I did ten hours on #PostScarcitySoftware yesterday, and then slept a bit, and then woke up with an intention to rapid prototype a '#Lisp structure editor in the browser' idea I've been thinking on for a while. I did about five hours on that, and it's looking promising.
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Yesterday, I setup Ubuntu 26.04 for using it with the RTX A4000 GPU (I have the impression that Ubuntu is a first-class citizen for machine learning stuff with Nvidia). Today, I spent far too much time to find out why my FreeIPA provisioned account can't `sudo` on this machine.
It's `sudo-rs`. `sudo-rs` can't really sssd, nss or pam or whatever it is that usually tells `sudo` that a user is allowed to `sudo`.
Solution? `sudo update-alternatives --config sudo` and then…
I just found this old SD card and was reminded how it came to be...
#DIY
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Testing for no_std compatibility in Rust crates.
https://blog.dbrgn.ch/2019/12/24/testing-for-no-std-compatibility/
saved 2019-12-27
sa_companies: South African companies (1919)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between a small group of individuals and five important companies in South African finance, around 1919.
This network has 11 nodes and 13 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sa_comp
Plain evil but people are getting used to this from Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/pepfar-south-africa-white-afrikaners-hiv-aids-00968479
A look at how the AI industry's intense pressure and high rewards are creating "walls of resentment" between Silicon Valley workers and their spouses (Alessandra Ram/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/