Bemused ramblings some dude says on the internet
EXIF data is great for knowing more about an image, but it can also leak information you don’t want to leak if the picture gets out there. EXIF stands for Exchangeable Image File. It’s basically a way to embed camera settings, location data, etc. into an image. This is great for you, but not so great from a privacy perspective if you aren’t careful.… Read the rest
The June 60 pedal is supposed to be a recreation of the Roland Juno-60. The June 60 has a mono input and either mono or stereo output. It has a switch which makes this toggleable, a switch to turn turn the effect on or off, and two buttons. There’s a V2, but I’ve heard mixed things about it.
The pedal itself is well made and looks great.… Read the rest
XaaS stands for Anything as a Service (or more accurately X as a Service). Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings have ballooned in the past few years, and with them came a new flood of ideas on what to monetize next. Databases as a Service (DBaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS or BDR), and Networks as a Service (NaaS) expanded on the original fixed platforms (among countless others).… Read the rest
The old experiment goes that a ceramics professor split their class into two parts, with one group responsible for making as many pieces as possible, and the other group responsible for making one perfect creation. The group responsible for as much as possible did the best on average for the quality of work at the end.
This story is parroted over and over for content creation, but so many people are so fixated on creating their one perfect product that they completely lose sight of how much work it takes to get good at something.… Read the rest
Debian and Ubuntu both use Advanced Package Tool (APT) or apt for their package management. apt is the successor to apt-get and the current package manager on both Debian and Ubuntu. This article covers how to make use of apt and apt-get, mentions aptitude, and aims to make basic system administration with command line much easier.
APT used to be a combination of tools which included apt-get.… Read the rest
One of my best friends turned me onto the magic of decluttering. I tend to be an extremely disorganized, messy person, but I try to keep everything clean. Most of my mess is just reshuffling old stuff around to make room for other junk. Nothing in the stack was dirty or even necessarily broken, and if it was broken, it was just a project in the works.… Read the rest