Notices by Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)

"Gibson made about 700 Les Pauls in 1959, and of those only about 3,000 still exist."

Can someone who happens to know tell me if any part of Google Edu contains any remnants of what used to be the Apache-licensed Google Course Builder (released c. 2012)?

(Boosts for reach appreciated.)

"You'll find the recording for our Digital Sovereignty meetup on Zoom" is certainly a statement.

Something search engines are terrible at, particularly in the age of AI slop, is ascertaining whether something that once was impossible still is.

Hence, this question: is there a way to make hibernation work with Secure Boot on Linux?

I know this used to be impossible, but then I think it should have become available, provided you used encrypted swap. One would check with `fwupdmgr security`.

#AskFedi #Ubuntu #Linux 1/2

I've said this a million times before but it bears repeating.

If you've got a complex but working highly available distributed system and you're trying to replace it with something new that's "simpler", you'll spend 6 weeks on designing the replacement, 6 months on implementing a working prototype, and 6 years on fixing all your edge and corner cases that the old system had already addressed that you were too dumb or arrogant to even consider.

And sometimes the number isn't 6, but 10.

Who of you actually uses #Nextcloud Deck in production, at work, to organise the work of a team (presumably along #Kanban principles) and would like to share your experience?

Particularly if you're able to compare it to firsthand experience with Trello, Jira, Taiga, or GitLab issue boards?

(Boosts much appreciated!)

Is there any significant number of people (outside their respective developer communities, I suppose) who believe that Snap/Flatpak/AppImage constitute a net overall improvement over deb/rpm with apt/dnf/zypper?

My youngest has informed me that until you cut into it and release the liquid chocolate, a lava cake is improperly named and ought to be called magma cake.

Do I know someone (or someone who knows someone) who is a #Pandoc contributor or developer?

Pandoc is smashingly good. If you've ever done something for Pandoc, you rock. Thank you.

Here's an #accessibility question for you.

If you are left-handed, do you have any issues with the combinations Ctrl-C (copy) and Ctrl-V (paste) on your keyboard, if you semi-simultaneously need to use your mouse?

That is, while you are operating your mouse with the left hand (presumably), is it difficult for you to type Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V with your right?

Please comment only if you are left-handed (or ambidextrous) yourself. Thank you!

Boosts for reach much appreciated!

— "Can you believe how stupid and primitive the ancient Greeks were? When they didn't know something, they asked an oracle, and they believed whatever it said!"
— "That's nuts. Where was this oracle?"
— "No idea. Let's go ask ChatGPT."

A train delay kept me from catching this @isotopp talk live — @c3voc to the rescue. 'Tis a good talk!
https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3238-50_years_in_filesystems

#froscon20

— "Please don't run near the pool."
— "I wasn't!"
— "I didn't say you were, I said don't."

Feel free to add this to your parenting (or, by allegory, management) repertoire.

Just misread "idiomatic YAML" as "idiotic YAML" and I don't think that counts as a mistake

If you're a manager (especially one who manages other managers), you may want to keep this in mind.

@gumnos Exactly. Hence the question. Checking stuff out of the inventory must be as easy as swiping it across a scanner as someone takes it out of the fridge or pantry. Swipe ONCE, that is, and hear a beep. And that must be the entirety of the interaction. If it's not as simple as what the cashier at the store does in approximately 100 milliseconds, it's too complicated.

@silverwizard

@silverwizard Wait... what? Over here (EU), pretty much any grocery item you buy anywhere (except maybe produce you buy at the farmers market) has its barcode on the packaging, usually in multiple spots... is that not the case in Canada?

Have any of you built a check-in/check-out station in your kitchen for scanning your grocery items and adding and removing them from/to your #Grocy inventory? Presumably involving a laser barcode scanner and not a phone/tablet camera (which is rather slow)?

If so, sound off below.

Boosts appreciated too, of course!

Do you want a truly useless fact? Here goes: Adolphe Sax, namesake (and inventor) of the saxophone, and John Philip Sousa, namesake (though not inventor) of the sousaphone, shared the same birthday (November 6). They were born exactly 40 years apart, in 1814 and 1854.

@baconandcoconut That would be Oskar der Griesgram. @mahryekuh