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Had some cool lighting I wanted to get out of me so here's a rare picture of my fursona Roxy actually practicing some kind of magic

Happy 30th birthday to the Morris Worm, the most famous worm to prove that networked computers can be threatened by insufficiently reasoned noble intent, not just obviously malicious intent.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_w

It looks like the simplest & long-term easiest thing for me to make a generated static website is going to be a makefile running page bodies through docutils & feeding the results into templates written in m4 macros.

reST is mature & unlikely to change, but make & m4 are in posix, which means they'll stay the same for the rest of my life as long as I avoid GNU extensions.

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so much for lightweight markup 

py36-rst2html5 on a year-old Celeron Braswell CPU: 1.05 seconds.

py36-rst2html5 on a 10-year-old Core 2 Quad Kentsfield CPU: 0.55 seconds.

Same OS, same version, same input file, just different hardware. ... Wat.

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Happy Halloween, everyone!

Tomorrow's half-off candy sale day.

A PUMPKIN MAN SITS INSIDE A PUMPKIN HOUSE

IS THE HOUSE MADE OF FLESH
OR IS HE MADE OF HOUSE?

HE SCREAMS, FOR HE DOES NOT KNOW

Okay, so I have to put this on imgur because image uploads aren't working here at the moment due to a certain service that shall be named as wasabi

imgur.com/Q9PzosG

Caption: Newspaper clipping with headline "Mastodon yells at cloud", the image below that is of the fluffy elephant friend yelling at a cloud above superimposed with the wasabi logo

Every iPhone & Apple Watch in the hospital was disabled by an MRI machine, but Android phones & traditional PCs were unaffected. The cause: helium. Yes, a slightly helium-rich atmosphere. reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments

Let's go live to Wasabi's datacenter where underpaid robots are hard at work righting the tipped-over servers: youtu.be/HdtmmHEs9jg

Help me; I'm looking at m4 for static webpage generation.
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"Just run the power lines up from the underground junction straight up a conduit. It'll be fine."

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