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Wed Jun 2 06:00:02 EDT 2021 ======================================== Slept from eleven to six without waking. Cloudy. Chance of rain showers in the late morning and early afternoon. Rain showers likely early in the evening. Highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the late morning and afternoon. Chance of showers 70 percent. Work ---------------------------------------- - 7430, backup of Mackinac VM No. - MS 365 stuff for Heidi No. Twenty-minute walk at lunch. Overcast. Got rained on slightly. Saw a crow, and heard a blue jay. https://git.sr.ht/~gregkh/presentation-non-tech-security https://lwn.net/Articles/433409/ > The early days of GNOME 2 were characterized by a relentless campaign to hunt down and eliminate any configuration options that seemed unnecessary, for a large and inclusive value of "unnecessary." Strangely enough, this move proved to be unpopular with users, with the result that, over time, many of those options were added back. GNOME 3 shows signs of wanting to repeat this history; the end result may well be about the same. > One of the reasons I still use fvwm, despite its faults, is that GNOME and other similar desktop projects have no desire to cater to my needs, and whenever I've asked how to do something I've been told that I'm wrong to want it. Since this 2011 review, Gnome has failed to find any contrition for its sins. Got sucked into a couple deep Entrata quagmires today, leaving me with little time for 365 stuff. Home ---------------------------------------- - buy stock Done. Sold my shares of Ubiquiti. Finished reading A Memory Called Empire. Solid science fiction. Some slowness in the middle, but enjoyable enough that I've already bought the sequel. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-1902 > It turns out that when Doumer’s colonial government laid more than nine miles of sewage pipe beneath Hanoi, it inadvertently created nine miles of cool, dark rodent paradise, where the pests could breed without fear of predators. And when they got hungry, the rats had direct access to the city’s ritziest real estate via a subterranean superhighway. Under the streets of French Hanoi, rats multiplied exponentially—and then skittered to the surface. > They proceeded to Plan B, offering any enterprising civilian the opportunity to get in on the hunt. A bounty was set—one cent per rat—and all you had to do to claim it was submit a rat’s tail to the municipal offices. That way, the government wouldn’t be overrun with bulky rat corpses. “I always think about that,” Dr. Vann says. “Who is the poor guy counting all these rat tails?” > It turned out the hunters would rather amputate a live animal’s tail than take a healthy rat, capable of breeding and creating so many more rats—with those valuable tails—out of commission. There were also reports that some Vietnamese were smuggling foreign rats into the city. And then the final straw: Health inspectors discovered, in the countryside on the outskirts of Hanoi, pop-up farming operations dedicated to breeding rats. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27365352 https://www.bowerswilkins.com/blog/products/history-of-nautilus Worth it mostly for the picture of the Nautilus prototype. Servings: grains 5/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 2/2, meat 1/3, nuts 0.5/0.5 Brunch: banana, naan sandwich with beans and tomato, coffee, orange Lunch: carrots Afternoon snack: Dinner: Japanese curry with potato

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