Edwin Groothuis

@mavetju@aus.social
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Child: "You can have one of the muffins I made. Just put them in the microwave to heat them up".
Me: "Nice. How long?"
Child: "I don't know."
Me: "10 seconds? 20? 30?"
Child: "I DON'T KNOW"
Me: "Okay I'll do 30 seconds as that is the shortest time".
[...]
Me: "Oh man, that's hot. That was way too long."
Child: "Oh normally I do only 15 seconds."

#children #muffins

ironic that we live in a time where everybody owns a computer with a mandatory button that spawns a supposed "magical genie", except for computer witches & wizards who specifically do *not* have such a button anywhere, nor do they wish to have one
you are a fucking EMAIL CLIENT you can't say that shit

When the lights flicker in my house, I got to the AusGrid outages website.

First minute: Nothing.
Second minute: a bit a red blob, 10 sites affected.
Third minute: a large blob, 2108 sites affected.

#ausgrid #outage #dataisbeautiful

This felt too valuable not to share. Braille-labeled maps of washrooms to help people find and use facilities in the washroom. Everyone deserves to get in, do their business, wash their hands, and get out in peace and safety.

This seems valuable for all public spaces.

#Blind #Accessibility

Aha I only had the httpd-core, not the httpd RPM package. Happiness now!
It's also missing /etc/sysconfig/httpd.
What is going on here?

# apachectl start
Failed to start httpd.service: Unit httpd.service not found.

Handy....

I'm utterly confused: Why is there no systemd unit file for the httpd service on this system?

I have this directory: /usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service.d/, but there is nothing in it. This is a stock OEL machine.

#oel #apache #systemd

I wish I had half the media savviness and foresight as Greta Thunberg. She knows exactly what she is doing. She predicted what would happen to her and the rest of her team. She knew she was putting her body and life on the line. She was betting on this. She used the attention she got from her climate activism to bring attention to other causes. She was the perfect person for Western media to elevate. She was white, a girl, mostly harmless. Embodied the kind of passive activism that corporate media wanted to celebrate. Giving the opposition a voice without any real ability or threat.

Now she has taken the platform they have given her and made herself a threat. She is supporting causes that directly impact the imperial way of life and she is doing so in ways that are less passive. They only wish they could take away all the media they have already given her and fame they heaped onto her when she was a harmless teenager.

Be prepared for stories to come out to that questions her integrity as a person. They will sling mud, and cause us to question her as a person, her values... they will find ways to alienate her from our hearts because that is the most powerful weapon they have against her.

Don't fall for it.