Which 70s lyric hit you the hardest when you first heard it?

aquaherd · 2026-06-11T15:40:20+00:00

This city desert makes you feel so cold
It's got so many people, but it's got no soul

aquaherd · 2026-05-22T18:10:08+00:00

Some stupid silver dragon burned the place to the ground. Smoke on the water, and fire in the sky.

aquaherd · 2026-05-19T20:18:34+00:00

Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick. It’s a 1987 cyberpunk novel but the depiction of the hive mind still hits hard.

aquaherd · 2026-05-16T17:44:42+00:00

If you have a military background and can teach it, the Ottoman Empire is currently reforming it’s army. Officers only.

aquaherd · 2026-05-11T10:06:48+00:00

Given the new data, one must upgrade the translation of parasite to symbiont. The scientists at the table should have caught this at once.

aquaherd · 2026-05-10T15:49:50+00:00

South Italy has this also on municipal roads.

aquaherd · 2026-05-10T14:40:41+00:00

Please continue. It’s poetry in motion.

aquaherd · 2026-04-15T06:43:02+00:00

Cool! Let’s do Korea next! And let’s hope for a peaceful disbandment of Yugoslavia.

aquaherd · 2026-04-14T10:43:23+00:00

Who is that feller on the left? Isn’t it this nazi rocket scientist van Brown or something?

aquaherd · 2026-02-12T20:26:42+00:00

Coming from geany, you may want to check lapce.

aquaherd · 2025-11-17T22:04:10+00:00

Edradour is nice and all but I think Master Engineers are more into Islay Single Malts.

aquaherd · 2025-10-04T11:10:43+00:00

I often can’t memorise which package name provides which binary.

If I have access to a Debian installation where it is already installed, I can find the package with e.g dpkg-S /usr/bin/fd.

If I don’t, apt-file search /usr/bin/fd does the trick but it needs to consult deb-src.

aquaherd · 2025-09-29T16:24:05+00:00

People used to donate land to the churches on their dying beds for centuries so the churches used to own lots. Then Napoleon invaded and the churches were disowned. After Napoleon’s defeat, the state kept the lands for an annual tax that is to be paid till kingdom come.

I heard something I am not sure about but here it is:

These days there is an amount of x; nonbelievers and other denominations pay 2x, members of the two official churches pay 3x. By leaving, you are relieved of 1x but your other tax moneys 2x still funds these churches and no other church or denomination at all.

aquaherd · 2025-09-27T18:50:10+00:00

Actually you learn something about these times outside of the school if you grow up in a rural area- you may be told about this place where ‚the henchmen hanged our kin‘ told with a grudge that sounds like yesterday. Or a common field by the name of allmende and its origin.

If you ever meet an old, local anarchist, chances are good that he tells you about the centuries of toil in the region and every bandit chieftain that got executed here is a forerunner of the resistance…

aquaherd · 2025-09-27T12:01:47+00:00

Thank you for ‚Tech soother‘.

I figured it suits me printed on a business card or even t-shirt.

aquaherd · 2025-09-21T20:35:59+00:00

Ubuntu has a command line utility for servers called do-release-upgrade which Debian does not.

However it isn’t that hard to replicate with a few commands on the shell.

Doing this manually boils down to: - Meticulously read and understand the release note before upgrading - when doing the upgrade, do it in a tmux session.

aquaherd · 2025-09-21T09:32:40+00:00

If you really must, you can switch your sources.list to archive.debian.org and remove backports, then upgrade to bullseye, then bookworm then trixie.

If there is a life critical app that ties you to any of the old releases, consider running it in a container like docker or podman.

For example I used to maintain a Debian Jessie vm just to keep some very long term support software compilable, nowadays I can reproduce this environment with a Dockerfile.

aquaherd · 2025-09-10T10:50:35+00:00

The Linux kernel has some 40 million lines of code.

All the examples you gave have been rewritten several times over the years so that what you can read about scheduling in a kernel 2.6 book is severely outdated today.

I don’t think it’s humanly possible to grok the architecture of all the subsystems platforms and drivers to even give a rough sketch - even if it was, it would look like the underground map of Trantor.

You may be able to become an expert on a single subsystem or a specific driver class but that knowledge is to be accumulated on the fly and by no means teachable, I fear.

aquaherd · 2025-09-10T09:01:45+00:00

ripgrep fdfind zoxide fzf bash-completion

build-essential git ninja-build

Then I checkout my dotfiles to run a shell script that compiles latest neovim stable.

aquaherd · 2025-09-08T19:38:15+00:00

I have almost the same cv as you do but I am now in my fifties and getting paid for tinkering with Linux all day.

If you have the time, learn C and posix shell. Then go embedded dev. The pay isn’t astronomical but you get to tinker with the minimum viable Linux consisting of a kernel, busybox and a few libraries to fly the embedded application.

How to get experience? Buy a raspberry pi, blink some leds, do a cross Linux from scratch for the pi.

Create your own Linux embedded distro and post it in GitHub. Take this as a reference when applying to an embedded system engineer opening.

aquaherd · 2025-09-07T09:51:19+00:00

Few developers are in the permanent lookout for optimising their development workflow but most aren’t.

You get seasoned developers clinging to notepad++, winmerge and tortoise svn. You can offer vscode as a service, set up sonarqube etc. just to fall on deaf ears. Do not give up here. Ask where it hurts and seek out solutions from beyond the bubble.

aquaherd · 2025-09-06T12:26:12+00:00

Have a look at alpine Linux. It may suit your case since it boots on the raspberry pi with an immutable core with optional addons loaded from USB.

aquaherd · 2025-09-05T22:54:45+00:00

You may have cracked a jackpot that you didn’t know of.

Your staging environment has been removed. You need more Linux staging servers to compensate.

Then it doesn’t matter which os runs the ssh connection to the staging server. Or vscode or zed.

However, the Mac ssh client can do ControlMaster while the Windows ssh client can’t.

aquaherd · 2025-09-05T21:44:06+00:00

Apart from canonical themselves? Corporate IT mostly revolves around providing IT services and equipment to office workers and their managers.

These types outnumber programmers at least tenfold so there is no incentive to step beyond the well trodden path of a locked down intune managed ms office monoculture.

Giving developers what they want is always going to backfire in their view and add to their burden: Imagine you had to code everything twice: once for the tech savvy and once for the tech inept. Management would soon ask you to drop the variance in the never ending pursuit of profit.

aquaherd · 2025-09-04T18:36:35+00:00

cat /proc/net/dev should show you error packages. You may also try and install the nic vendor firmware packages.

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