maswan @maswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se

Openstreetmap is reaching the point that it is just more information rich and beautiful than google maps and that is awesome

As an expat living in Canada, the more I live here, the more I'm convinced I'm actually stuck in some kind of cryptic horror nightmare country that's subtly and slowly eating away at me.

A number of hospitals here in Sweden are announcing states of emergency due to lack of medical supplies. Scheduled non-emergency surgeries are postponed, etc.

What happened, you ask? Natural disaster? Mass shootings depleting supplies? Theft?!

No, they switched suppliers and the new one can't deliver.

I bet they were cheaper though! Go #neoliberalism!

damn good take on the rms situation

http://wingolog.org/archives/2019/10/08/thoughts-on-rms-and-gnu

You know why all the old software people liked IRC?

Because when you wanted to ask a question in some channel you'd never been to before, you didn't have to spend 10 minutes going through forms to set up account usernames & passwords and unsubscribing from newsletters and alerts like you have to today with the damn web forum software you think is so great.

Centralised DoH is bad for privacy, in 2019 and beyond by bert hubert

https://blog.powerdns.com/2019/09/25/centralised-doh-is-bad-for-privacy-in-2019-and-beyond/

This user is a cat. You can help it by providing more food, please.

@directhex @zhenech https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/turing_complete_version_numbers/

@liw @joeyh you mean like:

udd=> select package, version, length(version) from packages_summary order by length(version) DESC limit 2;
node-debbundle-acorn | 6.2.1+ds+~0.4.0+~4.0.0+really4.0.0+~1.0.0+~5.0.1+ds+~1.7.0+ds+~0.1.1+~0.3.1+~0.2.0+~0.1.0+~0.3.0+~0.3.0-5 | 105
node-acorn | 6.0.2+20181021git007b08d01eff070+ds+~0.3.1+~4.0.0+~0.3.0+~5.0.0+ds+~1.6.1+ds-1 | 78

Now that I am awake, let me once again wish everyone a good Stanislav Petrov Day. On which we remember that on this day in 1983 a Soviet soldier, at the cost of his job, exercised his common sense and prevented an accidental nuclear war.

Recovering '90s Data Tapes - Experiences From the KB Web Archaeology project https://www.bitsgalore.org/2019/09/09/recovering-90s-data-tapes-experiences-kb-web-archaeology Web-friendly version of the paper I wrote for the upcoming #iPres2019 conference in Amsterdam. Contains links to lots of tape-related resources

This is the logical and unavoidable consequence of forcing academia to live on raised private funds. « The MIT Media Lab has long been academia’s fanciest glue trap for morally vacuous rich people—people like Jeffrey Epstein. » https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/mit-media-lab-jeffrey-epstein-joi-ito-moral-rot.html via @slate

Found a picture I hadn't seen before, of myself showing the CMS detector at CERN to visitors during the last #CERNOpenDays in 2013! <3

had to revert my resolv.rb change of resolving for AAAA first instead of A because Mastodon doesn't seem to fall back to IPv4 if the HTTP request times out on IPv6...

this is basic af Happy Eyeballs behaviour, why isn't http.rb doing this?

ugh

#mastoadmin

Here's my tech startup idea:

A printer that actually works