I’m somewhat interested in what’s coming up from Kärcher. Being a company based in Germany, EU, I’m stupidly hoping that EU data protection laws prevent them from doing the shittiest things.

https://www.kaercher.com/int/inside-kaercher/company/media-information/media-information/3690-fully-autonomous-robot-vacuum-and-mop-rvf-7-from-kaercher.html

If I have something serious, I will set up automatic upgrades. If short downtimes are ok, also with automatic reboots when the kernel updates, but if they are not, with notifications that I should go reboot them.

If it’s not anything serious, whenever I remember to.

It’s not bad if you don’t need historical backups. I kinda think I do, so I use https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic becase rust

Restic (https://github.com/restic/restic) is probably a better choice if you’re not a rust-freak like me.

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I would very much like for USA to be much more stable than it’s currently so that it could help us with Russia. And this is of course why Russia is trying (and looks like succeeding) to make USA into a internally bickering cesspool.

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What an excellent idea! Make the people who hate you have nothing to lose.

Matrix seems to work well. I’m on a smallish non-profit server. I regard it as the premium open-source step forward from IRC.

The worst problem is that there are really no channels that I care to follow.

Yeah, I figured there would be a workaround. Also

>>> (10).years()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<python-input-0>", line 1, in <module>
    (10).years()
    ^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'years'

But the other thing is also: can you add methods to the int class so that they’re available everywhere? I suspect that you cannot in python, at least without significant hackery. And I also suspect that it’s probably something they decided to prevent knowingly.

Ruby is object-oriented, modelled after Smalltalk mostly. So

irb(main):001:0> 10.class
=> Integer

So you’ll just have implement the method “years” on the Integer (or something more generic like Numeric) class and then “ago” on whatever class the years method returned.

You might imagine that you can do something like 10.years().ago() in python but the parser prevents you:

>>> 10.years
  File "<python-input-0>", line 1
    10.years
      ^
SyntaxError: invalid decimal literal

Doesn’t seem like it would have to prevent it, back in ruby:

irb(main):001:0> 10.0.class
=> Float

Ruby is a pretty cute language in my opinion, and I find it sad that python kinda drove over it.

President Vance. Great fun.

My NAS is a Raspberry Pi4 with a single consumer-level SSD. My backups sometimes complete.

Your aim is low if you’re going against millionaires.

Why make memes in your car

Yeah, you’re right. I just found that one via the bsky thread also.

or the psychedelics culture I guess

Pretty ok sort of modernized Grateful Dead or something like that. Like what Oasis is to Beatles.

Is Vice President Vance on those lists? He probably isn’t – if for no other reason then because he’s too young to have been there. Are we really looking forward to him being the president? That’s what will happen if Trump gets removed, isn’t it?

I don’t know man, this sounds awfully lot like an attempt to divert US aid from Ukraine. Especially when this whole thing started exploding just when Trump decided to start supporting Ukraine.

Well we shouldn’t be asking people like you, just like we shouldn’t ask the people who think everyone left of Hitler is a communist.

But that means I would have to shut the fuck up