Just finished Let Me In, by Claire McGowan. I found it very nicely written, a good page turner for my vacation week.
Now started something completely different, a non-fiction science popularization book: How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch, by Harry Cliff. Popularization on particle physics. As of now, I find it very nice with large historical background and clear explanations.
Yep was one of these kids... From the very same period, removing 10base2 BNC terminators was also a fun thing to do. Both had the effect to infuriate the computer science teacher...
Thanks for the collection of all this...
(later it was the deadly loop on network hubs and tcpkill... all this is impossible now)
Very interesting comment. Thanks.
Faire et défaire...
Personnally, I started never answering to any unknown number (masked caller id or even just numbers not in my contacts). When it's legit, caller leave a message on voicemail. Scammer, direct marketing,... never leave messages. Ok I still get the call and have to ignore or reject it (but it's better than answering and having a commercial starting his speech).
Somehow related, I have also questions as an European (Belgian) who then observe what is happening right now in the USA with curiosity (and fear to be honest). Please don't take any offense in this question, the purpose is, for me, to understand, not criticize Americans at all. I work with plenty of them who don't look stupid at all (but I'll never dare to speak politics with colleagues, a bit of a "touchy" topic with people you don't know well).
In my country, we have got a new government almost at the same time Trump was inaugurated. They plan to do some changes to the way some aspects of our society is, changes that are a bit difficult for some categories of the population but really nothing like in the USA. Anyway, since January, there have been strikes, protests, people going in the streets,...
Why are we not seeing such things in the USA? I would have thought that there will be millions of people in the streets protesting against the F-gesture done to democracy, LGBT rights, women rights, nonsense with economy (tarriff, that at the end the "middle class workers" will have to pay) and foreign politics but, as far as we are aware here in Europe, I seen no such protests. The only action I seen is some boycott of Tesla.
Same in Belgium, no scale involved, just a handled scanner you bring in the shop. At checkout you give (or put back depending on the supermarket) the scanner, then an algorithm tell you if you're elected to a partial control (in which case a cashier scan some of the articles, again there are some rules depending on the brand of supermarket - some ask rescan 5 random products, some 10, some explicitly list most valuable items, some require the cashier to count items,...). I say an algorithm because experience show it's not just random (for example in the supermarket brand I most often go, if you cancel an item on the scanner, you're 100% sure to have a control).
Finished Too Late, by Colleen Hoover. Well I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand it's a good page turner with some suspens and so on. But I was a bit uneasy about the over occurrence of sexual relations described with a too high level of detail. At times, I wondered if I was reading a psychological triller or the scenario of a porn movie... I think this was done in order to describe the horror of the main bad character but it was just too much and unnecessary in my opinion.
Well I don't know yet what to read next, I'll look up maybe here if something please me.
Edit: I think I'll go for The Antidote, by Karen Russell. Seems to have some good reviews.
The Stand, by Stephen King
But I love so many books, hard to say
Incroyable il a trouvé une ville à 10km de là où j'ai été élevé vachement précis en quelques questions
Based on the awesome job of WFH@lemm.ee documenting the stuff and applying it to solarized, I tried to do the same with my vim favorite theme: everforest. It's far from perfect (I'm not at all a designer), feel free to improve your way (and share updates in comments). The zinc theme is probably more refined because I use only this one, I tried to make slate match the palette but as I'm not using it it's more difficult.
A screenshot: 
{
"other": {
"white": "#FDF6E3",
"black": "#002b36"
},
"primary": {
"100": "#A7C080",
"900": "#8DA101"
},
"zinc": {
"50": "#D3C6AA",
"100": "#A7C080",
"200": "#DBBC7F",
"300": "#D3C6AA",
"400": "#D3C6AA",
"500": "#D3C6AA",
"600": "#4F585E",
"700": "#4F585E",
"800": "#425047",
"900": "#232A2E",
"925": "#2D353B",
"950": "#2D353B"
},
"slate": {
"25": "#FDF6E3",
"50": "#FDF6E3",
"100": "#EFEBD4",
"200": "#E0DCC7",
"300": "#E0DCC7",
"400": "#D3C6AA",
"500": "#5C6A72",
"600": "#5C6A72",
"700": "#5C6A72",
"800": "#5C6A72",
"900": "#8DA101",
"950": "#8DA101"
}
}
Number of (active) Lemmy users seems to stabilize and I think this is a great thing. Indeed we got a lot of users when reddit shutdown its API (I was among them despite being a long time oss user), many have left, but the community seems now to stabilize to ~ ½ of the big grow in june '23. I think this is very nice for lemmy, we can be proud of this project.
The stats come from: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
This one is multiple times quoted in the book, maybe one of my next...