Notices by kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (kline@mastodon.sdf.org)

Were you at FOSS4G 2007, in Canada?
Do you recognise this woman?

She was found in Italy that November, likely having killed herself, but she has never been identified and it is likely anyone related to her still do not know what happened to her.

It's not clear that she visited FOSS4G or was involved in free software, but a map on her person highlighted the conference hall with the correct dates.

https://www.interpol.int/en/What-you-can-do/Identify-Me/Countries-in-which-the-bodies-were-found/Women-found-in-Italy/IT04-The-globetrotter

Interpol has a program specifically seeking to identify the unsolved deaths of women.

After identifying one British woman a few years ago, bringing closure to her family, it seems that a second woman may have been conclusively identified this week. There are still many more to go.

You can read more about the program and the cases here, but be aware of the difficult reading.

https://www.interpol.int/en/What-you-can-do/Identify-Me

You can read more about Rita Roberts, and how the program helped here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67407020

that's some '93 vintage O+ btw.

all the websites say that scabies mites are too small to see, but I suppose I have uncommonly good eyesight.

I managed to spear one on a needle and put it under the PCB inspection microscope before destroying it.

He pondered too much

Rare pic from inside the AWS Lambda datacentre

yo wtf

I hope you're all on the path to IPv6

@lanodan @nytpu if everyday you stub your toe on a step that's a bit too high, you can put up a sign saying "wonky step" or you can fix the stairs.

It's been a long time where we've put various signs, mitigations, linters, and we're still stumbling on a badly made step.

We need to fix/replace. Yes, it'll be hard work and a lot to do, but better now than in the future when there's even more that needs done.

@drewdevault fourquad

@nytpu you shouldn't need to take positive action to prevent your language system from punishing you for simple mistakes.

My car doesn't explode if I stall it.

The fact that this keeps happening is evidence in itself that the available "solutions" aren't effective

Question for boob enjoyers

@TheGibson for legitimate uses, Microsoft can expose an API to userspace covering just those uses, and users can control what applications can access it, rather than opening up the entire kernel to those who want to control user behaviours.

@TheGibson Personally, I'm welcoming the end of Microsoft giving shady vendors the ability to drop black box blobs into the kernel and denying users the ability to see what's happening.

Denuvo etc are all bad for users, and companies like Sony have proven they will take advantage of any toehold they receive for ostensibly legitimate reasons to absolute rinse their customers.

@Nimbius666 I don't want to cheerlead for NASA (def not Boeing/SpaceX who exceptionally suck), every US astronaut death happened before the CMS flew people.

If you only count the time when both the CMS & NASA have been operating, neither have lost any people.

CMS has benefited from lessons from US and Russian/Soviet deaths. If the CMS had to learn these lessons from scratch they likely would have lost people. And apples to apples, all three are running 0 deaths in the time they've all existed.

@Nimbius666 The spacex/boeing commercial pressures are of course exceptionally unsuited to safe development, and historical (space race era) safety also sucked, again because there were adverse incentives, but I don't know that CMS has some unique edge.

This is it, we've peaked

Waiting until the last day to announce your support for an election considered to be a foregone conclusion.

What transparent mercenaries.

The silver lining to global warming is that we're not actually going to destroy the world.

We're 200 years into a genuinely tragic mass extinction event of our own making and we'll be just one victim.

But we've had a bunch of mass extinction events and the planet will soldier on quite happily without us, with wonderful new species coming to inhabit whatever our corpses watch over.

Gainax went bust