Notices by Stefan Eissing (icing@chaos.social)

@ariadne
1990s: art install (cyberpunk)
2000s: inf system (beta)
2010s: art install (post-truth)
2020s: inf system (layoffs)

Mastodons, we have attracted all cat-loving individuals on the planet. If we want to grow further, we need to diversify!

In coordination with @Gargron , the Mastodon Post Office has lifted the ban on other cute animals till the end of the month. Even without CW.

It will take some time for all of us to adjust. A picture scrolling in that turns out to only show a dog or an otter - it won‘t be easy. But we can do it!

Lets Encrypt on its plan to abandon OCSP.

https://letsencrypt.org/2024/07/23/replacing-ocsp-with-crls.html

Yep, Stockholm.

I have not heard about rich people replacing their tax consultants with AI.

Which should be easy for a chat AI to do, filling out some forms.

Wonder what is holding that back?🤔

„Oh, I write software!“
„Me too!“
„Can we share?“
„We should share it with everyone!“
„That is so great!“
„For free! Everyone should be free!“
„For free!“

…

„It‘s a joke what these FOSS guys are doing!“
„In-ad-e-qu-ate!“
„We have trillion dollar businesses built on this stuff. What were these guys thinking?“
„Irresponsible!“
„Maybe if we make them feel guilty….?“
„Worth a try!“

According to the US government, the world would be a better place if everything were written in:

„Rust, Go, C#, Java, Swift, Python, and JavaScript„

In the curl project, we should use all of them. Combine their strengths. Like in Damascus Steel.

The CVE thing gets sillier every month.

On one hand you have the laziness of Mitre and friends to add any silly CVE claim, unless someone like @bagder pushes back using days of his precious time

Otoh, there are these „super CVEs“ which apply to several projects and people demand coordinated rollouts on specific dates to limit exposure. But most projects don‘t work that way.

And I‘m not sure why unpaid people are putting in extra effort to protect business interests, myself included.

@filippo never used that. Have to give it a try.

In my home city we have electric garbage trucks. How is your infrastructure coming along?

Hertz is selling its Teslas, because owning them costs ~20% more on average than other electric cars.

A friend of mine, managing a garage, had told me they continue to be surprised how shoddy these things are slapped together. Seems, he‘s right.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/01/hertz-is-selling-20000-used-evs-due-to-high-repair-costs/

@luckytran

„And she gave away the secrets of her past
And said, "I've lost control again"
And heard a voice that told her when and where to act
She said, "I've lost control again"

She's Lost Control
Joy Division

@aeva @myname Your pandemic mouse promises to give you a pre-pandemic pirate map of plenty if you let it live.

You can now ask Bard about youtube videos.

A cocktail recipe gets turned into >10 minute video, sprinkled with ads, protected by adblocker-blockers, to be digested by AI, analyzed via state of the art cpu arrays, to extract the original cocktail recipe for further marketing.

Collectively, we are an amazingly dumb species.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23972636/bard-youtube-extension-update-search-video-content

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.

But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

Follow-up on the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Exploit: NGINX also describes the mechanism they have in place to prevent this.

Google and Cloudflare should have written "the typical web server is not affected, but the typical Cloud implemenetation is."

Blaming the exploit on the protocol standard is lame.

When you implement 100% of an RFC you are not done with your work.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2023OctDec/0033.html

„The single most important fact about tourism is this: we already know what we will be like when we return.“

In my youth, I remeber good vacations: fishing in Finland, climbing the Dolomites.

Later, I developed distaste for being dragged into tourism. The New Yorker describes well what I could never put in words.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-case-against-travel
#tourism

"We need this feature for our commercial project (where we have been using your Open Source for years)!"
"May I charge you a day of my work?"
"Ah, sorry, the budget is very tight..."

Good luck then!💁🏻♂️

Poll is over. 95% of you should not work for NASA!

The earth makes a little more than 366 rotations during a 365 day long year.

The explanation is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_rotation#Stellar_and_sidereal_day

A full rotation is called a "stellar day", meaning the time for a fixed star to be in the same position again. Not the same for the sun, as we make our way around it.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Sidereal_day_%28prograde%29.svg

Do local commits often. When the test cases succeed.

Your future self, who will do „just one more tiny change before I close shop for today“, will be grateful.

I mean, go for that tiny change at the end of the day. Just be prepared that it implodes. Then git restore sanity and close.

Avoid the evening session trying to backtrack to the working code you remember having achieved a few hours ago. But, with the night advancing, you begin to doubt you ever really had.
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