@lordbowlich@hackers.town

New #Introduction for 2020 and #MerryJoinMas

I'm a remote software engineer working the various F/OSS web-stacks from my remote cabin at 8,500 feet in the White Mountains of Arizona -- I'm prone to wanderlust and often grab some batteries, solar panels, and head out to work from my truck from whatever corner of these great open lands has cell phone reception.

Posts often about the trials and joys of remote work, venting about development (since I've got no watercooler coworkers), the usual consumptive vices of our age (film, video games, books), and chatter about returning to a more open web,
culture and society.

Oh, and I hope to meet plenty you at Defcon 28!

https://acoup.blog/2020/10/30/fireside-friday-october-30-2020/

For those of us who broke down on our principles and went out and voted for the lesser evil, despite really really despising Biden and swearing after the Obama administration to never do that again -- comes Bret Devereaux (of those fun LotR battle analysis breakdown blog posts) to offer the first bit of well argued rationalization that makes me feel a bit better about it.

Four hours today hauling firewood. I'm beat.

By my calculators from prior winters, three more such days will get me enough to go through the entire winter.

Has the police considered, maybe, just stop murdering people?

I know it’s a tall order to ask.

But maybe they could give it a shot.

Start small. Aim for not murdering anyone for a month. See how it goes.

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I miss my brother laser printer from 2004. After having to replace the motor. Disassemble and oil it twice. It just chugged along. It always worked.

The new one is a piece of crap. Every time I upgrade my Ubuntu version the printer driver on it breaks.

Scanning in 18.04 was "okay." It would crash if I didn't run it under sudo for some odd reason and even then it had a 50% chance of crashing mid scan. Since the update to 20.04 it doesn't work at all.

And don't get me started on how it just shuts down if it has "low toner" and I need to fiddle around and put tape over sensors to get it to keep going. I'm probably a solid 100 pages after when it would've wanted me to toss the cartridge.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12956509

Bobby Tables Strikes again! 😜​

Was reading someone's blog today whose billed themselves a freelance startup CTO.

How do you freelance as a CTO?

We obviously have entirely different definitions of this term...

It’s so easy to tune out, but I feel like if I pay attention I can hear an engine even when hiking miles back into the wilderness. It’s like we’re trapped in the holodeck. Nature surrounds us, but there’s always that artificial noise reminding us that it’s not real.

If electric engines ever take off, imagine the woods will again be filled with only the sounds of the woods and not the dull background hum of combustion engines.