Khronos

@khronos@dragonscave.space
78 Followers
96 Following
2.2K Posts
I'm into computers, radio, technology, history.

A man is driving down a deserted highway when he spots a sign:
“Sisters of St. Francis - House of Prostitution - 10 Miles.”

He shakes it off as his imagination… until he sees another sign:
Sisters of St. Francis - House of Prostitution - 5 Miles.

Then another:
Sisters of St. Francis - House of Prostitution - Next Right.

Curiosity wins. He turns in and finds a stone building with a small sign that simply reads:
Sisters of St. Francis.

He rings the bell. A nun opens the door and asks, “What may we do for you, my son?”

He replies, “I saw the signs and was interested in doing erm... business…”

The Nun smiles politely "Very well,” she says. “Please follow me.”

She leads him through twisting hallways until they stop at a door.
“Knock,” she says.

Another nun opens it, holding a tin cup.
“Please place $100 in the cup, then go through the large wooden door at the end of the hall.”
He happily drops the money in, rushes down the hall, and goes through the door.
CLICK.
The door locks behind him. He’s back in the parking lot, staring at a sign that reads:

GO IN PEACE.
YOU HAVE JUST BEEN SCREWED BY THE SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS.
MAY GOD BE WITH YOU SINNER!

A Christmas message from Blazie Technologies.
https://www.blazietech.com/christmas-special
christmas-special | Blazie Technologies

Blazie Technologies

Self hosting a Postgres or MySQL/MariaDB database is often treated like a horror story told around a campfire, a narrative carefully created by big cloud providers over the last decade. But is it actually "terrifying," or just a lost art of Sysadmining? This post talks the reality of self hosting versus managed cloud versions like AWS RDS, cutting through the marketing to look at the actual trade offs for both IT pros and developers.

https://pierce.dev/notes/go-ahead-self-host-postgres

Go ahead, self-host Postgres | Pierce Freeman

Self-hosting Postgres is simpler and cheaper than managed services suggest, with comparable reliability and better performance tunability.

10 mistakes to avoid when setting up a Wi-Fi network

Don't let your Wi-Fi get in your way.

How-To Geek
Learning with Screen Readers | American Printing House https://groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/10916
Microsoft, Over 120 Billion Dollars in Debt, Prepares Next Round of Mass Layoffs (After Christmas) https://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=360507
Techrights — Microsoft, Over 120 Billion Dollars in Debt, Prepares Next Round of Mass Layoffs (After Christmas)

5 Ways to Follow (or Find All) Symbolic Links in Linux https://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=360506
5 Ways to Follow (or Find All) Symbolic Links in Linux

In this article, you will learn five ways to follow symbolic (or soft) links to find the original file to which the symbolic link points.

Linux TLDR
In 1985, a blind man was arrested for drunken driving in Virginia. He apparently had another sighted person who was drunker than he was directing him by voice. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/04/17/Blind-man-arrested-for-drunken-driving/7337482562000/
Blind man arrested for drunken driving - UPI Archives

Police called it a case of the drunk leading the blind and drunk. Both wound up getting tickets....

UPI
Scientists find a way to 'reboot' vision in adults with lazy eye https://newatlas.com/medical/reboot-vision-adults-lazy-eye/
Scientists find a way to 'reboot' vision in adults with lazy eye

When one eye is deprived of vision early in life, it can lead to amblyopia, a condition more commonly known as lazy eye. This happens because a lack of input disrupts synapse formation in the brain's primary visual cortex, weakening vision in that eye.

New Atlas

Okay, I'm loving this gitlab CLI. I'm so glad that I know about it now. Of course, I need to figure out how to do things with it, but, for instance, I can just go into my at-spi2-core directory from the console and type
glab mr update 220 --draft

Otherwise, I'd need to open gitlab.gnome.org in a browser, click the button to sign in, type in my username and password, get my phone out for the two-factor authentication, then find the control on the web page to do what I want.