A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single pick.
Yesterday I was in Modena, the homeland of Pierangelo Bertoli, a respected Italian songwriter. And this piece from 1975 came to mind - fifty years old, yet it feels as if it were written today, for how relevant its message still is.
Some poems are timeless.
I’m sharing the link and a translation of the lyrics.
And Yet It Blows
And the water fills with foam, the sky with smoke,
the chemical leprosy destroys the life of rivers,
birds that barely fly, already sick with death,
cold interest has barred the doors against life.
An entire island has found its grave in the sea,
false progress wanted to test a bomb,
then rain that should quench the thirst of living earth
instead brings death, for it is radioactive.
And yet the wind still blows,
splashing water on the ships’ bows,
whispering songs among the leaves,
kissing the flowers, kissing them but never picking them.
One day money discovered world war,
it branded its rotten mark on beastly instinct,
it killed, it burned, it destroyed in a sorrowful litany,
and all the earth was wrapped in a black shroud.
And soon the hidden key to new secrets,
so they will cover even the planets with mud,
they will want to pollute the stars, bring war among suns,
the crimes against life they call mere mistakes.
And yet the wind still blows,
splashing water on the ships’ bows,
whispering songs among the leaves,
kissing the flowers, kissing them but never picking them,
and yet it brushes the fields,
caresses the flanks of the mountains,
tangles the hair of women,
races in flight with the birds.
And yet the wind still blows!!!
Tim Chambers
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🏛️ European alternatives to popular SaaS
Big Tech lock‑in isn’t the only option. Our March roundup highlights tools you can host and control yourself, from CryptPad and XWiki to OpenProject, Nextcloud Office, Penpot, and more.
Find out how Europe is building a truly sovereign digital stack: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/european-alternatives-to-popular-saas/
🏛️ European alternatives to popular SaaS
Big Tech lock‑in isn’t the only option. Our March roundup highlights tools you can host and control yourself, from CryptPad and XWiki to OpenProject, Nextcloud Office, Penpot, and more.
Find out how Europe is building a truly sovereign digital stack: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/european-alternatives-to-popular-saas/
Stefano Marinelli
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#ThrowbackThursday
BastilleBSD started as an experiment.
Now it’s my default starting point for any serious project.
#ThrowbackThursday
BastilleBSD started as an experiment.
Now it’s my default starting point for any serious project.
Remember when automation meant Bash scripts duct-taped to crontab?
Now we’ve got declarative config, jails, and Rocinante.
Times change. Tools evolve.
Stefano Marinelli
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Bastille was born in frustration:
Too many broken tools.
Too much bloat.
FreeBSD deserved better.
So I built it.
Now it powers projects I never imagined.
Bastille was born in frustration:
Too many broken tools.
Too much bloat.
FreeBSD deserved better.
So I built it.
Now it powers projects I never imagined.
Sander Meijer
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Out & about in the Bernina Range, on our way to the Labyrinth, surrounded by majestic 4000ers (meters)... A dream! 😍
(#ThrowbackThursday, preemptive #FootpathFriday and my personal hiking highlight of 2024)
#LandscapePhotography#Alps#Mountains#Glacier#Switzerland#Hiking
View across a large glacier (from the same moraine & position as other photo) towards the opposite side of the valley with its 4000m peaks, hidden below a thick layer of snow and ice, some side glaciers and bare major rock faces dusted in snow. Some dried brown grass in the bottom-right corner.
A glacier side moraine with an almost imperceptible path on its ridge is leading into a sea of ice, rocks and snow in the not so far distance. The massive glacier is just a few dozen meters below from where the picture was taken. It flows & drops down from the peaks in the back (all ~4000m and around 1300m higher up for my position), forming a maze of large seracs on the way. Sunny day with blue sky and some wispy clouds.
Out & about in the Bernina Range, on our way to the Labyrinth, surrounded by majestic 4000ers (meters)... A dream! 😍
(#ThrowbackThursday, preemptive #FootpathFriday and my personal hiking highlight of 2024)
#LandscapePhotography#Alps#Mountains#Glacier#Switzerland#Hiking
View across a large glacier (from the same moraine & position as other photo) towards the opposite side of the valley with its 4000m peaks, hidden below a thick layer of snow and ice, some side glaciers and bare major rock faces dusted in snow. Some dried brown grass in the bottom-right corner.
A glacier side moraine with an almost imperceptible path on its ridge is leading into a sea of ice, rocks and snow in the not so far distance. The massive glacier is just a few dozen meters below from where the picture was taken. It flows & drops down from the peaks in the back (all ~4000m and around 1300m higher up for my position), forming a maze of large seracs on the way. Sunny day with blue sky and some wispy clouds.
Stefano Marinelli
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🌐 Who else remembers BBS days, telnet sessions, or running IRC bots?
What era of the net shaped you the most?
🌐 Who else remembers BBS days, telnet sessions, or running IRC bots?
What era of the net shaped you the most?
Back at Planplatten where our daughter made her first mountain hike ever.
OliverUv
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This is one of my favorite photographs, which I made on a moody autumn day on US 550 looking down on the Animas River flowing past the base of Kendall Mountain just south of Silverton, Colorado.
#ThrowbackThursday#Photography#Landscape#Nature#Outdoors#Colorado#Fallorado#Autumn#FallColors#Nikon#CaptureOne
Cory Doctorow
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My mother, with a pigeon. Brooklyn, New York, 1945.
Young, happy, single, and beautiful... with a long life (78 more years) still ahead of her.
Mom was born during President Coolidge's administration in the 1920s.
"He was a different kind of president," Mom said. ”He was quiet."
She also used to say Trump's mouth looked like an anus.
My mother, with a pigeon. Brooklyn, New York, 1945.
Young, happy, single, and beautiful... with a long life (78 more years) still ahead of her.
Mom was born during President Coolidge's administration in the 1920s.
"He was a different kind of president," Mom said. ”He was quiet."
She also used to say Trump's mouth looked like an anus.
This is one of my favorite photographs, which I made on a moody autumn day on US 550 looking down on the Animas River flowing past the base of Kendall Mountain just south of Silverton, Colorado.
#ThrowbackThursday#Photography#Landscape#Nature#Outdoors#Colorado#Fallorado#Autumn#FallColors#Nikon#CaptureOne
Stefano Marinelli
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📼 What was your first real “server”?
A beige box under the desk? A salvaged Pentium III?
Share your earliest homelab setup.
📼 What was your first real “server”?
A beige box under the desk? A salvaged Pentium III?
Share your earliest homelab setup.