Thoughts and experiences from me, UK podcaster Joe Ressington
This is a list of well-known people and companies who have shilled NFTs. It’s very much not exhaustive but I’ll try to update it when I spot new offenders. Feel free to tweet me examples that aren’t on the list.
Also feel free to check out my podcast Late Night Linux where we sometimes laugh at and/or get angry about these bastards.
Jack from Twitter
People who want to defile Stan Lee’s memory
Rishi Sunak (this may not actually happen)
Warner Bros./Lord of the Rings
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Two and a half years later
It’s been a long time. A very long time, in fact. But I’m back with a brief summary of the last few years.
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The best and worst jobs in IT, memorable parties, shopping habits, getting old and grumpy, and self improvement goals.
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00:00:43 What’s the best party you’ve ever been to and what’s the worst?
00:06:54 We get more cynical and grumpy as we get older. Why?
00:10:56 What do you think the best and worst jobs are in IT?
00:17:08 If you could be hypnotised to stop yourself doing something from today onwards, what would it be?
00:25:33 One big shop or lots of little shops?
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Intel almost catching up to AMD with Tiger Lake, the .uk fiasco, and why you shouldn’t be using dd.
Plugs
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News
Hands-on with Intel’s i7-1185G7 Tiger Lake prototype laptop
Intel’s run at the GPU market begins with Tiger Lake onboard graphics
What the hell is going on with .uk?
.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics
Free consulting
We were asked about block size while using dd. Jim mentioned his blog post about iostat.
Datadog
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Why WireGuard is the only VPN software worth using, games becoming open source, the slow demise of Mozilla, Cloudflare synergy with the Wayback Machine, KDE Korner, 3D printing updates, and more.
News
Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400%
Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over deal
WireGuard
Félim has been playing with WireGuard, and tells us about how easy it is to set up and use.
KDE Korner
Running PlasmaShell with Vulkan
Datadog
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Entroware
This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
Digital Ocean
This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.
