[ Home | Articles | Account | People | Projects | FAQ ] Name: Joey Hess
Member since: 2000-03-06 23:42:41
Last Login: 2007-08-10 02:38:55
Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey
thoughts on chrome
Using a separate process for each web page and each component has been something I've always wanted a web browser to do. It's so conceptually clean and has such nice properties, and processes are so cheap in linux. Hats off to the people who made that a reality.
On the other hand, I'm guessing that chrome's guts will be tied into the google backend services so tightly that you can't really tell where the one stops and the other begins. Since I'm not interested in being a sharecropper, and would prefer to see people empowered with services they control, I have worries.
It's easy to forget how much of the modern browser's er ... chrome ... is
based on web services that could change, go away, or be DNS hijacked at any
time. I'd like to see a web proxy that takes all traffic to *.google.com
and rot-13's it, to demonstrate how many things rely on this one company.
life: day 11830
Yesterday was a grim and dismal day. Highlights were stunting the growth of lots of grass, clover, and weeds, and watching the evacuation of New Orleans on streaming TV. (While remembering tuning in to an AM station late at night as Katrina was headed that way, and wondering why things seemed so calm and there was so little traffic.) Lowlights were existential blah.
Today, trucking adventure to get out to Anna's, then hauled cinderblocks up the hill to the yurt, built a fire pit and we dined on lamb kabobs and her delicious garlic fried green beans.
human nature
Have you noticed that 90% of the 30-day fscks on laptop boot happen when it's on battery power? Even if it's only on battery power 50% of the time. One of these days I need to fix it so that ctrl-c makes it cleanly abort, rather than mount the disk read-only and fail to boot.
Also, Amazon prime is super dangerous. I tried their free trial and bought a large amount more books and stuff online than I usually would. Their usual free shipping requires bundling things up over time, and delays the instant gratification by shipping slowly. That tends to discourage impulse buys very nicely. Which is a weird decision for a company to make.
vacation
This "beach trip" was unusual, as its ocracode shows:
OBX1.1 P5/6/4 L6 S12+b----c---- U10(mountains,freshwater,etc) T0 f0 b0 Rd Bb----m----n---- F+ SC----s--g0 H----f0i0.5 V+++s--m0 E-r--
Here are 4 generations of Hess's on a visit to the Bluff Mountain Preserve, which is not normally open to the public and has what is supposed to be the only fen in the southern Appalachians.
Also, I no longer have a car after that trip. I am, however, looking at various electric bicycles. As someone who hates being posessed by posessions, I'm happy that losing my car doesn't really bother me.
Oh, and Leo has kitty-laryngitis.
cutting back
I'm going to cut down on debian-related stuff further. At least until next DebConf, I plan to reduce my involvement in the project to a minimum.
So, I'm unsubscribing from all (52!) lists now, except debian-devel-announce. Feel free to mail me privatly if you want to ask about anything. I'll still see bug reports.
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