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Hello from the cottage!
Slept like a log until 10:30. It's so quiet out here and I sleep really well.
The old 24" HP screen I have here doesn't like anti-aliased modern fonts. It's so much sharper with plain old bitmapped Terminus. I guess I'll continue to use that on my personal x230 computers, and especially when hooked up to this old screen, and keep the modern fonts to the work lappy.
Lund Linux Con ended with us having a few beers and discussing nerd things. Just a few of us stayed on after five but we had some good discussions about, among other things, trustworthy boot chains. P came by and picked me up with a rental.
Today I changed the CSS a bit for my web page and blog. It's quite minimal now:
html { margin: auto; max-width: 50em; color: #111; background: #eee; }
img { max-width: 100%; display: block; }
pre { font-family: monospace; color: #eee; background: #111; padding: 0.5em 0.5em; white-space: pre-wrap; }
hr { border: 0; height: 1px; background: #000; }
:link { color: #0000ff; }
:visited { color: #990099; }
The blog CSS has some other things as well to match the <div> the org-static-blog generates, but it's not much. Pretty happy with this. I hope it's at least tolerable for people to read.
I skillfully managed to avoid buying Magnus Linton's probably very good book "Knark" about the history of the Swedish narcotics policy. I realized in the bookstore that I would just get sad at how it failed for decades at any reasonable amount of harm reduction.
Instead, I bought Maria Maunsbach book "Lucky Lada och jag", a novel about growing up in Höör, which is close to my cottage. It's easy to like and quite funny. I'm already half the way through.
Instead of reading novels I should really spend some time setting up the new mail server. On the other hand, reading novels is a great way for me to reduce stress. Setting up and maintaining your self-hosted mail server is not.
I've been investigating Chasquid and Maddy as an MTA. I think I'll go with Maddy.
Read about Modern monetary theory (MMT). MMT people seem to think that money is created so that people and organizations can pay taxes. Taxes are a debt that everyone owes the government. This is what gives money value. Did I get that right?
This also means a state can print as much money it likes, because it's all a loan to its citizens and the value is still there, since you can pay taxes with it.
I'm not sure I like this theory. It's too simple. In my mind Economics, even macro economics, is a chaotic system. And the thing about the value of money, what about currency exchange price? This theory just ignores both that and that government loans might be in another currency?
Going to spend the evening/early night with net.beers with some friends.
mc,
Prickle-Prickle, the 61 day of Discord in the YOLD 3188
(aka 2022-05-14)