Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Apropos of Macs I still don't now how people get on with the really weird GUI and window management. I've never found it particularly intuitive.

We're at that time of year when nothing's open on campus.

It amuses me end that the SANS provided VM running Lubuntu has vastly superior font rendering to the Fedora 28 host it is running on.

I just cannot the fonts right in Fedora on my XPS 13; the terminal is fine but Firefox looks like complete shit. When I switch back to my work 'official' Macbook Pro it the difference is notable.

Part of it is the 9360's IPS screen, which is extremely bright and quite difficult to get fonts to 'pop' on. Hinting in particular does them no favours at all.

Cloudflare in the news again, this time for actual terrorism groups among its clients:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cloudflare-cybersecurity-terrorist-groups_us_5c127778e4b0835fe3277f2f

I've had this cold since Friday morning, and it's absolutely kicking the shit out of me.

Downtown LA around 0430hrs when I couldn't sleep from jet lag, and a building fire alarm had been going all night across the street.
EOS 6D, 24-135 IS lens.
#photography
http://a4.pbase.com/g10/79/435579/2/166217692.jLwhBHsX.jpg

#WeAreNameless
If anybody that enjoys Blade Runner hasn't seen the documentary 'Dangerous Days' I can strongly recommend it. It's a great companion to the film and you can see how special the project was to everybody involved.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1080585/?ref_=nv_sr_3

Much as I love the XPS13, the display is way too bright. I don't notice until I look at other screens. It's very intense.

I have to say I do enjoy the sheer amount of art that's turned up in the federated timeline in the last couple of weeks. The variety is great to see.

Morning, fediverse!

This is not new; I've had the symptoms since August, but due to all the problems with my other eye it's been hard to detect subtle changes. But there is something there.

My right eye -the good one - has been steadily getting worse. Got an ophthalmology appointment tomorrow. I'm hoping it's nothing serious. I think the best case is that I'm developing a cataract; the symptoms seem to point to refractive problems. I hope so. If not it's the retina and i"ve had enough of that shit with the other eye.