Just a reminder that it is Tuesday in Pakistan....

As a lefty, I feel attacked :D

Restaurant in Walker Art Center to close after switching to QR code model The Walker's executive director said the QR code model "does not align with our core values."

Just saw this story and know very little about it but even as a technophile I think a restruant should serve people with people (with a living wage, obviously)
#livingwage

www.kare11.com/article/news...

Why am I reminded of spinal tap....

Is it TACO Tuesday?

That was entertaining

FYI there's a cool fan-made flight tracker here: artemis-ii-tracker.com

The best leaders are the ones who do not want to lead but can.

It's also an outlet for my hoarding old equipment and my need to get the latest shiny laptop
:)

Oooh cosmic apples are wicked tasty. I'm now your super fan :D

Very 1960s of you:D
This was the actual initial rationale for darpanet

True. I'm merely trying to convey the idea that in tech there is no perfect solution. Tell me what you want to achieve and I can give you choices...

Yep. Def not bleeding edge capable at this point. Let's develop some core competencies first and explore from there :)
Bit if a storage nerd, myself. Playing with zfs, lvm, stratis.

Thanks for sharing your thought process, I share many aspects, but to be fair, I pretty hard-core linux/not M$ and still appreciate there is room for people with different ideas about how computers should work :)

What is the most common tech response? It depends :)

For the same reason instructions on wiring a house depends on what country you live in? I can't know your circumstances but here's my best effort to hit the most common ones/weird special use cases/very unique only 15 people will find this helpful...

Call me #bsd curious, but i need some peeps to tell me why they lean bsd vs #linux

Preventing competent people from voicing their educated analysis is the point. Hey, here's a piece of info you should take under consideration, this will result in American military deaths and you get no benefit....says anyone with half a brain, let alone an expert in military planning...
#hegseth

Congrats to #artemisII. On today's launch. We're back, baby!!

#linux #podman
It's a small thing in the bigger picture, but being able it set up a private registry in a environment Intended to be a sandbox was a big thing for me. Thanks to the resources I leaned on. I will give due credit to them tomorrow.It was crunch time today and I'm exhausted.
#opensource

I obviously have POV here, but there larger picture I want to get people's opinion on is that line where AI is helping vs AI being part of the churn #expanse
If you follow me, you know I am an AI skeptic, I just need a convincing evidence it adds rather than subtract from a
project

The vibe i got was Ai, Ai, Ai.
I tried to bring the focus to first principles engineering ( can you build a container, can you support an on prem life cycle of the AI models you want to use...)
Tue board was not interested.
AI, apparently, does all the baseline work
#notgoingtoendwell

Had an advisory board meeting today. BIG emphasis on AI, generically. A few specific examples, that weirdly struck me as a generic example. When I asked how our student could slot into their planned roll out use of AI...also generic.

Did a test myself this evening. Default settings. 3+ hours on 1 core vs ~17 minutes on 22 cores to get a ~1\3 improved file size.
I'll take that every day!!

I bet it's nice value is very low :D

I have another vm with 3 virtual drives. A 50, 100,and 250 GB i will def be using a high number. :D
I have to get that file to one drive then down to an on campus machine to push to its final destination. Time on the front end to save time on the back end is worth it. Just have a 1GB lan.

Use pigz to Multi-Thread tar and zip with all available CPU Cores Using zip and tar to compress files and directories can a lot of time. Many times, DevOps CI/CD pipelines involve zipping the artifact…

#linux just used tar to compress a 50GB virtual disk using xz

That took a VERY long time (not surpising). Noticed it was only using 1 core at a time.
Surely i could get the system to use more than one

pixz and pigz seems to be the answer

thequantitative.medium.com/use-pigz-to-...

Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access Opinion: A handful thrive, most scrape by as companies make billions off their code

www.theregister.com/2026/03/25/o...

Saw an interesting response in the comments section of this piece.

It reminded me of actors agreeing to "points" of a films revenue. The more succesful a project is for a company, the more it pays the project. (My take, not the commenter's)