Rants about Linux, technology, data, and science
To see all active screen sessions from all users (not just yours), you will need to perform a list (ls) on the /var/run/screen directory. For example: ls -laR /var/run/screen/ This is handy for determining whether running processes not matching active logins are running from detached screen sessions, or running unattended.
Less than 24 hours after I penned my warning about the political activism of Amazon AWS IaaS, this article came rolling in about Salesforce and the RNC. Salesforce claims it will block RNC email communications to prevent the “incitement of violence”. No matter what your political inclinations, no reasonable person can hold an organization responsible Read More …
Businesses and other organizations have been migrating with gusto to IaaS vendors like Amazon AWS to save money on bare metal infrastructure and reduce administrative costs. While there are some substantial benefits to delegating compute infrastructure to the “pros” there are some perilous risks which are only now, becoming apparent. Remember, when someone else controls Read More …
Leave it to the Enemy-of-the-People ™ to complain that: Trump is a dictator Trump is not enough of a dictator Trump is a racist for calling Covid-19 the “China Virus” (even though that term is totally consistent with colloquial disease naming through the centuries) Ignore the fact that China hid Covid-19 for weeks and lied Read More …
Free will exists but only in those sunny and simple places where it is all comprehensible. It cannot exist in the dark corners of your life, when forces you barely sense compel you, because you are human and therefore live with the burdens that you barely remember. Free will requires awareness, and all humans live Read More …
In an historic first, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated eight (8) Swedish Match General Snus products as a less harmful alternative to cigarettes. Specifically: FDA Authorizes Company to State that Use of General Snus Instead of Cigarettes Puts Users at a Lower Risk of Mouth Cancer, Heart Disease, Lung Cancer, Stroke, Read More …
During a recent dinner with some Canadian acquaintances, our hostess went on a mini-rant about how “terrible” it was for American women to have children because of our “dreadful” healthcare system. (Interestingly, this came on the heels of our complaints about how Canadian healthcare had treated my father-in-law.) According to all of the other cat-ladies Read More …
“I Left England Because of Socialized Medicine. My Life Depended on It.” American expat, James Schmitz, was living in the U.K. In this article, he describes how the wait for treatment and medicine from the NHS caused him to leave school in London to return to the United States in a bid to save his Read More …
In 2017 the province of Ontario passed legislation entitled: “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID). The ostensible purpose of MAID is to assist terminally ill and suffering patients with euthanasia services. MAID can be administered by a doctor or a nurse practitioner. While it is sensible to enshrine protections into such a law to prevent abuse/misuse, Read More …
I expect this to be the first in series of posts on the nightmare world of Canadian healthcare. Americans – the general public, politicians and media elites alike – generally seem to believe that the Canadian socialized medical system is some sort of mythical Santa Claus where the care is good, the prices are low, Read More …