I don’t know enough to assess it but I think this is a nice write-up:
The Philosophers’ Cocoon: A safe and supportive forum for early-career philosophers
I’m not an “early career philosopher” but I do want to be one, and am finding this blog very interesting reading. Here are some posts with interesting comments:
Stuck in Neutral? A Suggestion
… I’ve noticed a very strong historical relationship with the “alone time” I’ve given myself and my philosophical productivity.
I am NOT fixing this. | /r/talesfromtechsupport
tl;dr ISP’s are corporations driven by greed but there are always technicians at these institutions who know what they are doing. They know the situation is fucked up. They know the ridiculousness of the problem. Sometimes a problem is a problem because of the poor ethics of the people in the suits. Sometimes good techs have to work at scummy corporations to feed their families<I intentionally left this out for anonymity purposes>.
Require SSH keys and then the user’s password; makes a lot of sense, though would get in the way of using keys for automation.
$ traceroute -m67 216.81.59.173
Great to know about (where I came across it first, a strange website)
This is old news now but in case you haven’t come across it:
Bang With Friends: The Beginning Of A Sexual Revolution On Facebook? | Co.Design
usb0 $ scp firmware-ralink_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb zephyr.local:/media/floppy0
flash drive->laptop->across Sheffield as peer-to-peer VPN not pairing properly->to desktop->to desktop floppy drive ready for Debian reinstall because I don’t have enough USB ports.
There’s been a joke floating around Reddit/the Internet for ages where the husband-to-be is asked to come over to the bride’s house for a favor. The bride isn’t there but the little sister is, little sister tries to seduce him, he runs outside, and the whole family is outside congratulating him on not succumbing to her temptation. The joke being that he keeps his condoms in the car and was just going to get them…
Guess what? This shit HAPPENED to me today.
Can’t believe this would actually happen.
This came round earlier this term, (though of course I’m not an English undergrad):
Dear English undergrads,
The Critical Theory Reading Group will continue this term, and is always open to new members. The aim of the group is to generate discussion and learning about really important topics in ‘critical theory’, which spans literary, cultural, philosophical and historical studies. This means that we’re conceiving ‘critical theory’ as an absolutely massive topic, but the aim is to get ourselves intellectually involved with some of the most important and recent areas in ‘theoretical’ scholarship, which is an exciting project and a very important one too. The next session is on Wednesday Week 3 at 3-5pm at Trinity College, and will be about Posthumanism. You don’t have to know anything about it before to come along: just read the essay from 2011 that’s attached to this email and see what you think.
I would like to develop an an interest and knowledge in such things but unfortunately I couldn’t attend the meetings this term. It’d have be quite a fight through the obscurantism of the English students, too, I suspect.
GRRRL Traveler: The Imperfect Adventures of a Solo Traveler
Been reading through more posts on this blog which I discovered last summer when I got my initial ideas of spending a year teaching English in Korea. I finally sent off my application for that this week, so fingers crossed. This blogger can be a bit over-dramatic at times but good photos and information. Despite a period of doubt about the whole idea a few weeks ago, looking at photos of the beautiful Korean autumn on this blog today has convinced me that it’s a good idea.
The outrage and sadness of Google Reader’s demise | engadget
Bwahahahahaa, more evidence that you mustn’t trust your digital life to software-as-a-service.
SDF have started up an alternative:
SDF now offers a reader interface which you can set up via the ‘o’ option in the maintenance menu (type ‘maint’ at the shell). The interface uses the Tiny Tiny Rich Site Summary or tt-rss software.
Though I’m quite happy with my rss2email cronjob.
Steam was broken for me for about a week. The solution was to roll back a Windows Update that changed the drivers being used to operate my USB wireless adapter. All other network usage was fine. If Flash Player can stream videos just fine, Steam ought to be able to download its update: why is it doing things in such a non-standard way that it can’t? Just use the operating system’s methods for downloading.