Notices by Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca), page 3
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 14:56:11 EDT 
lnxw48a1
@geniusmusing #Ventoy is surprisingly good. I've used it a couple of times already. But recently, I was using it on the new Armbian installation on the #Orange_Pi_5 and ran into an issue:
* It sets up the flash drive using ExFAT as the file system. The instructions say you can change it later, but I never found that option.
* The current set of OS installable programs (Armbian, but I presume Debian / Devuan / Ubuntu / Mint will be the same) does not include a version of mount that handles exfat. That was in the now-deprecated older package.
* Turns out that Ventoy has a binary executable that I was able to copy into my path and use, so now S will receive a USB flash drive with 3 live distros (Debian, Ubuntu Desktop, CentOS Stream) and one direct installer (Ubuntu Server) on it.
I was tempted to add ReactOS, just so she'd see the difference between trying to clone a proprietary system without being sued is versus writing as desired. But I know she's just doing this so she'll have a passing familiarity and be able to check that box on some HR department's screening software's checklist. #ReactOS certainly will not help there. -
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 21:01:25 EDT 
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ
"Sutor, ne ultra crepidam is a Latin expression meaning literally 'Shoemaker, not beyond the shoe', used to warn individuals not to pass judgment beyond their expertise. The expression led to the term ultracrepidarianism, which is the giving of opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge."
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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 12:15:41 EDT
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ
People who weren't there in the early Fedverse don't remember those shaky days when it was being written and run by Evan Devromou and later Evan Testromou.
They think OStatus and @Evan Prodromou just sprang into life fully formed.
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 23:44:36 EDT 
Bob Jonkman
Oh yes, the movie was terrible. My father-in-law was an avid comic book collector, and had many original Spirit comics. $SPOUSE got me interested too, and we bought hard-cover collections, and when I went to a comic book convention and told an author I thought I saw some Will Eisner influences in his work he thought it was a great compliment! We bought a layout print (pencil sketch, some shading, no colour) from an author who was making new Spirit comics.
Will Eisner and The Spirit was the inspiration for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, and there is not a trace of that prestige in the movie. For once, I was happy Will Eisner wasn't around anymore so he didn't have to see it. -
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 23:34:57 EDT
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ
> Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one out of four stars and said, "There is not a trace of human emotion in it. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material".
Ok, now I'm intrigued. -
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 02:02:38 EDT
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ
>> "Diamonds are formed under pressure" And bread dough rises when you let it rest We're all our own things. What's motivating to you may be [debilitating] to others.
> There's an old saying (I think it's Russian): the same boiling water that softens the potato will harden the egg -
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 11:07:05 EDT 
Hubert Chathi
Messaging Layer Security (MLS) has been accepted by the IETF for publication as a standard. MLS is and #EndToEndEncryption method designed for group messaging. I've been working on integrating a variant of it with @Matrix.org (keep an eye out for demos coming soon). I've sat in on some of the IETF meetings, and the (not yet published) RFC may even contain some words that I've strung together. Congratulations to everyone who worked on it!
www.ietf.org/blog/mls-secure-a⦠-
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 16:00:33 EDT
Bob Jonkman
A very thoughtful analysis. I've been on the side of "peace from both sides", but I can see the progression that you lay out. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 11:29:34 EDT
lnxw48a1
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64986744 [www bbc co uk]
#Turkiye leader Erdogan signals approval of #Finland joining #NATO ... still hesitant on #Sweden's application
After the fall of the USSR, I was in favor of abolishing NATO. Frankly, I was too idealistic. I imagined Europe becoming a sort of demilitarized zone but without conflicting armies on each side of said zone. But clearly, I was wrong.
People grumble about additional countries joining, and I say that those countries must have felt the danger growing. They could have steered a course that did not put them in union with either the "Western nations" nor the "former Soviet bloc" ... but instead, many sought to join the European Union ... an imperfect democracy, but still more democratic than what they saw on their Eastern borders. And even the EU, a non-military nation of nations, wasn't always enough.
So when #Poland and #Slovakia, both former Eastern Bloc / CENTO members, joined NATO, I don't see it as them being under the sway of Washington and Brussels, but them seeing something menacing to the East of them and wanting to join with a force large enough to meet and exceed that menace's force.
That's also why #Ukraine (which *twice* forced out governments because their leaders wanted to remain in #Russia's orbit) also applied to join both the #European_Union and #NATO ... despite NATO's clear intention never to admit them to its membership. So when Finland and Sweden finally decided that the threat of invasion was greater than their longstanding neutral stances could overcome, they too applied to join NATO.
Not because they want to lengthen the war, but because they clearly see that war is coming their way whether they want it or not, and that they need to prepare for it. And I think this is something anti-war folks need to understand. You're too late to stop the war. The war is here and Mr Putin and his cronies intend to expand it until people in Berlin and Paris have to either fight or beg for mercy. He's already trying to find excuses to engulf #Moldova in the fighting.
Whether Russia's leaders are motivated by empire or paranoia, they're looking to expand the war to other nations, not to end it. And thus, any negotiated settlement that doesn't flow from kicking their forces entirely out of Ukraine will be a temporary pause while they rebuild their forces and try to integrate what they've learned from the current war. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 15:54:03 EDT
Bob Jonkman
There's a natural spring just a short distance from here. Sometime about 30 years ago some kind of piping was added to it, so now the water comes out of a pipe a distance above the ground. People would fill their water cooler bottles there. About 10 years ago a sign was put up "This is not potable water". Now there are fewer people filling bottles, but it hasn't stopped everyone. I often bike past it, but I've never filled my biking water bottle. Like LinuxWalt, I don't trust mysterious water, even it does come out of a pipe. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 15:32:22 EDT
lnxw48a1
Behind this laundromat there is a pipe that continuaously spews water. People drive up and fill bottles, then leave.
Trusting. I naturally assume that there is some contaminant and I therefore avoid drinking water from mystery pipes. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 00:07:07 EDT
Bob Jonkman
Why we need elastomeric clothing. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 00:06:22 EDT
Bob Jonkman
The only reason I have a Github account is to provide bug reports and feature requests to projects I want to support.
I don't code much, but anything I want to be publicly available is on my own website. Although not in a code repository, which is probably a good idea. -
Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 07:55:21 EDT 
Stephen Sekula
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