Rich Williams

@NotLinusTorvalds
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Open source developer and sysadmin. Feminist. Linux nerd. Opinions are not those of my employer; however may be endorsements by my cat. This is where I adult.
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"I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the final munition" in its #chemicalweapons stockpile. -- President Biden in a statement
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@SeaFury @thurlingdrome

The sign on our plotter (which is under repair)

@SeaFury I use, "explorers" for my work computers:
- Shackleton
- Hillary (sir Edmund)
- Viesturs
- Tamatekapua
- York (see Lewis & Clark)
- Watson (Vera)

The, "what" doesn't matter: have a theme and it'll give you a list of hostnames.

You can also go with puns:
> The first work server I put up where I'm at now was just a web server. Hostname is , ❝peterparker❞ (get it… "web" server)

@SeaFury have a theme and follow it. The University of Oregon uses, "ducks." My older brother once suggested "Shakespeare characters"

At my work — for servers — it's currently, "famous cats:"

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_cats

E.g:

- ❝mitens❞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittens_(cat)

- ❝bill❞ https://en.mwikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_the_Cat

- ❝fritz❞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_the_Cat_(film)

List of individual cats - Wikipedia

@mmasnick huh. i was in high school back then. you were a senior then?
Every time someone makes a stink about identifying #trans people properly all I can think about is this episode of #ds9 and like, motherfucker, Klingons figured it out. I think you can manage.

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter reconnaissance for an attack on an alleged North Vietnamese-controlled village at My Lai.

As the ground attack developed below, Thompson realised he was in fact witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He decided to act. /1 🧵 #history #histodons

Every billionaire CEO or VC that complains about the “woke mind virus” is really complaining about the fact that they have all the money in the world but can’t be as racist, sexist or homophobic as they want.

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