This is gonna go really well when people find out the only way to safely store health and justice data is in a specialized building.

Thankfully Systemd is chatty like a kid talking about dinosaurs and so there’s lots of ASCII spooge on the screen, usually vomited to console. It’s half simplistically beautiful and half utter professional embarrassment.

released

‘created’, you mean? ;-)

This isn’t an airport, my dude, and you don’t have to announce your impending departure when you’re already so far gone. Beat it, quietly, and wait for the next primary.

Yes. ‘EV infrastructure’ is just “reliable power” and successive conservatives in the administration and judicial interrupted only by shackled progressives for brief periods hasn’t done anything to maintain or grow any infrastructure in America, including a reliable power grid.

For example, I support a tiny company who happens to produce an additive required to make 75% of American water safe and palatable since the distro pipes are such shit.

(Honestly, I know why they posted feds at the gate, now, since if hillbillies or qanon took the plant out - they hate vaccines and fluoride, so it’s not a stretch - America would be super-fucked generationally)

Ironically, expansion and maintenance of infrastructure like the power grid become a voting issue only when it’s past breaking, and US car makers have staved off that crisis of Obvious proportions by their very meddling.

I’m just glad we’ve decided to keep feeding America their power … for the time being. Because in addition to being in a flood risk area, the only plant producing the chemical required for American drinking water happens to be powered redundantly from a Canadian feed.

I was at Ground Zero NYC. As I toured the area around the wreckage site, a pilgrimage many of us do (and ask me why roasting cashews is a trigger), I saw a firefighter on the sidewalk. He was on the low curb, his legs in the roadway almost splayed out like a child, hands on knees, palms up meditatively, dressed in full turnout, mask hanging from his neck, big hat beside him, slumped over and breathing slowly.

He’s sleeping the sleep of the exhausted who can’t stop, can’t go home, but needs 30 min to keep going.

We quietly moved on, even though the ambient noise was insane, as we didn’t want to be the ones to wake him back into this hell. Let him be a monument for a moment longer, for years after.

25 years later and images from that time are still with me. We haven’t learned from the disaster. We haven’t fixed the broken things that led to this extremist vandalism and mass murder. The religious extremists are now bombing schools and homes in Lebanon and Iran, and continue destroying Palestine and many other sites.

Wait. She got like 12 months with an ankle monitor. That’s the lamest form of incarceration ever. People can just go by and egg her house if they want to, and people tell me that’s wrong.

Canadian cities are centered around cars.

…currently.

Winters are harsh, summers are plenty hot.

Insulation is neat.

Most power is supplied via 80% non fossil fuels and trending in the right direction.

Woo!

Obviously theres room for improvement but Canada is just not positioned to have low per capita emissions, it will always be lagging on this point.

Especially if we tried nothing else and got nowhere.

Look; I agree we’re not gonna get there with a red government; we certainly aren’t getting there under a blue one with their love of selling dinosaur juice and dinosaur farts.

But we can’t get a happy shiny gov when everyone’s fear-voting to avoid the racist ponzi-schene alternative; or fear-voting to avoid losing grip on the dream of just one more tax break for the rich-bitches to start that golden trickle-down.

So my thing is, get a new voting setup. I like the simplest, because the rest are too hard for people to care about, but yeah. And while we’re already 10 years out and even more fucked than now, at least the rich bastards will be dead and we can kumbaya around the burning husk of civilisation (because everything’s burning) knowing we’re maybe on a better path.

When our descendants revert back to conservatism and invade the surface world, at least we’ll have left them the seeds of a better world to grow up here while they’re down there hiding from the radiation.

We’ve apologized for Alberta numerous times.

You’re saying it was higher under a conservative than a non-conservative? You’re saying a conservative was concerned about people and the environment more than a non-conservative?

I’m gonna need to see the receipts on this one.

They shoulda done a 5 min broadcast delay and run a fact-checking effort as pop-up video.

And a running count of proved-falsehoods.

Maybe a “minutes saying false things”, a “minutes saying true things”, and a “minutes not talking”; but the last one will be stuck at 0.

I love EVs. But stop defending Tesla.

I think we’re beyond defending that one company.

If the FSD put the car in a collision trajectory and the driver got scared and accidentally pressed the accelerator instead of the brake in the last second, it’s still the fault of FSD

Yeah, FSD put the car into danger, through some kind of lag or stupidity.

But at the moment of impact, the driver had stomped on any pedal and taken control. It’s like someone tossed you a greased cobra in a room full of cub scouts. You’re all fucked no matter what you do, but you’re the one with the snake.

I want the NTSB to take the data and see how FSD plotted that particular path, and I want Tesla to take their share of blame - probably 100% - but the sad thing is, the driver - technically - was in control at time of impact, and the legal system (and P.R) will hyperfocus on that particular immaterial detail - doubly bad it was the wrong pedal - and the case won’t go anywhere.

Tesla’s to blame for ditching lidar, over-promising FSD, all kinds of things. Society is to blame for focusing on the gas pedal and will blame the driver for merely being where the cobra landed. The NTSB (or whatever that org is named) is to blame for not being absolute dickweeds with every collision before this one and ensuring a fix for every bug.

The driver is to ‘blame’ for doing a very human panic response and taking control in a very understandable fashion past the point where it could have helped, but in doing so takes all responsibility. And that’s the saddest part.

eachother

Not a word, my dude.

We had a house fire.

Several pictures saved from the fire are forever stuck to the glass from the frame where they were, forever behind a smoky glass front.

Other photos didn’t survive the fire or the firehouses.

No one backed up their Polaroids or instamatic shots.

Ugh. Vestigial connectors, missing trailing delimiters; this thing was written by an American or someone who doesn’t know the difference between their dialect and ours.

The canonical method was with a kickstart, and if it looks like too complex, remember you should have one stashed in /root already that you just need to mod.

Normally a kickstart is a bit much, otherwise, though. I use a suite of tools but the best one I used was a simple virtual package to bring in the ot8her, drop configs in and start daemons. We did this in like 2001 to great effect.

Kill it with fire.

I worked in the industry before Systemd.

Systemd fills a niche it manufactured. It fills it poorly, supplanting established and reliable incumbents with something that is neither. In a world where Unix tools do one thing and well, Systemd does all things marginally.

Nfsroot. Portable skills. Clear source of truth. Pick one.

Private conversations - doctors, security - can’t be held within earshot of Alexa or its ilk simply because the wake word triggers the sending of audio to America, which violates privacy and sovereignty regs in orgs that pay attention to the rules they all must adhere to and don’t want to be investigated.

This often means phones to be used near those conversations require some disabling of agent trash.

They don’t even teach that in the army, dude.