Watching the flowers change from day to day. đ„°
[#]Hippeastrum
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My local disk has 34G free. My server shows 46G used. My existing rsync-backup holds 40G. So I think this should work just an extra 6G of space on my laptop dedicated to it.
Now, if I had a deduplicating filesystemâŠ
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I wrote about the new BorgBackup setup.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2025-01-31-backup
The problem now seems to be that my backup takes 4h because it has to transfer 70G of files from the server to the laptop via sshfs before being able to create the archive. It seems to me that the only other option I have is to copy the entire remote server via rsync to my laptop (using 70G) before doing a local BorgBackup.
I wonder whether this is the better trade-off.
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Today is backup day. I use Borg Backup. I checked the logs. The script does "borg create" (excluding /mnt where any mounted drives would be) and then "borg prune" for my laptop, then it mounts my server via sshfs and does another "borg create" and then "borg prune". Did you spot the problem? I just noticed that the output said that there were only a few hundred bytes in the backup. Because I had obviously forgotten to remove the exclusion of /mnt and therefore the entire mounted server was excluded. Oof.
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Iâm just hoping that when the orders come, I too will be able to stall and drag.
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âThe ordinary citizen very probably has no immediate personal motive for committing simple sabotage. Instead, he must be made to anticipate indirect personal gain, such as might come with enemy evacuation or destruction of the ruling government group. Gains should be stated as specifically as possible for the area addressed: simple sabotage will hasten the day when ⊠and ⊠deputies ⊠will be thrown out, when particularly obnoxious decrees and restrictions will be abolished, ⊠and so on. Abstract verbalizations about personal liberty, freedom of the press, and so on, will not be convincing in most parts of the world. In many areas they will not even be comprehensible.â
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Simple_Sabotage_Field_Manual/Motivating_the_Saboteur
Itâs a stark reminder to read that âpersonal liberty, freedom of the press, and so on, will not be convincingâ but I think I see it at work, now.
Perhaps this is because the people around me donât depend on âpersonal libertyâ for anything. They are free to do as they want because they want what the new regime is doing. If you want what you are told there is no need for liberty.
Similarly, if your means are so constrained and everything around you requires money and power, then personal liberty is so constrained that you donât fear itâs loss.
And for people to want the free press, itâd be nice if the press didnât already tow the party line of money and power.
I guess in a roundabout way I am trying to say that all dictatorship requires a large part of the population to acquiesce to it. The movies might make one think that most people are in the resistance but in fact they are not. Many are just interested in Ruhe und Ordnung, silence and order.
Sadly, when I first heard about the US sliding into fascism thirty years ago, I thought it impossible. Unthinkable. And yet here we are.
Perhaps it helps to think about a sliding scale from zero to Hitler. The US is not yet invading Poland. But they seem to be ready to divvy up Ukraine; or take Greenland. So where are we: 60%? 70%?
[#]Fascism
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« I'm not saying don't do it. I'm not saying to be insubordinate and get fired so that you could be replaced by a fascist.
I'm saying do it slower and with more hand holding.
Do it in a way that requires more approvals, and reviews, and "oops we need to roll that build back because we made a mistake".
Don't be good at your job when your job is supporting fascism. »
â zzzzBov
https://github.com/uswds/uswds-site/pull/3078#issuecomment-2626183794
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The Swiss Idiotikon lists Swiss German words and discusses what they mean and where they come from. I feel like Switzerland has really strong dialects given it's size less than 10 million inhabitants. Perhaps due to limited mobility with those valleys and rivers forming stronger boundaries? I don't know.
https://www.idiotikon.ch/
I just looked at the blog post "Huna, hooba, hina, hussa!" and had a laugh. Love the comic, too!
