Notices by Alex (avolkov@mastodon.xyz), page 23

I found a succinct articles on smartmontools and about what each of the tests does.

SMART tests with smartctl
https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/SMART_tests_with_smartctl

Analyzing a Faulty Hard Disk using Smartctl

https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Analyzing_a_Faulty_Hard_Disk_using_Smartctl

I ended up setting cron job to do the following.

@weekly /usr/sbin/smartctl -t short /dev/sda
@monthly /usr/sbin/smartctl -t long /dev/sda

Today in #thesignal
Radical Face - - The road to nowhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygkMybSpky0

Today on #thesignal the melody I keep humming without knowing what it is.

Good thing I found the song
Harrison Brome - Fill Your Brains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGlChz5hIBg

#115 The Bitcoin Hunter
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/115-bitcoin-hunter#episode-player

#117 The World's Most Expensive Free Watch
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/117-the-worlds-most-expensive-free-watch#episode-player

#118 A Pirate in Search of a Judge
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/118#episode-player

#120 INVCEL
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/120-invcel#episode-player

#122 The QAnon Code
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/122-the-qanon-code#episode-player

#125 All My Pets
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/125-all-my-pets#episode-player

#83 Voyage Into Pizzagate
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/83-voyage-into-pizzagate-rebroadcast#episode-player

#104 The Case of the Phantom Caller
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/104-the-case-of-the-phantom-caller#episode-player

I've been binge listening to Reply All podcast and it's amazing -- former Planet Money journalists investigate different phenomena of internet culture.

My favourite episode so far is The Prophet, that gives a good explanation why some parts of the internet are so toxic.

#112 The Prophet

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/112-the-prophet#episode-player

@scumbling Behind bright colors and fairy tale adventure the premise of the show is telling the story about the last human living in the aftermath of a nuclear war. I'm not sure how much kids who watch that realize it, but the whole thing is pretty sad, and sometimes the show goes and explores that sadness.

When the show explored the story of ice king -- it seemed like it tried to explain dimentia, which was super sad episode.

@annika When i have time to set up my own instance I"m 100% registering tomatofield.com

I'm also going to commission artwork for it.

@Jo And there I went to a rabbit hole of wikipedia articles about the movie. Apparently it's good.

@pixelguff This keyboard is sweet *looks at two other wireless keyboards lying around*.

I used to have an ancient 12" 1024x768 screen from 1999 just for using it with Raspberry Pi. The thing was convenient but heavy. Since I dropped it off at computer recycling I've been looking intensely looking at something like this. But the full hd model is twice as expensive.

The question is -- do I really need it?

@pixelguff I have a lot of questions.. mainly two. That screen and keyboard are rad -- Where did you get them and how much were they?

(I want a screen like this for my camcorder)

I new python library I cant wait to try out -- image reconstruction software, that can create 3D models based on a set of pictures.

This is a python wrapper library that provides python interface -- https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom

This is the software that does the reconstruction (it's open-source) -- https://alicevision.github.io/#meshroom

I found out about this from pycoders weekly newsletter -- https://pycoders.com/

@Jo I mean in all of the cases the person is trying to cover up for perceived male inadequacies with pringles can, making the attempt obvious to everyone but that person.

In the pic that you've mentioned its wealth, in the song it's penis size.

@Jo These are the jokes I know about pringles that seem to be very relevant:

- Pringle dick https://youtu.be/ia2HSjp4to0?t=1m35s

- Master cylinder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzxgyUHImnA

There's two interesting articles about recent interview with Ethan Hawke where he says what I believe about movies based on comic books.

We have the problem that they tell us Logan is a great movie,” Hawke said. “Well, it’s a great superhero movie. It still involves people in tights with metal coming out of their hands. It’s not Bresson. It’s not Bergman. But they talk about it like it is.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/ethan-hawke-superhero-genre-comments/568705/

https://thefilmstage.com/features/ethan-hawke-on-dreaming-of-a-fourth-before-film-why-hes-not-having-a-mcconaughey-moment-and-the-necessity-of-film-festivals/