DIY YouTube is wild. "I'm going to talk about how I made wood pellets for my wood-burning stove! But first, some unrelated construction footage for some reason"

okay is there some reason why The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald keeps on turning up for me constantly? I'm seeing so many people making references to it, so many covers released within the last couple weeks show up in my YouTube feed, I feel like something must have happened that's related to the song

I quipped yesterday:

When termites are eating the whole structure, can you identify which single specific beam made it fall?

•That• is the framing I’m advocating in this thread.

10/

When I was a kid I'd get pretty bad nosebleeds every winter, due to dry air and having difficulty keeping my nose clear. This pretty much stopped when I moved to more humid climates.

But this winter has been pretty dry indoors, and now I'm on blood thinners...

In conclusion, saying that open source participation requires monthly fees to private companies that run stochastic code generators means you’ve forgotten why anyone is doing this at all. Fuck this whole idea and fuck Linus in particular for pushing it.

There's nothing I can do for this person. But the enormity of it. They've cobbled up a machine out of nothing but trash and their own tenacity, and they want to help us build Firefox? There's lots of ways to do that, but building it, compiling it, that can't happen. Not on this machine.

There's always been a financial barrier to participation in open source. Always. And we have to make it as low as we possibly can.

But a _wealth_ minimum bar, to contributing?

That's vile. It's disgusting.

This kid's running one of those weird, dual-slot Pentium III boards with two physical CPUs. Running Linux - somehow - on a hard drive that's almost full, with a userspace partition on NTFS, and the more I hear about this system the more confused I get.

For the non nerds following this thread, this is like finding out somebody's daily driver is built out of the parts of a sports car, a semi and a train, and it's running on vegetable oil. You might ask why, but the first question is ... how?

So, after going back and forth a bit with person, who it turns out is in their early teens, we asking about their hardware, what setup they've got that's doing this. Maybe this person's got some new system we've never seen, maybe they're running in some novel context we need to know about. Is this an edge case, or is this a leading-edge case? Outliers are always interesting.

I've seen some Pretty Far Out There systems, I run a few myself, and this kid's system is Out There.

RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117441841785502664

I'd like to tell you a story about a contributor who came to us at Mozilla, in my first 2-3 years working there. I never met them, don't know their name, and I still think about them a few times a year.

They came to us with questions, as they were struggling to build Firefox on their computer, and they were getting errors that nobody had ever seen. And I don't mean "errors that were unfamiliar to our engineers", I mean "we can't figure out how or why our build system would emit that string."

The year is 1997. Two of the most popular adult animation shows on basic cable are Beavis and Butt-Head, and South Park.

The year is 2026. Two of the most popular adult animation shows on basic cable are Beavis and Butt-Head, and South Park.

Okay, you may pet me again.

Oh, we are home again. If you need me I will be sulking in the closet. You will not need me.

So glad I have nice bright lighting in my recording studio now.

God it’s so dark out and it’s only 3:30

Please bring back the person with the soft jacket. I like her.

Funnily enough the intern said her partner’s name is also Fiona and was wearing a charm bracelet with her name on it. She was looking forward to seeing another Fiona today.

But she enjoyed the intern who was shadowing the vet. Never saw her get that cuddly with anyone else before.

Fiona is doing well at least. Gonna start her on prednisone for her asthma, and her teeth have gotten really bad but she’s so old that doing an extraction is super risky especially with her heart murmur.

Doesn’t help that this is the first time I’ve driven since she last had to go to the vet months ago and I had an anxiety attack on the way

I’m just always so tired and being this tired is why I’m a month late on this checkup