Tyler Smith / is on Nostr

I'm a botanist and conservation biologist in Ottawa. My work focuses on crop wild relatives and wild-harvested species, particularly berries; and invasive plants. I am trained as a plant taxonomist and community ecologist.

All opinions expressed are my own, and do not reflect those any of my employer(s) past, present or future.

My interests include photography, woodworking, kayaking, swimming, hiking and natural history.

Website: plantarum.ca
Photos: https://www.flickr.com/people/carex/
orcid: 0000-0001-7683-2653

Last Notes

2024-07-03 16:49:06

Doctorow's latest strikes a chord that resonates with this week's SCOTUS decision: we live in hope of finding the right dictators, because we cannot imagine a world without dictators.
"The idea that monopolies are benevolent dictators has pervaded our economic tale for decades. Even today, critics who deplore Facebook and Google do so on the basis that they do not wield their power wisely (say, to stamp out harassment or disinformation). When confronted with the possibility of breaking up these companies or replacing them with smaller platforms, those critics recoil, insisting that without Big Tech's scale, no one will ever have the power to accomplish their goals"
@npub1fdr…lvhs The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024)
https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/

2024-05-22 23:15:51

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An anti-climatic resolution:
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
and all is well!
I reviewed the lists of packages to remove, to check there was nothing too critical, before confirming.
And that's all it took.
Lesson learned: #apt is indeed a more powerful tool than #aptitude.
#debian

2024-05-22 14:21:13

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oof. Sounds worse than I'd hoped. But that's also freeing in a way, as if reinstalling is a likely result at this point, I don't need to be so concerned about breaking something as I try to fix it in place.
Thanks!

2024-05-22 13:21:35

Question for #Debian users:
I'm running testing on my laptop, as I have been for a couple decades. I've been waiting for the t64 transition to settle out before resuming updating packages.
I think the transition is now (mostly?) done, but aptitude is still flummoxed when trying to resolve 1300+ package updates.
I've tried to find small groups of packages that I can manually select and upgrade, but with few exceptions pulling on one of these threads quickly leads to a tangled mess of broken packages.
Any advice for how to tackle this would be most appreciated!

2024-04-23 17:30:29

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not sure if the formatting breaks, but in bash `TXT{01..30}.jpg` expands to
TXT01.jpg TXT02.jpg TXT03.jpg etc

2024-04-23 17:29:09

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I think you should have bash and wget on macOS? If so, something like this:
```
wget https://img.yumpu.com/11175243/{01..30}/500
```