Happy 12th anniversary to my last blog post complaining about “persistent” network interface names in Linux. https://jmtd.net/log/puppet_and_interface_names/

Back then, the scheme to guarantee persistence had been changed for the third time.

Today I read the (excellent) Debian trixie release notes, which warn that interface names may change on upgrade…

I think I’m finally going to jump on an #amiga pistorm for my A500.

@sre4ever thank you for your suggestions! I've copied them to issues here (where I will track bugs and features for the service): https://salsa.debian.org/chronicles-team/chronicles.debian.org/-/issues

@fred @BGOllie TY!

@neil can directors just use a VPN to get around it 🥁

Also I might finally buy a pistorm

And now I want to buy more Amigas

https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/114973342696663595 🖤

@neil @Edent me too! For me the ideal device is a barely-smart watch, with little else but that feature (auto tuning the time is also nice)

New blog post: School of Computing Technical Reports https://jmtd.net/log/tech_reports/ #cs.ncl.ac.uk #archiving

New blog post: Debian Chronicles https://jmtd.net/log/debian_chronicles/ #archiving #debian

@sxa @kittylyst for me, and it could be that my experience is not more widely representative: I generally find Perl programs to be self-contained, and Python ones to have a dependency hell to navigate. That really impacts their readability and maintainability. Oh, and a Perl script written 20 years ago generally works today; the same can not be said for Python.

@sxa I might write a blog post about this

I keep solving problems with Perl. Send help?

@mjg59 I loved his “sustainability” book. It would be great if someone updated it or wrote something spiritually similar with today’s numbers.

@mjg59 was that with David MacKay?

@liw @n8 also in other projects! Including some I’d never expect to find them

@jbouter @kev there’s a vim plugin “taskwiki” that integrates task warrior with another vim plugin “vimwiki”. That’s been my work notes-and-tasks solution for a while. Probably not interesting if you’re not already a vim user. There’s a bit of jank that drove me to write an alternative plug-in in lua (not public yet though)

I don’t automatically fall into camp Kermode but even when I do, he’s forced to really justify his position. Jones keeps him on his toes. And it’s really invigorating to hear a very different perspective