Microblog! · @Jason’s Microblog!

RIP Mike! Thanks to you, I was able to see the clusterfuck that was the CPQ/HP merger and realise that I was for the chopping block, much before others could. I could then leave on my own terms and then had the margin to go set up my own consultancy.
Thank you for all the news you broke, but even more for being such a joyful, wonderful wordsmith.

One good example of the clout Mike had was summed up in a conversation I had with him and an Intel VP who shall remain nameless during an IDF in China. He casually mentioned that The Inq was the first thing he read when he woke up. With a good degree of snark I asked, “Before or after you take a leak?”. “Before”. He was serious.
Those days are unlikely to return but they were pretty amazing to live through and it is all because of what Mike Magee created. Much to the relief of many execs in the industry, there will never be another like him.

— Charlie Demerjian
https://semiaccurate.com/2024/08/12/industry-pioneer-mike-magee-has-passed-away/

#MikeMagee

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112992922289209005

#MikeMagee

You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky.

This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone.

This is why art is important.
Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.

— James Baldwin
via, @thenightlymirror on Tumblr: https://thenightlymirror.tumblr.com/post/741802282358882304/james-baldwin

#Art #Life

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#art, #life

Notes to Self, Compiling Qbittorrent on a Raspberry Pi 5

https://janusworx.com/blog/notes-to-self-on-compiling-qbittorrent-on-a-raspberry-pi-5/

#mjbWrites #RaspberryPi #100WordHabit #Linux

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#mjbwrites, #raspberrypi, #100WordHabit, #linux

Me!
https://frikiverse.zone/@terrybot/112981023619666526

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112981036095160132

Finally! Finally! I get to put my grubby little paws on @mwl’s latest!

As an old sysadmin who got so badly burnt, that email has been the one piece of infrastructure I’ve always outsourced for the past decade and a half, here’s hoping #RYOMS helps me get over that fear. (or knowing Lucas, confirms my worst fears!)

It’s been a joy seeing this project come to fruition. Thank you @mwl!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112969510182730345

#RYOMS

Finally! A chart I can identify with …