Sammy

@TaleOfSam
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He/Him, Gay, Trans, Lizard Father, Artist, Witch 🤙🦎🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️here to #fightGod

Recent convert to Linux
Running SpiralDeb 🌀

Follow me across the Fediverse @TaleOfSam, @Sammy, or @EarlOfSam

Y’all can’t git rid of me 😎

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'The Object of Art'

my article on the Surrealists of the mid-1930s and how they used art to elevate everyday objects and give them new meanings beyond function

published in Signifier:

https://medium.com/signifier/the-object-of-art-43bae5a91bc0?sk=0b3f5b5bf4c72a64005adfd25d799ba2

#Surrealism #art #ArtHistory #History

The Object of Art - Signifier - Medium

The 1936 Surrealist Exhibition of Objects is a good place to start discussing the subject of the object as art — the so-called objet — and its definitions. This hugely important event was held in the…

Signifier

"River Road" 30 x 28"
revised / fin.

Alt text: composition in blues, browns, and greens based on abstracted fish, fauna, and flora.

#PAINTING #art #artist #abstract #abstractart #Nature #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #fediart #ClimateChange #extinctions #biodiversity #MastoArt #Fediverse

Grab a jacket. Portland heads into days of cool, damp weather beginning Wednesday

Temps will dive from the high 70s on Tuesday to low 50s through the end of the week.

oregonlive
Catgirl system language for hardcore debugging.  #linux #archlinux #catgirl #neofetch #foss #kde

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility!

We want to send a big thank you to all trans people who contribute to the Fedora Project and open source in general!   

#TransDayOfVisibility #TDOV #Fedora #Linux #OpenSource

Watching the discovery and fallout from the xz supply chain compromise unfold in real time across mailing lists and issue trackers. Wild stuff.

Hug ops to OSS security peeps, today. And hopefully we can better understand what exactly happened—and why.

#xz #CVE #cve20243094 #Linux #hugops

Debian users who are using testing, unstable or experimental may want to be wary of the compromised version of xz. This is tied to the same notification that went out for Fedora 41, some Fedora 40 and Rawhide users.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00057.html

#Debian #Fedora #Security #Backdoor #Linux

[SECURITY] [DSA 5649-1] xz-utils security update

Did you know that instead of using the Windows Linux Subsystem you can actually just install Linux on its own and then you don't have to use Windows at all?

#Windows #Linux #wsl

Got a bit turned around searching for off-server cloud backup options.

Where do people do this? To some kind of static/cdn type service like S3 or Spaces? To a second VPS? To cloud backup services like Dropbox/Drive/Etc?

Was hoping to use the client's existing DropBox account which has lots of storage.

Went down a rabbit hole but then found Rclone (cloud wrapper for Rsync) which looks like a good fit. Got a proof of concept working. 👍

#IT #SysAdmin #Server #Linux #Backup