Developer Diary, Umhlanga

Mini-Server, Part 32 Entropy Arbitrage, the Posts Entropy Arbitrage Library Updates Next Most of the United States celebrates its fake Labor Day, the one that quietly ignores the labor movement, but the Swazi people (I believe) celebrate their Umhlanga “reed dance” festival today. It has some unfortunate patriarchal origins, but it sounds like at least Eswatini seems to have dismissed the obsession with trying to manifest virginity1 as a physical attribute. At least it looks better than a random family grilling, right? And with that, on to the week’s projects. Mini-Server, Part 32 I mentioned this in passing in yesterday’s post, but I had two semi-related developments. First, I finally got a viable power adapter for my (original, non-Pro) Pinebook. The battery now charges, and the thing starts up, though I don’t recall what password I set however many years ago when I bought the thing. Rather than try to guess, I plan to install…something. Again, this came up in yesterday’s post, so I…