Today I learned: #nix-infect, to transform a vm from another distribution into #NixOS, mostly for cloud providers that don't offer this option! (Including #DigitalOcean and #hetzner). I am going to use it! :)
#TIL There's a recommended standard towards the usage of emojis in git commit messages. These are supposed to visually signal the nature of your commits:
I have previously been using certain text prefixes but this is indeed a better way based on visual recognition and it leaves more space to the precious commit message.
🐛 fixes a bug
🚑 means a critical hotfix
📝 updates documentation
♻️ refactors code
Like Robert Fisk, who died a couple of years agio, Pilger was a huge influence on both my attitude to journalism, and my approach to a number of geopolitical issues over the decades.
@VikingChieftain I vaguely remembered a store called Bread and Circus, which led me to look it up and tumble down down the rabbit hole of Whole Foods history.
On its way to becoming Whole Paycheck, they acquired a regional natural foods store in New England called Bread And Circus.
But when Whole Foods was first started as a tiny mom and pop operation, its name was SaferWay. 😂
All the huffing and puffing on the media about #section21 evictions in #England and the media fail to mention Scotland - maybe looking at Scotland would provide evidence and useful information......
Nah, have another press release from some lobby group or "opinion piece"
TIL about pipx.
It sets up a separate venv for each installed binary, and links them from $HOME/.local/bin. It can also upgrade everything with a single command (although I haven't tested this part yet).
#TIL the top 5 hits in #Germany the year I finished #school (Abi '96!) were:
"Lemon Tree" by Fool's Garden 🍋❤️
"Insomnia" by Faithless ❓🤔
"Macarena" by Los Del Rio 🎶💃❤️
"Children" by Robert Miles ❓🤔
"Killing Me Softly" by Fugees 😑
I even looked up the Miles & Faithless songs. They still ring no bells. Fugees gets a 😑 bc it got overplayed for a decade, which soured me in it forever & ever & ever.
We do the Macarena at #Zumba sometimes. Still a banger. 😁
#TIL: Do not use your root domain name to test federated software, once you federate your domain is registered across multiple instances and relays, there is no way to rollback, you can't reuse that same domain with a different implemention, and even reinstalling the same service might break if you change the keys.
TIL how to enable the new Explore Logs app for #loki . Turns out the latest versions of Loki and #grafana don't work with it yet, so you have to specify the right versions and change a few other things in the Docker Compose config. It's so cool that this is open source and not Cloud-only.
#TIL: During World War II, Steinway built 2,436 special models of their piano called the Victory Vertical or G.I. Piano.
"It was a small piano that four men could lift, painted olive drab, gray, or blue, designed to be carried aboard ships or dropped by parachute from an airplane to bring music to the soldiers."
#TIL that #LLama3 (7B, Q4 variant) can be downloaded in #LM-Studio and used as AI assistant with my 5+ years old Lenovo notebook (without having a dedicated graphics card).