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.
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.
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.
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
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. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem_mri_disables_every_ios_device_in/
Let's go live to Wasabi's datacenter where underpaid robots are hard at work righting the tipped-over servers: https://youtu.be/HdtmmHEs9jg
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