Notices by Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net), page 3

“Or wherever you get your podcasts” is one of the most powerful statements and one of the last remnants of the free internet of people we elders of the internet were building and it is totally worth defending and expanding, IMHO.

Congratulations to @mccoysmith @suehle and @carlopiana for being elected to the OSI (Open Source Initiative) board of directors! I look forward to you moving or common goal — more Open everywhere — to the next level!

https://opensource.org/blog/announcing-the-new-directors-of-osi-board

@larsmb They refused to sign the board agreement, as far as I understand. (UPDATE: more precise: they refused to use the tool (DocuSign) that OSI mandated) @bkuhn @downey

@lauren seems to be hygroscopic. The hotter, the drier, the less. And the colder, the more condensing, the more active. What is the floor? Concrete? Is there a stain somewhere?

UPDATE: NOT TRUE Now that #Brother printers are joining the Dark Side of The Force with their firmware updates that start to look for original toner cartridges,

This story has been debunked and Brother has clearly stated that they do NOT check for original toner/ink in normal operation but do prefer original cartridges when troubleshooting, which makes sense.

Thanks to all who replied, I will happily stick with Brother :)

Tonight, after 8 months, I will finally be able to sleep uninterrupted. The source of the weird (and loud) irregular sound that woke me up several times per night, like stones hitting each other, has finally been identified. It was a bunch of CDs hanging from the rooftop to scare away birds from nesting and it used to be fixed to the ground. That wire has been cut 8 months ago, causing the CDs to hit a structural element when the wind moved it. I fixed that. I can finally sleep tight again :)

Dutch parliament sends motion to government, asking them to make sure the DNS (Domain Name Service) for TLD .nl is running on servers that are physically located in the Netherlands. The planned outsourcing of (parts of) the infrastructure to AWS is to be reversed and the government shall inform the parliament of the outcome before the summer break. https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/114184175675997330

@amszmidt In 1993 I started studying computer science at the Paderborn university with a 10 MBit ethernet connection in the student apartment. I guess I was really lucky :) At that time we were compiling and installing Free Software on SPARC stations in the university and on 80386 based PCs at home. @tante @till

@amszmidt I disagree but I won't get into this discussion about founding legends. GPL V2 was released 1991, when home computers and PCs were readily available and networks based on TCP/IP became more accessible. I compiled my first pieces of Free Software on an Atari 1040 STf, which was released in 1986 and quite powerful and not unobtainium, IMHO. @tante @till

@tante @till The whole concept of FOSS as established 30+ years ago was based on the concept of distribution and decentralisation. Of owning your computer and network resources. It didn’t anticipate the restaurative movement to centralisation with cloud etc. which is the new mainframe, IMHO.

Going through the Captain Future series again and noting the subtle differences in his uniform between episodes. Also comparing it with the new comic book that came out a few months ago that shows even more differences. Hm. Getting the costume right will be impossible, no matter how I decide, some hardcore fans will say that in Season 1, episode 8 the knee covers definitely were different ;)

Sometimes the breast cover seems to be a smooth surface, in other pictures it seems to have additional lines. And this one recreation really doesn't look good enough (note the shoulder parts and the missing "ventilation ducts" in the breast cover :)

Bought a book a few years ago because I liked it at €29,95. I just thought it might be a good present for a good friend so tried to order it again. Well. It's now a (very) rare book and you can only get it used for a typical price of €300. Oops. I guess I'll find another present for my friend.

Canonical/Ubuntu wants to replace GNU coreutils with uutils coreutils in their distribution. https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995

This commit on #Mastodon adds a new feature called "Fetch all replies"to the backend. This is an important step forward. It might help small instances (like mine ;) to get more complete threads from other instances and avoid the duplication of replies with the same/similar content because not all replies are visible everywhere. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615 cc @evan FYI 1/2

So I would really feel a positive kind of envy if my children could have a cheap electric car that can transport party equipment and power the whole party straight from its battery :)

I guess #Polestar cars are becoming the "better #Tesla" for the more wealthy people. I am still missing new impulses for the other, and IMHO, more important part of the market — cheap (€10k-€15k) and robust electric cars for the countryside, where public transport is not a real alternative.

I am of course biased, being 55 years old, but I remember very well how we, when we were young, drove around in ugly, but cheap practical cars that offered almost no comfort but could be configured to offer loads of room for transporting stuff. Battered VW Polos, Renault Kangoo — these were our “trucks” when moving to a new flat/apartment or transporting PA systems, band equipment for the next party.

@sphereon Yes, it is a bit disappointing that sharing solutions to a wider audience often leads to having to deal with a barrage of negativity from people that seemingly only care about criticising loudly what they don't understand :(

@tomjennings I am trying to find that podcast episode I listened to a few years ago that explained the specifics of the Russian black swan event based on history going back to the czars, the revolution, soviet period and Gorbachev. It was a fascinating episode. Damn. Should have bookmarked it.