After three long weeks stuck on a Mac, I finally sat back down at my main Linux box today.
T_T How I had missed my predictable non-gaudy, non-swooshy KDE desktop !!!
You know what it tried to do ? NOTHING. Until I wanted it to.
A tool. For me to get shit done.
Did not treat me like an infant in need of constant useless UIX distraction.
Let me get on with it. Till I turned it off and left for the day. Till tomorrow, old friend.
@simon If I had a penny for every time I've unpicked a needlessly complicated multi-polygon relation with tens of chopped-up shared way segments, and replaced then with two simple ways, I could buy us both a beer! 🍻 😢
Map for maintenance, #SimpleIsBetter , don't try to be too clever in #OpenStreetMap
(Oh, and learn about the #JOSM balloon tool - much easier for landcover, even when construction lines are needed to constrain it.)
When I go on holiday with my family, I go out of my way to disconnect from the world.
I leave my Apple Watch at home and phone stays in the holiday as my wife has her phone.
I revert back to my Casio digital each time. It is simple and informative. I chose blue because I support Stockport County Football Club.
#Casio #CasioCult #SimpleIsBetter #Disconnect #digitalminimalism
#simpleisbetter : in #unix, file access rights are defined by numbers:
4: read
2: write
1: execute
So if i want to give rights for read only, i use 4. For read and execute, 5 and for full access, 7. Of course any other combination is possible.
But why 4, 2 and 1 ? Why not ...123 ? Simply because by summing any combination of 1,2 and 4 without repetition, you always get a different number. So all cases are perfectly covered and i find it beautiful.
Secure-delete can take a long time. SecureDrop does it by delegating to rq which sends python code to redis which is then interpreted by a rq worker. It is not only fragile, it also has a subtle bug that eluded diagnostic for two years.
Replaced this with 40 LOC of python running in a thread that can be trivially tested.
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