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Fri Feb 3 07:04:55 EST 2017
Slept from eleven to six without waking.
Partly sunny today, with a high of twenty-one. Chance of flurries, but not amounting to any accumulation.
Feeling good this morning --- relaxed, rested, and healthy.
Work:
- Finish dns notes, stand up test dns server
Mostly finished notes.
Did not finish test server.
- Convince Comcast to take action on packet loss
No, of course we don't have any packet loss this morning.
- Review invoices
Done.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13557082
> Snappy is an Ubuntu/Canonical project and FlatPak is a Fedora/RedHat/FreeDesktop project. Snappy and FlatPak are remarkably similar and kind of mirror the DEB/RPM spit. Nix and AppImage are independent. AppImages resemble macOS's app bundles in that they can be run directly without installation. Snappy, FlatPak, and Nix need to install to a root directory, /snap, /var/lib/flatpak/, and /nix respectively. FlatPak and Snappy need a runtime daemon but Nix and AppImage don't.
> For example, if there's a security issue with libssl, I can quickly patch my libssl instances with apt, pacman or whatever my system uses. But with snap?
> So on every system with a snap, there is also a 'core' snap, which has the base root fs, including glic, libssl, bash, etc. This core snap is updated regularly by its publisher (just Canonical's ubuntu core snap right now, but nothing stopping some other core snap). So a lot of critical updates are applied by default, as per normal distro policy, but just in a better way (rollback, transactional, qa, etc).
WTF is Alpine linux using the ".local" TLD in `/etc/hosts`. It's just wrong, and people should know that by now.
Fifteen minute walk at lunch, after I ate Thai food.
Cold but pretty. Half moon in the blue sky.
An odd encounter.
As I waited in the turn-around on Northwestern, I watched a helicopter hover.
Something large fell from it.
At first, I thought someone had fallen from the helicopter, but the thing stopped in mid-fall and hovered below the helicopter.
The thing --- a drone, I think --- started flying off, and the helicopter followed it.
Are drones deployed from helicopters a thing?
Possibly, the drone might have been behind the helicopter rather than deployed from it, but I don't thinks so.
It was large too. Flat-ish, but about half the length of the helicopter cockpit, or a little larger
Home:
- Draw
- Healthy dinner
No.
Hmm and oops. Why do my job numbers in new shells start at 5000?
SEMIBUG presentation about web filtering?
Castle Brezelbier idea: two cousins who are rival monster collectors.
Started watching the second season of Dark Matter. Not quite Firefly good, but good.
Watched a few classic Twilight Zone episodes.
Breakfast: spinach, carrots, coffee, yogurt
Lunch: Thai
Dinner: Philly cheesesteak, fries
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