Three Weeks With Silverblue

A few weeks ago (four weeks ago, to be exact, based on this post date), my Fedora Workstation crashed hard, in some freak accident that, I believe, killed my /boot partition. At first I reinstalled Workstation, but then decided to give a change to Silverblue.

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Command Pattern Experiments in Rust

I've been doing some experiments in using the command pattern in Rust and found at least two ways to write it.

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Using `alternatives`

alternatives allows one to select a different executable for a normal command line program, but how does it work?

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Commented Link: Statement of FSF board on election of Richard Stallman

After the weird return of rms to the Free Software Foundation board, now both the FSF and rms provided statements about the event.

But I still think things are amiss.

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The Dragons of Dorcastle - Jack Campbell

GoodReads Summary: For centuries, the two Great Guilds have controlled the world of Dematr. The Mechanics and the Mages have been bitter rivals, agreeing only on the need to keep the world they rule from changing. But now a Storm approaches, one that could sweep away everything that humans have built. Only one person has any chance of uniting enough of the world behind her to stop the Storm, but the Great Guilds and many others will stop at nothing to defeat her.

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Safe Enough to Soar - Fred Miller, Judith Kat

GoodReads Summary: Some organizations pay a great deal of attention to ensuring the physical safety of their team members, but do the team members feel safe enough to speak up and raise tough concerns or share bold and still-in-formation ideas? In this book, bestselling authors and inclusion experts Frederick A. Miller and Judith H. Katz introduce the concept of "interaction safety" and demonstrate how it can help create a work environment of trust, inclusion, and collaboration.

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FSF and rms (Again)

About six months ago, in 2020-09-16, Richard Stallman, a.k.a. "rms", resigned from FSF (the Free Software Foundation, maintainer of the GPL family of licenses) with not-so-great headlines. A week ago, in 2021-03-22, rms told the world that he is back.

And now we have a huge mess. Again.

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Kill Switch (2008)

IMDB Summary: A troubled detective travels to Memphis in order to track down a pair of serial killers.

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Unhinged (2020)

IMDB Summary: After a confrontation with an unstable man at an intersection, a woman becomes the target of his rage.

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Good Omens (2019)

Wikipedia Summary: Set in 2018, the series follows the demon Crowley (David Tennant) and the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), longtime acquaintances who, having grown accustomed to life on Earth as representatives of Heaven and Hell, seek to prevent the coming of the Antichrist and with it Armageddon, the final battle between Heaven and Hell.

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