Notices by rixx (rixx@chaos.social)

So, when you block an instance as a mastodon administrator, on account of that instance spewing spam like mad and also none of your users following anybody there, this will NOT resolve any of the >100 reports your users have openend against that instance, despite the reports now being useless.

And of course, Mastodon still has no bulk editing of reports, so you die the death of a thousand ~~papercuts~~ report-clicks … or you just add report-resolving to your management script:

#mastoadmin

Imagine wondering “When’s the next time that Christmas will be a Tuesday/Wednesday, for those sweet optimal public holidays (Jan 1st being exactly a week later)?”

Now imagine asking, idk, google or Siri or god forbid an actual calendar, instead of turning to the best tool for the job: systemd.

#systemd #linuxadmin #linux #systemd

“Harry, did you put the Olson database into your init system?”, Dumbledore asked calmly.

(that’s two “Dumbledore asked calmly” posts today, which led to me getting informed that the movie that gave rise to this meme came out 19 years ago, which is WRONG wrong wrong)

Late to the party, but another consequence of the whole IO territory thing:

“On Friday 21st March 2025 at 02:50 UTC the sun will finally set on the British "Empire"”: https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/1fv9ti6/on_friday_21st_march_2025_at_0250_utc_the_sun/

When I want to have a lot of fun, I tell people who are into languages and grammar that I think that Finnish has cases and Hungarian doesn't. We call this a scissor statement, and it's great, because

· it’s kinda-somewhat representing a majority position
· it sounds completely stupid, especially when you don't know more than that the two are related, and then it sounds like a real headache when you know that all the ~15 Finnish cases have a clear relative in Hungarian.

Fun!

@aral Yeah uh thank you for that contribution, very helpful, amaze

Related: Is there something like a caniuse.com newsfeed that tells me when a feature has become supported by all major browsers (or, ideally, supported by major browsers for a month, half a year, a year …)?

Imagine if web.dev, the web development blog by the Chrome team, had the latest coolest tech like … RSS feeds for their blog. Then you could just subscribe to https://web.dev/series/baseline-newly-available and get notified about newly availble CSS features …

(To add insult to injury, they load their list of blog posts via JS, so you can't even point a good feed reader at the /blog/ page and have it scrape for new posts. Eww.)

Imagine writing a book about Pompeji and having to state that it was Roman on the cover, smh

(bilingual jokes = best jokes)

Other open source project maintainers: Have you heard of https://reuse.software/ ? What's your opinion, if you have any?

I'm mostly not super interested in the hassle of adding a license header to every of my files. Maybe I'm just not in the target group, as my project is under one single license and I haven't had the need for a bill of materials etc? #reusesoftware #spdx

The new soundtrack is RAD.

The officially best news of the $interval:

World of Goo 2 is now out (and you can buy it directly from the publisher, DRM free):

https://worldofgoo2.com/

@JorgeR_N @senficon @leah Es waren wirklich die allermeisten sehr fair im Umgang mit uns, und wir haben ja heute als Antwort auch noch mal an den neuen Regeln gedreht. Aber danke für die Fürsorge!

Dass die Instanz dadurch etwas kleiner wird, war vorhersehbar und ist mehr als in Ordnung - wie gesagt, wir wollen ja eben nicht eine Institution sein, sondern lieber eine von vielen Instanzen in unserem Umfeld, wo Leute frei nach Vorlieben ihre Heimat aussuchen können.

Just created this helpful overview for Twitter

I'm living under a rock and this is old news by Internet standards, I know, but:

OMG WORLD OF GOO 2 ANNOUNCED

https://worldofgoo2.com/

"Google Groups ending support for Usenet": https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538

not sure if usual google incompetence or embrace-extend-extinguish, but man

twenty years ago we would have *cheered* for Google walking back their bloody usenet interface, and I suppose even now, it's a net good? who even knows.

Found in some old code:

{{ timestamp.year - 1983 }}C3

😢

#37c3

You know how the Eiffel Tower won the Grand Prize at the 1889 World Fair? Well, it had to share the glory with a book.

Not any book: A book ENTIRELY WOVEN IN SILK.

You heard right. And nerds, get this: All pages of this book were produced on the Jacquard loom in 1889, using thousands (200k-500k) of punch cards. Only 50-60 copies were made. >

The Tunnel of Eupalinos was built in the 6th century BCE in Greece. It's just over 1km long, goes through a mountain, and was built from both sides.

And! It was built as an aqueduct, so it has two parts; a footpath and a lower water channel. It was in use for a thousand years before the channel silted over.

AND! It still exists and can be visited and we mostly know about it and rediscovered it due to Herodotus mentioning it. How cool is this?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_of_Eupalinos

#til #civilengineering