/var did not exist on my first, second, or even older Android devices (test phones from work) according to "echo ls | adb shell" . Both the phones I own are Samsung though.

Sometimes, things do work. It's always a good idea to have a plan for when they don't though.

Must be an iPhone, none of the Android things I've seen have /var . More recent iPhones have defaulted to using en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Ef... which many programs can't read. The format also has a "What is this .heic file?" "Well, it could be one of 3 things..." problem.

and I have tested my backup/restore procedures and they work, mostly. I got logged out of everywhere because the backup was last night, so all session cookies were ~16 hours old and considered stale.

alphabetical order, but restores in a random order. Also, something I did (removing the old cache directory it told me to remove?) made it think everything on the restored filesystem needed to be backed up again immediately, in full. This is not great. But OTOH, my /home is now LUKS-encrypted,

a lot about how ships worked at various periods in history. Fiction: Embassytown by China Miéville. This is sci-fi where the aliens are really alien, the humans are really human, the conflict is interesting, and the solution unexpected. It does take a while to get going though.

Hard to say, since you don't say what kinds of books you'd like to read. But for history, To Rule The Waves by Arthur Herman. British naval history 1560-1982 and how it shaped the modern world, plus some fun biographical insight into Nelson and Samuel Pepys. Also if you're a lubber, you'll learn

It is uniquely tone-deaf that whatever bot posted this posted it on BlueSky, then linked to a Twitter post. Protip: Most people using BlueSky are *actively avoiding* Twitter, for reasons which should be immediately obvious.

The Atrocity Archives was, I think, more than any other of Stross's works informed by the time he spent as a system administrator. Follow all the directions, even the ones you don't understand, or think are unimportant. If you do that, you probably won't get your brain Eaten By Things.

In the 1980s, writers for shows had to have their ideas make some sort of sense to someone. Now? USA politics at a high level is basically 3 or 4 randomly replaced dementia-addled ideas bouncing around a pinball machine composed of sycophants. An LLM would be more coherent.

I read Hero and the Crown (Robin McKinley) first, but The Grey King (Susan Cooper) spoke to me more forcefully, because a big part of it was about a father who couldn't always be there for his son.

This is probably someone's fetish. I'm not sure *whose*, but that may be for the best. Also this may be my C bias showing, but a program (even one in Haskell) without state feels like a sandwich without bread.

It's too bad that the "mount repo at point in time and browse filesystem" functionality doesn't work under Windows. That is more of a Windows problem than something restic can fix by itself though.

RAID-1 for all the data you plan to keep, then something like restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ (local disks, S3, various remote storage cloud things) to back up your data. Best part is your stuff is independent of Microsoft, Google, and Apple if you keep it on local disks.

If you wrote an HTTP server in bare C, props! You're probably beyond this, but troubleshooters.com/lpm/200803/2... has lots about writing network stuff in bare C with examples and sample code. It's more educational than production-ready though. Caveat lector.

Current GANs are goldfish-brained and credulous. The only thing they can consistently do reasonably well is surreal comedy, like aiweirdness.com (Shane has been using RNNs and GANs to produce funny things for the last 6ish years.)

Despite the bletcherous hacks I have perpetrated, I have never run into anything quite like this problem. I guess it's true: Each set of users finds a new and interesting way to discover bugs (and workarounds) in the language implementation.

"Urpose-built" is my favorite typo of the last 24 hours FWIW. Anyone's guess as to whether they can actually orbit enough satellites and deploy enough backhaul to get this bloody thing working. My guess? No.

Error: software_as_disservice could not start because of the following error: The operation completed successfully.