sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

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

Hashtag life raft goals

@emilis @helene @chjara

on one hand, military bad. on the other hand, IDF soldier girls

RT @farid__jalali@twitter.com

It is outrageous that *volunteers* who are donating time to vaccinate close contacts of active Monkeypox cases — some of whom may very well be harboring early Monkeypox infections — are not offered vaccination despite close skin and respiratory contact with hundreds of such folks

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/farid__jalali/status/1554525187701293056

People ridicule the amount of PPE Chinese front-line personnel wear, but we haven't had any get infected since Wuhan. If you don't show your front-line personnel their health is a priority, you very quickly have trouble finding sufficient people willing to do that job.