The Many Lives of Null Island

you are acting extroverted to other introverts – how would you normally react towards daily greetings from an extrovert?

Vanilla OS is the Ubuntu derivative, Vanilla OS 2 Orchid will be the Debian derivative

airport advertising has been overbooked lately

Tabasco

• Highland Coffee
• Climate change: Future-proofing coffee in a warming world

  • “And we were completely blown away by the fact that this coffee tasted amazing. It has these other attributes related to its climate tolerance: it will grow and crop under much warmer conditions than Arabica coffee.”

seeing a bit of a trend here …

• Arizona – purple
• Kansas – purple
• Lousiana – red
• Missouri – red
• Tennessee – red
• Arkansas – red
• Oklahoma – red
• Alabama – red
• Indiana – red
• Texas – red

(even the Satanists don’t want anything to do with them)

’cept management has already laid off QA and half of dev …

“spicy caraway flavor” …

• main computer and one monitor into the UPS – gives you enough time to close your browser and gracefully shutdown when there’s a power problem
• if you’re running everything off a laptop (with a good battery), then a UPS isn’t quite as critical
• most UPS have built-in surge protection
• surge protection for power surges, power spikes
• UPS for power outages

DNC busy trying to get Manchin and Sinema to come back to the fold

a scenario the party hasn’t experienced since 1968

because the 1968 Democratic Convention went swimmingly – oh, they’re also holding this year’s convention in Chicago again you say? with increased police presence as well?

Mint is the gateway drug

• MIT says living wage should be $30/hr
• actual is $20/hr
• median rent in Anaheim is $2500
• Disney pretty much refuses to schedule full-time

The Worst Jobs in History

“Intel inside, don’t divide”

checkbox compliance – companies are required to have something in place that checks the box so they can pass the audit

take a look at Alpine Linux – Alpine, Void, and Gentoo all grew out of a similar “Linux plus BSD” attitude – Alpine’s package manager is as fast or faster than Void’s – Alpine is pretty under-represented (but not absent) on the desktop side of things while being rather over-represented in the container, VM, server side of things (meaning the small community tends to be rather admin heavy)