Notices by Andromeda Yelton (thatandromeda@ohai.social)

An SQL injection bug that lets you bypass airport security and even JUMP SEAT. Sure. This is great. I’m not having a heart attack or anything. TSA response is definitely also chef’s-kiss. *breathes into a paper bag* https://ian.sh/tsa

@inthehands (pssst I am pretty sure if you are *using git for a personal project* you are actually a technical person)

today (and every day) in engineering

@inthehands yeah but I mean "tough thorough thought though" only has a handful of weirdnesses whereas middle Egyptian has fifty-four freaking birds AND THAT'S JUST THE BIRDS

@inthehands Fly a different airline? I usually do JetBlue, Delta if that's not an option, and there isn't a seat selection charge unless they're trying to upsell you to the better seats (ie still in coach but more leg room or whatever).

I get that that may not be an option depending on your route, though :/

@Colarusso @inthehands This is really beautiful. And not just because I also took a college course on Paul (intermediate Greek, in my case, translating Acts) that made a huge difference to how I understand the world. I sent it to my 17yo, now thinking about college, in hopes they'll get something out of it too.

@BethanyBlack Twenty. Eight.

Look I’m a student pilot, i have like 20 hours on a Piper which is like a million times more flight experience than most people, and I am a hard no on being able to land a jet

This is like men assuming they could beat Serena Williams at tennis

* updated cabin layouts to make emergency exits more accessible
* conducted research into psychology & human factors affecting aviation incident survival
* recognized that flight attendants are utterly critical to emergency survival, and updated their training accordingly

This expanded on regulations responding to 1960s-era accidents which require (to this day) passenger airplanes to be capable of evacuation within 90 seconds. 2/

The regulations were good but they were not enough; people were shocked and dismayed, and turned that into action.

When you think about how, in the context of the appalling footage from Haneda, no one on the Airbus died, remember that. It was not (only) a miracle. It was the result of disciplined investigation, training, engineering, information sharing, and worldwide cooperation over decades.

So, okay, maybe it was a miracle. But of a fundamentally different kind. /fin

On August 22, 1985, a British airplane experienced an engine failure and subsequent fire on the runway. The pilots aborted the takeoff, fire services responded promptly, flight attendants ran the evacuation with heartbreaking heroism - and the incident shocked the world when 55 people died, even though the plane had never left the ground.

In consequence, worldwide, we:
* changed cabin materials to be safer in the event of fire
* added emergency lighting guiding people toward exits
1/

@baldur well I feel a lot better about my obvious need to take breaks now

@mcnulla @inthehands …after which he ended up as co-CEO at Oracle, where, among other things, he narrated the required sexual harassment training videos.

@MarcBrillault @mekkaokereke @wolleysegap @staidwinnow @Jorsh yes and yes, but this doesn’t solve the problem of new users not knowing how to find good servers.

The "chatgpt book banning 🙀" thing going around is obviously catnip but...I implore you, read beyond the headline. This isn't a bunch of chatgpt-naives excited about a new tool for censorship. This is a district stuck complying with a new state law banning books. They could not realistically read them all in time and were looking for a defensible process to stay in compliance with a law they frankly don't seem excited about complying with. Lots of reasons to think they're the good guys: 1/

@mostlylurking @inthehands well, I mean, I was also majoring in math. Thus rendering me spectacularly competent in Greek letters.

@inthehands oh my gosh, I spent an intermediate Greek class translating Paul and it became fundamental to how I understand organizations and leadership

@davidgerard there are two gend^H^H^H^H systems of government

git just issued a helpful error message and I learned something from it??? Quick, is this like that Star Trek episode where Beverly Crusher is in a weird little pocket universe outside of reality?

@vaurora @SAChakrabooks Ooooh, she has a new one out!!

@aeva also someone’s totally doing aerial photography with lidar to see if they can find where the software is buried