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Yeah, if you know part of a fingerprint you can look up keys, but I don't know of a way to look up keys from partial keys.

Void is rolling release IIRC

That's what I thought, but the main website says Void focuses on stability over being cutting edge, which would imply some sort of release cycle. Or, maybe they just update packages less frequently.

I still hold Debian in higher regard since it's slightly easier for a novice to get used to

It's hard to beat Mint as a novice distro, for sure.

Did you look at Pelican?

I have not, but I will. I may also look at Zola, although it, too, appears at the surface level to be tightly coupled with markdown.

the template language is buggy and inscrutable

It's just Go templates, which are pretty solid; I'd be surprised by any bugs, unless they're in the Hugo short codes. The syntax is challenging, even if you're a Go developer and use it all the time. It's a bespoke DSL, and a pretty awful one: it's verbose, obtuse, and makes some common things hard.

Go is my language of choice, but my faith gets shaky whenever I have to use templates.

I'm not a huge fan of Python; despite its popularity, it's got a lot of problems, not least of which is the whole Python 2/3 fiasco; which, years later, is still plaguing us. However, if I can containerized it so it isn't constantly breaking in the background when I do a system update, I'm not opposed to using a project written in it. At least it isn't Node; I won't let that crap onto any server I admin.

Edit: Zola has the same problem as Hugo.

That makes sense

The fascists absolutely do not have the numbers.

I was specifically speaking about the percent of sub-population that's armed. There's pretty good evidence that the average conservative (and particularly the conservative base) is also a gun owner than the average liberal base. Gun violence is a liberal plank.

As for who has the guns, you're probably grossly underestimating how well armed non-republicans might be.

I don't think so; I've been a gun owner since I've been an adult, and I'm pretty progressive. I've spent a lot of time at ranges across the US, and it's pretty clear that that population leans right. And if liberals own guns and aren't going to the range to practice... well.

Furthermore, we've seen how ineffective the US military was at handling insurgency in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Quite effective in Iraq; Iraq was both unjustified, and concluded. Major combat operations coincided within 3 months, and we pulled out in 2011.

But the major factor in Afghanistan is that Afghanistan were a generation of trained insurgents with a decade of history of fighting insurgencies against invaders. We trained them; we trained and funded them, and helped them set up a robust cell-based insurgency. It was essentially a core component of Afghan culture by the time the US invaded. Are you trained, lean, and have a cell network set up? Anyone you know? How many people do you know, personally, who've ever had to suffer from anything more inconvenient than a temporary internet outage? If the US government cracks down on major carriers and network providers, can you even contact any of those people?

The US public is not the Afghan public. We're nowhere near as hardened and tough. As importantly, we're divided, and there's a vast swath of the center of people who mostly don't give enough of a shit. Even if there were voting shenanigans in 2024, enough people voted for a guy who explicitly said during campaigning that he wanted to be a dictator that it was close. When the left rises up, they're not only going to be fighting the government, they're going to be fighting other right-wing fuck-jobs, and worse, their uncommitted, lazily leftist neighbor is likely to turn them in because an uprising might upset little Crumpsnatcher's soccer practice.

The Earth is curved.

At least, I assume that's what they meant.

You're right. Especially with the drapes: if the ceiling isn't level, it's a no-win situation. It's either going to look distracting, or function poorly.

Ah, Ok.

I do as (or a similar workflow): I rsync the content directory and let Hugo on the server render. My sites are public, but perhaps they're just much smaller or not as popular; Hugo renders even my largest site in about a second, but for a large, slow, heavy-use production situation I could see a push-and-swap process for a more atomic site update.

I don't see the degradation you do, but there are so many possible variables.

