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Cake day: November 26th, 2023

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  • Zero problems with Delta in many years of international flights with them. The best US based company, IMO.

    My only problem is that their partner for Africa is Air France aka Air Chance, a complete shit show of an airline that never runs on time, has quite rude staff, uncomfortable seats, and makes travellers to its West African flights bus out to the tarmac to get on the plane in Paris.

    I guess the world is about to find out about the dogshit that is Air France and CDG when the olympics starts in a few weeks.



















  • I mean licensing comes in here. The FOSS licenses allow this. Microsoft EULA and copyright almost certainly does not. But yes, I get the sentiment.

    It’s almost as if all of the FAANG/Magnificent 7 market outperformance the past 15 years was built on the backs of the free labor provided by the FOSS movement. But then they will turn around and claim that non-western companies steal IP, etc and have US intervene to ban competition, or sue in courts. Kind of funny.

    Back to the tech discussion, I’ve been using doas for a few years now instead of sudo. Even on my GNU/Linux machines. It’s a lot simpler to setup for desktop workflow machines.



  • I’m happy for them.

    Was this the best metal album of 2023? Not by a long shot.

    Was it the best Metallica album in 25 years? Absolutely. They tried new things and pulled it off well.

    The Grammys have very narrow criteria. Basically you are going to get top 40 radio friendly songs and they choose from that. Looking at the list of nominees, they were the only metal band actually nominated in this category. The rest of the nominees are what people who drive in to “easy listening soft hits” think metal sounds like. 2023 was a pretty weak year for metal anyway.

    In my 30s, I’ve come back around to appreciating Metallica. We don’t have many years left of them being around. Enjoy them for the time that we still can. One of these days, soon, they will play Master of Puppets for the last time.

    And at least Babymetal didn’t win.