Notices by Jef Poskanzer :batman: (jef@mastodon.social), page 2

Tower

Busy day

Golden Gate

Point Bonita

Battery Construction 129

Scientific reconstructions of what Neanderthals might have looked like

@emilygorcenski gender is a regular expression

There's an exclave of Reno with a corner only 140 feet from the California border, which explains how that guy shot a man in Reno but ended up in Folsom prison.

@jwz @timbray Last year I got scolded by a passkey developer for pointing out that for the huge majority of users, it's one-factor login and the factor is biometrics. So, not really very secure after all. But the dev was like, we put a lot of work into this so don't criticize it.

California: We're going to require all new vehicles to prevent you from going faster than the speed limit. And by "prevent" we mean if you're going 10 MPH over the limit, the car will beep at you. Once.

Drivers: BUT WHAT IF I HAVE TO SPEED TO GET OUT OF A BAD SITUATION? A BEEP MIGHT DISTRACT ME!

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/california-cars-speed-governors-19418760.php

@babe Looking forward to reading Prick Astley's infosec blog

@dansup Is it worse than open source development in general though?

Is it time to ditch shared libraries? Static linked executables only?

To recap, shared libraries were invented because exes were large and storage space was small. When I was developing pbmplus, static exes for all the programs would have taken up literally half my disk. Unfortunately, vendors didn't settle on a standard for building and using shared libraries, so they were a portability mess.

Today, storage space is plentiful but the portability mess remains. How about we get rid of it?

Just got to Mayor Breed's Vision Zero announcement and

Ooo signs!

@Gargron I'm getting a blank page and this in the browser log: Uncaught TypeError: Object.hasOwn is not a function focal_point_modal.jsx:328:132

We make ferries stay below 15mph near marinas so no one's boat gets jostled, maybe we should make cars stay below 15mph in cities so fewer people get KILLED, just a suggestion.

So, which SF mayoral candidate will actually fight crime by telling SFPD to either do their job or lose their job? https://mastodon.social/@scott@carfree.city/111881174466410513

Today is the 4th anniversary of the USA's first COVID death. How many have died since then? Nobody knows, since we have stopped keeping track.

@babe