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I am working on a Mac laptop with a Windows VM, a Linux VM, an RDP…

I am working on a Mac laptop with a Windows VM, a Linux VM, an RDP to a remote Windows server, and SSH shells open to remote Linux servers.

I have no idea what shortcut keys to use at any given time.

Also I think I’ve got websites open in at least 4 browsers, some Firefox and some Chrome, split across the host and the two VMs.

And I thought finding the right tab was bad under ordinary circumstances!

At one point I had a reference page open in a browser on the host for something I was doing on a VM and I just could not switch windows consistently.

Why am I doing this????

Looking forward to finishing this project so I can go back to just using the host system and SSH shells

But hey, now I know you can drag and drop a file from the LXQt file manager in an Ubuntu VM running on a Mac to the Windows file manager in another VM that’s accessing a network share on a Windows domain over a VPN that the Lubuntu VM doesn’t know about and it ACTUALLY WORKS!

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GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM

FOOLISH MORTAL!

Do you DARE look into the GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM?

— Um, can I turn the brightness down? Or maybe switch to dark mode?

ALL IS DARKNESS

— Wait, I thought you said it was glowing?

THE GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM CAN MULTITASK

— Ok, got it. Doom, glowing darkness.

— You *did* say it could run Doom, right?

IT IS *OF* DOOM, NOT *FOR* DOOM.

(the glowing rectangle prefers to avoid dependency loops)

— So what kind of doom are we talking about here? Classic, like fate? Or modern, like impending disaster?

— And why am I getting so many notifications from it?

FOOL! The GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM TOOTS AS IT PLEASES!

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Moving Windows

I remember easily moving a Windows 10 system to an SSD using Acronis. Not this time. The clone tool isn’t willing to clone *some* partitions instead of a whole disk, so I can’t use that, and the bootable restore tool can’t see the external drive where I put the backup file.

Looking into alternatives. For tomorrow. Or maybe Saturday.

Next morning:

It’s my dual-boot system, so I’ve got a full Linux installation on there anyway. Last night I created an image of the Windows partition, saved it to the external drive (which Linux can see just fine, unlike the so-called universal restore image) and now I’m trying to restore it to the new drive.

Beginning to wonder if it *would* be easier to install Windows fresh and then figure out how to transfer all my saved games. All the other data is easy.

That evening:

I did a clean install, copied my AppData folders, got everything working…then discovered I couldn’t boot it without going through the BIOS screen. I’d accidentally booted the install image without UEFI, so it installed MBR. I couldn’t get GRUB2 to chain load it & the Windows UEFI boot loader could only see the old installation I wanted to remove.

So I did ANOTHER clean install, in UEFI mode, but this time set aside just the save files I wanted.

Bleah.

But it’s working now!

I’ve got UEFI loading GRUB2, which can boot Fedora or chain to the Windows UEFI menu, which will load the shiny new installation of Windows.

Now I just need to figure out how to tell the Windows boot menu that the alternate Windows installation isn’t there anymore & remove it from the list!

Remarks Translated (uspol)

“I can’t vote to convict without more evidence.”

“I have more evidence right here.”

“LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!”

—

“OK, he might be guilty, but what happens if we actually convict him? That would make some people mad! So let’s just let him off the hook. It’s not like that would encourage him to keep doing bad stuff, right?”

—

“The process was rigged from the start, so instead of trying to make it a little more fair by calling witnesses, I’m going to help rig it further.”

—

“I’m totally OK with the President doing whatever the hell he wants and walking all over laws and structures intended to prevent government abuse, as long as he’s in my party.”

—

“Pressuring foreign governments for personal gain is totally ok because we pressure foreign governments for other stuff too!”

This is what happens when you elect someone who has no impulse control, doesn’t think ahead to potential consequences, has a hair-trigger temper and is focused more on power than responsibility.

This is what happens when you elect someone who has no impulse control, doesn’t think ahead to potential consequences, has a hair-trigger temper and is focused more on power than responsibility.

Who knew international relations could be so complicated?

LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE.

Either he has no idea what he’s doing as Commander in Chief, or he’s deliberately trying to provoke a war (or both) after being formally impeached for abusing his power. Either way he has no business being in the job.

Remove him before he does any more damage.

Yeah, it’s been obvious for years, but it’s just gotten a lot more urgent.

whining about SDKs

OK, bad enough that they have separate SDKs for the separate APIs for the two different steps in this process that are almost always going to be run in sequence.

But why, WHY, when the APIs both include certain common features that should be the same in both steps, would the two SDKs use completely different terminology in the methods used to build that feature? I can’t just build it once? I can’t even copy-and-paste it?

