At top of the ladder of abstraction.
I don’t know how the Limits conference escaped my attention for seven years, but I just discovered it through the fediverse (naturally), and I am happier for it. Its focus is on the ecological, material, energetic, and societal limits and impacts of computing, both present and future, and that seems more important than ever.
This article is for those, like me, who want to get started in Linux and need some perspective on how to approach it. The article is not a how-to explainer; it is a general lay of the land for one particular situation—mine—and requires more investigation on the part of the individual. But still, maybe it helps.
I wanted to make No Comments short. But like fingernails will keep growing after we are dead, my brain will keep probing what is too lightly tread. So here are 2K+ more words on the subject of comments, agree or not.
I am teaching myself traditional woodworking. This notice of that fact concerns the theoretical component and a few motivations behind everything else. I will always be an amateur, ever learning, but I aim for the confidence to build what little I want and need with simplicity, solidity and economy, and that is good enough.
An aspiring novelist in a poetry class revealed to his online community that he did not like poetry much. I assumed he meant writing it, because how could anyone not like poetry? But then I thought about my own experience with poetry over the years, which has been little, and I realized I am not particularly drawn to it either, though I have appreciated some good poems in my life. The following…