Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

It's a day of the week ending in a Y, folks
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-40444

Via @Pipski

They can do regressions and differential equations but can't do fucking SSH

Every fucking year research projects hit a brick wall because students simply cannot get their heads around key pairs.

The lighting on the buildings was great. The Young Sheldon thing..a bit less so.

Four years ago, 0520 in the morning and I couldn't sleep because of a fire alarm in a building next door, so I went for a stroll in Downtown LA. The Marine Layer coated everything in this mist. I had an image-stabilised lens and full frame sensor so I could go handheld, I was pretty pleased with what I got. #photography

It's nice to live in a technological cave, but at some point you have to come out.

All joking aside, this is the world we live in, and your tools have to be able to cope with it.

I had a web dev colleague look at me using Mutt and he said "How do you deal with images?" and I said "By recognising I am better than the person sending them"

Take an email client. You can use something neckbeardy like Mutt, and in a world or text it is king, but as soon as you get into workflow things like attachments and the fact everyone does HTML messages you need to do a little more to make it all copacetic.

It's really interesting when you do productivity stuff in terms of exactly what you miss when you go bare bones. It's all solvable with work, but the seductiveness of having a built-in solution is so tempting, but living with the baggage it brings is seldom worth it.

When you strip it all back to a 'lightweight' (and yes, the speechmarks are deliberate, even light things are heavy now) you need to solve some problems around ACPI stuff and comfort buttons, but you don't need a lot else to have a nice computer experience

I'm finding myself increasingly reactionary. Hating all the new stuff, because it's just all shit you don't need.

SSDs are now widespread, everything is faster at the storage level, and yet it all just seems so slow. It's all got so heavy.

I remember those heady days of running systemd-analyze and everyone bragging about their 2 second boots. What the fuck happened?