Lars Wirzenius @liw@toot.liw.fi
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Radiating opinions into the aether. All opinions are mine. I don't represent my employer. I mostly don't follow back (I'm easily overwhelmed by a flood of information).
Joined May 2019
My wife's film is getting screened in Tallinn, Estonia, at the PÖFF film festival, in theatres and online. I am so proud.
Leaks of sensitive information is a problem. It's been happening repeatedly for many years, with no improvement in sight. Would it help if the C-level management of the organisation from which data leaked were held liable with fines or jail time? Or even sysadmins? What about programmers who wrote the code?
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echo 'main = print $ let y = z + 1 ; z = y - 1 in y' > foo.hs
ghc --make foo
./foo
foo: <<loop>>
haskell speed always being underestimated
I'm disappointed: an infinite loop in a #Rust program takes a long time to execute. I though it was supposed to be a fast language!
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Going to meetings makes people unhappy.
LET’S MONITOR THEIR FACES TO SEE IF THEY ARE PAYING ATTENTION FOR THAT WILL MAKE THEM HAPPIER.
QT WIRED: Research has shown that meetings correlate with a decline in workplace happiness, productivity, and even company market share. Can tech, like automated scheduling tools and facial recognition that measures who’s paying attention, make them better? https://wired.trib.al/bLOcJFA
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Ok, hear me out:
When I used Amazon Prime (through my browser), my laptop would get really hot. I took it as the way streaming works and such.
Now I'm using the stream from my cloud and, even if it is getting hotter, it is nowhere NEAR as hot.
And I bet I could get even less hotter if I played the songs locally.
But what's the difference between Prime Music and my cloud?
DRM.
DRM not only is bad for you, it's bad for the environment.
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See also: being a lawyer. The more you read, and the more experience you gain, the more nuance and imprecision you see.
QT EstOdek: Science communication is spending 20 hours reading 50 scientific papers so you can confidently say “according to the research we are in fact not 100% sure”.
"Cattle, not pets" is one of the mantras of modern devops style system administration. However, experience shows that computers are not cows, they're cats.
Have you ever tried herding cats to get them to go somewhere they don't want to go?
Some days, when I"m extra grumpy, I think that anyone elected to public office should go to jail for a year after leaving office.
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Does anyone know a freelance documentation writer, ideally familiar with GNOME and the GNOME documentation tooling, who may be available for a short project refreshing the end-user documentation for Endless OS, contributing to the GNOME documentation in the process? Give me a shout if so!
This may mean that any system with software is doomed to fail.
Building complex systems on foundations that are unstable and change or break frequently is a fool's errand.
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⚠️ Synapse Admins: Please upgrade to at least 1.20.0 to mitigate a denial of service vulnerability, CVE-2020-26890. For more information see: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/23/synapse-disclosing-cve-2020-26890
h/t @deniskasak@twitter.com for reporting
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info request re changing name and gender marker in the uk, boost please!
hello!!! i am attempting a big project and would appreciate some input. i'm trying to cover the process of changing your name and gender marker with as many UK organisations as possible so if you've done this with for example, a bank/card provider, insurance company, utilities provider or on your vehicle log book, or anything else you can think of, and you can decribe the process to me, i would LOVE that! [cont. below]
On good meetings, by Greg Wilson. I concur.
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@liw How about Really Useless Systems Toy (RUST) ?
Was thinking that I could have use for a program that produced garbage very fast. I'd call it "garbage out", or "go'" for short.
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Very sensible, very easy to implement, idea.
Question: could providers of authoritative DNS set this as a default set of records when they sell a domain, if it doesn’t come with MX services etc.?
QT ryancdotorg: If you have domains that you're not using for email, please set up DNS records to prevent spammers from using them.
. TXT "v=spf1 -all"
. MX . 0
_dmarc. TXT "v=DMARC1; p=reject;"
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Radiating opinions into the aether. All opinions are mine. I don't represent my employer. I mostly don't follow back (I'm easily overwhelmed by a flood of information).
Joined May 2019
