NotEasyBeingGreen

I use restic to:

1. A Raspberry Pi with an external 4 TB SSD at a friend’s house a few hours drive away
2. Jottacloud

Wow, it didn’t occur to me that these still exist! 😅

Only like €30 new! Probably like €5 used…

I mean, you can get an old phone and rip your CDs and put each one on a separate 1 GB SDcard…

That was just Augustus and maybe Tiberius. Caligula was just voted emperor by the Senate, no “first citizen” fiction needed.

Immediately before this:

Ooh Dennis, there’s some lovely filth down here.

His Lemmy instance went pear-shaped. Apparently that is not the first time, and he decided it wasn’t worth it to deal with the hassle again. I am saddened but of course respect his decision.

Posts like this make me miss our beloved PugJesus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Irish_Became_White

Also, any non-trivial system has failure modes that are not binary. Like, if your convertible car has the roof stuck down you can drive it, but you will be sad if it rains. So, is the car “up” or not? Similarly, if your site has writes offline for a database upgrade, but reads work fine, is it “up”?

The concept is just advertising and something that makes sense to senior management, but provides no actual useful metrics.

Imagine you are in the middle of the street in a civilized country (meaning traffic drives on the right side).

Face either side of the road. Traffic goes from your right to your left.

Now turn around, 180°. Traffic goes from your right to your left.

I love this story as a counter example for the supposed awesomeness of Jesus.

Yassified?

It’s from the 16th century, but you don’t have to be that old to learn about it. 😉

Isn’t that a Van Gogh on the left though? So from the late 19th century? 🤔

Yeah, people moving to the UK from former colonies for the same reason.

I use MoCA at home, 1 GBit. It works pretty well, and I get almost full speed.

Every now and then I have some blip and have to power cycle on one of the coax-to-Ethernet connector, so that’s annoying. It’s like twice a year, so not a huge problem.

The biggest drawback is high latency. It’s milliseconds instead of microseconds in the house. I guess it’s buffering and framing, so maybe unavoidable.

I also do see some small packet loss. Less than WiFi, but not zero like you’d see from a proper Cat6 cable.

Maybe just but a pair of MoCA adapters to try in your setup?

I don’t think it makes sense to compare modern sexuality to ancient Greek or Roman sexual ideas directly. A bit like comparing modern ideas of race to ancient ideas of group identity, it doesn’t map well and gives a distorted sense of how things were.

I read this as “my descendants” for some reason. Probably still checks out…

We were so close to a phone usable by non-enthusiasts with the Nokia N1. The Nokia Linux phones were killed when Nokia hired a former VP it Microsoft to be their CEO. I’m still bitter.

So cool!

I thought vaporware was announced or promised code that never materializes, or shows up much later than claimed. Often used by big companies to squash competition, who typically have very real solutions available.

Defeating a slave revolt didn’t result in much glory. No triumph (a kind of parade into the city to show off loot) for the general defeating slaves.

We know about the Persian empire in the time of the ancient Greeks because the Greeks wrote about them. The Persians didn’t bother. Most Greeks weren’t writing stuff down for history, were they?

It wasn’t all bad. One of those wacky alchemists might have gifted us tofu…

The Chinese Daoists that he recruited used “alchemical” methods to make both soy milk and bean curd, perhaps as a medicine for eternal life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_An#Legend_of_immortality

Celibacy became mandatory for Latin Church priests only in the eleventh century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_celibacy_in_the_Catholic_Church

Also, people could become priests after having been married earlier, right?

I really hope that Christians end up having their souls weighed against a feather. Just for being so certain about their own particular Johnny come lately view of the afterlife. 😄

I mean, I think future generations will judge us harshly.

Brilliant.

Of course when you take a town you kill the ruler and most of the nobles. But people with talent would be drafted to do whatever it was they were good at… so translators, people helping with logistics, and so on, right?

Mongols would also recruit as they rolled over every city and fort, right?