https://www.idiotikon.ch/wortgeschichten/huna-hooba-hina-hussa
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@robbo just linked me to this book in French about inclusive language:
âč En 1647, Claude Favre de Vaugelas, lâun des premiers membres de lâAcadĂ©mie française, Ă©crit que « le genre masculin, Ă©tant le plus noble, doit prĂ©dominer toutes les fois que le masculin et le fĂ©minin se trouvent ensemble ». Une opinion partagĂ©e par dâinnombrables penseurs des XVIIe et XVIIIe siĂšcle qui envoie balancer la croyance populaire selon laquelle le masculin lâemporte sur le fĂ©minin parce quâil est gĂ©nĂ©rique, neutre ou universel. Le fĂ©minin grammatical, ainsi que les formes fĂ©minines des noms de mĂ©tiers, ont Ă©tĂ© sciemment Ă©clipsĂ©es pour pousser les femmes hors de la sphĂšre publique, pour les empĂȘcher de se nommer, peut-ĂȘtre mĂȘme de se penser. ⊠Mais les francophones nâont pas dit leur dernier mot! Les multiples stratĂ©gies dâĂ©criture inclusive dĂ©jĂ rĂ©pandues tĂ©moignent de la rĂ©volution langagiĂšre que nous connaissons et qui dĂ©fonce les barriĂšres artificielles Ă©rigĂ©es par les acadĂ©miciens. ⊠Cet ouvrage sert dâintroduction Ă lâĂ©criture inclusive, de traitĂ© dâhistoire sur lâinfluence du sexisme sur la langue, mais surtout de formidable outil pour quiconque cherche Ă Ă©crire en ne laissant personne dans lâombre. âș
https://editionssommetoute.com/livre/grammaire-pour-un-francais-inclusif/
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My tea is running out and I'm ogling the blog posts of my favourite tea shop in Berne. Is there a similar tea shop in Zurich? I'm not even sure.
https://laenggasstee.ch/
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Different flowers in different places of the apartment. đ
[#]Hippeastrum
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I'm always positively surprised when I see the guidelines on gender-neutral writing by the Federal Chancellery in Switzerland, with German, French, Italian and Rumantsch being full of those pesky gender thingies.
https://www.bk.admin.ch/bk/de/home/dokumentation/sprachen/hilfsmittel-textredaktion/leitfaden-zum-geschlechtergerechten-formulieren.html
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I'm on an IRC channel that has a link bot. If you give it a URL, it posts it on the web and to a feed. I like the idea very much.
https://linkbudz.m455.casa/
I added it to my own, too (but nobody uses this functionality).
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I used to joke that I knew the media in the US was fucked up because the only news with enough memetic energy to reach me was reported by comedians. These days I get the same impression from "the large canton" (i.e. Germany, as seen from Switzerland) where the Postillion (a satirical magazine) and the Zentrum fĂŒr Politische Schönheit (a collective of artists and activists) have the memetic energy to talk about the failure of the German parliament to take down the AfD.
https://politicalbeauty.de/
https://www.der-postillon.com/
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Opening flowers.
[#]Hippeastrum
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"OK, so if I do nothing, AI models, they boil the planet. If I switch this on, they boil the planet. How is that my fault?" -- Aaron, quoted in that Ars Technica article.
I like this guy.
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Timestamps: Look at somebody's profile on fedi and think about the timestamp that you'd like to see next to every pinned toot.
This is my suggestion: Just the year for the toots that are more than a year old (YYYY); a date for the things that are more than 24h old (YYYY-MM-DD); something longer for things that happened yesterday (YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM), a timestamp for anything older than a minute 24h (HH:MM); "just now" for anything up to now.
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"AI hatersâŠ"
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/
I didn't even read the whole headline of this article and I like it already. Mentions @tante and @algernon, gibberish-serving (and AI-poisoning?) Nepenthes (calling it malware? Oh no!!) âŠ
All I'll say is that I fear something like Nepenthes will just tie up too many resources of mine (RAM, file handles, bandwidth). "COâ for the COâ god!" But perhaps I'm wrong? I should investigate.
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Minor annoyance: developers want to add relative time to their user interface and they donât have much space. So now I see stuff like 7m and 7mn. What does it mean? Nobody knows. The better solution would be 7min and 7mo or something unambiguous (in English). Anyway. Just in case thatâs you. đ
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European opsec: Add "Tiananmen Square" to your profile to prevent the Chinese from spying on you. Add the picture of a female presenting (!) nipple to your profile to prevent the USA from spying on you. Not sure what would stop the Europeans from spying on you.
[#]Shitpost
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