Geert Uytterhoeven @geert@society.oftrolls.com

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All hail autoconf!

omg

"Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates"

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates

@geert @penguin42 @LaF0rge That message by Geert was a little too cryptic for me. All these /dev/*/by-path are created by udev, see rules in /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/. Maybe he's suggesting to add a rule into /etc/udev/rules.d, then somehow fool libvirt into accepting it?

linux/arch/* Microconference Accepted into 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference

https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/blog/2020/linux-arch-microconference-accepted-into-2020-linux-plumbers-conference/

This is so fitting about #impostorsyndrome by Nat Sharpe.
As someone put it in the replies:
Death Star bad - Flower good!

My toy steam engine hadn't been used for 25 years or so and still works like a charm on first attempt to use it again. Try that with IT ;)

@mansr This is a spin off from the film of the same name; it's ....quite odd ...but quite good to watch (although the ending is crap). The film is odd enough (and bloody enough) to be worth watching.

So TIL git grep -Ovim ... rather than vim `git grep -l ...`

Apple plans to transition its entire line to ARM. First ARM Mac hardware to be launched 2021. (via Azeria Fox0x01)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/apple-plans-to-announce-arm-transition-for-all-macs-at-wwdc-2020/

Related: https://arm-exploitation.com/

Increasingly, I am unable to see any difference between bitcoins and the stock market. The value of both appears to be driven by HODL gang mentality.

http://zaitcev.mee.nu/memoir_009 - it only took 9 chapters to come uncomfortably close to those still alive and even active (with a cameo from @geert).