cschrader

cschrader, 2 days ago to random

not sure how I never thought to google this before, but today I learned why ctrl-s/ctrl-q exist, other than to make using the terminal 100 times more difficult.

Fascinating bit of computer history!

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/137846

cschrader, 6 days ago to random

I never knew this until recently, but the Pennsylvania Railroad used to run a 21 acre slaughterhouse right in west #philly

“By 1885, the 21-acre site housed cattle pens for 7,300 head, sheep pens for 10,000, hog pens of similar capacity as the sheep pens, covered sheds for about 500 cows and calves, the “main office and exchange building,” stables for holding and selling horses, the abattoir, and the “fat and reducing department.”
https://collaborativehistory.gse.upenn.edu/stories/lovely-abattoir-schuylkill-railroad-and-stock-yard-company

cschrader, 6 days ago to random

“The people sitting at the apex may not like the way they feel the organization is being run, but if they’re not bringing data to that point of view, it’s really hard to argue why people should be coming back to the workplace more frequently,”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/

cschrader, 8 days ago to random

if you ever signed up for Twitter and thought to yourself “I wish this was more like setting up PGP or creating an SSH key pair”, I’d recommend you try nostr

kithrup, 9 days ago to random

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of The Maleficent Seven by Cameron Johnston and let's face it I got it mostly because of the title. Also, it turns out I enjoy things where the bad guys are forced to be good guys because things are just so really annoying to them. (Remember, I love lawful evil characters, and the reasons are related.) While I have a copy, I haven't read it yet, what with me only having had it for about 5 minutes.

Feel free to claim one, and/or tell other people!

cschrader, 9 days ago to random

“I found that across all three neighborhoods, English dominates the linguistic landscape. Of the total 3,356 signs, about 62% were in English, while 24% were in Spanish and 13% were written in both Spanish and English. Only 29 signs – less than 1% – were multilingual, or written in three or more languages. Among these, Vietnamese was the most common third language.”

https://theconversation.com/i-analyzed-3-356-signs-to-see-how-language-use-is-changing-in-three-latino-neighborhoods-in-philly-227428

skyfaller, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to random

We're back to my recurring nightmare of making it easy for a non-technical client to edit a static website generated using #Hugo.

Are there any good solutions? Or am I going to end up writing my own solution after many painful hours with other people's janky solutions?

If you know of a non-technical user successfully editing a static website, how are they doing it?

EDIT: I'll only use open source solutions I can self-host, but happy to hear about proprietary options.

#SSGs #StaticWebsites

cschrader, 11 days ago to random

I’ve got a list of 7 phone calls to make. There’s got to be a way out of this.

star wars no GIF

cschrader, 12 days ago to random

Talk to Claude

cschrader, 17 days ago to random

I recently attempted to explain to my daughter how the phone used to work, and I’ve never felt like more of a fossil.

I had to explain what the dial tone is. She’s never heard a dial tone.

kithrup, 19 days ago to random

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, which I have but have not read. And I keep thinking it's a werewolf book, but that's only because of the title. If you read it, please let me know what you think!

In the meanwhile, feel free to claim one, or tell other people about the giveaway, or both! Or neither, I mean, that is entirely up to you.

The world is awful right now, and people are stressed, so see if you can't do something kind for someone.

ben, 25 days ago to journalism

Buried here: "Vox Media’s technology news publication The Verge says it also has plans to federate its own site to have more ownership over its content and audience." #Media https://digiday.com/marketing/as-tiktok-ban-threatens-stability-in-social-media-ecosystem-some-brands-settle-into-the-fediverse/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

cschrader, 25 days ago to random

This is pretty fun: Snacktime and Portugal the man cover Killing in the Name of and Give it Away. Language warning.

https://youtu.be/dg6eiCcRidc

cschrader, 26 days ago to random

After 46 years, across 15 billion miles, they fixed Voyager 1. NASA is amazing.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

bigzaphod, 26 days ago to random

Commander Sisko was quite a badass. He didn’t suffer fools and he was quite clear about who was in charge without creating resentment.

cschrader, 27 days ago to random

Broke: paying for ChatGPT or copilot
Woke: letting Facebook help you code

cschrader, 1 month ago to random

So why try to predict the future at all if it’s so difficult, so nearly impossible? Because making predictions is one way to give warning when we see ourselves drifting in dangerous directions. Because prediction is a useful way of pointing out safer, wiser courses. Because, most of all, our tomorrow is the child of our today.

https://commongood.cc/reader/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future-by-octavia-e-butler/

cschrader, 1 month ago to random

The one good thing you can say about the American Healthcare system is that you can pay bills online without creating a user account.

However, I have a feeling it’s not because they care about our convenience, but there’s some technical reason they can’t require user accounts.

cschrader, 1 month ago to random

“The best thing about the fediverse is that it will actually enable an explosion of better social products, for lots of reasons but one in particular: it allows for so many more of them. Forget the hand-wavy protocol stuff for a second — one of the best things about embracing ActivityPub is that it sticks a crowbar into a single Voltron-ic product like Facebook or Twitter or Snapchat and pries it apart into its component pieces, each one ripe for innovation and new ideas”
https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub

cschrader, 1 month ago to random

This is so cool!
https://merveilles.town/@nerdypepper/112211748629174541

cschrader, 1 month ago to random

“Don’t manually merge values to a query: hackers from a foreign country will break into your computer and steal not only your disks, but also your cds, leaving you only with the three most embarrassing records you ever bought. On cassette tapes.”
https://www.psycopg.org/psycopg3/docs/basic/params.html

cschrader, 1 month ago to philadelphia

I’ve been here for a while, but I never actually did an #introduction post.

I live in #philadelphia, and work in #devops with a background in #sysadmin, #linux, #gis, #remotesensing, and #machinelearning. These days, I spend a lot of time with #python, #terraform, and #aws. I’m part of a nonprofit working to preserve safe greenspace in #Kensington.