Pleasantly awaiting the birth of my first grand baby. All my children are in their 40’s now so this was a surprise for me. Who knew.

May 3, 2025






Starting to see slowdowns is service provision after the #Clown’s defunding of NOAA services. Mostly, what I’ve noticed is products from regional centers.

What I find alarming and ludicrous is the MAGA desire to have people pay for services (so it can run like a business, I suppose) that our tax dollars are already paying for. But then the far right loves a double billing, doesn’t it?

April 19, 2025






Ah… the sheer fun of linux. Found a recommended command to back up the header in my luks encrypted boot disk. All well and good.

[cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup UUID=xyz –header-backup-file /mnt/backup/file.img is what finally worked if you’re interested. Must be root!]

But the original id in the command was by /dev/device. Good, as far as it goes if you already know the device, but my distro doesn’t boot by device. Took a while to find it boots by UUID. If you know how to look you can find that in grub.cfg. Only took me seven hours. I’m old and slow I guess.

Wonder how long it will take to do a restore if I need it?

April 15, 2025






It has occurred to me that there may be a point in the Clown’s pronouncements about tariffs. I think he is trying to manipulate the market for his Masters. Russians? Saudis? Who knows. If anybody but the presidenta did it, it would be illegal. And yet, we’ll just watch and see if Congress reaps monetary benefit from it, won’t we?

#gqp

April 7, 2025






I really don’t know why, but it really seems to astound me when people are nice these days…

April 7, 2025






For those of you new, or not to political activism, I highly recommend the work of @violetblue Digital Revolutionary is a practical guide to keeping safe while protesting.

#violetblue

April 4, 2025