Brandon Silver

@esrtweet I’d consider looking at Fedora. Like other posters have said, it seems to get frequent updates for a non-rolling release model, and it’s been very stable for me. But Manjaro would be my pick for an arch-based distribution. I really enjoyed using it.

Question for the X hivemind: I'm seriously considering switching my main machine from Pop!_OS (a reskinned Ubuntu) to Arch, probably CachyOS. The reason is I'm attracted to the rolling-release concept. Getting really tired of waiting 6 months for my development tools to upgrade after they ship. I understand the downside: Arch doesn't protect me from upstream breakage. The plan to deal with that is to install snapper so I can revert to an earlier, working version of my system if things go badly awry. If you think there are any reasons this is a really bad plan, tell me now.

Starship is how humanity becomes multi-planetary

This video joking about the lack of public trash cans in Japan has gone viral among Japanese netizens, receiving nearly 4M views. Many sympathize with its message. There are lots of street food stores in tourist areas that offer no trash cans.

Just. Wow. As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. We have a great view above the clouds, so scientists can use these types of pictures to better understand the formation, characteristics, and relationship of TLEs to thunderstorms.

Thread of beautiful Art Deco designs 🧵 1. Cincinnati Union Terminal

@elonmusk What’s the deal with blocking “signal dot me” links? Signal is not “harmful” software, but that’s what X is claiming.

The moon setting over the Pacific. Went to the cupola to shoot Tropical Storm Hone near Hawaii but right after we passed by the storm the moon started to set. 400mm, ISO 500, 1/20000s shutter speed, f2.8, cropped, denoised.

@elonmusk I’m disappointed that Twitter is requiring a logged-in session to view Tweets. For a platform that brands itself as the future of communications, I would have thought it would remain open to the World Wide Web.

Look at this shot my wife captured tonight! Well done babe! 💯

Dang it’s been a while. #MyTwitterAnniversary

Well it's been a day.

Every time I read an article titled "how we saved $___ by doing ___" I'm reminded of the First Rule of SaaS: Know your unit economics. These stories always end up with "we were spending an ungodly amount of money on ___ and didn't notice for years". This should not happen.

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Favorite GitLab feature: CI/CD Pipelines. The implementation is super slick. #reInvent

@OecFiber Thanks for the quick reply!

@alinuxuser Hi Brandon! Sorry for the inconvenience. Our office has been affected by the outage - a truck took out the lines near our headquarters. We are aware of the outage and crews are working right now to resolve the issue!

@OecFiber I’m trying to get help with an Internet outage but your phone line keeps disconnecting me. Is there another way to get some prompt attention?

I was disappointed to learn today that @OecFiber doesn't support IPv6 and has no plans to do so. I find it hard to believe that a new ISP didn't start out with IPv6 from the get-go. Oh well, at least they're great otherwise.

@carpeadventum There totally is! Behold a sample of my trove of socks.

Verifying myself: I am brandonsilver on Keybase.io. Tg-QXYPDMc1H_zofRe2t7RAqmyCsoDyk1vwd / keybase.io/brandonsilver/…

Heheh, another new PGP key. This time I'm upgrading from 2048 bit RSA to 4096. Let's see how long this one'll last! Keybase.io verification tweet to follow.