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Sun Nov 21 06:00:01 EST 2021 ======================================== Slept from eleven-thirty to seven-thirty without waking. Cloudy. Rain showers likely in the late morning and early afternoon. Slight chance of rain showers early in the evening. Highs in the lower 40s. Southwest winds up to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of showers 70 percent. http://folklore.usc.edu/back-when-tigers-used-to-smoke-the-origin-of-korea/ > Subject: You know how most fairy tales start with, like, “once upon a time”? > > Interviewer: Mhm. > > Subject: The, uh, Korean version is, “back when tigers used to smoke.” Like cigarettes. Back when tigers would smoke tobacco basically. I don’t know the exact origin, but there are old Korean paintings depicting a tiger with like a little ancient Asian-Korean pipe. Koreans love inserting that sh*t, like so, I guess no one knows where it actually came from, but a lot of stories begin, “Back when tigers used to smoke tobacco.” Assuming they don’t anymore. Apparently there's a folk tale about a rabbit giving a tiger a pipe to dissuade the tiger from eating it. https://drewdevault.com/2021/11/16/Python-stop-screwing-distros-over.html Yes, this is one of the reasons I do everything in Go now, and avoid Python as much as possible. Wait, _by default_ Gnome maps the right Alt key to "Alternate Characer Key"??! (Yes, I'm playing with Gnome again on my laptop. Yes, I'll almost certainly go back to Sway in a few days.) https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring > This is a tool for generating a webring from RSS feeds, so you can link to other blogs you like on your own blog. It's designed to be fairly simple and integrate with any static site generator. Signed up for a sr.ht (Source Hut) account. Rewatched an episode of Hellier (ridiculous but fairly well-produced Fortean reality TV — great background viewing while working on something else). gemini://srht.site/ > sourcehut pages is a tool which allows you to publish static Gemini capsules. Every sourcehut user receives the "username.srht.site" capsule, and you can bring your own domain as well. https://lwn.net/Articles/775963/ > Many projects have adopted the "GitHub style" of development over the last few years, though, of course, there are some high-profile exceptions that still use patches and mailing lists. Many projects are leery of putting all of their project metadata into a proprietary service, with limited means of usefully retrieving it should that be necessary, which is why GitLab (which is at least "open core") has been gaining some traction. A recently announced effort looks to kind of bridge the gap; Drew DeVault's sr.ht ("the hacker's forge") combines elements of both styles of development in a "100% free and open source software forge". It looks to be an ambitious project, but it may also suffer from a lack of "social network" effects, which is part of what sustains GitHub as the forge of choice today, it seems. Servings: grains 4/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 3/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0.5/0.5 Breakfast: potato chips Lunch: ramen with sausage and avocado, coffee Afternoon snack: banana Dinner: frozen pizza

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