I suspect the teams who built these SDKs – which are, again, for two steps of a two-step process – went off and did their own thing without any sort of coordination – no plan, no discussion, maybe they didn’t even say hi to each other in the hallway.

TBH, I half-suspect the same of the teams who built the APIs they connect to.

It’s like…if in order to post a photo with a caption, you had to post the photo to Instagram and the caption to Twitter and make sure the tags and usernames and timestamps matched properly to get them to show up together.

And yeah, you used to have to do that – when Twitter and image hosts were entirely different services. Even then, all you really needed to do was link from one to the other. You didn’t have to repeat half the information in a new structure (but get it exactly the same) – and you could justify it because they really were two different services, not two steps of the same process.

Going to miss Vertigo

Going to miss #Vertigo, but IMO it’s less the name than the editorial independence that matters. Not sure if DC Black Label will have that. #DCComics

https://www.comicsbeat.com/dc-consolidates-publishing/ @comicsbeat

As for consolidating DC Ink and Zoom into DC Kids…I’ve got to agree with the commenter who points out that it’s likely to turn kids in the 8-12 target audience away from it. Kids that age don’t like feeling talked down to.

Nothing like coming back from a 3-day weekend to 2066 new emails.😱

Nothing like coming back from a 3-day weekend to 2066 new emails.

😱

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…make that 2575…

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Oh FFS it’s still downloading?!?! 3087…

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I think it’s done at 7679 messages…

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*whew* Most of them turned out to be alerts from a staging test server.

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I really don’t want to go to the ER the day before Food Allergy Awareness …

I really don’t want to go to the ER the day before Food Allergy Awareness Week starts.

Hoping I won’t have to.

Though I suppose if I do it’ll make a good awareness story.

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The last time I went to the ER with anaphylaxis, I took an ambulance from San Diego Comic-Con. A few month later I got a $1500 ambulance bill. And that was with insurance. The next time I needed to go to the ER for something, I took a taxi. Maybe not the best idea, but it was a hell of a lot cheaper.

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So I’m sitting here in a room with everyone else, waiting to see if the reaction stays it the current plateau or gets worse, with the epipen next to me in case i need it. Going through photos I took today because I need something to do. Charging my phone just in case. While my kid nervously shreds junk mail.

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So far, so good. Hasn’t gotten any worse. Kid’s gone to bed. I ate some rice (a safe bet!) without difficulty.

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Reaction seems to have subsided! Still not sure what it was… Best guess is a garbanzo bean fell into the wrap by accident.

But I feel safe going to sleep now, which is good because I’m totally exhausted.

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Balooon-based floating telecom relays always make me think of an element in Robert Charles Wilson’s “Spin”

Balooon-based floating telecom relays always make me think of an element in Robert Charles Wilson’s sci-fi novel, “Spin,” in which a mysterious membrane appears around earth that drastically slows down time inside. (A simulated sun maintains the day/night cycle) This effectively cuts the world off from outer space, including orbiting satellites. The world settles on high-altitude balloons as a replacement.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/internet-balloons-and-drones-look-to-rise-in-the-5g-era

#telecom #books #scifi

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It’s a really interesting book, especially once people realize that they can still launch probes or spacecraft out, just can’t receive any transmissions back. And when they realize that they can take advantage of the different rates of time on Earth vs. outside.

There are two sequels, Axis and Vortex, which are very different. Worth a read, but I think Spin was the best of the three.

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@hafnia Yeah, they had some interesting ideas – the chain of worlds, the floating civilizations, the different ways of linking people together cybernetically – but IMO the stories weren’t anywhere near as good.

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The headlines keep getting better: “Alleged Russian spy whale is refusing to leave and is seeking attention…”

The headlines keep getting better:

“Alleged Russian spy whale is refusing to leave and is seeking attention, authorities say”

#wtf #SpyWhale

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/05/02/authorities-alleged-russian-spy-whale-is-refusing-leave-seeking-norwegians-devotion/

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Re: “at least it’s not a sea lion” –bv

Now that you mention it….

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-baby-sea-lion-on-busy-san-francisco-highway-20190501-story.html

8YO just finished the main story of LEGO Incredibles and discovered the bonus level where …

8YO just finished the main story of LEGO Incredibles and discovered the bonus level where you play as the Omnidroid and destroy the city.

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He’s gleefully smashing everything while saying “It’s just wrong to save the city and then destroy it” *smash* *smash*

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“Saving the city then destroying it? Not cool! :-)” *smash* “But, if it’s a game, it’s fine!” *smash* *smash* *smash*

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MISSION COMPLETE!

