Author: Yeri Tiete
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Don’t trust corporates
Especially those at the pinnacle that’ve lost touch with their customers. I’ve blogged about it before. Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.…
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Bookworm: eth0 -> enX0
Started updating my Debian systems from Bullseye to Bookworm. The first thing I noticed was that ethX renamed to enXY. To get back to the old naming scheme, you can fix this by adding the following in /etc/network/interfaces: And reboot.
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Slime molds
Via Kottke.
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Micro-mice and mazes
Via Kottke. Truly wish we learned all this in school. Would’ve attended school significantly more often… 😉
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Carl Sagan on climate change: “we’re doing something immensely stupid”
This is sobering: in an ad for the United Nations Global Compact, the words of Carl Sagan from nearly 40 years ago warn us of the necessity for urgent action on climate change, deforestation, and extinction. Source: Kottke & Colosal.
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Keeping Mastodon storage in check
For my Mastodon instance, I use Cloudflare R2; mainly for two reasons: While I didn’t care much about storage any more, I still wanted to make sure it was kept in check, also for two reasons: I run my Mastodon in a Docker instance, so your commands may vary (basically tootctl X Y is what…
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Nature in an urban setting
I’m very fortunate to have a handful of new trees, some grass and public seating bookend the street I live in. One of my favourite times of the day to be out on my balcony is dusk, because when the sun starts setting and the hustle and bustle of the city subsides, a group of…
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Kids and urban space
My local council recently bought a bunch of warehouses and turned them into a public park with a playground. What used to be a barren, semi-industrial area suddenly came alive with people and plants. Everyone visiting the park looked in surprise at the playground wondering the same thing: ‘Where have all of these kids been…
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Kids stopped walking to school
Via Kottke.
