Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

The little square compound in the desert where I lived 40yrs ago. It's all gone now, and the entirety of this location is built up. Such is the pace of progress in Dubai.

The B&B in Zakopane I stayed in, overlooking the mountains (not difficult in Zakopane, it's surrounded by them). I had never experienced such cold, even the warm beer didn't help.

Some images from Krakow in December 2009. A freezing night on my birthday walking back from a bar I took my camera out of my pack and rested it on a stone wall. I don't remember much else, it was cold and I was pretty boozed. #photography

Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth Harbour, 2009. Canon EOS 20D, eFS 18-44 w/polariser. #photography #darktable

Gnome never missing an opportunity to make asses of themselves.

As System76 starts work on its own Linux desktop world, GNOME guy opens blog, engages flame mode • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/10/system76_gnome_desktop_fight/

Having been using Steam since the 2013 Beta on Linux you really have to watch what it is doing. Same as any marquee package
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/11/system76-patches-apt-for-pop-os-to-prevent-users-breaking-their-systems

The AC in this doctors office is loud like a howling gale on a window. It's adjacent enough to white noise to make me sleepy.

I think PopOS is very good and if they get this right it should also be pretty decent.
https://news.itsfoss.com/pop-os-cosmic-rust/

Oh God

And I truly appreciate the efforts with accessibility.

The flow is so well organized compared to the UX porridge of Rhel-based distros.

The Debian installer is so bloody good.

I always thought 'late capitalism' hyperbolic. And yet...

Review: Apple’s polishing cloth is the new gold standard for device cleaning - 9to5Mac
https://9to5mac.com/2021/11/02/review-apples-polishing-cloth-is-the-new-gold-standard-for-device-cleaning/

A single point of failure in software is never a good thing. #Denuvo

https://twitter.com/alexbuckland96/status/1457380056716783619

Our campus hasn't enabled it yet; they're normally extremely forward thinking with technology but there's obviously so many implications with it I expect rollout will be very slow.

This is important knowledge if your network strategy is built on assumptions around ipv4.

You can tell ipv6 is getting some traction when you start seeing so much bot traffic scanning on it.