Hello! I'm Daniel.
I love free/libre software and hardware and think a good book paired with a cup of coffee is a little piece of Heaven.
Beautiful...
https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod/2026-october-26-m42-the-great-nebula-in-orion/
Any mention of Orion always makes me think of Roy Batty: "I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion..." 🙂
NASA Science2026 October 26 - M42: The Great Nebula in Orion - NASA Science
The short-story collection "Laika's Ghost" by @KarlSchroeder was a terrific read!
There are so many ideas raised that I would like to explore further:
https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000536291095
FriesenPress BookstoreLaika's Ghost at the FriesenPress BookstoreUkrainian nuclear engineer Gennady Malianov would rather camp in the ruins of Chornobyl or explore abandoned anthrax factories than talk to another human being. Painfully shy as he is, he finds it soothing dismantling the abandoned genocide-machines of...
I just discovered the 'finger' command:
finger $USER
Very nice!
When piped to 'grep' there is useful login information that can be used in scripts.
It's not what you think its about from a first glance at the title:
https://essays.georgestrakhov.com/why-dogs-are-better-than-cats/
Day 35
Suspend/resume works perfectly on my Thinkpad T480s with Intel video. I made this little script, which is bound to a hotkey combo on Openbox, that puts the laptop to sleep, and upon resume 'i3lock(1)' provides a lockscreen:
https://codeberg.org/dwarmstrong/homebin/src/branch/main/x11_suspend