I don’t think there’s anything left above the base plates…

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I feel like I ought to write something for Speed Force about what’s going on with Heroes in Crisis and The Flash…

I feel like I ought to write something for @SpeedForce
about what’s going on with Heroes in Crisis and The Flash, but unlike anger, severe disappointment just isn’t motivating.

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Fortunately, Ed wrote something better than I could have, and broadened it to the way Heroes in Crisis is handling mental illness as compared to The Unstoppable Wasp.

“Heroes In Crisis” vs “Unstoppable Wasp” and a Look at Mental Illness

#comics #TheFlash #HeroesInCrisis #TheWasp #WallyWest

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Scenario: Building inspector looks for pests & structural problems. Finds whole family of raccoons but can’t prove they’re living IN the house. Lots of structural defects that don’t QUITE violate code individually, but present danger. Real estate dev claims full exoneration.

Scenario: Building inspector looks for pests & structural problems. Finds whole family of raccoons but can’t prove they’re living IN the house. Lots of structural defects that don’t QUITE violate code individually, but present danger.

Real estate dev claims full exoneration.

(Yes, it’s a metaphor.)

NASA cancelling a 2-woman spacewalk because they don’t have enough space suits in the right size is a perfect example…

NASA cancelling a 2-woman spacewalk because they don’t have enough space suits in the right size is a perfect example of the problems with building the world to the spec of “Reference Man” as described in this week’s Cracked Podcast.

(I still find it weird that Cracked mixes insightful social commentary in with the humor, but there we are.)

I find it interesting that YouTube backyard/garage science videos span the full range of- here’s …

I find it interesting that YouTube backyard/garage science videos span the full range of

– here’s a cool experiment you wish you could do if you had the equipment/resources/training
– here’s a cool experiment you CAN do
– here’s an experiment you REALLY shouldn’t do, let me show you exactly why we have this safety rule/warning label (ex. here’s what happens if you unwrap a lithium battery!)

…often within the same channel.

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And I really want a specific term for that last subcategory.

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Who decided so many restaurants have to be as echo-y as possible?I don’t need …

Who decided so many restaurants have to be as echo-y as possible?

I don’t need it to be quiet, but it would be nice to actually be able to hold a conversation with the to-go cashier about how they lost my order.

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Yeah, it’s been a fun evening…

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At least losing the order wasn’t their fault. It’s a chain restaurant & the central order line didn’t submit the order to them. But just trying to establish that, and re-order, with a restaurant full of families here for an elementary school fundraiser, and everything echoing off the smooth walls, floor and ceiling to the point where I could barely make out my own words, never mind the cashier’s…

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@dantebrevity links to Why Restaurants Are So Loud Now (Boing Boing), which quotes How Restaurants Got So Loud (The Atlantic).

Thanks…I’d suspected a lot of that (cheaper construction, and encouraging people to finish up sooner and leave), but hadn’t really thought about the impact of open kitchens or the noise encouraging people to drink more.

But the part that comes down to visual aesthetics makes me think of the plants in Jurassic Park, chosen for appearance regardless of whether they’re good for the actual dinosaurs.

I may want to check out that search-by-noise-level app…

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Dark Forest spoilers (3/4 through)

Fascinating as the Year 200 setting has been up to this point, the naivete & overconfidence has been maddening.

You *know* the enemy has vastly superior technology & knows way more about physics than you do. You don’t send your entire fleet to intercept one ship that you’ve decided is harmless based on the fact that *your tech* couldn’t be destructive enough based on *your* knowledge of physics.

#books #DarkForest #amReading

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Awakened hibernators seem to be more…paranoid? Cautious? Perceptive?

I guess the idea is that those who grew up in this era figure humanity has already faced the Great Ravine, we can face *anything*, while those who lived earlier don’t have that overconfidence.

Or maybe the Imprinted tech is out there, the polarity fixed, and in wider use than anyone thought.

But it’s still been frustrating pages & pages of “when will the big dummies figure it out?”

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alenxa: Valuing low character count may lead to higher visceral response

RT @alenxa:

So I found this list of intellectual vs emotional words and the emotional ones are all shorter. Suggests that valuing low character count may lead to higher visceral response to that communication. Meaning, Twitter is designed so that we get worked up over it. Studies? Plz?

@alenxa Ooh, that’s an angle I hadn’t thought of before!

I’ve seen a lot of discussion of anger driving more engagement (which ad-supported services love) and someone suggested that it’s hard for most people to convey emotion in writing without exaggerating.

Now adding this factor…

I wonder if there’s a way to isolate other factors that have driven up the general anger level and compare the 140-character era to the 280-character era.

It does seem like the general level has been getting worse, but if that change decelerated things, it could support it.