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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • I think a possibility is a series of open source anvil or nixos scripts that you can run on most hardware with minimal changes, in an extendable architecture of some kind to add or remove functionality and they perhaps get maintained by the community or some structure of the kind of Linux distributions.

    This could enable people with minimal skills set up and maintain a reasonably useful but secure environment just by changing a few variables.













  • No probably about it.

    Mechanical watches lose 10-15 secs per day which declines as they get older or aren’t serviced, a $40 Casio might miss 30 secs per month, never needs servicing other than a battery change.

    Mechanical watches are no longer utility items, they are fashion items that happen to tell time.





  • The reality is those graves and artifacts were being hunted and sacked for thousands of years for all kinds of purposes (mostly steal whatever they could, to melt the gold and sell the gems) as soon they stopped being actively guarded or cared for, or their religious value diminished along with the religion that they were made for.

    More than that, surrounding people kept on repurposing materials from the temples to build other structures.

    Every new empire that took over their land would plunder whatever value they could find to fund their army and enrich themselves.

    This long term view of history of artifacts of old empires as something to be preserved at all costs, let alone in their country of origin is rather new - hell, the idea of a nation state is rather new.

    Where are the ancient museums that were preserving artifacts of older civilisations?

    Now, should they be given back close to their place of origin and historical context? My modern sensibilities say absolutely.

    But I can hardly call the people that took them for the sake of inflating their social standing and preserving them in the process of displaying them in their collections special kind of assholes than anyone that came before them that wanted only to melt them down for cash - it was an improvement if only because were not as desperate as the people before them.


  • No worries.

    For those who were wondering:

    On the security updates:

    Yes they’ll provide some security updates for some time even out of contract. No time frame given, only in relative release numbers:

    Our naming convention for releases is: <major>.<minor>.<patch>.

    Version -2 of currently released minor version goes EOL. The cadence is not explicitly provided

    On not renewing or renewing later:

    Yes, jump in any time.