Notices by Jonty Wareing (jonty@chaos.social)

The people who previously owned this house were clearly Perl programmers, because if there was more than one way to do something they made sure to do it in every possible way

What is the most inappropriate connector with enough pins to support USB-C?

I suggest:

Can someone please find a vulnerability triggered by a pair of HTTP requests because "2 Curls 1 CUPS" getting into the news would make me laugh for weeks

Computers are Obscene

It is 2am. I went archive spelunking and found the original Wipeout beta footage used in Hackers (1995).

It even has the DADE/KATE stomping end sequence.

SOFTWARE ESCROW IS FUTILE FOR SAAS COMPANIES

YOU HAVE NO HOPE OF RECREATING THESE TWISTED NIGHTMARE PLATFORMS

THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOUR

NOTHING VALUED IS HERE

WHAT IS COMMITTED WAS DANGEROUS AND REPULSIVE TO US

THESE REPOSITORIES ARE BEST SHUNNED

TFL took away the bus stop countdown sign.

So we installed our own.

The number of affected systems has finally been published, and the papers have hit the presses.

I've been waiting to do this since yesterday morning.

How dare you suggest I finish a project before starting another one! Starting new projects is how I distract myself from the upsetting heap of projects I haven't finished.

This isn't exactly how I thought @emf would go down in history #emfcamp

If you are the person who abandoned a tent full of crap at EMF: We are going to find you.

You have enraged a group of people who enjoy puzzles and suddenly have a lot of free time.

Run.

"First camping festival with an orphan source event" is not a record I particularly wanted, but it is very on brand

To be clear, when we said "leave your unwanted junk in the swap shop" we did not mean radioactive material #emfcamp

User: you charge me when people make unauthorised requests to an S3 bucket?

AWS: yes of course

User: but

AWS: working as intended

User: but

AWS: thank you for your money

https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1

We urgently need more @emf sponsors - if we do not secure more, we will have to make tough decisions.

Tickets cover base costs, but sponsors pay for lovely things like our free childcare and talk transcription. Every little helps!

Find out more here: https://www.emfcamp.org/sponsor

I made something to watch the 2024 eclipse remotely!

This is every public webcam in the path of totality, with a live-updating view of the umbra.

https://jonty.github.io/2024_eclipse_webcams/

Absolutely losing it after discovering what3words took control of the whatfreewords domain by arguing that "three" and "free" are indistinguishable when spoken.

https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2019-2439

Given a million years I would never guess this is how you relax a ferret

Who wants @emf tickets? You. You do.

https://social.emfcamp.org/@emf/statuses/01HMPZ57TXCWCHAFFCQG24B3A5

This paper starts out amazing and just keeps getting better

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06133