Ok. It's kind of self evident. Today I had 96 updates listed by apt. At first I was frustrated. Then for a split second I thought about the amount of work that went into that update. Work that I do not give anything back for.
The open source stack must be the greatest positive achivement of our culture. That's debatable but in any case not far off target. I think it is good to be humbled and grateful for a moment. And then go back to complaining. It took like a minute to get all that stuff installed.

Credentials! Looking into migrating a TS and Node package to use GCP Secret Manager. All fine but when I look at the examples they all store the credentials needed to access the credentials in code. I know these are examples but wtf? My head is spinning.

Anyone tried Clear Linux on desktop with KDE? Does it make any sense or are the advantages of Clear Linux just relevant for servers?

I know, I said it before. But Python is sooo shit. Sooo shit! Latest experience: the standard json library has it's syntax broken going from 3.8 to 3.9. A service just crashed after update, complaining it does not know what encoding means. Real languages log a warning that syntax changes are coming in next full version. Python just goes bang and burns after a minor version update. Not a tool, just a toy. Is this what they learned after fucking up so epically royally going from 2 to 3?

I don't like Python, Sir. Oh no I hate it! You know my usual rant, it slow and white space syntax is nuts. I stand by that. But now that I had to update an outdated legacy app I am really stunned by how painful the package management is! Pip me this and pip3 me that, Python2 or Python3 pipenv and venv. Whereis python and what python. I admit not to really understand the tooling but usually the errors give you some clues. Googling this I just find advice to backstep versions and use packages with the same name except add letters or numbers to the end. There are fights or package names. In the end the advice that solved my problem was to manually edit an autogenerated file and run pipenv lock piping the output to requirements.txt. Which should also be auto generated. One should not let packages grow old but this experience aged me a year at least in a couple of hours. Have several packet mangers, edit dependency versions by hand, run packet managers again and again till it works. Damnation!

House arrest today. I look like I would have been stoned for a week and then gotten into a fight. Actually I was sitting peacefully eating my dessert at the local restaurant when a wasp flew inside my glasses. Didn't expect that indoors. Luckily it stung my nose not my eye. It got very flat quickly. But that sting hurt like hell, still painful.

Hand sanitizer saved my rocket book yesterday when the wife had put a permanent pen on my desk...

A cron job is one line, the cron job example for Kubernetes is 29 lines. Fuck this progress, it is shit. Then you probably have a Helm file with 290 lines to improve that improvement.

3 x mr Wikipedia
I did not even know you could win that title. Gotta start training!

It's impossible to find a decent 5G router. I have had a 5G plan for 6 months but am still using a 4G router. The only providers are Chinese and the prices are really high. I will not buy a Huawei router for 799 euros and get the spying for free.
This is where it has gotten us to have cheap production of everything in the middle kingdom. It's not gonna end well.

It's the height of summer where I live, and unusually hot and bright 🌞. I would like to work outside but my available screen technology prevents that. Anyone who has tried to work outside? I know there are tent-like sacks for laptops, laptops with extra bright screens and even an eink screen with HDMI. I looked into the last option but it's rather small and quite expensive. What experiences do you all have? I live far up north so I seldom have this opportunity/problem.

If we evaluate our work precisely when it is done we have no distance to it. If a long time pass we do not understand it anymore.
If we think to little or to much about something we become argumentative and unreasonable.

Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1662
Still a truly remarkable man!

ME: Yes dear Typescript besserwisser knownothing, I assert that the var on line 32 is not undefined because I checked on line 31!
TS: Forbidden non-null assertion
ME: MS nutcase!

What at TOTAL mess the EU and the IAB has caused with the GDPR 2! They talked to everyone for years and planned this crazy soup into the smallest detail?
They should have made large and small vendors of invasive ad tech ask for permission directly from those affected. But no.
Instead all publishers must ask for permission for stuff they have never dreamed of implementing. And when the users agree they automatically give the same rights to hundreds of completely irrelevant ad tech vendors. Companies neither they nor the publishers have ever heard of, like 1plusX AG and 33Across and LoopMe Limited. If anyone of these clowns asked you for a permission directly would you say: Hell yes, track my geoposition accurately! And while you are at it please do store your trackers on my device! Probably not?
But if you answer Accept on a web site you trust chances are you just did that for 7Hops.com Inc (ZergNet) as well. If you are sane at all you answer No thanks! and at least with Googles Founding Choices you just removed all banners from that poor publishers site. Because you refused cookies essentially. They are working on fixing that they say.
Or then you go in and click around the options for a minute or so. Still, unless you spend an hour removing all those A.Mob and Bucksense Inc and Eporn Ltd and HUAWEI ads and Kwanko and Outbrain UK Ltd and Roq.ad Inc, well you are giving them permissions too.
You trust RhytmOne DBA Unruly Group Ltd, don't you?
How could anyone ever have made a worse mess out of privacy protection? The popups will invade everyones web browsing for ever and the end result is that most everyone gives permissions to crazy shit ad tech vendors they would never trust. And a growing minority will say no to everything killing ad income for small publishers. How is this better than any other outcome?
I am really glad I am out of the publishing industry within a month.

