have a great 2019, fediverse friends.

How's everyone's Winter weather been?
It's been very mild this Christmas holiday. It's nearly 56F today and climbing; last year the *high* was 12F / -11C. These are more like early Spring temperatures. We will almost certainly get some hard snaps in January.

From dev attitudes alone, Mastodon does feel like the systemd of the fediverse.

Zakopane, 🇵🇱 , December 2008. #photography Canon EOS 20D, 50mm 1.8.

Skiers/Hikers disappear into the whiteout, Kasprowy Wierch, 🇵🇱 , December 2008. This is about 7000ft / 2100m. Canon EOS 20D. #photography

Leaving aside the data mining and privacy issues which have plagued it from the start, Gmail was a useful and powerful email client, hence the popularity.

It's therefore a surprise that Google have so utterly fucked it up. It's a slow, clunky mess now.

I don't know what gets into vendors. Why the fuck would you send an email (subject: "Happy Holidays") and then a day later one saying "REMINDER: Happy Holidays".

Seriously, fuck off.

Happy holidays to all my fediverse friends ❄️ 🤶

Rather surprised that the mail client in Windows 10 downloads remote content, by default. That's really quite shit.

Current mood

Still one of my favourite Xmas films from my childhood. I love the opening shots of Philly.
https://media1.tenor.com/images/c2e3aaf0eb9f1e0645acad9e92cd789d/tenor.gif

...Also much of Win 10's very good HiPDI readability is down to fractional scaling. It's a shame this isn't easier on Linux WMs which I think are still limited to INT for scaling.