Notices by Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org), page 2

@futurebird "Will this be on the exam?"

"Oh, I hadn't thought of putting it on the exam, but that's a good idea." [scribbles a note about this on a small clay tablet]

All engineering is reverse engineering if you document things poorly enough.

@icecolbeveridge @thomasfuchs I didn't think that's how libraries conventionally work? For physical books in the US anyway. ebook loans and other countries may work differently.

The US in particular has a fairly strong "first sale doctrine" allowing modification, sale, loan, etc. of books and such as long as you don't make a copy. But that's pretty much gone away in the digital era.

@thomasfuchs Actually the 2nd amendment (like other parts of the constitution) originally only applied to the federal government. McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010) ruled it was incorporated against the states and granted a right to individuals based on... the fourteenth amendment.

@LadyDragonfly "Cis" is actually short for "Cisalpine Gaul" is in the sentence "curse those Cisalpine Gauls, sacking Rome at night with only the sacred geese to warn us of their attack".

@goatsarah Teeth are the example I normally think of, though knees are good too. What's even going on with teeth?

The mess that is hunan knees is easy to explain evolutionary though. We spend like a couple hundred million years evolving knees optimized to walk on four legs, and just 'recently' start using them *wrong*? (Apparently using hands for tools is beneficial or something.) Maybe evolution would eventually fix that, but give it at least a few more million years.

@goatsarah (You can easily anthropomorphize the process here and imagine a god, but somehow no one finds it particularly convincing or reassuring to imagine we're crude prototypes made by an imperfect god who is still figuring out how to do bipedalism right. And how to create intelligent tool-users who don't irradiate the planet because someone else has their favorite kind of rock or something.)

@lispi314 @moffintosh @gsuberland Something like Ada SPARK would be suitable. Though for buffer overflows (like this seems to be) essentially every contemporary programming language would allow writing a parser without issues like that... except C and C++.

It's not especially hard to do better here.

For security, remember to block outdated browser engines like KHTML (officially discontinued earlier this year) from accessing your website.

if user_agent.contains("KHTML") {
return Err(StatusCode::IM_A_TEAPOT);
}

#WebDev #RustLang #Firefox

@allison
@ezio
Some setups like that use a file system image store in a file on the fatfs or ntfs partition.

I guess it also depends what one means by "boot Linux". Technically you can load a kernel and initfs from the EFI partition without an actual root filesystem to mount. Or even put Linux and coreboot in ROM without any boot drive. But a normal distro will expect a root filesystem with normal Unix permissions.

@eniko Ranked choice voting is supposed to help with that.

But in the US at least, any kind of reform that would break the two party system is going to be difficult, since those two parties are the ones that hold power to change it.

@thomasfuchs But at least they refuse to work instead of exploding (if everything is spec conformant), and the higher speed cables and higher power USB power delivery sources generally work with things needing lower speeds or power.

Still better than barrel jacks anyway.

@thomasfuchs So he's advocating for... Skynet?

@nathandh @thomasfuchs Have most people ever considered multiple email providers, compared them, and chosen one? Or do people more often just use Gmail because that's the thing people tend to use for email? Or gotten an email from their ISP when that was more common.

Using #vim is easy once you learn a few basic keybindings.

h and l - move left and right
j and k - move down and up
η and λ - move backwards and forwards through time
ξ and κ - translation through additional temporal dimension (if applicable)
ᚻ, ᛄ, ᚳ and ᛚ - moving left, down, up, and right through celestial spheres
? and ? - switch deity to pantheon member to left or right
ᛄ - supplicate to chosen deity
ᚳ - challenge chosen deity (dangerous)
:q - exit