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Yes. And most importantly, the Incus API and CLI client (which uses the API) presents a consistent management language for system containers (the default ones with a init/systemd-c…

ActivityPub allows one to follow hashtags in addition to accounts. Pick some hashtags of interest, find some people in those posts to follow. Lather, rinse, repeat.

I've found that it requires self-discipline on both parties making an effort to break the pattern-matching/automatic-thinking to emotional pipeline that is so easy to fall into. Ku…

Stéphane Graber (key Incus née LXD contributor) just did a video about developing placement scriptlets in the Starlark language but the interesting thing is, if I'm interpreting wh…

America is a pretend country with pretend rights.

Americans think they are free when they are actually prisoners of a mind worm.

The war against general-purpose computing is but one front in the class war. Daily reminder that economics is a political theory, not a science, that capitalism is the most incidio…

Unison language has a very elegant solution to the naming problem.

"It's Time to Tax Billionaires Out of Existence (vice.com)" There, FTFY.

You'd require people to work 30 days per month?

The 95% confidence intervals all start at 1.1 or lower. Call me when the statistics become meaningful.

You can't say that with certainty without specifying the compiler, it's version, and the architecture.

The

The fiscal-progressive nature of the New Deal earlier in the century was so successful it created the middle class in the post-war era (90% marginal tax rates!) and it was being fo…

If you can afford to bill it, you can afford to list it.

Break them all up 10 ways to Sunday. I'm with Cory Doctorow on this one.

Heh... "I can answer it in several paragraphs, but I really would like to be able to answer it in a single sentence some day!" ... "Datasette is WordPress for data: an extensible o…

Capitalism-induced shit-life syndrome.

We need supply-chain provenance and OEM transparency for technical products just like we need them for food production.

Look at @paulsci's post history including on X-Twitter. He's done dozens of these tours through the newspapers on many similar subjects.

Google circles FTW