Me and Gen talking about men's fashion and my struggle to get a leather jacket:
Could I please have a crumb more selection?
Ladies - us guys will forever look like unwashed assholes with these options. The women's section is literally 5x larger, just a crumb more selection please....

Linux isn't magic, it's sudo science. 🐧 🐧 🐧

So I'm getting this as an ad on FB.
Whatsapp does not release their source code for independent review.
Fuck that, use Signal.

COWABUNGA IT IS

Well that was fun, Fedora kept trying to load nouveau drivers instead of nvidia, despite nouveau being blacklisted. Which means booting to utter blackness until fixed.

Cowabunga it is then:
find /lib/modules -name "*nouveau.ko*" | xargs rm -vf

Boo 😠
Can't get PyTivoDesktop to work under Wine.

Pirate. Pirates had contracts, pre-negotiated distribution of booty, and workplace democracy. And compensation for workplace injury.

A post from 16 years ago:
[I'm] fixing a bad RAID--a disk has bad sectors but the RAID card won't kick it out of the array. Now I need to find the bugger (the card won't tell me which drive threw the errors).

TLDR: just use ZFS, it's superior to any craptacular RAID firmware running on an HBA.

Eating my own dog food - converted the packages for Signal and Spotify from Ubuntu/Debian deb files to Red Hat/Fedora rpms.
A minor bit of fixing and it works 🙂

Section of Albany County Jail facade falls off, inmates relocated Those incarcerated were moved as a precaution while the wall is being fixed.

Shaka when the walls fell.

Flight and hotel are now booked for Defcon.

Trump responds angrily to his Wall Street nickname: ‘Don’t ever say what you said’ Trump really doesn't like "TACO trade".

TACO - “Trump Always Chickens Out”

Got Fedora 42 up and running with a ZFS root 😃

Currently the zpool is a mirror of 2x 4TB PCIe Gen4 SSDs.

My biggest problem- The UEFI firmware on my system is super picky about file names it will boot from, and discovering this the hard way 😆

Got Ubuntu 24.04 running from a ZFS root, via ZFSBootMenu 😃

That's like the most stereotypical Russian news story I've seen in a long time.

World Bank says Saudi Arabia and Qatar have paid off Syria's outstanding debt The World Bank says that the $15.5 million Syria owed it has been paid off by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, enabling Damascus to take out new loans.

They gonna steal their oil and make them a client state.

Panicked Trump Lashes Walmart for Telling Truth on Tariffs “I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!” the president wrote.

***THE CONSUMER PAYS THE TARIFF***

Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic | CNN Business On Friday morning, West Coast port officials told CNN about a startling sight: Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours. That hasn’t ...

www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/b...

Angry Trump Kills “Woke” Program—and Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters It’s called the Digital Equity Act. That word—“equity”—caught the White House’s attention. So now Trump is moving to nix funding—but it could cut off millions destined for red America.

The self own, perfection. *Chef's kiss*

[T]he Digital Equity Act, contained huge amounts of money for governments in GOP-run states, [...] to expand high-speed internet access in underserved communities—very much including red states’ rural areas.

Trump Accidentally Admits He Hasn’t Made Any Trade Deals Donald Trump has continually insisted that deals over his tariffs are coming.

Whoops.

Reporter: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?
Trump: I don't know.