Lord Bowlich @lordbowlich@hackers.town

I wonder if I get some of my weird wanderlust eccentricities from hearing stories of Grandpa and Great Grandpa jumping ships and trains.

Grandpa once tried to jump a train in Lansing, MI to get across town to a day job. Accidentally jumped the long haul. Need to get wired money for a bus pass get back from Florida.

Dad road his bike as a teenager from Lansing to the Mackinaw Bridge, back when it was shinny and new, just to see it.

Oh and Great Grandpa was all over the west on trains.

Thinking about privacy. On the surface, a lot of people think of it as an issue for protecting dissidents and nudie pics.

But, considered the fact that we've created a society that requires a paper trail in order to accomplish anything. We need a long paper trail of our educational expertise going back to early childhood. A paper trail identifying whether we can legally work. An extraordinary amount of detail into our lives for credit. Accurate identification is now a very big thing, and can only be done with a certain level of invasiveness into our private lives.

My great grandfather was a hobo, a lifestyle that was on the fringes of society in his day but also a lifestyle that able to support his family on the East coast through the depression. It would be impossible to be a hobo today. No paper record, no form of identification. No one would offer work to a random unlicensed itinerant claiming to be knowledgeable mechanic in this day an age.

Hmmm. Was thinking of mirroring some of the talks from past ATO conferences to HackerTube. Kind of surprised that I'm not finding any information on whether they're CC licensed.

If they're not, It seems pretty disappointing for an open-source conference.

Now one of the ravens is standing on top of the brick crowing it's head off.

Put a brick on top of the trash can lid. Now all the ravens are sitting in a circle around it looking dejected.

Oh, I forgot my Christmas present from work. I can now do typed class properties, arrow functions and null coalescing assignments in my PHP files:

Typed class properties --
<?php
class User {
public int $id;
public string $name;
}
?>

Arrow functions --
<?php
$factor = 10;
$nums = array_map(fn($n) => $n * $factor, [1, 2, 3, 4]);
// $nums = array(10, 20, 30, 40);
?>

Null coalescing assignments --
<?php
$array['key'] ??= computeDefault();
// is roughly equivalent to
if (!isset($array['key'])) {
$array['key'] = computeDefault();
}
?>

Okay. Nice vacation.

Back to working the day job.

What is it I do again?

Anyone given i3 a shot on the #PineBookPro yet? Any issues?

Installed the libro.fm app on my phone last night, now the audible app is spamming me with offers. 🤔

Did the tally for my media consumption this year:

37 films
10 seasons of shows ugh
1 video game (Breathe of the Wild is a monster)
5 novels
1 graphic novel
7 non-fiction books

About a book a month, one triple-A type single player game, and 30-40 movies is about my pace these days.

Starting to run out of films that I want to watch though.