maswan @maswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se

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

Don't forget that #Fedilab removes for you tracking parameters in URLs, if you know more well known parameters, don't hesitate to help me with that list:
https://framagit.org/tom79/fedilab/blob/develop/app/src/main/java/app/fedilab/android/helper/Helper.java#L4013-4038
Thanks!

PS: Regex accepted ;)

TCP MSS values – what’s changed? by Geoff Huston

https://blog.apnic.net/2019/07/31/tcp-mss-values-whats-changed/

#networking

@debian
Maybe I'll host it in Umeå?

Wondering where #DebConf21 will be? Explore some available destinations following the "DebConf21: in ... your city?" session held in the Auditório https://debconf19.debconf.org/schedule/venue/1/ #DebConf19

Many #DebConf19 videos already published! Thanks Debian Video team! https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2019/DebConf19/

No, when I click "Download PDF," I want to download the PDF

I never want to use your "enhanced PDF reader"

Ever

We published a statement on our stance on neutrality of free software (and why we won't stay neutral in this case): https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

gPodder.net is looking for a new maintainer!

If nobody comes forward by 2020, it'll be forced to shut down. Please boost to spread the word.

https://github.com/gpodder/mygpo/blob/master/maintainer-needed.md

Note that this is the podcast-sharing website: I'm not sure about the status of the app, but I think that's still doing fine.

#gPodder #podcasts #python #webdev #helpwanted

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

MY NAME IS OZYMANDIAS, KING OF KINGS
LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY,
AND THESE RELATED ARTICLES FROM OUR CONTENT PARTNERS

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Buster's release has been noticed by the CD distribution network https://www.acc.umu.se/technical/statistics/ftp/monitordata/ #releasingDebianBuster

I visited real live Moomin trolls today.