kevin

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[–] kevin@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You said a bunch of things you like about cinnamon, and nothing that you don't. Is there something motivating you to switch?

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Well that's an excessively low bar.

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

OpenSUSE for pried from my hands because the college I work for set up a Cisco proxy server / 2FA that I couldn't get to work with openconnect, and Cisco's AnyConnect won't run on it.

After a few weeks on Rocky, I am desperate to go back.

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I really understand this as a starting position, but it can definitely be taken too far. I feel like the details matter a lot.

A few years ago there was a big dust up in the Julia community when they wanted to add a small amount of telemetry to the package servers - basically the plan was to identify real users from things like CI runs, and to be able to identify the number of unique users , which matters a lot, especially for grant writing (and a lot of academics use Julia, so this would be a boon to the ecosystem).

The core devs were super up front about it, offered easy opt-out, and even were receptive to a plan that would switch from unique identifiers for downloaders to some scheme that would give an accurate count without the ability to trace a particular download to a particular user, but a couple of prominent members of the community were incensed.

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh hello! I remember chatting with you in the comments section of my science blog (We, Beasties) over a decade ago 😊. Nice to see you in the fediverse

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

"backing up" biospecimens and other physical samples is not as easy as baking up data. Freeze/thaw often degrades things, and volumes maybe be quite small and not amenable to aliqoting.

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Great! I can move stuff around a bit so it works a bit better in a circle. I can also share a transparent and white-background version to play with - the bugs are a bit translucent, so just removing the background with Photoshop/Gimp won't work that well

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is real. I'm a white guy with every advantage, a PhD from Harvard and nearly 10 years of research after my PhD,, but it's still rough out there.

I'm geographically limited - I'm sure if I were willing to move anywhere, things would be a bit easier, but still.

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Curry carrot kraut:

  • grated carrots
  • sliced shallots
  • curry powder (about 1tbsp/pound of carrots)
  • 2% w/w salt

If you've got a dehydrator, dry out a batch and crumble a bit on everything

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here too - where do I sign?

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, biodiversity feels a bit far afield for me, but happy to take it on.

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm happy to help out in any of the communities that I'm likely to frequent. I'm not so into archaeology, but I'd do anything biology/programming/scicomm related

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