Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Larnell Lewis breaks down and covers Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' drum part. This video is a joy, seeing a musician really pick apart a song and then have a go at it.

https://youtu.be/Zd_UcjMusUA

One of the things FreeBSD does with port maintenance is demonstrate just how extensive deps can be. Compiling the port of Vim-lite doubles the number of packages on my server. Crazy! I went for vim-tiny instead.

"Well this was the number listed"

"Understood. It's not the right number"

Is there anything stranger than someone getting your number incorrectly and then arguing about it?

The Guardian, the fucking *Guardian* reported on it, and they had the facts right.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/26/nhs-gp-practice-operator-with-500000-patients-passes-into-hands-of-us-health-insurer

Here's the scoop: They were already privately owned. The story here is of a change of ownership, *not* acquisition of public health infrastructure by a private business.

Anatomy of typical social media misinformation, this time it's Twitter.

3 blades or 4? The primary source mystery around RMS Titanic's turbine-driven screw:

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/mystery-titanic-central-propeller.html

A featurette on the miniature team behind 1981's Outland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aephFGijtZ0

One of these lads also did 2009's Moon.

@TechUr Found this, thought you'd dig it, plus bonus Yaphet:
https://youtu.be/s9u9H43Y9t8

@TechUr Never made it to the Hive before when I played, so that's all new to me.

First 2 paragraphs and a block quote saying exactly the same thing. Tech journalism is terrible.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/25/macos-big-sur-11-2-2-usb-c-charger-fix/

@TechUr https://becominghuman.ai/the-perfect-organism-d350c05d8960

All this reminds me why I grew out of minimalist distros.

So because of the absolute state of the decision makers at Arch, I had to go into a liveusb environment to do it.

I found this out because I wanted to read the nmcli documentation. I couldn't connect to my wifi to download Man-db because I couldn't read the fucking manpage that tells you how to do it.