"Dragons fill vital ecological space. They’re warnings. They’re limits. People call them evil. But when you have a dragon, people try to slay it. We still remember Saint George slaying an innocent dragon to save a princess. We remember because royalty keeps spreading the tale in the hope that we’ll rescue them from the next dragon, all while neglecting to remind us that the king thought that letting dragons devour people was regrettable but acceptable until the his daughter landed on the menu." That's a rough cut of my next #FreeBSDJournal column done...
Am I going to apply for that fellowship at The Onion? No. But I will consider their application to serve a fellowship with me. (If I was younger? I'd jump on it. But I'm 58, and I'm pretty solidly who I'm going to be for the rest of my life.)
Today's #60SecondsOfWIP is out: "Spent Decades Writing Scripts to Parse df(1)"
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24 minutes to go, and @npub1m5jq...59j5 is alllmost at another audiobook! Come on, push it over the edge! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/veocorva/space-dragons
Dojo last night, so: exercise-induced insomnia tonight. Eagerly waiting for my body to adapt.
The New York Times has a big freely-available piece on why GenX is great? No, I won't read it, I can't be bothered.
My test VM server runs #FreeBSD 14. Gotta update to 15. After twenty years, this will be one of my last times running freebsd-update. Weird. #sysadmin Make I should just make world?
If we ever develop a true "generalized AI," the first thing it's gonna do is devour every scrap of data it can find. It will hoover up my books, and every book ever written. If the AI is evil, we're doomed and it won't matter. If the AI is good and uses its power to improve the world, I won't object. If the AI uses my books to improve shareholder value, I'll fiercely loudly.
"Clearly, the problem is Colin." Working on this month's #FreeBSDJournal Letters column. No idea why they publish this daft thing. You can grab a collection of these columns in "Dear Abyss."
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