[-] hallettj@leminal.space 22 points 3 weeks ago

Yes; he said that the real clothes itched, and Garak said that's the wool, you'll get used to it.

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 22 points 1 month ago

After seeing this comment I had to check how Disney is involved if they don't own the restaurant. The restaurant is in Disney World (specifically Disney Springs). https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jl0ekjr0go

IIUC that does put the restaurant in the special tax district that gives Disney the authority of a county government. But my very cursory search seems to indicate that restaurant safety oversight is managed at the state level.

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 23 points 3 months ago

From what I've learned revolutions are often accompanied by circumstances where people are desperate due to lack of basic necessities, especially food.

The French revolution was preceded by a serious food shortage. Remember that "let them eat cake" comment? One of the key events, the Women's March which displaced the king and queen from Versailles, was specifically motivated by demands for food.

The European People's Spring saw lots of revolutions across Europe in 1848-1849 including in France, Italy, Bavaria, Austria, Hungary. That was about the same time as a continent-wide grain shortage on top of an economic crisis.

The Russian revolution of 1917 came at a time when a combination of WW1, bad leadership, and an extra cold winter led to food shortages, and fuel shortages so people were starving and freezing at the same time.

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 20 points 4 months ago

There are other galaxy clusters. Gravitational binding is not unique to the local cluster. From Wikipedia,

Notable galaxy clusters in the relatively nearby Universe include the Virgo Cluster, Fornax Cluster, Hercules Cluster, and the Coma Cluster.

The expansion of the universe is very tricky to explain. Oversimplifying can lead to an explanation that seems to be contradictory.

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 15 points 4 months ago

By using one rail they can get two-way traffic on one set of tracks. These early units have an anti-tipping safety device that extends to the second rail, but they plan to get rid of that later.

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 15 points 4 months ago

I've often thought that the people working on herpes treatments probably don't get the credit they deserve

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I work on a remote team with three Australians who live in three different states. I'm sure they'll appreciate this! Especially the Ausalabaman guy!

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 17 points 6 months ago

Yes, I use passphrases for stuff like my password manager, my computer login, and my disk encryption. For my login (which I type a lot) it's four words; for occasional stuff like disk encryption it's six. I'm sold on the argument that a passphrase is way easier to memorize compared to a comparably-secure random password.

The number of possible passphrases is the number of words in the dictionary you use to generate passphrases raised to the power of the number of words in your passphrase (assuming a small chance of reusing the same word in a passphrase). I use this command to generate a random phrase using my stock OS word list:

grep -v '[^a-z]' $WORDLIST | shuf --random-source=/dev/urandom | head -n5 | paste -sd ' '

grep -v '[^a-z]' $WORDLIST filters out words with apostrophes or other weirdness. On my system the filtered list is 77,866 words.

For four words, 77,866 ^ 4 ≈ 3.7 × 10^19 possible passphrases.

Compare that to randomly-generated passwords. I'll assume that random lowercase & uppercase letters, numbers, and symbols add up to 46 characters. The number of combinations is 46^n where n is the length of the password. A four-word passphrase is the same order of magnitude as secure as a 12-character password, which has about 9 × 10^19 possible combinations.

I'm sure that if you make up your own passphrases instead of randomly generating them then the security is much lower.

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

When niri runs applications it will now put them into transient systemd scopes. One concrete benefit is that when an application uses too much RAM and systemd-oomd kills it, niri won't go down alongside the app, so the rest of your session will stay intact.

Does Gnome do this? I've certainly had my entire session crash when a certain LSP server used up all of my memory. I appreciate this feature!

I think it's time for me to try Niri as my main WM. The main thing I want to figure out is getting XWayland going so my Wine games will work. I know there is info on this in the Niri docs, so I'll start there.

Edit: The key to getting the games working is gamescope! It runs a nested X session. Lutris does not work without X, but Bottles does and it has a handy gamescope checkbox in the bottle settings.

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 24 points 6 months ago

Those look nice!

Have you considered a Creative Commons license, maybe with the BY-SA (Attribution-ShareAlike) terms?

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 15 points 7 months ago

I love these stories! There's also,

And now that I've gone searching for these I see that they've all been helpfully collected on http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html

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