Interesting bits of information and editorial, evolving online since 1995.
Use case: you have a server with a bad disk and low urgency to replace the disk automation which detects and uses available disks also, the drive numbering is non-deterministic at boot so you want that disk to not be used until you get around to replacing it
Scenario: a 4-disk mdadm -based software RAID5 one disk fails: the RAID5 continues to function in a degraded state one attempts to replace the failed disk, but pulls (hot swap) an active disk instead
A theme I experienced yesterday is the human need to make.
The news has become such a grind. A friendly face samples the day's crimes, chews a few bites into a bolus of rage, breaded in wry humor with a tangy glaze of hopeful frustration, and pops it down my exhausted, slack-jawed maw. Between All the Star Treks and Stephen Colbert, the Paramount+ subscription made sense for me. But I have watched All the Star Treks and tomorrow I will have watched All…
Cañon City has a tourist railroad. I gave the Royal Gorge Route Railroad a pass.
The place was hand-built in the middle of nowhere in defiance of the government and its pesky permitting and construction safety standards. You visit very explicitly At Your Own Risk.
Yeah, I had a great time!
"Up and up twists and turns and curves and well-plowed snow and ice, and freezing water streaming across the road way. Occasional wild animals and oncoming cars, nobody passed me and I passed nobody. Much of the time it was me, the car, and a blue-gray sky going on twilight. Where the scenery of the afternoon had been beautiful, the scenery of early evening was transcendent. It felt very much as…
I smacked my hand on the table in agreement, “Yes! It is important to be polite!”
"You know, Older Son has toured the interlocking before, strapped to my chest."
Away from the noise of social media, the Internet is still brimming with great stuff to read. The old way of finding a feed reader , subscribing to some sites, and coming back on occasion to be wowed still works great.
Use the tools. Or don't. Both choices are correct. The wrong choice is to be the tool , by letting the tool be you . Having a "relationship" with your AI is a sad move, and expecting other people to have a relationship with your AI's slop is disappointing and creepy.
The locals are extremely friendly. All the street food vendors didn't want to charge their international guests. It reminded me of Jordan.
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TIL: how to set up "author attribution" links, mirror my Mastodon to Bluesky, configure the feed to not show re-toots, and how to effectively block re-toots of screenshots of Twitter.