Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@schlink @sgtnasty I don't think you should do that.

It seems likely that your PATH is not set up correctly. Do you have the right invocation in your .bashrc or whatever? Is it getting superceded by something else?

@pbx Assuming good faith, it might be just a weird way to phrase, "I'm looking for X, is this their email address?" Plus, there are weirdly people who do not seem to know their own email address. I hear about it frequently from people with common names. They'll get tons of emails (some containing sensitive information!) for someone else to their first.last@gmail address.

That said, I think the more plausible thing is that marketing people seem to use weird or surprising language to catch your attention, so it's probably a deliberate ploy to stick out in your mind.

Unfortunate name for a children's juice, I'd say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine_deficiency

Self-hosting crowd:

Is there any relatively "out of the box" solution for self-hosting services like @nextcloud, Pixelfed, etc on a local server (possibly an RPi)?

Ideally I'd store the configuration for it in a git repo or something so that I can easily re-deploy it to a new machine without much fuss.

Even a collection of ansible playbooks with a relatively good provenance would be acceptable I think.

@lynne IME SD cards eventually fail, but they've almost always failed on me by becoming read-only somehow (the drive says it can be written to but no data gets written).

I'd say that's one of the better failure modes for storage media, so at least they have that going for them.

There's a new #python dateutil release: 2.8.2, with bug fixes and updates to the built-in tzdata. This will likely be the last release that bundles tzdata (we plan to switch to the `tzdata` package).

Thanks to new maintainer @mariocj89@twitter.com for putting it together!

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/python-dateutil/

Changelog: https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/changelog.html#version-2-8-2-2021-07-08

@valleyforge Oh, good point!

@lucifargundam There aren't really Royalist schools, the joke is that July 4th is a holiday celebrating our independence from monarchy, so it's ironic to celebrate it with a crown.

Illustrative example that I found via David McCullough's biography of John Adams, as described by Abigail Adams to her niece (https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-06-02-0016):

> To-morrow is to be celebrated, *le jour des rois*. The day before this feast it is customary to make a large paste pie, into which one bean is put. Each person at table cuts his slice, and the one who is so lucky as to obtain the bean, is dubbed king or queen. Accordingly, to-day, when I went in to dinner, I found one upon our table. Your cousin Abby began by taking the first slice; but alas! poor girl, no bean, and no queen. In the next place, your cousin John seconded her by taking a larger cut, and as cautious as cousin T— when he inspects merchandise, bisected his paste with mathematical circumspection; but to him it pertained not. By this time, I was ready for my part; but first I declared that I had no cravings for royalty. I accordingly separated my piece with much firmness, nowise disappointed that it fell not to me. Your uncle, who was all this time picking his chicken bone, saw us divert ourselves without saying any thing; but presently he seized the remaining half, and to crumbs went the poor paste, cut here and slash there; when, behold the bean! “And thus,” said he, “are kingdoms obtained;” but the servant, who stood by and saw the havoc, declared solemnly that he could not retain the title, as the laws decreed it to chance, and not to force.

At my son's preschool they made paper crowns to celebrate 4th of July and now I'm worried that I may have accidentally enrolled him in a Royalist school...

@freemo I eat a good amount of impossible / beyond meat (not a vegetarian), and I usually say that you can tell it's not beef, but it's enough like beef that it can pass for animal meat - it's a replacement for a burger in the same way bison burgers or kangaroo burgers or turkey burgers are.

I like making burritos with it.

Me on a diet:

@brainwane Nifty, thanks for the suggestions! Y'all seem like a fun couple 🙂

That podcast roulette thing sounds cool, but it seems it only has 10 entries in the feed and the feed hasn't been updated in a few years.