ex-Software Developer. Organiser of data. Ontologist. Unofficial btrfs support for the Fediverse. I'm not a digital native, but I did emigrate at an early age. Contents may have settled in transit.
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Last Notes npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Yours, of course, is a bagde. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills The local games shop here has a sign on the door telling anyone wanting to buy Pokémon packets that they'll open the packet at the till before selling it to you, to try to prevent people from selling them on at a big markup. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Boop? :stux_boop: npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills ... but he didn't inhale. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Depends on how recently you've oiled your chain, I guess... npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills :nyancat_body::nyancat_face: npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills This is the thinking that leads to the eldritch horrors of ORM frameworks. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills And you never, ever, saw one of those boxes without both keys still in the lock... npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I've been writing an OS (just for the hell of it), and now I'm worrying about the fact that it's written in Rust, just in case. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills TTHHAANNKKYYOOUUFFOORRTTHHEEPPAATTCCHHEESS!!IICCAANNRREEPPOORRTTNNOOVVIISSIIBBLLEESSIIDDEEEEFFFFEECCTTSS!!!! npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills What a great name. Must be fun explaining that one to the vet. :) npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Then I confess to making a false accusation of treason against myself. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Is that payable to my next clone? npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I can strongly recommend using mosh for dealing with shells over dodgy connections. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Congratulations! Hope the neighbours are nicer. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I don't see anything wrong in the btrfs side there. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Having noisy neighbours is an absolutely horrible experience. You have all my sympathy, and I hope you find somewhere quiet to move to soon. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Always have... npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Do I need to report my clutter to the Department of Unfortunate Death? npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills The existence of this message has been redacted for security reasons. If you become aware of the existence of this message, please report to recycling plant 34 for an immediate brain exchange. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Tempting, very tempting. Loved Sailfish on the original Jolla phone, and on the Gemini. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I like the first two (waiting, and head-tilt) better than the two action shots. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I think I slightly prefer the one with the background, but either is good. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Even finding the line in the source would have taken me a longer time... npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Blimey, that was quick. :) npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Nice. :) npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills One my Dad taught me: npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills On a domestic or office computer, I think it must have been the version of Breakout that came on the starter tape with the Spectrum. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Le Corbeesier. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills "I'm having an old friend for dinner" npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I bought a dining table online. After the fourth or fifth "leave a review" email, I mailed their support people to tell them to stop. They did (on the second try). npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I think it was Peter Murray-Rust who described PDFs as "the finest method of destroying information known to mankind". npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Delete it anyway. It's just playing at being a document. :) npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills * delete PDF npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills "My log... saw something. Off the starboard quarter." npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Small comforts: we're still in a state where authoritarian policies *can* backfire spectacularly like this. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Presumably he only wants to change sides when the door on the Walkman is closed. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Oh, one does one's best... npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Oh, that'd be *everyone*, not just the US gov. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Do you gently pat the glass of water over the edge, or knock it over when the vase falls on it after you roll on your back to stretch? npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills You play a cat, with a table full of interesting objects to knock off it... npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Make Lovecraft, not Warcraft. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills You know what went wrong _last time_, at least. :blobcatwink: npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I'm sure they are, but it's slow enough that the top manglement aren't going to make the connection. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Question for anyone out there on fedi with experience: npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills That look on his face, though... "Oh God, it's Thursday, isn't it?" npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Holy crap. That's impressive. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills No assistants, only accomplices. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills The deeds of my house specifically say I'm not allowed to run a tannery or do any mining. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I don't know if it's the state of the world, or the state of my head, but it took me until about word 9 of that headline to realise that it was referring to money, not people. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I can't tell who the director is here. Not enough lens flare for a J. J. Meowbrams film. Possibly Stanley Mewbrick? npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills When I exercise with weights, my spreadsheet tells me I shift about a tonne... but that's a few kilos lots of times over 20 minutes, not the whole thing all at once... npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Meep! npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills "Which idiot wrote this?" npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Crowd-source it? Post the script, ask people to record themselves saying it. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills "Your browser is not officially supported"... "Sign in here"... npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I'm having enough trouble as an NPC in Capitalism. Wouldn't recommend the game. Too hard. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I once knew someone who was 6'6" (2m) tall. He drove an original Issigonis-style mini. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I'm running *those specific services* as IPv6 only, so I don't have to bugger around with NAT on the firewall. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Huzzah for IPv6 only! npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills In her retirement, my mum has been learning to play the cello, having played it when she was at school. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills That was a couple of miles away from me! npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Pet peeve: that's not a crest, it's a coat of arms. The crest is the part above the mantling, which is above and behind the helm, which is above the escutcheon, and is never used independently of the rest. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills are absolutely brilliant. Not the cheapest, but amazingly reliable, and you can always get through to someone who knows what they're doing at tech support immediately. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Facebook. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Remember, it's not just devs -- it includes mo-cap actors, voice artists, musicians, 3D and 2D artists, and scriptwriters, too. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Weird hair, bad suit, one eye... must be Scaroth of the Jagaroth. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills One rainy November 5th, I was out with an umbrella, and could hear the spent smuts landing on the brolly... npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I'm sure it is. I've seen the egress charges. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Oops. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills We have your six-digit sort code, and will release it unharmed if you pay the ransom. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills For what it's worth, I started using mosh last month on a long (2 days) rail trip. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills The problem is that nobody at MS (or any other big company) will care if the comments are entirely negative. The only thing they care about is if there's enough suckers paying for it. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Where do I apply to get a job like this? :blobcatsleep: npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills One for the #WorldBollardAssociation ? npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Paging @npub1x59…gect ... npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills There have been patents issued for some utterly ridiculous things, over the years. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I've looked at these before. There seems to be only two different products on the market, both looking very similar (but different in the details of the hinges, I think). They get sold under a variety of different brands, but otherwise are probably the same two designs made in the same factory. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Quote from C-suite at work: "We're moving towards a more Microsoft-native approach." npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills You should have charged 99¢ for it. Then you only look to them like a cheap-ass spammer. Much less dangerous than some free software idealist. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills You're not a billion-dollar corporation. Of course they're going to complain. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills USB-enabled recliner chair? npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills The rabbits moved out months ago. It's just a hole now. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Is that the name of your next band? npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills How do you define "weird", here? From my memory of, briefly, working in a neuroscience department, there's a fairly standard format that's used in MRI scans. (And IIRC, fMRI delivers a sequence of them, one for each point in the time series). npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills "How do I do this?" npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills There's something someone once said to me, which has stuck in my mind for a long while: "You've got too much taste to be a web developer." npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills What if someone attacks you with a pointed stick? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Everyone's been clutching their pearls about Islamic courts when they should have been worrying about the Capitalist courts. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills There's no reason that a send stream can't be replayed on a non-btrfs filesystem (with suitable support), but the implementation in btrfs-progs is definitely btrfs-specific. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills It's... complicated. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills Such derp. Expert level. npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills I didn't know that cats used golfing languages. :) npub1a88jr7e6ertw4nqq4q49kt7fveuymjp94gtws8wn5pnufg2wvrsqldcqy2 Hugo Mills How much code do you expect the cats will write in this project?
