Chris Siebenmann

@cks
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That cks. Overcommitted sysadmin, photographer, bicyclist, and other multitudes. I write a lot of words for a programmer. he/him/they/them 🇨🇦
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It's a marvelous day in Toronto, so I hope everyone who can be is out bicycling to enjoy it. Tomorrow is the official start of my bike club's weekend ride programs, so of course the forecast is '6C and raining all day with possible thunderstorms'.

Toronto April weather: enjoy it while you have it, it won't last long.

Je viens de recevoir les nouvelles sonnettes pour mes vélos... Je vais les appeler Khn et Klek 🤣
#anginedepoitrine #velo

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116325546531318841

Either we all have rights or none of us have rights

RE: https://mastodon.social/@wingo/116325701683993127

realizing that emitting properly indented code is quadratic was probably the funniest work thing that happened last month

This is my unsurprised face that I am now gluing one local program back together because the old version broke in the upgrade. I hope that this is not an omen that the old old version of this program that I run at home will also break in the upgrade, because that would annoy me deeply. (I like the old old version better than the old version.)

I am sure I will not regret upgrading my eccentric office desktop from Fedora 42 to Fedora 43 through a live dnf upgrade the day before a long weekend.

(Well, I have to do it sometime, I've sat on this far too long.)

Current status: it's a useful thing that I still remember how to build do-nothing RPMs that Provide: some random stuff.

Also, the Fedora /sbin to /usr/sbin transition has some little blips where some packages wind up still depending on '/sbin/<whatever>'.

There's going to be a weekend-long power outage at work in a month and my first thought today is "can I eat all of the frozen lunches I have in the office fridge in time?"

(We've known about it for more than a month but it was (and still is) unclear whether the power will just be turned off during the day and then back on overnight, or whether it will be turned off all weekend. People are pushing for 'all weekend' as easier.)

Sometimes you get lucky and it's #TrainTrackTuesday and you get to the bridge just as a brand new #OntarioNorthland #Northlander train is passing by.

Higher bitrate, and with sound (mostly freeway noise): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ontario_Northland_930_Siemens_Charger_and_Venture_train_at_Roncesvalles_footbridge,_March_31,_2026.webm

This is my face when I just got around to opening the windows after noticing the warm weather and a thunderstorm promptly rolls in. Toronto's March is giving us one last hurrah on the way out.

#dlws