Jackson is a patronymic last name: Jack’s son.

Smith is an aptronymic last name: a smith.

So yeah, bang on.

How could there be a duck where no duck could be?

Needs more plants.

I certainly was coming in to these comments.

I trialled both a while ago, chose ummich asits face recognition was superior.

There were other reasons, but I’ve forgotten them.

“Somebody shit in my pants.”

If you’re using LVM, ZFS, or Btrfs then you can use their features and tooling to migrate data from one disk to the other, assuming you’re able to connect both at the same time.

I’ve done this online with btrfs several times now and it’s quite painless, admittedly only for self hosted stuff.

I imagine that technicality is going to be that it was (apparently) Israeli police not IDF.

before he does it to us

Too late, sorry.

You stupid monkey!

The Library of Babel Jorge Luis Borges (1941)

A good read.

Where we’re going you won’t need eyes.

Two nightmares from when I was a child:

1. Earth is suddenly in orbit around Jupiter and it’s filling the sky, everything is bathed in Jupoter-shine light.
2. Earth is visited by human-sized black amorphous blobs that just appear and disappear at random, destroy anything they intersect with, instill abject terror in anyone who sees them.

pi.z.z.a

Wtf are those parentheses doing there.

Greenland is the most obvious (to my eye) case of the distortion that Mercator projection causes at near-polar latitudes.

I’m not anywhere near as confident that I could say what shape Denmark is at the best of times.

Projecting a Mercator projection onto a curved surface… Greenland doesn’t deserve that kind of treatment.

At least the map includes New Zealand

So as not to distract from the pretty things.

Broadly, and without evidence:

Women in formal situations were decoration, another piece of fashion attached to a man.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation

I like that this has simple examples, even if imperfect.

I bought a refurbished SFF PC and put a PCIe NIC in it. Installed opnSense.

Cheap as chips. Supremely powerful.