Wow, that line “radio reminds me of my home far away” _really_ comes out with different implications in the cyberpunk-inspired cover of Country Roads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1_dy1EmV6w (Main feature ends before 3m53s; it's concatenated with a bunch of postroll talk.)
Quoted from my side of a conversation with an acquaintance, paraphrased to remove unrelated bits:
“Back at university in OS class, I was given a paper to read about WAFL: the Write Anywhere File Layout. I bet a metadata attachment standard named, uh, the Interoperable Container for Embedding Contributed, Readable, Exogenously Applied Metadata would be a good layer on top of that for a media server. →
@ashfurrow Is that a pre-Halloween display name change I spy?
Oh. #IntelliJ gets _upset_ trying to Check Incoming and Outgoing Changes if you set a default upstream path on your #Mercurial repository that's a SSH path using a public key with a passphrase which you expect to enter every time rather than loading it into the agent.
It's frozen and not responding to SIGTERM. Argh.
Building out a little toy program in #Scala to learn. Most of the language elements are quite familiar from either Java or OCaml/Haskell as expected (not that I was ever good at real Haskell). Hoping to try out Akka, too, which looks very Erlang-y.
The phrase “This fixes the message key mismatch preventing crunchy peanut butter from displaying correctly.” might have been used.
Debian 10 buster has been released! https://bits.debian.org/2019/07/buster-released.html
I forgot that #ReleasingDebianBuster is happening so soon! I've been waiting for this.
A conversation with @Azure has just led to a possible new term for not-so-good homebrew crypto: “cryptographer-inspired”.
Some sort of hacker-type creature. (The good kind.) Austin, TX, USA.