My biggest gripe about Hugo is how limited it is in supporting source document formats. There's no mechanism for hooking in different formats, and the team is reluctant to merge PRs for other formats. When I started with Hugo, I had a large repository of essays spanning a decade and written in a variety of markup, from asciidoc (which I used for years), to reST, to markdown; and markdown is by far the worst. I was faced with converting everything to markdown, which was usually a lossy process because markdown is so limited, or not publishing all of that history. And now we have djot, which is almost the perfect plain text markup language, but I again have to first do a lossy conversion to markdown to get Hugo to consume it. It low-key sucks, and I'm actively looking for an alternative that has a more flexible AST-based model for which new formats can be added; something that consumes a format like pandoc's AST.

(I'm replying to you twice b/c totally different topics)

Tell me more about your Void experience. I've been meaning to give it a shot, except I don't get as much enjoyment out of fussing with distros as I used to. What are the pain points? Under Artix, I used dinit which I really liked, but I tried s6 first and absolutely hated it. I didn't try runit; how is it?

What I'm most interested in is xbps, because IMO it's the package manager that makes or breaks a system. I'm quite fond of pacman and have encountered far fewer dependency hell situations than I did with either rpm or deb, and rolling release is a must. xbps looks kind of like a rolling stable release?

I feel the same way about Artix. I had it on my laptop for a while, and it was a regular PITA. I think I may have made it harder on myself, because while getting rid of systemd was fine, I was also trying to do without NetworkManager and on a laptop that wasn't a great idea. I never did find a good, reliable set-up that managed access point hopping as well as nm.

Really, thinking back, Artix was fine; it really was just the roaming WiFi handling that gave me grief, and I did that to myself.

Same: haven't had egg in years.

I always pulled them from one size so that it was a precarious activity to pull the cartoon from the fridge: you got either the heavy end, which was Ok, or the light end, which was awkward, or the middle, which was totally unbalanced and prone to dropping.

It's the little, everyday excitements that makes life fun.

Oh. They're not Adam. They're Adam's wingman.

Adam is too busy getting ass to waste time posting.

Moar fiber!

I guess I, too, am still not certain why you would censor it. The whole point to the public key is to publish it. Most people upload their's to multiple public key servers.

It should be interesting to see how long it takes for the average American to refuse to be tread on.

Never?

The majority of 2A advocates are already ready to put on their brown shirts, and it's going to be a pitched battle between them and armed liberals, who will get stomped because the brown shirts will be backed by military forces... even if you don't accept that the fascists have greater numbers, which I believe they do.

Ghandi preached passive resistance to the German Jews, and look at how well that worked out for them. Nothing short of violent rebellion is going to have any effect, and I suspect there's a minority on each side willing to come up blows, and a huge majority of people in the middle who are going to side with the status quo because they don't want to have their TikTok quality time interrupted.

You're getting a bunch of good, accurate answers, but I want to give it a shot, too. Keep is mind I'm grossly generalizing.

Computer programs are compiled from source code. Programmers keep track of the history of the changes they make, the different versions of the software, with version control systems. Github is a centralized place developers can upload their source code so that other developers can use it.

It's not really intended for end users to use directly. It's a file sharing service, but for source code. That said, github has the capability to compile programs if there developers set it up, and then you get compiled programs you can download from it.

I would suggest not trying to use github directly, unless you're looking to get into programming, or if there's software there you want to try that isn't available from your distribution's official software channels. It's not really an "app store;" it's a Microsoft-owned software service for developers that is sometimes used to host readable documents, because it can be used for collaborative sharing of versioned text files.

There are a great many exceptions to what I said, but that was essentially how github started life, even if it's used for other things and has more features now.

But, oddly, it's not. How square it is with the walls is more important. Door and window frames, too, and those are more likely to be a touch off.

Hmmm. That reminds me that I need to check to make sure the router is blocking all Facebook traffic.

Hugo has a watch mode, right? It should rebuild if it detects changes.

People have covered German and French. Esperanto has the genderless "la" for "the"; there is no "a" article. "Here is a house" is "Ĉi tie estas domo," or "Jen estas domo," or even simply "Estas domo" depending on what you mean. But there's no article.