sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

In the meantime, to whomever needs to hear it:

This pandemic is not over.
You're not irrational for keeping your guard up.
If someone tells you otherwise, tell them to go sit on a tack.

2/2

When I watched Lain for the first time, I couldn't understand how does Lain fill the entire room with equipment. A bunch of servers and workstations? Quite understandable. But racks and racks of random equipment, like, what?

/me looks at things around me.
Now I know.

By the age of 30 you should be fluent in writing assembly for at least 3 obsolete 8-bit architectures

Just 4 to 6 weeks left until schools reopen and children will spread BA.5 like wildfire because after three years of COVID we still can't get our shit together in the slightest to prevent a deadly airborne disease to slaughter and maim innocent people.

My Saturn images from the last few years.

From left to right:
1) 2015, 6" Maksutov, phone digiscope
2) 2016, Mak & Canon 550D
3) 2020, same as 2)
4) 2021, Mak & ZWO ASI 178MM
5) 2022, 8" Newtonian & 178MM

I believe that setup 5 has more potential too, haven't had good seeing yet this 🪐 season.

Do I need Kubernetes?

https://xeiaso.net/blog/do-i-need-kubernetes

#kubernetes #k8s #bestpractices

The city of Berkeley intended to lift its ban on chemical weapons this evening, so they could use them to attack People's Park protesters, but now the meeting has been cancelled.
https://twitter.com/kpfaradio/status/1555250996741189632

Traditionally published author friends:

Yesterday, Penguin Random House stated under oath that $100,000 was not a large advance.

Get that official transcript before negotiating your book contract.

"I have to come clean, here..."

submitted by Acceptable-Tomato392
https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/wfsaf1/i_have_to_come_clean_here/

another reason it is not yet the year of Linux on the Desktop: every time my monitors wake from sleep they are mirrored and I have to fix it with:

xrandr --output DisplayPort-0 --right-of HDMI-A-1