Notices by BjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏 (herrabre@mastodon.xyz)

@rysiek Does that mean we get to find out what the tech is actually good for now? :-D

I am now the proud owner of Hacker Gloves!

The people in the shop thought they were selling me finger-less gloves for weight training, but little do they know!

They are hacker gloves. Gloves that prevent me from getting a fucking allergic reaction to my fucking laptop when typing...

I might also use them for pushing a pram and even lifting weights, but those use-cases are secondary.

My hacker gloves are green.

@rysiek Yep. Hringdu ftw!

@rysiek I am supposed to be able to just send an SMS to reenable it, but for some reason my SIM isn't connecting to a network at all now.

Which isn't great, I do want people to be able to call me if something is urgent.

Maybe oz uses different frequency bands and my phone just doesn't have the right antenna or something, or the right config. I'll figure it out. Probably!

I accidentally left mobile data roaming on, as I landed in Malaysia en route to Australia.

Apparently, my phone managed to max out my roaming data spend before I noticed and switched it off.

My telco helpfully disabled my account before I spent all the money in the universe on data. Now, I just need to figure out how to re-enable it...

Contacting support is tricky when you are 10.5 hours in the future.

You know that adage of people getting promoted to their level of incompetency?

It seems the entrepreneur/biz version of that is being convinced that once you've successfully built a business or three, you should get promoted to government...

@rysiek I still use that for some of the data (an external backup drive), but the machine needs to boot far enough to be on the network and accessible for that to work...

This machine wasn't originally set up with this in mind, so it doesn't have separate root/home partitions.

Proudly ashamed that I just kneecapped the full-disk #LUKS encryption on one of my personal #Linux servers.

I decided that the device was in a secure-enough location, and being able to auto-start on boot (e.g. after a power outage) was more important than protecting the drive contents.

This is the technique I used, which has the benefit that I can relatively easily reverse the change later on: https://web.archive.org/web/20140930221049/http://atterer.org/linux-remove-disable-luks-encryption-password-on-disk-partition-crypttab-initrd

If it's masculine to repair things, and it's feminine to clean things...

My gender is fixing things by cleaning them.

Sitting in the sun is so nice!

It does make it hard to see the screen and get work done.

But it's just so nice...

It's maddening how much advice given to parents throughout the years has not just been a bit lame, it's been actively harmful.

Example: Food allergies.

For years, parents have been warned not to feed babies peanuts and such things until they were 3 years old. And only milk/formula until 6 months old.

When they finally get around to doing randomized trials, it turns out the best way to PREVENT food allergies is to feed babies exciting things at 4 months.

4 months!

Maddening. #dadtoot

It's 2023, and / - \ | is still the perfect spinner animation.

<3

@rysiek @YurkshireLad No, incorrect.

Google provides entry nodes, exit nodes are elsewhere (I think Cloudflare is their main partner).

The sheer volumes involved mean this may actually provide better anonymity than Tor, and it will definitely provide better performance.

The only reason we aren't celebrating is because we don't trust the big companies.

@rysiek @YurkshireLad They claim to not know the destination.

Maybe they lie, but that is the promise they are making.

@rysiek @YurkshireLad C'mon, take off the tinfoil hat for a moment.

The how is well understood - onioning. The tech is open source enough for the community to verify the default implementation. Assuming they trojan their binaries... well, I think they would get caught.

The more interesting takeaway, is Google don't feel the IP address info is all that valuable anymore. They are comfortable giving it up, they trust it will hurt their competitors more than it hurts them.

@quinn You make excellent points. But even if Gazans were enfranchised, the "responsibility" argument is untenable.

Are the people making it OK with Hamas holding Israeli civilians responsible for the government that oppresses, starves and bombs Palestine? I rather doubt it.

As far as I can tell, in both cases "hold responsible" is a euphemism for murdering civilians.

That knife cuts both ways and should be left in the drawer.

I went to a London Film Festival premier last night; saw a film called Tuesday.

Apparently one of the reasons films do a round of festivals before they get released to the general public, is to build buzz. Well, this film deserves buzz, so doing my part! Buzz, buzz!

Tuesday was great! It had some Neal Gaiman vibes, but was still very clearly its own thing. I really enjoyed it.

If you like fantasy, see it someday!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14682800/

Interesting to think that Mozilla Thunderbird (2003) was an "electron app" ten years before Electron (2013) even existed!

Not passing judgement on whether that is a good or a bad thing. Just think it's interesting.