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Lars Wirzenius

I’d like to help others make better free and open source software so I’m making this standing offer: I’ll review a project's README for free. If you're interested, follow the link below. If you know of someone who might be interested, send the link to them.

liw.fi/readme-review/

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Lars Wirzenius

Trying to be funny 

I just responded to a review comment with:

Ugh. I see the efficiency point, but ugh. This feels like it's way too low-level to be easily understood by future-me. Future-me is a dullard and a weakling, confused at the best of times and quick to anger. It's a good thing we can never be in the same place at the same time, or I'd be ranted at extensively.

Luckily, LWN doesn't follow me here so they won't quote that.

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Erkhyan

Resharing:

How much does a rainbow weigh?

 — Not much. It’s pretty light.

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e. hashman

rust + amazon, birdsite link 

If you saw Steve Klabnik's tweets about Amazon and are concerned about what's going on at the Rust Foundation, I wrote an explainer thread over on birdsite twitter.com/ehashdn/status/143

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Lars Wirzenius

When writing software, or debugging software, shortening tthe speed of the edit/build/test/examine/wtf cycle is one key element for higher productivity.

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Neil Brown

</understatement>

QT torgo: Glasses with cameras in them that are wired directly into the world’s biggest super surveillance platform are not a good idea.

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Lars Wirzenius

New planning meeting for a new iteration.

gitlab.com/obnam/obnam.org/-/m

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David Revoy

Yak Shaving,
my new favorite expression.😄

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Neil Brown

I am standing for election as a #Nominet non-executive director.

Here's an introductory blog post, which I'll update as I go through the process.

If you have questions for me, get in touch however you prefer.

neilzone.co.uk/2021/09/i-am-st

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Christine Lemmer-Webber

is gnu bison an example of yacc shaving

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The research fairy

Say what you will about Linux

I don't have advertisements in my file browser

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Lars Wirzenius

Programmers have, for some reason, problems with big vs little endian architectures and data. I think it was a mistake for CPUs to not choose an endianness randomly at boot time.

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Rysiekúr Memesson

@feonixrift @drwho usability is crucial, and there is plenty of valid criticism of the OpenPGP ecosystem.

Quite honestly, GnuPG at some point started being a problem, rather than a solution. Hence projects like @sequoiapgp , who are doing some amazing work with making OpenPGP, well, usable.

At the same time, it remains a useful and important tool. People ain't going to move off of e-mail, because there's no-where to move to:sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/06/2

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Rysiekúr Memesson

@enigmatico re: PGP -- implementing it in organizations well is *difficult*. Things that can help *a lot*:

1. set up a Web Key Directory:
metacode.biz/openpgp/web-key-d

OpenPGP-enabled mail clients will (mostly) use it to pull keys automagically. Simplifies things greatly.

2. Consider setting up @sequoiapgp's OpenPGP CA:
openpgp-ca.org/

In large enough organization (say, above 20 people) makes verifying PGP keys of everyone not-impossible.

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Sylvhem

Introducing USA hour format.

hh:ss:mm

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see shy jo

#lazyweb wood species id? This is the easiest splitting and best lighting kindling I have ever seen. Used all last winter and want more..

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Lars Wirzenius

When you build a lot of build time magic for your software, debugging weird problems becomes a fun Sunday adventure.

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Craig Maloney ☕

Classical Music is nothing but covers.

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Lars Wirzenius

The programmer makes a string of commits, each one plaintive. "Add debugging print", "*Debug", "debug", "d", "Fix!", "Fix?", "fix?, "ffff".

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emsenn says end food apartheid

Canadians, is your workplace or organization recognizing September 30th, the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation?

If yes, what specifically are you doing?

If no, have you asked your employer why not?

(If Canada lowered its flag for a day, for every child known to have died at your residential schools, the flag would not raise for 18 years.)

(Boosts encouraged.)

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Neil Brown

Same with “security questions”: keep track of the fake answers you give, in your password manager.

QT tombrossman: @PrivacyMatters I store my fake DOBs in the notes field of my password manager. Different one per site, just like passwords. If you ever need to re-enter it (account recovery, new device, etc) it's good to keep track.

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