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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • It’s crazy because ethenol COULD be just a byproduct from food production. Talking to farmers about a decade ago that what they were aiming for. Basically a step before just tilling it or burning it back into the field if it was misshappen (consumers don’t buy ugly veggies) or worse infested/rotting.

    The subsidy structure messed that up apparently. The subsidized crop insurance made it not worth it, plus the ethanol subsidies required dedicated fields.

    I 100% would rather see solar over dedicated ethanol fields and all of the water usage and pollution they represent.


  • That’s how I felt with autism for sure. Not formally diagnosed but to go “oh most people actually naturally and subconsciously are aware of other peoples micro expressions and do not have to conciously decide to “turn on” that part of themselves when talking to other people” and explaining some of the biggest hurdles of my developmental life was a huge relief.

    Like I was getting pretty misanthropic for a bit because 1 I was getting bullied by kids and adults alike for not “just getting it” and 2 thinking most people consciously sat down and choose to be jerks and inconsiderate.















  • Qubes is really cool but it uses VM instead of containers, and for its use case you basically have too. Containers isolation at almost no cost come from actually share the underlying kernel and hardware. That isnt isolated enough for data domain seperation thay qubes is built around.

    That is one reason i have multiple clusters actually, and the confidential container effort is actually light weight VMs with tools to intergrate them with the network of the host correctly (and multikey memory encryption to fully enforce the boundary). I havent goten around to deploying an app like that yet myself though



  • I run most of my software in containers. Firefox is in a flatpak. My terminal shells are all containers using distrobox. My homelab services are all containers. My few VMs (i run a few vituralized rke2 clusters, sometimes a test version of my baremetal harvester cluster, and test versions of my desktops)? Also running in containers. My desktop OSs are also containers (ublue, SteamOS, and SUSE Elemental).

    The future is now old man! :p

    But honestly linux namespaces and overlay filesystems are the bees knees. Create reusable layers of filesystems, use just the ones needed for a given app/service. Expose just what a service or app needs to for a given function. You end up with an extemly portable, and consistent system that has cleaner seperations of concerns. For basically free. From an app dev perspective you remove a whole matrix of supported configurations to worry about (distro/version/packages installed/etc).