Notices by `Da Elf (elfin@mstdn.social)

@petergleick

I used to swim through toxic waste dropping water samplers to bust polluters in San Joaquin...

You Don't "turn on" the Hetch Hetchie or the aquaduct.

Rolls Eyes

Randall's stash is better than mine again.

xkcd: Radon

https://xkcd.com/3037/

@igd_news @GhostOnTheHalfShell

There's another dealership in Bellevue.

I'll wait.

#Seattle

@RoLarenRED57 @davep @GhostOnTheHalfShell

Oh, we have one of those in Redmond. Two black (one shiny, one flat) ones.

I'm waiting for a Barbie Pink one to show up soon.

#swastitruck #WankPanzer

@feld @juliewebgirl

Couldn't care less.

Centralized media has been antithema to me since 1995.

Platforms are junk.

I literally don't care about folks that use that crap. In fact, I'll cheerfully fuck their day over, because they fuck my day over. Thirty years of end users sucking dick... because Why? Sheep herd.

@juliewebgirl
when we met you wanted an Open Source platform that was basically YouTube.

The only semi viable option was the worst fucking PHP code I've ever seen. That was twelve years ago. I worked on Horde which is my second worst PHP experience (and I learned it in two weeks).

Bad.

Pixel is really nice. Just saying.

@juliewebgirl
When I moved a streaming porn company from a data center from Santa Clara to San Francisco (at 0300) my DNS transition was three minutes. The owners paid out $300k to users that couldn't see sec for that time. $5/month, the propriators tossed $150k in "oops" in five minutes.

My bonus was exceptional.

Lesson learned: email servers die at night, porn servers get maintenance early afternoon.

@feld @i
I'm old Apache, I want to like ngenix, and I don't.

@icecolbeveridge @GhostOnTheHalfShell

Last I heard, the Food Distribution company Sysco's back end is built largely on R. Or it was a few decades back. I only know two other R Devs and they've both worked there. Might be worth a look.

@rysiek

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025
Dorsey has No Fucking Business speaking to FOSS.

Time to STFU Jack. Or is he becoming another Andreeson?

@TechBean

#GenX #HowGenXAreYou #1970s #1980s #1990s #Poll #Polls
I've had the, good fortune?!? of holding a part of The Wall in my hand. With graffiti.

I've held a lot of concrete in my life. Nothing Felt like that.

@ochaos @TechBean

Ok. That's funny.

This was Awesome. Now it's CSPAN I guess.

I'd get a streaming account again even.

DJ Shadow - Nobody Speak feat. Run The Jewels (Official Video)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NUC2EQvdzmY&list=RDM1N_wbhAfQ4&index=10

@trevorflowers
@jamey @drwho

Trust? Oracle.
Seed money from the CIA. Ellison being the Former Evil Villain until Elon came along.

You've never signed a licensing agreement with them. I can tell.

Ed. I'm an Old Sun Guy, I guess.

@cindyweinstein Outlawing dogs would be a really, really bad idea.

Liberals and Progressives would take up firearms, and MAGA would provide training and ammo to put a violent stop to That notion. It would be ugly, very ugly.

Ice cream is just a wee under that.

@feld @mainframed767 That's a bummer.
My Santa Cruz Operation Enterprise CDs are in (checks notes) Klammeth. I'll get you photos when I make a VM for entertainment.

Windows NT 4 stuff I think. And some (@$#*%&!) Novell tripe.

@feld @mainframed767 That's fucking Cool. I'mma send to Skolnick for a laugh.

@feld @mainframed767

BSD=>BSDi (ask me when I'm drunk)=>FreeBSD=>OpenBSD BSD is A Whole Different Thing. It is fearsome.

StarOffice=>OpenOffice=>LibreOffice (as I use Libre, assume bias) is a really great example. ALSO yanked from (fucking) Oracle and *made better*.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#/media/File:StarOffice_major_derivatives.svg

I use BackdropCMS which is a fork of Drupal7 (and I'm porting modules now that I can). I like Backdrop way better than D7, and it forked because of a scandal that was handled poorly and D8 was shit. MMV

@vhns @feld @mainframed767 We still need a complete rewrite. Some tools are too entrenched.

I use PostFix which is compatible with sendmail through shim-calls, or it wouldn't survive five minutes.

TLS would benefit from refactoring OpenSSL.

I mean, first change the fucking name. It's TLS, come on.

@mainframed767 MariaDB. I got one.

I'm expecting WordPress soon.

And four dozen that ended poorly.