Notices by Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire: (mwl@io.mwl.io), page 3

A nice review of "Run Your Own Mail Server" in LWN:

https://lwn.net/Articles/998153/

"Lucas actually seeks to help readers understand what they are doing rather than running through a few steps by rote and hoping commands, syntax, and protocols never change." #sysadmin

The shell casings had the words "delay," "deny," and "depose" written on them.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-shot-chest-midtown-manhattan-masked-gunman-large/story?id=116446382

@tek

Great album!

I freely admit, I'm something of a 70s industrial purist: TG, Monte Cazazza, etc. But SP did an amazing job of taking primordial industrial and making it approachable by regular folks.

The credit for an invention goes to the person who first explains it well enough that nobody else needs to invent it. And, well, no matter how brilliant SPK's "Leichenschrei" is, you just can't hand that to normal people and tell them to listen. It won't work.

@tek

Totally rocks.

I'm partial to the live version on Ain't It Dead Yet.

By popular request, I'm releasing a Christmas short story to get you all in the festive holiday mood.

Okay, not popular request. It was @ParadeGrotesque .

And it's not exactly festive.

But I'm assured that it's a Christmas story. It doesn't take place at Christmas. But it's a Christmas story! Seriously.

Previously published in WMG's 2020 Holiday Spectacular, and the lead story in the "Fantastic Christmas" anthology. DRM-free, exclusive to my store, only $1.99.
#ebook #christmas https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/the-last-hour-of-hogswatch/

Sequel to "They Live."

After the cloak broadcast crash, everybody freaks out for about a day, then 95% say "meh" and gets on with their lives. The remaining few spend their lives trying to get people to care.

(apologies/blame to @djsundog for sparking this thought.)

Walmart: We are a Christian company and won't do unwholesome things!

Also: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pentagram-Rug-Pentagram-Round-Rug-Gothic-Pentagram-Rug-4x4-ft/5432557787

The world has many pentagram rugs. A good one would save me a lot of time, but none are sufficiently accurate for my needs. I mean, geez, folks, would it kill you to open a grimoire?

My aged Kindle Oasis is starting to get glitchy. Pondering replacing it with a Boox Go Color 7. Anyone own one? Experiences?

[I am specifically looking at store-agnostic android e-ink devices with physical buttons, so please don't tell me all about your Kobo or Nook or whatever. Store-agnostic. Android. E-ink. Physical buttons.]

A Grand Unified Theory of the AI Hype Cycle

https://blog.glyph.im/2024/05/grand-unified-ai-hype.html

Includes discussion of previous AI bubbles, all the way back to the 1950s.

@klausfiend @mekkaokereke

I do an hour of martial arts practice every day. Strikes, falls, etc. Some days, I also go to class.

In Europe I'm lazy.

Halloumi is telling us it's time. Made his last vet appointment.

Halloumi was the first test pilot for my Rat Operated Vehicle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuN3SNxyFiY

You need the sound just to hear She Who Must Be Obeyed shout when it worked.

I leave to take Halloumi at 2:15. Tried to spend some time with him. He noses my finger a couple times, then curls up to sleep. Doesn't want pets.

Can't do a damn thing for him.

So I guess I'll argue with Wordpress.

@mekkaokereke every time I leave North America, I drop weight. Utterly consistent.

The fastest way to lose 15 pounds is a week in France, eating like a shopvac.

@tek

"Suspended" means that "we all love how hard you worked to make your precious communications easily identifiable. It's a term of appreciation."

Yeah, the world is kind of crap right now.

But a qualified wildlife rehabilitator on the fedi has given a blind wild mouse a home. Lucky the mouse is currently architecting a giant fluffy nest in a cozy hammock, and that's not nothing.

This. All of this. Times several million.

https://medium.com/@GregPogorzelski/the-thing-about-the-kobayashi-maru-4d5e1e49993e

Cashel would like to remind you that in a world where the Onion owns InfoWars, anything is possible.

Write that book. Release that zero-day. Lick that wire. #petrats #rats

I'm not saying that Adobe programs are hogs, but "128GB RAM" and "4TB NVMe" just entered the chat.

A great post on mutual aid and protecting yourself, from @thorncoyle.

Thorn knows their stuff. Learned it the hard way.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/on-community-115570830

(dear computer security folks who follow me: yes, the one-page security handout is limited. It's one freaking page, for non-experts. Chill, dude. What's there will get folks further than 95% of people.)

@thorncoyle

while signal is as good as it gets today:

as soon as https://veilid.com/chat/ goes public, you'll hear me screaming at the world to move there. Signal can be compromised: veilid cannot.

It's still hacker-only, but they're working hard to make it usable to the folks who are reading your one sheet.