Deep inside Brest-Litovsk fortress, a surviving Soviet soldier inscribes a defiant message, 3 weeks after Red Army surrendered the stronghold: "I'm dying, but I won't give up! Farewell Motherland. 20.VII.41"
Fascism joining the fediverse is extremely bad, and we have to do something about it. But please, please, please: give me two weeks before you roll out any new solutions. Some of the solutions being proposed look like they will make the situation better but will make it much worse.
I am dropping nearly everything to write a demo and spec explaining how to do things right. Please give me two weeks. I've been preparing for this.
- books - free!!!!!!!!!!!!! - quiet, so quiet, so peaceful is heaven - people leave you alone - also movies and computers and things - staff literally know everything and want you to know everything thanks - you can stay the whole time they're open and not have to pay anything at all - you can get lost in the big ones and that's cool - mmm smells of wisdom
I switched to /etc/network/interfaces but that was no better. It appears that the router to which the laptop is cabled does not offer new DHCP leases after the laptop suspends. The solution is probably to disable suspending while the laptop is plugged in.
Favorite dystopian novels ignoring some obvious ones
The Futurological Congress Memoirs Found in a Bathtub Canticle for Leibowitz Fail-Safe Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said Eclipse Trilogy Slan We Stand on Zanzibar The Shockwave Rider Ware Tetralogy The Dead Lady of Clown Town Snow Crash RUR
I.e., computer #programming for #economists. There's some good, practical, basic advice for people who do some programming, but haven't studied it in a systematic fashion.