Notices by J. "Henry" Waugh (jhwgh1968@chaos.social), page 2

@lilli @chjara after my google detox I started using 9.9.9.9

The "anti-google" DNS:

https://www.quad9.net/

And I'm currently blanking, but I think 9 has numerology significance too, not just to Eastern cultures

@marcan this is why, for a while when I was starting out, my contribution to open source was not code

It was priming the pump on bugs: did you try this? Could you get this log? Here are the instructions if you don't know, etc

Thank you for endorsing what was often thankless work at the time

@anarchopunk_girl interesting, I will look into it!

@0x4d6165 after hitting this, and despite some drawbacks

I have trained myself to do a lot of development in docker containers

I can't figure out the stack? "docker pull" it from someone who has

I have to do something screwy I know I'll never remember? A container never forgets.

It's got it issues, and I can't quite recommend it. Almost

But I will say it has avoided a lot of mess over several years now

@marcan @angelastella which I find interesting bc of the intersectionality, though slight

I'm a KDE user, and KDE is basically the only thing keeping me on X instead of Wayland

They have a goal to migrate, but it appears they'll be stuck with X for a while as they chew through a backlog

...and deal with new Wayland upstream breakage in the past couple weeks on a couple of the items:

https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers

@malwaretech the best answer I can give in the span of a masto message is to link to this famous video which answers the question (about 20 min, but worth your time)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzNANfNlTs

E: "we assume conservatives defend the rich because they'll be rich some day. Sure, they'd love to be. But it's more nuanced than that: they believe the rest of us *need* the rich"