Pictures from Ubuntu Rally 2017
September 26, 2017
Maybe more later.
CtOS Precursor?
September 25, 2017
https://billypenn.com/2017/09/25/can-phillys-new-technology-predict-recidivism-without-being-racist/
Now all it needs is behavioral prediction data.
Goddammit
September 18, 2017
Dealing with Comcast and Netflix after a security issue was a goddamn nightmare.
Apparently my modem was rebooting every 3 hours because of some "technical issue" - that required me driving to their store, proving my identity, and getting a new modem. >_>
Then Netflix apparently just lets anyone into your account these days.... Course, I have his IP address now, so.
Well, yes.
August 14, 2017
It's amazingly cool to be able to sit in front of a Unix workstation that you helped build, using open-source apps to design 3D parts to be printed on an open-sourced 3D printer, then flown on your open-sourced quad drone.
DIY is 1000x better when you get the help of an army of other DIYers. :P
On A Recent Suggestion
July 19, 2017
If C is really too hard and you need Rust to manage memory for you, if managing the lifetime of your data is too difficult, how could you possibly handle data that changes type at runtime?
Why isn't that too complex?
People talk about how great C++ and Java are, but there is literally nothing preventing someone from subclassing one of your types to break function semantics. C is better because it is literal, without being unnecessarily restrictive.
July 19, 2017
Malicious Ignorance
July 9, 2017
The reason that "you're stupid" is the most common insult in politics these days is from over-application of Hanlon's razor.
Stupid Ubuntu Tricks: Make Gnome Shell Use the Ubuntu font
July 5, 2017
If you are running Ubuntu GNOME, but like/miss/prefer different fonts to the ones used by the shell, you can customize Gnome Shell's font like this:
- Create a text file containing css for the font you want, in a directory named whatever you want the theme to be named, i.e. for a theme called FOO, create .themes/FOO/gnome-shell/gnome-shell.css
- Put this in there, replacing the font name with whatever font you want:
@import url("resource:///org/gnome/theme/gnome-shell.css");
stage {
font-family: "Ubuntu";
}
- Save the file.
- Open up Tweak Tool, and pick your newly-created theme from the list of shell themes.
- Profit.
Live by the gun, Die by the gun
June 24, 2017
If a player got cheated on, everyone would say he deserved it.
If a con artist got scammed, everyone would say he deserved it.
If a cop on the take got arrested, everyone would say he deserved it.
So how come when a gun-nut congressman gets shot, we're supposed to feel bad for him?
Hypocrites
May 7, 2017
Ah yes, Democrats.
Unwilling to vote for Bernie because he "just joined out of convenience," but somehow unable to comprehend why independents wouldn't vote for THEIR candidate.
And simultaneously able to condemn the GOP for putting party before all else.