Apple, the shiny toy maker has made a cpu of their own again. And now they are trying to make an internet protocol. Well. Soon the toy users can completely in their own universe. Bye, bye!

So the news are in and Apples M1 is actually a pretty mediocre performer. No surprise, the first Power PC G5 was marketed as the worlds fastest computer too. And well, it was not anywhere close to fast in reality.
Apple remains the same, all talk.

Today, Friday the 13th, I signed the contract for my new job.

I have almost stopped reading news online because of all these idiotic consent popups. I don't care to give consent specifically on every damn web site I visit. GDPR has spoiled the internet. I understand the purpose but it is so a failure. It's not each publisher that should ask for approval of technologies on their site. It's the tech providers that should ask and get approval for what they provide and use, not every bloody blogger who can't know even what to ask. The EU screwed up, as it always does.

Waiting for a gigabyte level download... Why? Cause I want to clear the file cache in a project I am working on. And the tool for that requires this load of dependencies.
Is there any field of human endeavour that is less efficient than ours?

Just cos everyone loves react so much I give it a new try.
npx create-react-app test
And I have a folder test that weights in at 266 MB. And an environment that will completely disguise any JS error I might create. For what bloodymir gain?

I logged into Google Ad Manager and clicked Change History. But it is a fake. There is no way to change history there! I can only view, sort and filter history. Weak Google!

I can't understand why the shitty python sickness is allowed to exist in a systems context. Now that Ubuntu 20.04 uses netplan I have to check the number of spaces on each line before relying on a network config. Yaml sucks. A space to many or to few brings down your server networking. Throw this shitty lang out!

Last week my first pull request to our company's Haskell project went into production. At the tender age of 52 I am a true beginner at Haskell, having read half a book and tried it out between other tasks for a couple of weeks before that. I would never have went for learning Haskell if I would not have had to but I am glad I did. And it will take a long time before I reach any sort of mastery.
I started out in the late nineties with JavaScript, learned PHP, Java and then Go. My first impression of Haskell is very favourable, the compiler is very informative and very fast, although not as fast as the Go compiler. The language is so different from anything I have used previously that a lot of synapses have had new connections. But the syntax! It's the one thing I really dislike. <$> and other crazy short hand. Like $ instead of parentheses. Haskell people clearly have a peculiar take on readability.

Adobe is going to close my account if I don't log in before 60 days have past. I will loose everything I have there. I am so scared!

It's kinda cute how people think strict typing is going to prevent bugs and make software reliable. It's all the rage now. I am not saying that there is anything wrong with strict typing but after all it was the original state of affairs and dynamically typed languages where developed to fix it.
Same hype with pure functional programming. It's going to push bugs out to the edges and make everything work. The pursuit of purity is no new thing and it breaks down on contact with the real world, such as a complex JSON. A switch to Haskell won't change that much. I have seen people hunt peculiar bugs in Haskell for ages.

difp s[y fody

Offset my hands one key to the right when I wrote sudo apt dist-upgrade... Tab didn't work though.

This is why Linux is simply better. Ubuntu 20.04 is already significantly faster than 18.04.
https://phoronix.com/scan.php/...
With every version Linux get better. With every new version of winbloat you need a faster computer.

How do you guys deal with using the Kanban board while corona remoting?

Dammit the missing of stuff! For the life of me I cannot understand how I have missed that you can set vi mode in bash simply by putting set -o vi in .bashrc.
This so basic and so good and I have been soooo dumb to have missed all these years. Kick me, can't do it myself.

Just got my door code in a text message for my room at the Apple Hotel. Comparing to the new Atari Hotel, https://atarihotels.com/
the Apple Hotel has a really crazy logotype, it's both Apple and Windows!
Hope both of them stick to the lodging business henceforth!