ποΈ - 2022-01-08
A blue-eyed young man leaves the army and goes to New York to earn a
million dollars.
Instead he becomes a brilliant bartender in 10 minutes, curtesy of a wise
and philosophical bartending mentor, and drops out of business school.
He meets the love of his life in a Jamaican beach bar, but loses her
because of a bet with his bartending mentor about whether he can bed a
rich lady.
He returns to New York and tries to win the love of his life back by
annoying her sufficiently. She scares him away by being pregnant, but
she is of course heartbroken.
She of turns out to from an extremely rich family - but hid this so he
wouldn't take her because of the money, obviously. Her father tries to
pay our hero to go away, and suddenly our bartender turns out to be an
upright citizen of utmost respectability.
Before winning the love of his life back by defeating the surprisingly
lax security at the womans familys luxury penthouse and knock-outing the
doorman, he goes through the teary ceremony of losing the bartending
philosopher to suicide - only to run away with the pregnant girlfriend
and opening his dream bar.
What a humdinger.
Oops, oh, spoiler alert.
I guess it aged... slightly better than "Pretty
Woman"?
I think the soundtrack was equally successful as well.
ποΈ - 2021-12-25
When I see articles like "Running your own email is increasingly an
artisanal choice, not a practical one" make their rounds on
lobste.rs
and Hacker News, I'm
always a little baffled.
I have been running my own email server since some time in the late
1990s and although there has been changes over the years, from adding
greylisting to TLS, adding my own tiny backup MX's, DKIM, DMARC and
MTA-STS, it has not been a lot of work or that much of a hassle - and
when something goes wrong I can actually check a log file myself.
I think if you can, you should host your own email server - if nothing
else to do your own little part in keeping up the diversity and
distributed nature of the internet.
Postfix, Dovecot,
sqlgrey, Lets
Encrypt,
OpenDKIM,
OpenDMARC are all readily
available in Free/Open Source Operating Systems, such as
Debian. The various parts do take some
configuration, but it's not that arcane (compared to mastering
Sendmail back in the day).
There are even people who made recipes to easily set up a mail server:
So You Want To Run Your Own Mail
Serverβ¦
ποΈ - 2021-12-09
Before smart phones we had feature phones - a black and white LCD
display and a small number of physical buttons.
Couldn't do a lot, but the battery life of around a week, oh the joy!
I am happy to report that smart phones finally are catching up:
A 4500 mAh battery
combined with not using a lot of the possibilites: wifi, bluetooth and
location are turned off almost all the time. Still. Progress.
ποΈ - 2021-12-04
Stumped by Radicale v3 denying access?
Try deleting
/var/lib/radicale/collections/collection-root/{USER}/.Radicale.props (!)
ποΈ - 2021-11-27
This weekend EmacsConf 2021 is held - as
the previous years it is completely online.
I followed the conference in
2019 and
2020, and started
watching again this year, as well as following along on the IRC channel
#emacsconf on the libera.chat network.
The previous years I have felt a disconnect, and it's no different this
year. The talks I find less interesting or engaging are the ones that
people are waxing most enthusiastically about in the channel.
I think it's great that the conference exists and that people spend a
lot of time an effort on it - however I'm bailing out this year - it's
just not my thing, however much I like Emacs. It's not you, it's me, I'm
sure.
ποΈ - 2021-11-27
During his rambling speech to business leaders Boris Johnson broke off
to praise Peppa Pig. The pig-faced one dimensional cartoon character
has been prime minister for two years now.
Β· Have I Got News For You
ποΈ - 2021-11-20
I am completely floored by how politely this blog post: "Some notes on
using esbuild" walks
through some of the ways that the Javascript ecosystem is utterly
hostile to human beings. Respect.
Thursday
David Lynch (76).
Blood On The Tracks released (47).
Saturday
Lord Byron (234).
Linux Weekly News (24).
