Dave Lane @lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz

The latest project from my shop: the first of several bookshelves... I might still add a backing to it for additional structural rigidity...

Seems to me that NFTs are a cryptographically rigorous form of 'artificial scarcity'... created by corporations with their own self-interested motives. Am I wrong?

As is generally the case, I think Glyn is spot on with this one: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/without-free-software-open-source-would-lose-its-meaning

There would - briefly - have been some very very surprised seabirds. Poor things.

Crikey this is the place that has recently mostly rained down around the south pacific... https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=xK1zbwvpoJU looks like it's goneburgers. Pleased it didn't take these folks with it (or any others) - fingers crossed! (it's not yet clear how Tonga's outer islands fared)

Hmm - this has the potential to be good... or bad, depending on who profits most (it's foreign investors, inevitably). But I must say I relish the idea of delivering Rio Tinto the sharp end of a hobnail boot. https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/127020332/land-bought-for-1-billion-bid-to-turn-southland-into-global-it-hub

This is nice to verify, but it shouldn't surprise anyone. Religion is largely unrelated to moral, civil behaviour.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/16/ending-religion-lessons-in-schols-leads-to-overall-decline-in-belief-not-morals

Wow, this is an impressive feat. https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=dPiplYL897o (but crazy low video res, so maybe they want people to buy the full res?) #beatles #whitealbum

Just upgraded my PineTime to 1.8.0: https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime/releases/tag/1.8.0 Haven't really given it a test run yet, but it installed and is now running... :)

It's sad that this is necessary... https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jan/05/filming-cyclingmikey-dangerous-drivers-mike-van-erp-motorists-britain-roads-safer but it's what we desperately need more of in NZ. People driving have a dangerous sense of entitlement here, and flout the road rules with impunity, entirely confident they'll never be held to account. So much so that they eventually forget the rules (if they ever knew them) they're brazenly and habitually flouting.

Today's outlook doesn't appear as auspicious as the weather report suggested (no rain)... All our wrath comes up those plains...

Wow, these folks were cut from a cloth we don't see much any more... https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=ZLzBDhilDL0

(My boy's chosen to run Plasma/KDE desktop over Cinnamon, by the way)

All of the hardware on the laptop is supported out of the box. And it boots from bios to login screen in about 5 sec. And then to desktop in 2 sec after login. Very very snappy.

Subsequently I installed tuxinvader's Linux Kernel PPA (https://launchpad.net/~tuxinvader/+archive/ubuntu/lts-mainline) we got his lappie running the 5.12 kernel with lots of new support for the brand new Intel Iris xe graphics chipset... and now it is comparable (and slightly better than) the Windows performance. Nice. 2/2