ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

An impossibly pretty snow scene, from a while ago. Above Scargill House, near Kettlewell in the Yorkshire Dales.

My response rates for polls on Twitter were 1-2%.

On Mastodon, it's 15-20%.

Twitter and Facebook throttle our natural engagement with our friends and family and colleagues.

They do it so brands will buy ads to reach people who already follow them.

I didn't realise how pronounced the effect is.

I'm angry.

For years, my connection with the people I care about has been diminished, intentionally, to support a losing advertising scheme.

I want that time with my friends and family back.

The #NorthernLights were AMAZING at #Jökulsárlón in #Iceland
#LandscapePhotography #Photography #Aurora #AuroraBorealis #Wanderlust #TravelPhotography #NaturePhorography #Travel #PhotoOfTheDay

I love that everyone is looking at LastPass alternatives right now, so I made this and it amuses me.

My favorite Christmas ornament and I are wishing you a very Merry Christmas Eve.
#ChristmasEve #HappyHolidays

I’m just a Gen Xer playing computer games in my basement. 🤟 I can’t believe this really worked. They really don’t build them like the used to. “Does it boot?” Yes, yes it does!

A Debian Linux installer showing a hostname dialog for the server. Cueball wants to make sure that he chooses a great permanent name that he can give to the server. This one is for @popey ;) Also see my favourite top 15 XKCD comics all time https://www.cyberciti.biz/humour/top-xkcd-comics-for-linux-and-unix-fans/ for geeky lulz. Boy, naming this are hard ;)

Amazing

The holidays can be a really tough time. The advice I often heard was, "Volunteer at a soup kitchen. Help others. Get out of your head." It's perfectly fine advice, but unhelpful if the mere thought of interacting with people is overwhelming. Anyway, here's a thing I did one year that did help:

I bought a Cookie Monster costume, went to the airport, and waited at arrivals with a sign that said "COOKIE"

Didn't have to talk to anyone and boy did I get to watch people's faces light up.

Reports this week illustrate how threat actors consider Microsoft Exchange as a prime target for gaining initial access to corporate networks to steal data and deploy ransomware.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-week-in-ransomware-december-23rd-2022-targeting-microsoft-exchange/

Got inspiration for some new insults from this pet store. (Tag yourself, etc)

Do you know what style guide is most common in book publishing in the UK?

@ijk64 @unamccormack @wleisner @Scifibulletin Nah. I don't take sides on commas. But you don't wanna get me started on semicolons ... 😊

Oh good the fractals are here

When you ride a bicycle, you're part of the neighborhood.
When you're in a car, you're just passing through.

(Winter frostbike edition)

Decorate your process tree.

pstree() { e=$'\e' ; o=( 🔴 🔵 🔶 🟢 💠 🟣 🔘 🔆 📍 🔔 🎀 ) ; [[ "$1" == "--xmas" ]] && command pstree -U | { printf "🌟\n" ; cat | while IFS='\n' read line ; do d="${o[$(( $RANDOM%${#o[@]} -1))]}"; r1=$(($RANDOM%${#line})) ; printf "$line\n" | sed -r -e "s/^(.{$r1})/\\1$d/g" -e "s/^/$e[42m/" -e "s/$/$e[0m/" ; done ; printf "\e[0m 🟫 \n 🟫 🚂 🎁 🎁 🎁 🎁 \n"; } || command pstree $@ ; };pstree --xmas

@kevinswiber My thoughts on this are that we need to stop devaluing online relationships. Written communication can be just as rich, if not more, than verbal communication. Why is a relationship with the random person who moved into the home next door more important than the one with someone I met in an online community that has a shared interest? Just as society have dismissed remote work as been lesser than in person, we are going to discover that digital friendships are valuable